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  • # Something that is received from an ancestor or other person by legal ... science allows the reuse of existing code with little or no modification ...
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  • judges, and their law clerks in finding the legal resources necessary to correctly ... The processes of legal research vary according to the country and ...
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  • :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law ... codes (most prominently the Napoleonic Code and the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ...
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  • The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of ... researchers, the value of the Nuremberg Code outside of that particular ...
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  • As the world becomes smaller in traveling time, and larger in legal ... Comparative law is an academic study of separate legal systems, each ...
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  • Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or organization ... copies. In some countries, there is also a legal deposit requirement placed ...
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  • Article 2.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated ... the botanical rank of variety, nor with the legal term "plant variety ...
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  • called it, was the compilation of a code of laws. This was made by ... Hammurabi is best known for the promulgation of a new code of Babylonian ...
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  • back thousands of years to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi regarding marriage written about in the Code of Hammurabi. Under this ancient ...
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  • to have existed. Annulment can be either a legal or religious process. Justification ... In strict legal terminology, annulment refers only to making a "voidable ...
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  • Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced ...
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  • Extortion is defined in such a way as to exclude legal bargaining ... to receive an essential service or avoid legal consequences. For example ...
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  • of such documents as the Nuremberg Code and the World Medical Association ... of their intellectual development and legal status and the second because ...
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  • site safety codes, and preparation of legal documents. In addition, they ... involving design, financial, and legal considerations. Not infrequently ...
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  • must mutually consent to be married, be of legal age or have their parents ... the marriage can only be dissolved by a legal proceeding in the pertinent ...
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  • medical ethics, bioethics, business ethics, legal ethics, and others. ... environmental ethics, business ethics, and legal ethics are major subfields ...
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  • A philanthropic foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit ... where it is used to describe a distinct legal entity. A foundation has ...
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  • could be citizens, it was fathers who were legal owners of property) and he ... bankruptcy filings. The current Bankruptcy Code, which replaced the Chandler ...
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  • leading rabbi and devoted himself to Jewish legal studies. on harnessing Karo's reputation as a legal scholar. By his own reckoning ...
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  • is absolute, that is, not subject to any legal constraints. The European ... (roughly) the western moral code. (This is the moral code shaped ...
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  • ordinary people, once they learned the legal code, would lose their awe of ... beings was self-interest, and that a legal code was necessary in order ...
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  • In this model, the output of the implementation phase (in source code ... This process is sometimes termed Reverse Code Engineering or RCE. ...
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  • used in criminal law in the United States legal system. The distinction is ... used in criminal law in the United States legal system. The distinction is ...
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  • due to its lack of malicious intent. Most legal systems differentiate between ... another by accident or mistake.Texas Penal Code § 49.08. ...
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  • signifying processor instructions (object code), which change the state of ... or interpreted into machine language object code. Software may also be written ...
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  • authority. As part of a well developed legal system, the modern court ... hear cases and render judgments based on legal rules and precedents. The ...
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  • of Chivalry in England and the military code of Sweden's King Gustavus ... by the King which formed the basis of a code of military law. ...
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  • identified by scholars as the Priestly Code and the Holiness Code. Both ... of the Christian-based western ethical and legal tradition. ...
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  • == Hammurabi’s legal code == feet high, this is the earliest complete legal code known to history. ...
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  • governments and UN agencies), and in The Code of Conduct for the International ... The legal basis for protection of humanitarian workers in conflicts ...
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  • filth") is a term most often used in a legal context to describe expressions ... on the types of materials that they as legal bodies permit their citizens ...
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  • "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... Morality in a descriptive sense may be defined as a code of conduct ...
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  • (most of which descend from the English legal system) that place great ... award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts ...
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  • | publisher = Legal Affairs | year = 2005, February | title = Identity ... publishing or accessing of information. The legal issues are similar to offline ...
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  • system of administration and also the legal code. His revisions of the legal ... and issued a decree affirming their legal right to do so (see Ezra ...
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  • The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations captures the essence of these ... The Neisser case led to public, legal, and legislative concern. An ...
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  • Hammurabi indicates that his famous law code was inspired and promulgated ... led him to gather the existing laws and legal procedures into his famous ...
