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In the leading case of R v Allen from 1872, the defendant was charged with bigamy under section 57 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 which made it an offence to marry while one's spouse is still alive and not divorced. The court held that the word "marry" could not in that context mean "become legally married" since that could never ...
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
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The case garnered online and media attention thanks largely to photos and videos found on German's phone after her disappearance. German posted two final images on social media platform Snapchat ...
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The court said that the judge who sentenced Allen to death after 10 days of testimony in 2005 “did not consider all of Allen’s mitigating evidence” and sometimes “assigned no weight at all ...
Allen was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced law at Greenfield for twelve years, then advanced to state offices, serving as the Massachusetts Attorney General from 1867 to 1872. [6] During his sixteen years of service (1882–1898) on the bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court , [ 6 ] he became known as one of the most eminent ...