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Blasphemy is a crime against God, rather than against the State. dictum (thing) said A statement given some weight or consideration due to the respect given the person making it. doli incapax: incapable of guilt Presumption that young children or persons with diminished mental capacity cannot form the intent to commit a crime. dolus bonus ...
"Nothing about us without us" (Latin: Nihil de nobis, sine nobis) is a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group(s) affected by that policy.
The converse principle—"everything which is not allowed is forbidden"—used to apply to public authorities in England, whose actions were limited to the powers explicitly granted to them by law. [11] The restrictions on local authorities were lifted by the Localism Act 2011 which granted a "general power of competence" to local authorities. [12]
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The decree was a statement of the senate advising the magistrates (usually the consuls and praetors) to defend the state. [2]The senatus consultum ultimum was related to a series of other emergency decrees that the republic could resort to in a crisis, such as decrees to levy soldiers, shut down public business, or declare people to be public enemies.
The fight against corruption should start in schools. If it were a required subject, it obviously wouldn’t end government corruption overnight, but it would probably have a huge impact down the ...
Per Executive Law § 63-b, only the Attorney General, at his or her discretion, "may maintain an action, upon his own information or upon the complaint of a private person, against a person who usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises within the state a franchise or a public office, civil or military, or an office in a domestic ...
we stand against by evil: The motto of the Jungle Patrol in The Phantom. The phrase actually violates Latin grammar because of a mistranslation from English, as the preposition contra takes the accusative case. The correct Latin rendering of "we stand against evil" would be "stamus contra malum ". stante pede: with a standing foot "Immediately ...