Evolution of Law
The government our nation has established today has come a long way from its roots. Starting with the Napoleonic Code and eventually ending with the Ratified Constitution of the Unit...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Thailand's criminal court sentenced a Bangkok
businesswoman to seven years imprisonment for physically abusing and
enslaving a 13-year-old servant girl, medi...
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London (dpa) - A rare love letter written by Napoleon Bonaparte to
Josephine, Viscomtesse de Beauharnais, his future wife, fetched more
than five times its estimated price w...
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Oslo (dpa) - Norwegian Princess Martha Louise Tuesday wrote legal
history as she reportedly became the first member of the royal family
to appear in court.
Th...
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NAME — Salim Ahmed Hamdan.AGE — U.S. military records show Hamdan is about 37.NATIONALITY — Yemeni.HOW HE GOT TO GUANTANAMO — Afghan troops captured Hamdan in southern Afgha...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - One of the most drama-packed cases in Dutch
legal history concluded Friday with the sentencing to nine years'
imprisonment of crime boss Willem Holleeder, ...
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Leading historical groups are seeking the release of grand jury records in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose espionage trial for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union became a defi...
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A veteran government lawyer dug into national and international legal history Wednesday to defend the Pakistani president's move to suspend the chief justice, a decision that has provoked a growing...
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Stockholm (dpa) - In the first ruling of its kind in recent
Swedish legal history, a 33-year-old Swedish national was convicted
Monday of war crimes committed in Bosnia-Herz...
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Germany's defense minister said he might order the shooting down of hijacked airlines to avert a Sept. 11-style attack, drawing widespread criticism Monday after the country's highest court threw o...
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London (dpa) - Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Heather Mills were
Thursday locked in a London courtroom with their lawyers and a judge
seeking to hammer out a divorce settlemen...
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Evolution of Law
Bangkok businesswoman gets seven years for enslaving servant
