LEGAL PHILOSOPHY

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Meaning:

The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

Synonyms:

jurisprudence; law; legal philosophy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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)