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  • 71Constitution of the United States — the fundamental or organic law of the U.S., framed in 1787 by the Constitutional Convention. It went into effect March 4, 1789. * * * Fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. It is the …

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  • 72Judge — Infobox Occupation name= PAGENAME caption= Sir Lyman Poore Duff, A former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada official names= Judge, justice, magistrate type= Profession activity sector= Law competencies= Analytical mind, critical thinking,… …

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  • 73Motion (legal) — For other uses, see Motion (disambiguation). In law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision. A motion may be thought of as a request to the judge (or judges) to make a decision about the… …

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  • 74Karla Homolka — Infobox Criminal subject name = Karla Leanne Homolka image size = 150px image caption = date of birth = Birth date and age|1970|5|4|mf=y place of birth = Port Credit, Ontario, Canada date of death = place of death = charge = manslaughter penalty …

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  • 75Harriet Mordaunt — Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt (7 February 1848 9 May 1906[1]), formerly Harriet Moncreiffe, was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and Member of Parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which… …

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  • 76Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office — Decisions of the first instances of the European Patent Office (EPO) can be appealed, i.e. challenged, before the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, in a judicial procedure (proper to an administrative court), as opposed to an administrative procedure …

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  • 77File sharing in Canada — Canada has the greatest number of file sharers per capita in the world according to a report by the OECD. [cite news|date=2005 12 13|url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/2/34995041.pdf|title=Digital Broadband Content|accessdate=2006 07… …

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  • 78Moscow Trials — The Moscow Trials were a series of show trials conducted in the Soviet Union and orchestrated by Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge of the 1930s. The victims included most of the surviving Old Bolsheviks, as well as the leadership of the Soviet …

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  • 79Summary jurisdiction — Summary jurisdiction, in the widest sense of the phrase, in English law includes the power asserted by courts of record to deal brevi manu with contempts of court without the intervention of a jury. Probably the power was originally exercisable… …

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  • 80Calendar of 2001 — ▪ 2002 January America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles …

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