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1FLOGGING — FLOGGING, punishment by beating or whipping. This at all times has been the instinctive way to inflict disciplinary punishment : a parent disciplines his son by beating him (cf. Deut. 8:5; 21:18; Prov. 19:18; 23:13–14; 29:17) as does a master his …
2Blakely v. Washington — Infobox SCOTUS case Litigants=Blakely v. Washington ArgueDate=March 23 ArgueYear=2004 DecideDate=June 24 DecideYear=2004 FullName=Ralph Howard Blakely, Jr. v. Washington USVol=542 USPage=296 Citation=124 S. Ct. 2531; 159 L. Ed. 2d 403; 2004 U.S.… …
3Dhimmi — This article is about dhimmi in the context of Islamic law. For the neologism, see dhimmitude. This article is …
4LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM — UNDER THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1876–1917) Judiciary Throughout the period from the promulgation of the Ottoman Constitution of 1876 until the present time there have been both secular and religious courts exercising jurisdiction in the territory of… …
5Article One of the United States Constitution — United States of America This article is part of the series: United States Constitution Original text of the Constitution Preamble Articles of the Constitution I  …
6United States federal probation and supervised release — The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for… …
7United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
8Sharia — Not to be confused with Shahriyār. This article is part of the series …
9Constitution of Malaysia — Ratified 27 August 1957 Authors Delegates of the Reid Commission and later of the Cobbold Commission Purpose Indepe …
10Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
