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Internet slang provides a channel which facilitates and constrains the ability to communicate in ways that are fundamentally different from those found in other semiotic situations. Many of the expectations and practices which we associate with spoken and written language are no longer applicable.
shrive, preserved only in inflected forms occurring only as part of fixed phrases: 'shrift' in "short shrift" [9] and 'shrove' in "Shrove Tuesday" span and spick, as in "spick and span" turpitude, as in "moral turpitude" vim, as in "vim and vigor", though preserved as the name of a scouring powder [10] wedlock, as in "out of wedlock"
No herb (or sage) grows in the gardens against the power of death: there is no medicine against death; from various medieval medicinal texts contradictio in terminis: contradiction in terms: Something that would embody a contradiction with the very definition of one of its terms; for example, payment for a gift, or a circle with corners.
The act of law injures no one. Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea: No act is punishable that is not the result of a guilty mind. The prosecution in a criminal case must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, not only a criminal act, but also a certain level of a guilty mind (mens rea), specified in the criminal statute. [3] actus reus: guilty act
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has proposed a rule that would ban companies from entering or attempting to enter a non-compete agreement with a worker. The rule banning non-compete clauses in...
Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
(2) The power of the state serves all citizens and can be only applied in cases, under limitations and through uses specified by a law. (3) Every citizen can do anything that is not forbidden by the law, and no one can be forced to do anything that is not required by a law. The same principles are reiterated in the Czech Bill of Rights, Article 2.
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