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101Takkanah — A takkanah is a major legislative enactment within halakha (Jewish law), the normative system of Judaism s laws.A takkanah is an enactment which (1) revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances, or… …
102Warrant sale — A warrant sale was a statutory means of collecting debts in Scotland until 2001. Legal procedure for warrant sales was governed by The Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987. The practice was controversial, those who opposed it were concerned that it… …
103Syria — /sear ee euh/, n. 1. Official name, Syrian Arab Republic. a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean. 16,137,899; 71,227 sq. mi. (184,478 sq. km). Cap.: Damascus. 2. a territory mandated to France in 1922, including the present… …
104assignment for benefit of creditors — A voluntary transfer of a debtor s property into a trust to be used to pay creditors. The trustee collects any income owed the debtor, liquidates the debtor s property that has been transferred to the trust, and uses the money to pay the debtor s …
105IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT — IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, the imprisonment of a debtor who fails to pay his debt on or before the date due. Prevalence in Other Legal Systems Influenced by Roman law (see execution civil law), imprisonment for debt was the most common means of… …
106JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …
107Tariff — For other uses, see Tariff (disambiguation). Taxation An aspect of fiscal policy …
108Cannery Row (novel) — Cannery Row is a novel by John Steinbeck. It was published in 1945. A film version was released in 1982. Cannery Row takes place in the small strip of land near a sardine fishery in Monterey known as Cannery Row. It revolves around the people… …
109Turnpike trusts in the United Kingdom — were bodies set up by Act of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal highways in Britain during the eighteenth century and nineteenth century. At the peak in the 1830s, over 1000 trusts [ Parliamentary Papers …
110Public notice — A public notice or notice of intent is information directed to citizensof a governmental entity regarding government related activities. Publicnotices have traditionally been published in specified governmentalpublications and in local newspapers …
