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31California Southern Law School — Not to be confused with University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA), Southern California Institute of Law (Santa Barbara, CA), the correspondence school California Southern University (Irvine, CA), or the unaccredited institution called… …
32Self-defence in English law — In English criminal law, the defence of self defence provides for the right of people to act in a manner that would be otherwise unlawful in order to preserve the physical integrity of themselves or others or to prevent any crime. For the… …
33Canadian nationality law — Immigration to Canada This article is part of a series Topics Canadians …
34History of Canadian nationality law — Canada was the second nation in the then British Commonwealth to establish its own nationality law in 1946, with the enactment of the Canadian Citizenship Act 1946. This took effect on 1 January 1947 The first Commonwealth nation to have done so… …
35Retroactive law — Retroactive Re tro*act ive, a. [Cf. F. r[ e]troactif.] Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. [1913 Webster] {Retroactive law} or {Retroactive statute} (Law), one which… …
36ex post facto law — noun : a criminal or penal statute that imposes a punishment for an act not punishable when committed, or alters to the defendant s disadvantage the punishment prescribed at the time of the act, or takes away from the substantial protection… …
37Tony Blair: A 10-Year Retrospective — ▪ 2008 by Tom Gallagher On May 10, 2007 almost exactly 10 years after he became Britain s youngest prime minister since the Napoleonic wars Tony Blair announced that he would officially tender his resignation in June. Blair s long anticipated… …
38retroactive — ret·ro·ac·tive /ˌre trō ak tiv/ adj: extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past; esp: made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition a retroactive tax see also …
39warranty — war·ran·ty / wȯr ən tē, wär / n pl ties [modification (influenced by warrant ) of Anglo French garantie, from garantir to protect, warrant] 1: a promise in a deed that gives the grantee of an estate recourse (as through an action for damages)… …
40overrule — 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 …
