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(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.
An order compelling an entity to give oral testimony in a legal matter. subpoena duces tecum: bring with you under penalty An order compelling an entity to produce physical evidence or witness in a legal matter. suggestio falsi: false suggestion A false statement made in the negotiation of a contract. sui generis: of its own kind/genus
The alternative origin given is that the word "prove" is used in the archaic sense of "test", [3] a reading advocated, for example, by a 1918 Detroit News style guide: The exception proves the rule is a phrase that arises from ignorance, though common to good writers. The original word was preuves, which did not mean proves but tests. [4]
no crime, no punishment without a previous penal law: Legal principle meaning that one cannot be penalised for doing something that is not prohibited by law; penal law cannot be enacted retroactively. nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit: There has been no great wisdom without an element of madness: numen lumen: God our light
TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a request Dec. 9 to pause legislation that could ban the app, until the Supreme Court has a chance to weigh in.
(2) One cannot be prosecuted for doing something that was not prohibited by law at the time and place it was committed, notwithstanding laws made since that time. A form of prohibition on retroactive laws. Nunc pro tunc "Now for then." The form of a current order intended to be effective retroactively. Pacta sunt servanda "Agreements are to be ...
In an order on Monday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan denied Maxwell's request that all its active judges review her case, known as en banc review.
Wisconsin does not require background checks for gun purchases, except to obtain a concealed carry license. PHOTO: A hand gun is seen at a gun shop in West Allis, Wis., on Aug. 7, 2012. (John ...