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  2. Curtis Act of 1898 - Wikipedia

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    Signed into law by President William McKinley on June 28, 1898 The Curtis Act of 1898 was an amendment to the United States Dawes Act ; it resulted in the break-up of tribal governments and communal lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory : the Choctaw , Chickasaw , Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee ...

  3. Dawes Act - Wikipedia

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    The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 [1] [2]) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts , it authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into ...

  4. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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    Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 29, 1936 The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Pub. L. 74–461 , enacted February 29, 1936) is a United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion.

  5. Allotment - Wikipedia

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    Allotment may refer to: Allotment (Dawes Act), an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887; Allotment (finance), a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares; Allotment (gardening), an area of land rented out for non-commercial gardening or farming

  6. Legal ethics - Wikipedia

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    In Tanzania, professional ethics for the members of private bar (advocates) are regulated by the Advocates Act, Cap. 341 which is principal legislation and the Advocates (Professional conducts and Etiquette) Regulations, 2018 (Government Notice No. 118 of 2018) which is subsidiary legislation enacted by the National Advocates Committee (formerly known as the Advocates Committee).

  7. Prior-appropriation water rights - Wikipedia

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    In the American legal system, prior appropriation water rights is the doctrine that the first person to take a quantity of water from a water source for "beneficial use" (agricultural, industrial or household) has the right to continue to use that quantity of water for that purpose.

  8. Objections flow in on NCAA settlement over 'unnecessarily ...

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    Kessler said experts developed a formula to determine how to pay out the $2.8 million, and that all athletes have the right to opt out of the class-action lawsuit and pursue their own legal action.

  9. Legal moralism - Wikipedia

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    Legal moralism is the theory of jurisprudence and the philosophy of law which holds that laws may be used to prohibit or require behavior based on society's collective judgment of whether it is moral. It is often given as an alternative to legal liberalism, which holds that laws may only be used to the extent that they promote liberty. [1]