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101Law — /law/, n. 1. Andrew Bonar /bon euhr/, 1858 1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922 23. 2. John, 1671 1729, Scottish financier. 3. William, 1686 1761, English clergyman and devotional writer. * * * I Discipline and profession… …
102Dreyfus, Alfred — born Oct. 19, 1859, Mulhouse, France died July 12, 1935, Paris French army officer, subject of the Dreyfus Affair (l Affaire). Son of a Jewish textile manufacturer, he studied at the École Polytechnique, then entered the army and rose to the rank …
103legal ethics — Introduction principles of conduct that members of the legal profession are expected to observe in their practice. They are an outgrowth of the development of the legal profession itself. Background Practitioners of law emerged when… …
104Scroggs, Sir William — ▪ English chief justice born c. 1623, Deddington, Oxfordshire, Eng. died Oct. 25, 1683, London controversial lord chief justice of England (1678–81), who presided over the trials of those accused of complicity in the Popish Plot of 1678 to… …
105Arabia — • The cradle of Islam and, in all probability, the primitive home of the Semitic race Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Arabia Arabia …
106Vespasian — • Biography of the Roman Emperor Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vespasian Vespasian † …
107error — er·ror n: an act that through ignorance, deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done procedural error s; esp: a mistake made by a lower court in conducting judicial proceedings or making findings in a case to… …
108jury nullification — n: the acquitting of a defendant by a jury in disregard of the judge s instructions and contrary to the jury s findings of fact ◇ Jury nullification is most likely to occur when a jury is sympathetic toward a defendant or regards the law under… …
109not guilty — n 1: a plea by a criminal defendant who intends to contest the charges compare guilty, nolo contendere ◇ Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, if a defendant refuses to plead or if the defendant is a corporation that fails to appear the… …
110acquittal — noun /ʌ.kwɪt.əl/ a) The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance. b) (Law) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court …
