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  2. List of national legal systems - Wikipedia

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    Based on English Common Law and Civil law as well as the country's customary law. Lesotho: Based on South African law. An 1884 proclamation by the High Commissioner for Southern Africa applied the law of the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa) to Basutoland (now Lesotho). [48] Louisiana (U.S.)

  3. Mayhem (crime) - Wikipedia

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    The injury must be permanent, not just a temporary loss. Some courts will hold even a minor battery as mayhem if the injury is not minor. Mayhem in the U.S. is a felony in all states and jurisdictions, including federal. In the states of California, Vermont and Oklahoma, mayhem is punishable by up to life imprisonment. In other states where ...

  4. March law (Anglo-Scottish border) - Wikipedia

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    The origins of March law are obscure and have been the subject of some dispute. The (first) codification of 1249 (when twelve knights, six each from England and Scotland, convened on the border to write down "the laws and customs of the march" at the instigation of Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland, seems to refer to practices dating back some time.

  5. Everything which is not forbidden is allowed - Wikipedia

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    In international law, the principle is known as the Lotus principle, after a collision of the S.S. Lotus in international waters. The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law ...

  6. Category:Law by country - Wikipedia

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    Law by country and issue (5 C, 2 P) Law by issue and country (28 C) Law lists by country (18 C, 21 P) A. Law of Abkhazia (2 C, 4 P) Law of Afghanistan (8 C, 13 P)

  7. Legal fiction - Wikipedia

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    Child adoption is a legal fiction in that the adoptive parents become the legal parents, notwithstanding the lack of a biological relationship. [5] Once an order or judgment of adoption is entered, the biological parents become legal strangers to the child, legally no longer related nor with any rights related to the child.

  8. Talk:Mayhem (crime) - Wikipedia

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  9. Moral turpitude - Wikipedia

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    Whether a state law offense constitutes a crime involving moral turpitude for federal immigration purposes is decided on a statute by statute basis, because each state statute might cover a different range of behaviors, some of which may not necessarily involve moral turpitude under the Federal definition.