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A mother-in-law is the mother of a person's spouse. [3] Two women who are mothers-in-law to each other's children may be called co-mothers-in-law, or, if there are grandchildren, co-grandmothers. In comedy and in popular culture, the mother-in-law is stereotyped as bossy, unfriendly, hostile, nosy, overbearing and generally unpleasant.
The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1]
This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases.
In Islamic law (Sharia) [5] and Jewish law (halakha), [6] sexual relations between siblings-in-law are prohibited as incestuous, unless the spouse is no longer married. Conversely, in Judaism there was the custom of yibbum , whereby a man had a non-obligatory duty to wed his deceased brother's childless widow, so she might have progeny by him.
By contrast, a non-positive law title is a title that has not been codified into federal law, and is instead merely an editorial compilation of individually enacted federal statutes. [15] By law, those titles of the United States Code that have not been enacted into positive law are "prima facie evidence" [16] of the law in effect.
“At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people,” Rosen says.
The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a person's family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a person's parents , siblings , spouse , and children . [ 1 ]
The Bluebook, a legal citation and style guide used by American lawyers and law schools, describes In re as a "procedural phrase", and requires that citations use In re to abbreviate ' in the matter of ', ' petition of ', ' application of ', and similar expressions. [2]