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  2. Pass law - Wikipedia

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    The resistance to the Pass Law led to many thousands of arrests and was the spark that ignited the Sharpeville Massacre on March 21, 1960, and led to the arrest of Robert Sobukwe that day. Colloquially, passes were often called the dompas, literally meaning the "stupid pass" [1] or perhaps as a syllabic abbreviation for "domestic passport".

  3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    1. In French-law-based systems, refers only to those sources of subjective law that are human-made and voluntary (vs. factum iuridicum); 2. In German-law-based systems, encompasses all sources of subjective law, be they human-made or not, voluntary or not. See also negotium iuridicum. ad quantitatem: by the quantity

  4. Damascus Document - Wikipedia

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    Legal (4.12b–7.9) The significance of being outside and inside the community, some of the laws [9] The position of people in and outside the community in regard to the law. Those outside are straying from the law, while their community is based on the law, which is strict, but offers salvation. [9] 3. Warnings (7.5–8.19)

  5. Plain meaning rule - Wikipedia

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    The plain meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. [1] The other two are the "mischief rule" and the "golden rule". The plain meaning rule dictates that statutes are to be interpreted using the ordinary meaning of the language of the statute.

  6. 4QMMT - Wikipedia

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    Strugnell and Qimron date the original composition of 4QMMT at c.150 BCE. This early date is proposed based on an evaluation of its content. The congenial tone of the letter from the author to the recipients suggests a composition of the text to a time either before or contemporaneous with the earliest organizational stages of the Qumran community. [3]

  7. List of legal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases.

  8. Statutory declaration - Wikipedia

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    A statutory declaration is a legal document defined under the law of certain Commonwealth nations and in the United States. It is similar to a statement made under oath , but it is not sworn. Statutory declarations are commonly used to allow a person to declare something to be true for the purposes of satisfying some legal requirement or ...

  9. Motu proprio - Wikipedia

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    Such a document may be addressed to the whole church, to part of it, or to some individuals. [1] The first papal motu proprio was promulgated by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. [ 2 ] It continues to be a common form of papal rescript , especially when establishing institutions, making minor changes to law or procedure, and when granting favours to ...