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Slavery is a market currently considered repugnant while for most of recorded history before c. 1000 AD it was considered acceptable, and was still considered acceptable against certain people groups until c. 1800 AD. Examples of markets considered repugnant at one time or place include: Pregnancy/early childhood Abortion [9] Adoption
Repugnancy costs measure the degree of dislike toward a repugnant market or transaction by appealing to the concept of equalizing differences developed by Adam Smith: "What is the minimum compensation that we have to provide to an individual to be willing to allow a repugnant market or transaction?"
Abjection is a major theme of the 1949 work The Thief's Journal (Journal du Voleur) by French author Jean Genet, a fictionalised account of his wanderings through Europe in the 1930s, wherein he claims as a criminal outcast to actively seek abjections as an existentialist form of "sainthood" [15]
In common law, repugnancy refers to a contradiction or inconsistency between clauses of the same document, deed, or contract, or between allegations of the same pleading. [1] [2] In English law, the court will resolve contradictions in a document based on the primary intention of the parties; if this cannot be established, the court treats the earlier statement as effective in the case of a ...
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. [1] It is derived from the Latin obscēnus, obscaenus, "boding ill; disgusting; indecent", of uncertain etymology. [2]
On November 25, 2009, Judge Jeffrey Spinner in Long Island, New York, penalized OneWest for their “harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive” actions in trying to work out a distressed mortgage, by canceling the debt in favor of the borrower. [8] A year later, an appellate court overruled that the decision. [9]
The term "wisdom of repugnance" was coined in 1997 by Leon Kass, chairman (2001–2005) of the President's Council on Bioethics, in an article in The New Republic, [4] which was later expanded into a further (2001) article in the same magazine, [5] and also incorporated into his 2002 book Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity.
The earliest battle honour held by the modern Indian Army which is not considered by the Indian Government to be "repugnant" and can be emblazoned on colours is "Bourbon" (dated 8 July 1810) which is held by the 3rd Battalion, Brigade of the Guards. Battle honours prior to this period have either been lost due to disbandment, are now held only ...