Questions tagged [law]
A written (or occasionally oral) and accessible code of behavior which is enforced by a powerful entity (almost always a state actor). Part of this code includes the entities responsible for maintaining and interpreting the written statutes, the punishments that can be applied in the case of the violation of the stated rules, and the means for determining guilt and innocence of parties suspected of violating any aspect of the aforementioned laws.
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What books were challenged by the Rhode Island Commission To Encourage Morality In Youth
The Rhode Island Commission To Encourage Morality In Youth was founded in the late 1950s and sent lists of books that they found objectionable to a number of publishers, which led to the U.S. Supreme ...
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Why did Nazi Germany's homosexuality law not apply to Austrians?
A 1972 book by Heinz Heger (a pseudonym of Hans Neumann) relates the story of Vienna resident Josef Kohout, who was convicted of homosexual activity following Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany. The ...
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How were Henry II's courts and grand juries structured and administered?
Questions about the structure of Henry II’s court and the evolution of grand juries:
Where did Henry draw his itinerant “circuit court justices” from? Did they preside over the grand juries in their ...
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Do we have the texts of the "cobra incentive" and the "rat incentive"?
The Cobra Incentive and the Rat Incentive are two examples of perverse incentives. But I am curious if we still have the texts / rules / laws which led there. I am curious to understand if text ...
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Standard Oil, American Tobacco, & The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
On pg.260 (towards the bottom) of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States Zinn says,
"In later years it would refuse to break up the Standard Oil and American Tobacco monopolies, ...
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What federal statutes defined aliens (in)eligibility to US citizenship in 1913?
According to a recent news report, a Florida law that went into effect about a year ago bars Chinese citizens that are not permanent residents of the United States from acquiring real estate in the ...
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Did Nazi Germany have the Highest Per-Capita Rate of Capital Punishment?
I am not talking about extra-judicial murders but actual judicial sentencing to Germany's own citizens.
I read in the Wikipedia article that 40K executions occurred during the nazi period which I ...
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Where to find Austrian statutes from 1778 and 1787 related to obligatory road services?
In a newspaper from mid-XIX c. (printed in Lemberg/Lviv) I've found an article describing the road network of Galicia under Austrian rule. It said that Austria issued (at least) two acts related to ...
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Do any sources besides Livy record the first incident of serial murder by prominent Roman women in 331 B.C.?
Titus Livy lived during the turn of the first century A.D. and in Book 8, Chapter 8 of The History of Rome, he relays the story of some sort of plague that was ravaging Rome in 331 B.C., afflicting ...
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In the Magna Carta, is the distinction between the phrase "law of the land" and the "law of the kingdom" significant?
What is the distinction between the phrase "law of the land" and the similar phrases "law of the kingdom" and "law of the realm" also used in Magna Carta, and which ...
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How could someone claim benefit of clergy after an act of attainder?
In some Tudor-period acts of attainder (laws passed by Parliament declaring certain people to be guilty of crimes and ordaining their punishment), there is a stipulation that the named person will not ...
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Was there really an attempted repeal of English common law in Kentucky?
A couple of decades ago I read an allegation in a book that seemed generally not reliable, and whose title I don't remember, and I wonder whether it can be corroborated.
"Everybody knows" (...
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Would the battle between Thornton and Ashford have been armed?
This question was previously migrated from Law, but then rejected and returned on the grounds that it was already answered on Wikipedia. But this essential aspect of the question is not addressed on ...
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What was the role of the Court of Revision and Judicature in the Qing dynasty?
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The Court of Judicature and Revision, also known as the Court of Judicial Review, was a central government agency in several imperial Chinese. From the Chinese, the system was ...
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Why did/do they torture people to get fake "confessions"?
I've always wondered about why they would torture somebody to get a fake "confession", just so they can then execute the same person.
Why not just execute them from the beginning? Why go ...
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