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  • The legal and ethical restrictions on the distribution of profits ... The act of incorporating creates a legal entity enabling the organization ...
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  • parliament, banned the film, The Da Vinci Code, and is to confiscate the ... An example of the Jain legal view on blasphemy occurred in Mangalore ...
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  • of Helsinki can be found in the Nuremberg Code, which was drafted to deal ... the Hippocratic Oath) and the International Code of Medical Ethics (duties ...
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  • formalities. Companies use a variety of legal and commercial means to keep ... which a trade secret is defined varies by legal jurisdiction (as do the particular ...
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  • *In the eighteenth century B.C.E., the Hammurabi code allowed for ... Western legal systems have come to regard succession to property by ...
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  • young adulthood, her parents appointed her legal caretaker of affairs of the ... from 1881 to 1896, Transcribed from Her Code Writing. New York, NY: Frederick ...
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  • The Trial did lead to the Nuremberg Code, a set of ethical standards ... statements that differentiated illegal from legal human experimentation. Some ...
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  • Silver Star Medal is Title 10 of the United States Code ( 10|3746 ). The number of Silver Stars awarded from World War I to the present is estimated ...
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  • [[Image:CodexOfHammurabi.jpg|thumb|350px|An inscription of the Code ... The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi ...
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  • The HTML code contains some or all of the five main characteristics ... *[http://www.linksandlaw.com/ Links & Law] (Overview of legal ...
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  • of legalism, the notion that obedience to a code of religious law is necessary ... what they were obliged to do by legal code. Confucius described this ...
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  • known drugs. Among drugs with common, often legal non-medical use as recreational ... * caffeine (from coffee, tea, and other plant sources): Legal in all ...
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  • or misdemeanor covered by a criminal code. In other jurisdictions, it ... quot;invitees") and persons who have a legal right to be on the property ...
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  • 1748 - June 6, 1832), jurist, philosopher, legal and social reformer, and ... with the complexity of the English legal code, which he termed the "Demon ...
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  • Europe to prevent war and the use of a common legal code. == Background == Cugnot was born in Void, Lorraine, (now departement of Meuse) France ...
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  • government based on the “ritsuryo” legal code of the Nara (710-794) and Heian (794-1185) periods. As the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed, the ...
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  • Recycling directions, resin identification code, and package environmental ... shelf life, quality assurance, logistics, legal, regulatory, graphic design ...
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  • unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate ... another of his/her/its money, property or a legal right." ...
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  • Egypt would later adopt the Napoleonic Code. The invasion saw the birth ... . In 1875, when Egypt adopted a modern legal system, it would base it ...
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  • in the United States, as it presented a legal theory for those opposed ... Foley, 1st Baron Foley, provided for his legal training, and he became a ...
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  • Telegraph messages sent by the telegraph operators using Morse code ... assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signaling alphabet with Morse ...
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  • ==Ethical and legal considerations== Photojournalism works within the ... significantly from nation to nation. The legal situation is further complicated ...
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  • is best remembered for his reform of the legal code through the commission ... Other talented individuals included Tribonian, his legal adviser; ...
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  • Lama in Tibet, established a universal legal code for the Mongols, called ... disputes could be resolved peacefully. A legal code was drafted, establishing ...
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  • While all religions regard murder as a sin, and all legal jurisdictions ... Murder is a homicide committed intentionally. As with most legal terms ...
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  • force. The attacker is said to sacrifice legal protection when initiating ... and, therefore, declined to answer the legal question of justification. ...
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  • " Although it did not constitute a legal code, the Taika Reform mandated ... Taika reforms codified as the Asuka Kiyomihara Code. Several empresses ...
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  • of business organization, with different legal characteristics. As human ... organizations are often established via legal systems that recognize certain ...
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  • whom they would identify only by the code name "Deep Throat," ... severely tarnished the public image of the legal profession. In order to defuse ...
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  • called it, was the compilation of a code of laws. This was made by ... of Jerusalem but also for creating the legal Code of Hammurabi and the fabled ...
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  • ultimate aim, however, is for the need for legal protection and legal redress ... Applicants may be given legal aid by the Court. ===Structure=== ...
