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Immunity from prosecution (international law), exclusion of governments or their officials from prosecution under international law; Judicial immunity, immunity of a judge or magistrate in the course of their official duties; Parliamentary immunity, immunity granted to elected officials during their tenure and in the course of their duties
A representation of the cholera epidemic of the 19th century. For thousands of years mankind has been intrigued with the causes of disease and the concept of immunity. The prehistoric view was that disease was caused by supernatural forces, and that illness was a form of theurgic punishment for "bad deeds" or "evil thoughts" visited upon the soul by the gods or by one's enemies. [8]
Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.
"Immunity theft" isn't a medical term, but some are using it to describe how certain infections impact the immune system, leaving people more vulnerable to other illnesses.
But then [the Supreme Court] created what they call 'presumptive immunity' for other acts that are within the outer perimeter," Scheindlin said. She continued: "The government can try to prove why ...
The classic sense of "acquired immunity" came to mean, since Tonegawa's discovery, "antigen-specific immunity mediated by somatic gene rearrangements that create clone-defining antigen receptors". In the last decade, the term "adaptive" has been increasingly applied to another class of immune response not so-far associated with somatic gene ...
Qualified immunity involves civil liability only – financial compensation in a lawsuit – not criminal liability. The court system would still decide criminality in a separate proceeding.
The United States has waived sovereign immunity to a limited extent, mainly through the Federal Tort Claims Act, which waives the immunity if a tortious act of a federal employee causes damage, and the Tucker Act, which waives the immunity over claims arising out of contracts to which the federal government is a party. The Federal Tort Claims ...