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  2. Goel (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    Goel (Hebrew: גואל, romanized: goʾel}redeemer), in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic Judaism, is a person who, as the nearest relative of someone, is charged with the duty of restoring that person's rights and avenging wrongs done to him or her. One duty of the goel was to redeem

  3. Nearest relative - Wikipedia

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    The 'nearest relative' has the right to request discharge of patients detained under Section 2 (assessment), Section 3 (treatment), Section 7 (guardianship) or Section 17a (community treatment order) of the Act, by giving no more than 72 hours' notice in writing to the 'responsible clinician. [1]

  4. Barring - Wikipedia

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    Barring may refer to: . Barring (music), a guitar playing technique Barring engine, forms part of the installation of a large stationary steam engine; Barring order, an order used by a court to protect a person, object, business, company, state, country, establishment, or entity, and the general public, in a situation involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse, assault, harassment ...

  5. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    In Egypt, around 40% of the population marry a cousin. A 1992 survey in Jordan found that 32% were married to a first cousin; a further 17.3% were married to more distant relatives. [35] 67% of marriages in Saudi Arabia are between close relatives as are 54% of all marriages in Kuwait, whereas 18% of all Lebanese were between blood relatives ...

  6. Restraining order - Wikipedia

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    A restraining order issued by the Justice Court of Las Vegas. A restraining order or protective order [a] is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.

  7. Google Chrome - Wikipedia

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    Chrome periodically retrieves updates of two blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware), and warns users when they attempt to visit a site flagged as potentially harmful. This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called "Google Safe Browsing API". [30] Chrome uses a process-allocation model to sandbox ...

  8. Usage share of web browsers - Wikipedia

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    Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera will, under some circumstances, fetch resources before they need to render them, so that the resources can be used faster if they are needed. This technique, prerendering or pre-loading, may inflate the statistics for the browsers using it because of pre-loading of resources which are not used in the end.

  9. Battle of Fort Stevens - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Fort Stevens was an American Civil War battle fought July 11–12, 1864, in Washington County, D.C. in present-day Northwest Washington, D.C., during the Valley campaigns of 1864 between forces under Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early and Union Major General Alexander McDowell McCook.