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  • nations who would otherwise have no legal employment opportunities ... Fair Labor Standards Act - FLSA - 29 U.S. Code Chapter 8] FindUSLaw. Retrieved ...
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  • visiting wrestlers. The modern wrestling code instituted in 1980 stipulates ... an opponent's legs is completely legal. Striking, strangling or ...
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  • codes, and even within a particular code lines may be blurred as civil ... [[Image:CodexOfHammurabi.jpg|thumb|An inscription of the Code of Hammurabi ...
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  • conscience, has acquired a protected legal status in international law ... the Babylonian Exile, the Deuteronomic code seems to have been taken more ...
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  • use of an Act of Attainder to circumvent legal obstacles, and was only dissuaded ... The legal basis for the trial was established by the London Charter ...
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  • Lincoln's Birthday is a legal, public holiday in some U.S. states ... to establish Lincoln's birthday as a legal holiday. ...
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  • showed more interest in a political than a legal career. ... 1857. It was probably the only systematic code of law in the world. It approaches ...
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  • and comprehension. It refers to the legal rulings of the Muslim scholars ... === Dress code === The Qur'an also places a dress code upon its ...
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  • the "first circulation" implying legal and censored publications ... quot; (Article 70 of the RSFSR Penal Code, a catch-all charge that allowed ...
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  • regime. Speransky’s most noted essay pushed for a code of laws. Such a code of laws would have created a uniform legal system, and replaced the arbitrary ...
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  • *In binary, code five is 101 *In ternary, code five is 12 *In quaternary, numeral system code five is 11 ...
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  • the parent subsidiary relationship is a legal metaphor: The whole problem ... *Welch v. Helvering: concerning Internal Revenue Code Section 162 ...
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  • The dowry is described in the oldest records, such as the Code of ... dowry and a law in the Indian Penal Code (Section 498A). While this ...
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  • In colloquial use, the term "code" is often used to mean ... there has been a history of controversial legal issues surrounding cryptography ...
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  • It is also the source of important legal traditions later introduced ... what has become known as the Deuteronomic Code. In chapter five can be found ...
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  • (defeating access controls), malicious code, and denial-of-service attacks. ... intrusive, or annoying software or program code. The more specific term "computer ...
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  • as the Doctors' Trial. The Nuremberg Code is a set of fundamental ethical ... carried out only after the subject or his legal representative has unambiguously ...
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  • v. Sandford," The American Journal of Legal History 32(4): 373-390. ... must intervene to pass a federal slave code for all the territories. They ...
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  • In civil law systems, where the preeminent source of law are legal ... *[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-reas-prec/ Precedent and ...
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  • Empires), which disseminated culture, legal frameworks, and a sense of ... in the Babylonian Empire with the Hammurabi code and later among the Hebrews ...
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  • cracked the "impenetrable" Enigma code, enabling them to defend against ... with administration, human resources, legal issues, and schooling for ...
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  • Nor did its Germanic traditions offer any code of civil law required of urbanized ... later influenced the novel The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (NY: Anchor ...
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  • limited liability corporations without a legal monopoly. Nevertheless, mail ... and concerns social, political, and legal aspects of civil rights. ...
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  • government was firmly established and that legal tradition was itself codified ... the Sunnah) were collected and the four legal schools of Sunni jurisprudence ...
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  • In these projects, sometimes no strict code of conduct is in force. In ... society heterogeneity (among the political, legal, cultural, and ruling aspirations ...
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  • |postal_code_type = Postal code |postal_code = 010000–010015 ... one million by 2030. Migrant workers – legal and illegal – have been ...
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  • under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. The difference between sedition and treason consists primarily in the subjective ultimate ...
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  • under the infamous Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code (or other way around), to ... At that time, even such Anti-Soviet songs were legal. After the 1930s ...
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  • in 1949. It has a particular emphasis on legal standards, human rights, ... would become automatic, scarcely in need of legal protection at all. Until ...
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  • A covenant is a legal and/or religiously binding agreement between ... Covenants have legal contractual conditions: there may be property ...
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  • as prescribed in the Indian Penal Code, subject to discretion of ... | publisher = [http://www.worldlii.org/ World Legal Information Institute] ...
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  • the pressures of cross-examination in a legal challenge to racial segregation ... 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code, even though she technically ...
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