PRAGMATIC SANCTION Synonyms

• a formal or authoritative proclamation

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• the collection of rules imposed by authority

• legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity

• a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

• a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

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

• the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

• the force of policemen and officers

• an authoritative command

• a statute enacted by a city government

• the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders

• available only with a doctor's written prescription

• directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

• a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

• written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

• written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

• the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

• exercising power or authority

• an act passed by a legislative body

• enacted by a legislative body

• of or concerning the theory of pragmatism

• an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land

• concerned with practical matters

• guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory