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81ADOPTION — ADOPTION, taking another s child as one s own. Alleged Cases of Adoption in the Bible The evidence for adoption in the Bible is so equivocal that some have denied it was practiced in the biblical period. (A) GENESIS 15:2–3. Being childless, Abram …
82agency — /ay jeuhn see/, n., pl. agencies. 1. an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency. 2. a company having a franchise to represent another. 3. a governmental bureau, or an office that represents it. 4 …
83Slavery — Slave redirects here. For other uses, see Slave (disambiguation). Part of a series on …
84City University of New York School of Law — Motto Law in the Service of Human Needs Established 1983 Type Public Postgraduates …
85History of slavery — The history of slavery uncovers many different forms of human exploitation across many cultures throughout history. Slavery, generally defined, refers to the systematic exploitation of labor traced back to the earliest records, such as the Code… …
86Fiqh — thumb|300px|Legal systems across the world.Fiqh (Arabic: فقه, IPA2|fɪqəh) is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law based directly on the Quran and Sunnah that complements Shariah with evolving… …
87Care of the Poor by the Church — Care of the Poor by the Church † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Care of the Poor by the Church I. OBJECTS, HISTORY, AND ORGANIZATION A. The care of the poor is a branch of charity. In the narrow sense charity means any exercise of mercy… …
88Inventions in medieval Islam — A significant number of inventions were developed in the medieval Islamic world, a geopolitical region that has at various times extended from Al Andalus and Africa in the west to the Indian subcontinent and Malay Archipelago in the east.… …
89Approaches to International Law — Discourse of legal processes within the global setting has produced varied theories, principles and practices expressed as distinct approaches to International Law. Several of these proposed approaches are domestic practices reconstructed for… …
90Ulema — ( ar. علماء, ArTranslit|‘Ulamā’, singular: ar. عالِم, ArTranslit|‘Ālim, scholar ) refers to the educated class of Muslim legal scholars engaged in the several fields of Islamic studies. They are best known as the arbiters of shari‘a law. While… …
