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  • 61presume */ — UK [prɪˈzjuːm] / US [prɪˈzum] verb Word forms presume : present tense I/you/we/they presume he/she/it presumes present participle presuming past tense presumed past participle presumed 1) [transitive] to think that something is true because it is …

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  • 62Criminal Procedure (Hong Kong) — Every society has its own sets of moral standards and expectations. Different legal systems and laws develop and evolve based on these moral standards and expectations. Following the common law system introduced into Hong Kong when it became a… …

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  • 63Miranda warning — The Miranda warning (also referred to as Miranda rights) is a warning that is required to be given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to inform them …

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  • 64Subic rape case — The Subic rape case, officially known as People of the Philippines vs. Chad Carpentier, Dominic Duplantis, Keith Silkwood, and Daniel Smith, was a criminal case in the Philippines involving a Filipina and four US Marines. It caught wide media… …

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  • 65Legal burden of proof — This article is about the burden of proof in law. For other uses, see Burden of proof (disambiguation). The burden of proof (Latin: onus probandi) is the obligation to shift the accepted conclusion away from an oppositional opinion to one s own… …

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  • 66Presume — Pre*sume , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Presumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Presuming}.] [F. pr[ e]sumer, L. praesumere, praesumptum; prae before + sumere to take. See {Assume}, {Redeem}.] 1. To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave… …

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  • 67Presuming — Presume Pre*sume , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Presumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Presuming}.] [F. pr[ e]sumer, L. praesumere, praesumptum; prae before + sumere to take. See {Assume}, {Redeem}.] 1. To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without …

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  • 68presume — pre|sume [ prı zum ] verb * 1. ) transitive to think something is true because it is likely, although you cannot be certain: ASSUME: presume (that): I presume you ve already ordered lunch. Ellen could only presume that he didn t care. a ) LEGAL… …

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  • 69History of crime fiction — Crime fiction is a typically 19th and 20th century genre, dominated by British and American writers. This article explores its historical development as a genre.Crime fiction in historyIt was only from the 19th century that novels and stories… …

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  • 70Richard H. Brodhead — Richard Halleck Brodhead (born 1947) currently serves as the ninth president of Duke University and is a scholar of 19th century American literature.Early life and educationBrodhead was born in 1947 in Dayton, Ohio. His family moved to Fairfield …

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