Search results for: “heresy”
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Heresy and Secession
Heresy And Secession In relation to religious matters, find out about Heresy And Secession and the following issues in this world legal Encyclopedia: Mother Church, Control Seceders, Funds Society, Foreign Language, Independent Subordinate, Incorporated "Church," Seceders, Debt
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Heresy
Note: see also heresy in the European legal Encyclopedia. Heresy, the English equivalent of the Greek word ??????? which is used in the Septuagint for “free choice,” in later classical literature for a philosophical school or sect as “chosen” by those who belong […]
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Censorship
Introduction Censorship, supervision and control of the information and ideas that are circulated among the people within a society. In modern times, censorship refers to the examination of books, periodicals, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other […]
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VATICAN II
VATICAN II The Second Vatican Council in Roman Catholicism, 1962-1965, which was the first “ecumenical” church council of Roman Catholics since Vatican I in 1869-1870, was convened by Pope John XXIII with the explicit purpose of aggiornamento , that is, updating the church to function in modern society. According to Roman Catholic teaching, an ecumenical…
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Bouvier´s Law Dictionary Content
Bouvier´s Law Dictionary Content English and Scottish Content VIOLENT PROFITS ACTION OF ADHERENCE ACTIONS ORDINARY ADVOCATION ANN ANNUAL PENSION APPRIZING ARRESTEE ARRESTER ARRESTMENT ASSIGNATION ASSISORS ASSYTHMENT BAIR-MAN BAIRN’S PART CAUTION, TURATORY CAUTIONER CEDENT CHARGER CIRCUMDUCTION CIRCUMVENTION COURTESY or CURTESY CURIALITY CURTESY or COURTESY DECREE ARBITRAL DECREE OF REGISTRATION TO DISPONE DYVOUR DYVOUR’S HABIT EXHIBITION FACTORY…
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Magna Carta
Legal Materials Pictures and translations of the Magna Carta are posted on the Internet by the National Archives and Records Administration and the British Library. You'll find a print copy in the American Jurisprudence 2d Deskbook. Abstract The Magna Carta (literally, the […]
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Common Topics
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International Alliances
International Alliances ALLIANCES AND SUPERPOWER DOMINANCE, 1964-1968 The second half of the 1960s was a time of parallel crises for the two military alliances, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, in both of which superpower dominance was at issue. For the first time since the onset of the Cold War, the loosening of the Kremlin leadership…
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Freedom of Religion
Introduction to Freedom of Religion Freedom of Religion, right of a person to form personal religious beliefs according to his or her own conscience and to give public expression to these beliefs in worship and teaching, restricted only by the requirements of public order. Religious liberty […]
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Freedom of Religion
Introduction to Freedom of Religion Freedom of Religion, right of a person to form personal religious beliefs according to his or her own conscience and to give public expression to these beliefs in worship and teaching, restricted only by the requirements of public order. Religious liberty […]
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Religious Services
In relation to religious matters, find out about Religious Services and the following issues in this world legal Encyclopedia: Worship, Discipline, Innovations Doctrines, Temporal Affairs Contributions, Presbyterians, Methodists True Religion, Courts Heresy, Injunction Bequest, Sects, Condition […]
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Blasphemy
Blasphemy, in common law, crime of speaking or publishing words that vilify or ridicule God, the Bible, or religious beliefs. It is a misdemeanor, and two reasons formerly underlay its being a crime: (1) it tended to cause a breach of the peace between the blasphemer and those outr…
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Leo I
Leo I Leo I, who alone of Roman pontiffs shares with Gregory I the surname of the Great, pope from 440 to 461, was a native of Rome, or, according to a less probable account, of Volterra in Tuscany. Of his family or early life nothing is known; that he was highly cultivated according to…
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Ecclesiastical Law
The Legal History of Ecclesiastical Law in English Common LawThis section provides an overview of Ecclesiastical Law in English Common Law ResourcesSee AlsoLegal Biography Legal Traditions Historical Laws History of Law Further Reading Ecclesiastical Law in English Common Law in the Oxford […]
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Torture in the Middle Ages
Torture in the Middle Ages and AfterIntroduction to Torture in the Middle AgesIn the early Middle Ages, torture was used as a means of ordeal-usually as part of a religious initiation rite-and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture, often called the "question,"…