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  2. Civil right acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibits discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, creed, and national origin. The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 specifies that recipients of federal funds must comply with civil rights laws in all areas, not just in the particular program or activity that received federal funding.

  3. List of national legal systems - Wikipedia

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    Civil Law system descendant from Roman Law through Byzantine tradition. Heavily influenced by German and Dutch norms in the 1700s. Socialism-style modifications from 1920s on, and Continental European Civil Law influences since the 1990s. [22] [23] Rwanda Mixture of Belgian civil law and English common law São Tomé e Príncipe

  4. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation.Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 119 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.

  5. Civil law (legal system) - Wikipedia

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    Civil law is sometimes referred to as neo-Roman law, Romano-Germanic law or Continental law. The expression "civil law" is a translation of Latin jus civile, or "citizens' law", which was the late imperial term for its legal system, as opposed to the laws governing conquered peoples (jus gentium); hence, the Justinian Code's title Corpus Juris Civilis.

  6. Category:Legal doctrines and principles - Wikipedia

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    This list may not reflect recent changes. ... List of international and European laws on child protection and migration; ... (civil procedure)

  7. Civil liberties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Civil liberties in the United States are certain unalienable rights retained by (as opposed to privileges granted to) those in the United States, under the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted and clarified by the Supreme Court of the United States and lower federal courts. [1]

  8. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547 (1967) Police officers are protected from being sued for civil rights violations under Section 1983 by the doctrine of qualified immunity. Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978) A judge will not be deprived of judicial immunity because the action he took was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his ...

  9. List of areas of law - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters. From, one of the five capital lawyers in Roman Law, Domitius Ulpianus, (170–223) – who differentiated ius publicum versus ius privatum – the European, more exactly the continental law, philosophers and thinkers want(ed) to put each branch of law into this dichotomy: Public and Private Law ...