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  2. Right to privacy - Wikipedia

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    This update added to the law Human Dignity and Liberty by defining: Human freedom in Israel as being the right to leave the country and enter it, as well as the right to privacy and intimacy, refrainment from searches relating to one's private property, body and possessions, and avoidance of violations of the privacy of one's speech, writings ...

  3. United States free speech exceptions - Wikipedia

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    Fighting words, as defined by the Court, is speech that "tend[s] to incite an immediate breach of the peace" by provoking a fight, so long as it is a "personally abusive [word] which, when addressed to the ordinary citizen, is, as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction". [38]

  4. Conversion (law) - Wikipedia

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    The use of or intermeddling (a term usually applicable to estate law) with the property of another has often been held to constitute a conversion, whether the act is done by one who had no authority to use the property, or by one who has authority to use the property but uses it in an unauthorized way. Any unjustified exercise of dominion over ...

  5. Freedom of speech in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."

  6. Kapu (Hawaiian culture) - Wikipedia

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    Kapu Kū mamao means prohibited from a place of the chief, while Kalu noho was to assemble before the chief. It was kapu when entering a chief's personal area to come in contact with his hair or fingernail clippings, to look directly at him, and to be in sight of him with a head higher than his.

  7. Possession (law) - Wikipedia

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    The owner of a property has the right of possession and may assign that right wholly or partially to another who may then also assign the right of possession to a third party. For example, an owner of residential property may assign the right of possession to a property manager under a property management contract , who may then assign the ...

  8. University reveals annual list of 'banned' words - AOL

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    Northern Michigan's Lake Superior State University is moving to ban many of those words you might have Well, this is kind of the opposite. University reveals annual list of 'banned' words

  9. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    As one has stated, "The rule against perpetuities is an ancient, but still vital, rule of property law intended to enhance marketability of property interests by limiting remoteness of vesting." [ 6 ] For this reason, another court has declared that the provisions of the rule are predicated upon "public policy" and thus "constitute non-waivable ...