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  2. Law - Wikipedia

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    Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, [1] with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

  3. Law of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.Before European presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). [1]

  4. Gustav Radbruch - Wikipedia

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    Born in Lübeck, Radbruch studied law in Munich, Leipzig and Berlin.He passed his first bar exam ("Staatsexamen") in Berlin in 1901, and the following year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on "The Theory of Adequate Causation".

  5. Common law - Wikipedia

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    According to Black's Law Dictionary, common law is "the body of law derived from judicial decisions, rather than from statutes or constitutions." [15] Legal systems that rely on common law as precedent are known as "common law jurisdictions."

  6. Rule of law - Wikipedia

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    Explore the concept of rule of law, its principles, and significance on Wikipedia's comprehensive page.

  7. Law reform - Wikipedia

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    The expression "law reform" is used in a number of senses and some of these are close to being wholly incompatible with each other. [1]In the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, Ireland, the expression "reform" includes, in relation to the law or a branch of the law, its development, its codification (including in particular its simplification and modernisation), statute law revision and ...

  8. Montesquieu - Wikipedia

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    Château de la Brède, Montesquieu's birthplace. Montesquieu was born at the Château de la Brède in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux. [4] His father, Jacques de Secondat (1654–1713), was a soldier with a long noble ancestry, including descent from Richard de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English crown.

  9. General Elections Commission - Wikipedia

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    The General Elections Commission (Indonesian: Komisi Pemilihan Umum, abbreviated as KPU) is the body that organises elections in Indonesia.Its responsibilities include deciding which parties can contest elections, organising the voting and announcing the results and seats won in the various branches of the government.