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21Sedition Act (Malaysia) — The Sedition Act in Malaysia is a law prohibiting discourse deemed as seditious. The act was originally enacted by the colonial authorities of British Malaya in 1948. The act criminalises speech with seditious tendency , including that which… …
22National Westminster Bank plc v Spectrum Plus Limited — [2005] UKHL 41 was a UK company law decision of House of Lords which settled a number of outstanding legal issues relating to floating charges and recharacterisation risk under the English common law. However, the House of Lords also considered… …
23Roger Putnam — Roger Lowell Putnam (December 19, 1893 November 24, 1972) was an American politician and businessman. A member of the prominent Lowell family of Boston, he served as mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1937 to 1943 and as director of the… …
24Robert Wright (judge) — Sir Robert Wright (c1634 1689) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench 1687 89.Early lifeWright was the son of Jermyn Wright of Wangford in Suffolk, by his wife Anne, daughter of Richard Bachcroft of Bexwell in Norfolk. He was… …
25Payne v. Tennessee — ussc|501|808|1991 was an important United States Supreme Court case on criminal law, which held that testimony on the form of a victim impact statement was admissible, thus overruling two of that courts precedents. It held that stare decisis cou …
26exception — ex·cep·tion n 1: something that is excepted or excluded; esp: a situation to which a rule does not apply the supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exception s, and under such regulations as the… …
27overrule — over·rule /ˌō vər rül/ vt 1: to rule against the objection was overruled compare sustain 2 a: to rule against upon review by virtue of a higher authority: set aside reverse …
28Unicode character property — Unicode assigns character properties to each code point.[1] These properties can be used to handle characters (code points) in processes, like in line breaking, script direction right to left or applying controls. Slightly inconsequently, some… …
29Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 24, 2009 …
30Abolish — A*bol ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abolished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abolishing}.] [F. abolir, L. abolere, aboletum; ab + olere to grow. Cf. {Finish}.] 1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; said of laws, customs, institutions, governments,… …
