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  2. Derogation - Wikipedia

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    Derogation is a legal term of art, [1] [2] which allows for part or all of a provision in a legal measure to be applied differently, or not at all, in certain cases. [3] The term is also used in Catholic canon law, [4] [full citation needed] and in this context differs from dispensation in that it applies to the law, whereas dispensation applies to specific people affected by the law.

  3. Legal immunity - Wikipedia

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    There is a wide range of legal immunities that may be invoked in the name of the right to rule. In international law, immunities may be created when states assert powers of derogation, as is permitted, for example, from the European Convention on Human Rights "in times of war or other public emergency." Equally familiar examples include the ...

  4. Lists of legal terms - Wikipedia

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    The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms; List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms

  5. Obrogation - Wikipedia

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    In civil law, obrogation (Latin: obrogat [1] from obrogare [2]) is the modification or repeal of a law in whole or in part by issuing a new law. [3] [4] [5]In canon law, of the Catholic Church, obrogation is the enacting of a contrary law that is a revocation of a previous law; [6] it may also be the partial cancellation or amendment of a law, decree, or legal regulation by the imposition of a ...

  6. Glossary of law - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of Legal Terms and Phrases. The Army Service Schools, Department of Law. 1910. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Frederic Jesup Stimson.

  7. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Generally, a statement from a court that a writ is allowed (i.e. granted); most commonly, a grant of leave to appeal by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in reference to which the word is used equivalently to certiorari (q.v.) elsewhere. / ˌ æ l l oʊ k eɪ t ʊr / alter ego: another I A second identity living within a person. / ˌ ɒ l t ...

  8. Sterling K. Brown Is Finally No. 1 on the Call Sheet: The ...

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    Sterling K. Brown is done crying every week. Two days before Thanksgiving, Brown is sitting at a long table in a photo studio in Culver City, digging into a take-out lunch as he begins to break ...

  9. Peremptory norm - Wikipedia

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    For the purposes of the present Convention, a peremptory norm of general international law is a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of states as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted and which can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general international law having the same character. [8]