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Nuremberg Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were denaturalization laws passed by the government of Nazi Germany. The first law, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between “Jews” (the name was now officially used in place of “non-Aryans”) and “Germans” and also the employment of “German” females under forty-five in Jewish households. The status of subject is acquired in accordance with the provisions of the Reich and State Law of Citizenship. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuremberg_Laws   (940 words)

Corn Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Corn Laws, in reality, represented the power of the British aristocracy, who were the landowners and therefore the crop producers. The Corn Laws, in force between 1815 and 1846, were import tariffs ostensibly designed to "protect" British farmers and landowners against competition from cheap foreign grain imports. (In British usage the term "corn" means "grain", or specifically the primary grain crop of a country, which in England was wheat, not maize as implied by the North American usage of the term.) These laws are often viewed as a cornerstone of British Mercantilism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corn_Laws   (684 words)

CORN LAWS - LoveToKnow Article on CORN LAWS Apart from this general feudal germ of legislation on corn, the history of the British corn laws may be said to have begun with the statute in the reign of Henry VI. By a law of July 1889, as amended by laws of August 1891 and July 1899, importation is prohibited except in the event of the home-grown crop being insufficient, and even then permission is confined to millers. This evil continued to affect the corn laws of the kingdom, varied, on one occasion at least, with the further complicati~n of bounties on import, until the I 9th century. 64.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CORN_LAWS.htm   (6331 words)

Info and facts on 'Shield laws' Shield laws are laws (The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit) that are passed by some states in order to protect the reporters' right to keep their sources private. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sh/Shield_laws.htm   (44 words)

Penal law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Penal Laws were gradually repealed at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth century, due in large part to Daniel O'Connell. In the most general sense, penal is the body of laws that are enforced by the State in its own name and impose penalties for their violation, as opposed to civil law that seeks to redress private wrongs. In English history, penal law refers to a specific series of laws that sought to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics, by imposing various forfeitures, civil penalties, and civil disabilities upon these dissenters. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penal_Laws   (1052 words)

BREHON LAWS - LoveToKnow Article on BREHON LAWS His status affected the force of the contract as well as the value of his evidence; and the laws appear to imply that by becoming a witness, a man incurred liabilities as a surety. Laws of universal application which could be administered only by duly qualified judges were called Cain law, while minor laws administered by nobles and magistrates were called Urradhus law. The decisions of the law were executed by the persons concerned, supported by a highly organized and disciplined public opinion springing from honor and interest and inherent in the so]idarity of the clan. www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BREHON_LAWS.htm   (6553 words)

Gas laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The gas laws are a set of laws that describe the relationship between thermodynamic temperature (T), pressure (P) and volume (V) of gases. R is the ideal gas constant (8.31 J/mol K) is the temperature in kelvins. The kinetic theory of gases, Graham's law of effusion and root mean square velocity all explain how individual molecules in a gas act and their relation to pressure, volume, and temperature. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gas_laws   (339 words)

CONK! Encyclopedia: Zipf's_law Originally the term Zipf's law meant the observation of Harvard linguist George Kingsley Zipf (IPA: [zɪf]) that the frequency of use of the nth-most-frequently-used word in any natural language is approximately inversely proportional to n. Zipf's law is often demonstrated by scatterplotting the data, with the axes being log(rank order) and log(frequency). Mathematically, it is impossible for the classic version of Zipf's law to hold exactly if there are infinitely many words in a language, since the sum of all relative frequencies in the denominator above is equal to the harmonic series and therefore: www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Zipf's_law   (339 words)

Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The second law can also be seen as a statement of conservation of angular momentum, which is a logical consequence of Newton's laws in the special case of a force that acts along the line connecting two objects. Kepler's laws fail even more dramatically in the case of an object orbiting a black hole; here, general relativity predicts that many orbits —those that pass through the event horizon— are one-way streets to a dead-end region of spacetime. Crowell, Benjamin, Conservation Laws, http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1book2.html, an online book that gives a proof of the first law without the use of calculus. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laws_of_Kepler   (339 words)

Penal Laws Although the penal laws of Ireland were passed by a Protestant Parliament and aimed at depriving Catholics of their faith, such laws were not the outcome of religious motives only. After the Act of Union, in 1707, the Penal Laws were still enforced. Even laws against Quakers, apparently unenforced, imposed penalties not upon them but upon the communities that harboured them; while the universal "except Papists" phrase is significantly lacking, though in 1743 a law allowed dissenters "being Protestants" to apply for relief. www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/laws,penal.html   (6013 words)

