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LEGAL PHILOSOPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legal philosophy mean?
• LEGAL PHILOSOPHY (noun)
The noun LEGAL PHILOSOPHY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Familiarity information: LEGAL PHILOSOPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
jurisprudence; law; legal philosophy
Hypernyms ("legal philosophy" is a kind of...):
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal philosophy"):
contract law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts)
corporation law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing corporations)
matrimonial law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony)
patent law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents)
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