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Denmark Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...in Denmark in the Middle Ages, even if the archives of the Danish medieval church have not survived Copenhagen Court.The first phrase of the Jyske Lov (Law of Jutland)–“Med lov skal man land bygge” (The country shall be built on the law)–is often found on Danish courthouses. Courtesy Of Christian Rasmussen . The Reformation. The Lutheran Reformation, which was implemented in Denmark in 1536 , had an important impact on Danish law. It considerably strengthened royal power, and gave the king a new and stronger role as custos duodecim tabularum , the guardian...
Celtic Law Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...to transmit legal learning. Hywel Dda (d. 950). Sculpture by F. W. Pomeroy in City Hall, Cardiff, Wales. Courtesy Seth Whales Welsh Law Books. Many of the tracts composing the Irish Senchas Már were devoted to describing the approved workings of particular institutions, such as “base clientship” or fosterage. This is true of some tracts in Welsh law books, but a rather higher proportion of these texts was devoted to procedure. The earlier Welsh law books were divided between “Court laws” and “Country laws”: the former took up much less parchment than the...
Academics Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...if of significant enough value to the local community, or abandoned when the pupils no longer came or the teacher lost interest. Even when attached to a college, these schools operated separately from the parent institution. Often the connection was almost the extension of a courtesy title. Use of the college's name was on condition that the school impose no pecuniary cost to the institution. Thus, the professor's “salary” was simply the fees collected from such students as chose to enroll, less the expenses of instruction, just as would have been the case...
South and Central America Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...of rulership (a power called capac ) in the lineage. Inca Punishment. An Inca man punishes those found guilty of poisoning and killing others. Drawing from El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government) by Guaman Poma, 1615, p. 312. Courtesy Asuncion Lavrin Punishment for theft was likewise regulated. If a theft of food was motivated by hunger or necessity when traveling by road, the guilty was either pardoned or received a light punishment. A thief of minor items might receive a beating for a first offence or...
Constitution of the United States Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...the capacity to act with the secrecy, speed, and efficiency needed to repel threats to the nation's security. Third, the power to declare war is not a grant of control over the nation's war-making power but rather a relatively insignificant power in the nature of a diplomatic courtesy. Congress and the courts have not challenged this series of presidential claims of war-making power, for a variety of political and jurisprudential reasons. The aggrandizement of presidential war-making power has eroded the practice, and constitutional power, of declaring war,...
Women Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...out with a friend; but a woman, if her marriage is unhappy and she decides to divorce her husband, acquires a bad reputation. Greek Letter.From Hilarion to his wife Alis telling her “if you bear a child and it is male, let it be; if it is female, cast it out,” 17 June 1 b.c.e. Courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto In Athens the dissolution of a marriage could also be the consequence of the decision of a third person, usually the father of the wife, who did not need to obtain the assent of the daughter. As far as love and...
United States Law Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...for small general or small, specialized (“boutique”) firms, or practiced entirely on their own. First Woman Supreme Court Justice. Sandra Day O’Connor being sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger, September 1981. John O’Connor, her husband, looks on. Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library In 1900 , law schools were a dominant factor in legal education, but still hardly a monopoly. A century later, the apprenticeship system was virtually dead. There were about one hundred law schools in 1910 , some of them night schools. In 1980 , there...
Property Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...legal terms such as ownership or possession. There was no coherent body of law dealing with property, and proprietary remedies were discrete and specific. Roman Lease.Lease of ten and a half arouras of land for one year at a rent of 36 drachmas per aroura, September 121 c.e. Courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto In modern law a distinction is commonly drawn between movable and immovable property. While this distinction seems to have existed in the Twelve Tables—various provisions refer to familia (all the persons under the...
Border Art Reference library
Guisela M. Latorre
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements
...issues regarding the US-Mexico border are very much part of the history of colonization in the Americas. Death of Rubén Salazar, 1986 (oil on canvas), Frank Romero. photo credit: smithsonian american art museum, washington, dc / art resource, ny / © 1986, frank romero / courtesy of the artist BAW/TAF was influential not only because it forged a new aesthetic and art form in the history of both contemporary American and US Latina and Latino art but also because of the individual talents that emerged from this collective. Though his partnership with...
