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Seppuku as judicial punishment was abolished in 1873, shortly after the Meiji Restoration, but voluntary seppuku did not completely die out. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 31 ] Dozens of people are known to have committed seppuku since then, [ 36 ] [ 34 ] [ 37 ] including General Nogi Maresuke and his wife on the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, and numerous ...
Women residing in the US automatically retained their American citizenship if they did not explicitly renounce; women residing abroad had the option to retain American citizenship by registration with a US consul. [55] The aim of these provisions was to prevent cases of multiple nationalities among women. [56] 1908. Muller v.
Wells told the Senate that women really didn't want the vote and giving women the vote would lead to "feminism, sex antagonism, socialism, anarchy and Mormonism." [40] [49] She was successful at helping to stop women's suffrage in Texas in 1915. In 1916, Wells and other women formed the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS) in ...
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In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
Pages in category "Seppuku from Meiji period to present" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The married women's property acts gave women the right to bring lawsuits in their own name, but courts were reluctant to extend that right to the marriage relationship. [1] Between 1860 and 1913, courts narrowly interpreted marriage property acts so as to not allow spouses to sue each other for tortious acts. [ 1 ]
The Fort Worth council approved a $3.5M settlement for the nephew of Atatiana Jefferson, who was killed by a police officer in 2019.