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  2. Judgmental language - Wikipedia

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    Here, the judgmental words are "our very own sons" and "mercenaries", which imply not only professional soldiers but rather soldiers of fortune. This argument is also a false dilemma : nothing implies that coercion and fear of punishment produces better soldiers than voluntarily, and that a professional army could not be assembled from the ...

  3. Per incuriam - Wikipedia

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    The significance of a judgment having been decided per incuriam is that it need not be followed by a lower court. Ordinarily, the rationes of a judgment is binding upon lower courts in similar cases. However, a lower court is free to depart from a decision of a superior court if the earlier judgment was decided per incuriam.

  4. Bad law - Wikipedia

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    Lord Campbell's reference to bad law was a reference to wrongly decided cases. [20] Robert Deal said that because the "bad Ellenborough law" is no longer extant, it is not possible to be certain that it actually was bad. [21] The Law Journal said that Campbell's drawer for Lord Ellenborough's bad law was probably opened rather too arrogantly. [22]

  5. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    Persuasive definition – purporting to use the "true" or "commonly accepted" meaning of a term while, in reality, using an uncommon or altered definition. (cf. the if-by-whiskey fallacy) Ecological fallacy – inferring about the nature of an entity based solely upon aggregate statistics collected for the group to which that entity belongs.

  6. Conversion (law) - Wikipedia

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    A judgment that is in the nature of a debt of record, but has neither goods nor a chattel attached is not subject to a conversion, because the judgment creditor has no property in it. [60] A writ of execution can be the subject of a conversion, despite the fact that it is not private property.

  7. Hard cases make bad law - Wikipedia

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    Hard cases make bad law is an adage or legal maxim meaning that an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases. In other words, a general law is better drafted for the average circumstance as this will be more common.

  8. Comparison of video converters - Wikipedia

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    Video converter Developer License Supported platform Windows Mac OS X Linux Any Video Converter: Anvsoft Inc. Freeware: Yes: Yes: No Avidemux: Mean, Gruntster, Fahr: GPL-2.0-or-later: Yes: Yes: Yes Dr. DivX: DivX, Inc. Adware bundled 15-day trial: Yes: Yes: No DVDVideoSoft Free Studio: DVDVideoSoft: Shareware (requires paid membership for basic ...

  9. Damnation - Wikipedia

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    Abrahamic religions such as Christianity have similar concepts of humans facing judgement after death to determine if they will spend eternity in Gehenna for their sin or eternity in heaven. A damned human "in damnation" is said to be either in hell , or living in a state wherein they are divorced from Heaven and/or in a state of disgrace from ...