Noahide Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This, in addition to the teaching of the Jewish law that punishment for violating one of the seven Noahide Laws includes a theoretical death penalty (Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin 57a), is a factor in modern opposition to the notion of a Noahide legal system. However, according to Maimonides, a gentile is considered righteous only if a person follows the Noahide laws specifically because he or she considers them to be of divine origin (through the Torah) and not if they are merely considered to be intellectually compelling or good rules for living. According to rabbinic Judaism, as expressed in the Talmud, the Noahide Laws apply to all humanity through mankind's descent from one paternal ancestor who in Hebrew tradition is called Noah (the head of the only family to survive during The Flood). www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noachide_covenant   (2550 words)

Three Laws of Robotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Laws of Robotics are portrayed as something akin to a human religion and referred to in the language of the Protestant Reformation, with the set of laws containing the Zeroth Law known as the "Giskardian Reformation" to the original "Calvinian Orthodoxy" of the Three Laws. Where the laws are quoted verbatim (such as in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode, "Shgorapchx!"), it is not uncommon for Asimov to be mentioned in the same dialogue. SF scholar James Gunn writes, "The Asimov robot stories as a whole may respond best to an analysis on this basis: the ambiguity in the Three Laws and the ways in which Asimov played twenty-nine variations upon a theme" (the number is accurate for 1980). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics   (2550 words)

John Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Laws (born August 8, 1935) is a prominent and controversial radio presenter in Australia whose on-air mellifluent voice earned him the nickname 'Golden Tonsils'. Laws had previously apologised for another incident in which he called Carson Kressley a "pompous little pansy prig" and "a pillow biter" before urging him to "piss off, pansy". Capital city stations taking Laws include 4BC in Brisbane, 2CC in Canberra, Magic 107.3 FM in Hobart and Mix 1049 in Darwin. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Laws   (645 words)

Triskelle - Irish History - Brehon Law In other words: "Laws were made for people and the law can never scorn" (from the song Free the People). Laws that were consistent with Christianity were written down in the Senchus Mór. Minimum wages were established by law: two lambs a year for the wife who minds the sheep and twenty-one cows, plus land to feed them, and two hounds and two horses for the chief poet of a tribe. www.vincentpeters.nl /triskelle/history/brehonlaw.php?index=060.030.020   (1357 words)

Celtic law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The established body of Law was known as 'Fenechas', the law of the Feine (Freemen), or more commonly, the Brehon Laws. The most common body of Brehon Laws was codified in 438, by the order of Laighaire, a High King of Ireland. The Brehon laws were responsible for regulating how people interacted. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celtic_law   (423 words)

A (much) smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland - Chapter VI - The Brehon Laws Everywhere in the literature, especially in the laws, the féine or free farming classes are spoken of as a most important part of the community - as the foundation of society, and as the ultimate source of law and authority. The brehons had absolutely in their hands the interpretation of the laws and the application of them to individual cases. The Brehon Law was vehemently condemned by English writers ; and in several acts of parliament it was made treason for the English settlers to use it. www.alia.ie /tirnanog/sochis/iv.html   (5015 words)

Moore's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Moore's law is the empirical observation that at our rate of technological development, the complexity of an integrated circuit, with respect to minimum component cost will double in about 24 months. Although Moore's law was initially made in the form of an observation and prediction, the more widely it became accepted, the more it served as a goal for an entire industry. However, just as the "law" has itself taken on mythic status somewhat independent of actual facts, its significance to technology growth may be prone to a degree of mythologising. www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Moore's_law   (5015 words)

Hubble's law Hubble's law is the statement in physical cosmology that the redshift in light coming from distant galaxies is proportional to their distance. The mathematical derivation of an idealized Hubble's Law for a uniformly accelerating expanding universe is a fairly elementary theorem of geometry in 3-dimensional Cartesian/Newtonian coordinate space, which, considered as a metric space, is entirely homogeneous and isotropic (properties do not vary with direction). The law was first formulated by Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason in 1929 after nearly a decade of observations. www.1bx.com /en/Hubbles_law.htm   (5015 words)

