jackson's law

  • 1Jackson's law —    The eponym Jackson s law refers to the British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835 1911). It involves the notion that a loss of mental functions due to disease retraces in reverse order the evolutionary development of the brain. Jackson… …

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  • 2Jackson's law — the nerve functions that are latest developed are the first to be lost when the brain is damaged by disease; called also Jackson s rule …

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  • 3Jackson's law (rule) syndrome — Jack·son s law (rule), syndrome (jakґsənz) [John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist, 1835–1911] see under law and syndrome …

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  • 4Jackson–Denno hearing — see hearing Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 5law — [lɔː ǁ lɒː] noun 1. [singular, uncountable] LAW the whole system of rules that citizens of a country must obey: • It is against the law (= illegal ) for children to work before they are fifteen. • There were easy profits for businessmen who were… …

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  • 6Jackson, Howell E. — ▪ United States jurist in full  Howell Edmunds Jackson   born April 8, 1832, Paris, Tenn., U.S. died Aug. 8, 1895, near Nashville, Tenn.       American lawyer and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1893–95).       Jackson… …

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  • 7Jackson, Tennessee —   City   Location of Jackson, Tennessee Coor …

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  • 8Jackson County, Iowa — Location in the state of Iowa …

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  • 9Jackson v Attorney General — or Jackson and Others v Attorney General (2005 UKHL 56), (2006 1 AC 262) was a 2005 House of Lords case concerning the legality of the use of the Parliament Acts to pass the Hunting Act to ban fox hunting. It is considered a case of major… …

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  • 10Jackson County, Missouri — Location in the state of Missouri …

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