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amnesty
N.An act erasing from legal memory some aspect of criminal conduct by an offender. It is most frequently granted to groups of people in respect of political offences and is wider than a pardon, which ...
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The New Oxford Companion to Law
Chinese law, historically considered, has undergone a number of incarnations. First and foremost, we have the law applied by the
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
[This entry contains 17 subentries, on the history of Chinese law in the Shang Dynasty; the Western Zhou Dynasty; the
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
[This entry contains seven subentries on the sources of Chinese law: the administrative codes or regulations, penal codes, classical
common law
1 The part of English law based on rules developed by the royal courts during the first three centuries after the Norman Conquest (1066) as a system applicable to the whole country, as opposed to ...
Doing What Ought Not to Be Done
Since at least the beginning of the Tang dynasty (618–907c.e.), the main body of codified law, the lü, never failed to contain a provision imposing some kind of slight sanction ...
Doubtful Cases
“Doubtful Cases” (yi zui) is the title of the last article, number 502, of the Tang code (Tanglü shuyi) of 653 c.e. The general concept is an old one in ...
Ecclesiastical Law in English Common Law
The assumption that a distinct legal sphere, separate from the temporal law, should be reserved to the church—a principle important to many of the clergy—has long played a role in ...
ethnic group
A community or group of people with distinctive social, cultural, and behavioral characteristics that distinguish them from others in the same or different country or society. Members of an ethnic ...
Foreigners in Chinese Law
Threatened by predatory tribes and imbued with a sense of cultural superiority, China’s rulers maintained tight control of their frontiers throughout history. They admitted foreigners only as bearers ...
hire
1 vb. To enter into a contract for the temporary use of another's goods, or the temporary provision of his services or labour, in return for payment. In the case of goods, the person hiring them is a ...
mutilation
The infliction of serious bodily injury so as to disfigure or disable. It is a war crime so classified by Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
rule of law
1 The supremacy of law.2 A feature attributed to the UK constitution by Professor Dicey (Law of the Constitution, 1885). It embodied three concepts: the absolute predominance of regular law, so that ...
Shen Chia-Pen
1840–1913.Chinese jurist. He is celebrated for having introduced Western law into China and as the father of modern jurisprudence in Taiwan and (since the 1980s) in the People's Republic ...
Vietnam
Vietnam has partially liberalized its economy, but the Communist Party remains firmly in chargeAround two-thirds of Vietnam consists of the Annamite mountain chain, which snakes down the length of ...
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