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Sheriff
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Originally named SHIRE-REEVE, also called i-iiG SIIERWF, a senior executive officer in an English county or smaller area who performs a variety of administrative and judicial functions. Officers of this name also exist in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United States.
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Treason and sedition
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these are Crimes against the state. Treason is the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. Sedition, though it may have the same ultimate effect as treason, refers generally to the offense of organizing or encouraging opposition to government in a manner (such as in speech or writing) that falls short of the more dangerous offenses constituting treason.
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Legacy
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Generally a gift of property by will or testament. The term is used to denote the disposition of either personal or real property in the event of death.
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Contempt
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An insult to, interference with, or violation of a sovereign court or legislative body. The concept is of English origin and is found only in countries that follow the common-law system. The primary importance of the notion of contempt is that it warrants judicial action in defense of the judicial or legislative power itself.
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Legal aid
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Legal aid, the professional legal assistance given, either at no charge or for a nominal sum, to indigent persons in need of such help. In criminal cases most countries—especially those in which a person accused of a crime enjoys a presumption of innocence—provide the services of a lawyer for those who have insufficient means of their own.
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Police power
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Police power, term used in U.S. constitutional law to describe the permissible scope of state legislation. In spite of its importance, police power is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution; the concept was created by the courts to reflect the conclusion that an approved law did not violate specific constitutional prohibitions—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision that no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
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Separation
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Separation, mutual agreement by husband and wife to discontinue living together. A legal separation does not dissolve the marriage contract but merely adjusts the couple’s obligations under it in light of their desire to live separately.
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Conspiracy
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Conspiracy, in Anglo-American law, an agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means.
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Conspiracy
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Conspiracy, in Anglo-American law, an agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means. This definition is delusively simple, however, for each of its terms is subject to wide interpretation.
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Homicide
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Homicide, the killing of one human being by another. Homicide is a general term: it may refer to a killing that is not criminal.
Some homicides are considered justifiable.
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