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Culturally, cleanliness is usually a good quality, as indicated by the aphorism: "Cleanliness is next to Godliness", [1] and may be regarded as contributing to other ideals such as health and beauty. The concept of cleanliness emphasizes an ongoing procedure or set of habits for the purpose of maintenance and prevention.
In this case the judges found that "the ligeance or faith of the subject is due unto the King by the law of nature: secondly, that the law of nature is part of the law of England: thirdly, that the law of nature was before any judicial or municipal law: fourthly, that the law of nature is immutable."
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.
Environmental personhood or juridic personhood is a legal concept which designates certain environmental entities the status of a legal person.This assigns to these entities, the rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities and legal liability of a legal personality.
Shaucha (Sanskrit: शौच, romanized: Śauca) literally means purity, cleanliness, and clearness. [1] It refers to purity of mind, speech and body. [2] Shaucha is one of the niyamas of Yoga. [3] It is discussed in many ancient Indian texts such as the Mahabharata and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. It is a virtue in Hinduism and Jainism. [4]
Earth law is an emerging legal framework that seeks to advance the legal rights of the Earth in international law. Earth lawyers consider earth law to be a different form of legal practice from environmental law on the basis of ecocentrism, rather than anthropocentrism. Earth law seeks to codify protections for the environment not just for ...
Mendel's second law, the law of independent assortment, states that different traits will be inherited independently by the offspring. Menzerath's law , or Menzerath–Altmann law (named after Paul Menzerath and Gabriel Altmann ), is a linguistic law according to which the increase of a linguistic construct results in a decrease of its ...
Social law concept wherein citizenship of a nation is determined by having one or both parents being citizens. / ˈ dʒ ʌ s ˈ s æ ŋ ɡ w ɪ n ɪ s / jus soli: right of soil Social law concept wherein citizenship of a nation is determined by place of birth. / ˈ dʒ ʌ s ˈ s oʊ l aɪ / jus tertii: law of the third