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 309, CORN LAWS.: Library of Economics and Liberty From the circumstance of corn forming, in England and most other countries, the principal part of the food of the people, the trade in it, and the laws by which the trade is regulated, are justly looked upon as of the highest importance. An association, denominated the anti-corn law league, originally founded in Lancashire, but which subsequently extended its ramifications to most parts of the country, was set on foot for the express purpose of keeping up an incessant agitation against the corn laws, which, in consequence of these concurring circumstances, were assailed with greater bitterness than ever. But supposing the total quantity of corn annually produced in Great Britain and Ireland to amount to 50,000,000 quarters, every shilling added to its price by the corn laws was equivalent to a tax on corn of £2,500,000; and estimating the average rise on all sorts of grain previously to 1846 at 3s. www.econlib.org /LIBRARY/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy309.html   (9586 words)

Template In Ireland, the "Penal Laws" is the name given to the code of laws passed by the Protestant Parliament of Ireland which regulated the status of Roman Catholics through most of the eighteenth century. The primary contents of this site are detailed summaries in html format of each of the Penal Laws. A substantial body of case law interpreted the Penal Laws, particularly as they affected land transactions, but such material is beyond the scope of this site. www.law.umn.edu /irishlaw/intro.html   (1665 words)

Acerbo Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The socialists didn't recogize this law and didn't participate in the government, which was fine with the fascists, this being known as the aventine secession. The importance of this law is that it enabled the fascists to establish a political base in the Italian parliament, which Mussolini used to create a dictatorship. The Acerbo Law was a 1923 electoral law forced through the Italian Parliament - if a party gained 25 percent of the votes, they gained 2/3 of the seats. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acerbo_Law   (1665 words)

Broadmining: LAW Individually codified laws are known as statutes, and the collective body of laws relating to one subject or emanating from one source are usually identified by specific reference. Most laws and legal systems—at least in the Western world—are quite similar in their essential themes, arising from similar values and similar social, economic, and political conditions, and they typically differ less in their substantive content than in their jargon and procedures. Criminal law (penal law) is the body of laws which regulate lowide.com /LAW   (1665 words)

gas laws - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about gas laws They include Boyle's law and Charles's law, which are concerned with the relationships between the pressure (P), temperature (T), and volume (V) of an ideal (hypothetical) gas. The laws state that gas pressure depends on the temperature and volume of the gas. If the pressure of a gas is constant, its volume increases with temperature. encyclopedia.farlex.com /gas%20laws   (192 words)

CONK! Encyclopedia: Boyles_law The three gas laws in combination with Avogadro's Law can be generalized by the ideal gas law. Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle Mariotte law) is one of the gas laws. To maintain the constant during an increase in pressure of a gas, at fixed temperature, requires that the volume decrease. www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Boyles_law   (192 words)

cornlaws It has been sometimes urged as an argument in favour of the corn laws, that the great sums which the country has had to pay for foreign corn during the last twenty years must have been injurious to her resources, and might have been saved by the improvement of our agriculture at home. Corn, in this respect, is subjected to the same laws as other commodities, and the difference between them is by no means so great as stated by Dr Smith. It has further been intimated by the friends of the corn laws, that by growing our own consumption we shall keep the price of corn within moderate bounds and to a certain degree steady. socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/malthus/cornlaws   (5273 words)

corn laws on Encyclopedia.com CORN LAWS [corn laws] regulations restricting the export and import of grain, particularly in England. Following a campaign by the Anti-Corn-Law League, the corn laws were repealed by the Conservative government of Sir Robert Peel in 1846, despite the opposition of many of his own party, led by Lord George Bentinck and Benjamin Disraeli. The purpose of the laws was to assure a stable and sufficient supply of grain from domestic sources, eliminating undue dependence on foreign supplies, yet allowing for imports in time of scarcity. www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/cornlaws.asp   (545 words)

Corn Laws The Corn Laws aroused strong opposition and became a hotly contested political issue, as they were regarded by radicals as benefiting wealthy landowners at the expense of the ordinary consumer. For centuries the Corn Laws formed an integral part of the mercantile system in England&; they were repealed because they became an unwarranted tax on food and a hindrance to British exports. In 1838 the Anti-Corn Law League was formed to campaign for the repeal of the laws. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013640.html   (540 words)

tanford.htm While these laws vary in scope and procedural details, they share the features of declaring an end to the presumptive admissibility of such evidence and of restricting the situations in which a defendant will be allowed to bring the victim's sexual history to the attention of the jury. Yet even as the old laws were premised on the myths of a male-dominated society, the vituperative attacks and much of the resulting legislation are themselves based on an emotional premise: that the rape victim is unfairly subject to a "second rape'' by the criminal justice system. Shield laws must be tested against his established rights to confront his accusers and to present his own defense. www.law.harvard.edu /publications/evidenceiii/articles/tanford.htm   (3585 words)

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