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Federal bank robbery statutes provide enhanced penalties for assaults that occur through the use of a “dangerous weapon” during a bank robbery. [3] Over time, a circuit split emerged where some courts ruled that a gun must be "loaded and operable" to qualify as a "dangerous weapon," [4] while other courts held that an unloaded gun could qualify as a "dangerous weapon."
The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person(s)... of good character". This eliminated ambiguity on how to treat newcomers, given ...
[3] A statute is presumed not to apply to the Crown. A statute is presumed not to empower a person to commit a criminal offence. A statute is presumed not to apply retrospectively (whereas the common law is "declaratory": Shaw v DPP). [4] A statute is to be interpreted so as to uphold international treaties to which the UK is a party.
The Statutes of the Realm is an authoritative collection of acts of the Parliament of England from the earliest times to the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, and acts of the Parliament of Great Britain passed up to the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
8), also known as the Statute of Proclamations, [1] was a law enacted by the English Reformation Parliament of Henry VIII. It permitted the King to rule by decree , ordering that "traditional" proclamations (that is, any unable to impose the death penalty or forfeiture of goods) [ clarification needed ] should be obeyed as "though they were ...
In Mutual Life v.Armstrong (1886), the first American case to consider the issue of whether a slayer could profit from their crime, the US Supreme Court set forth the No Profit theory (the term "No Profit" was coined by legal scholar Adam D. Hansen in an effort to distinguish early common law cases that applied a similar outcome when dealing with slayers), [1] a public policy justification of ...
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The Statute of Westminster the Third, viz. of Quia Emptores Terrarum in the Printed Copies and Translations. [4] In The Statutes of the Realm it is given the Latin title Statutu[m] d[omi]ni R[egis] de t[er]ris vendend[o] et emend[o], with a corresponding English title "A Statute of our Lord The King, concerning the Selling and Buying of Land". [5]