Search results for: “treason”

  • Bribery

    Bribery, in law, the illegal influencing of any person in the exercise of a public duty through the payment of money or anything of value. In the code set down by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, bribery was a punishable offense. By modern common law and statute, the tenderer and the solicitor […]

  • Female Genital Mutilation

    Female Genital Mutilation as an U.S. State Statute Topic This term is one of the topics in some U.S. State Statutes. Other topics of the World Encyclopedia of Law which are topics of some State Statures are: Licensed Public Accountants (State statute topic) Guardians Ad Litem (State […]

  • Aid and Comfort

    Description of Aid and Comfort Resources See Also Treason

  • Capital Punishment

    Introduction Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, […]

  • Insurrection

    Insurrection as an U.S. State Statute Topic This term is one of the topics in some U.S. State Statutes. Other topics of the World Encyclopedia of Law which are topics of some State Statures are: Licensed Public Accountants (Topic) Guardians Ad Litem (Topic) Biological Warfare […]

  • Insurrection

    Insurrection as an U.S. State Statute Topic This term is one of the topics in some U.S. State Statutes. Other topics of the World Encyclopedia of Law which are topics of some State Statures are: Licensed Public Accountants (Topic) Guardians Ad Litem (Topic) Biological Warfare […]

  • Court Martial

    Court Martial A High-handed Action: International Incident In the book "International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes", in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: On the 15th of March, 1804, Napoleon, though at peace with Baden, sent a body of troops […]

  • Court Martial

    Court Martial A High-handed Action: International Incident In the book "International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes", in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: On the 15th of March, 1804, Napoleon, though at peace with Baden, sent a body of troops […]

  • Genocide

    Genocide as an U.S. State Statute Topic This term is one of the topics in some U.S. State Statutes. Other topics of the World Encyclopedia of Law which are topics of some State Statures are: Licensed Public Accountants (State statute topic) Guardians Ad Litem (State statute topic) […]

  • Holocaust Victims

    Holocaust Victims as an U.S. State Statute Topic This term is one of the topics in some U.S. State Statutes. Other topics of the World Encyclopedia of Law which are topics of some State Statures are: Licensed Public Accountants (Topic) Guardians Ad Litem (Topic) Biological Warfare […]

  • Holocaust Victims

    Holocaust Victims as an U.S. State Statute Topic This term is one of the topics in some U.S. State Statutes. Other topics of the World Encyclopedia of Law which are topics of some State Statures are: Licensed Public Accountants (Topic) Guardians Ad Litem (Topic) Biological Warfare […]

  • Alta Proditio

    Resources See Also Treason

  • Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

    Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims Full Title A Dictionary of Law, Consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence Details Author: William C. Anderson (United…

  • League of Nations Failure

    League of Nations Failure Even before its first meeting, the League of Nations suffered what some historians have characterized as a death blow: the U.S. rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and with it, the League of Nations. A variety of factors led to the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the treaty, among them Woodrow Wilson’s…

  • Traitor

    A Traitor's Fate: International Incident In the book "International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes", in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: In 1670 Frederick William, the great elector of Brandenburg, ordered his diplomatic envoy at Warsaw, the […]