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A castle doctrine, also known as a castle law or a defense of habitation law, is a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place (for example, an automobile or a home) as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting one, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder, free ...
The legal practice of sentencing convicts to penal labor continues to exist in the Russian Federation, but its capacity is greatly reduced. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature , who survived eight years of Gulag incarceration, gave the term its international repute with the publication of The Gulag ...
In the 17th century, immigration from Ireland to the Thirteen Colonies was minimal, [19] [20] confined mostly to male Irish indentured servants who were primarily Catholic [20] [21] and peaked with 8,000 prisoner-of-war penal transports to the Chesapeake Colonies from the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the 1650s (out of a total of ...
The Greek word trias [171] [note 6] is first seen in this sense in the works of Theophilus of Antioch; his text reads: "of the Trinity, of God, and of His Word, and of His Wisdom". [175] The term may have been in use before this time; its Latin equivalent, [ note 6 ] trinitas , [ 173 ] appears afterwards with an explicit reference to the Father ...
Communism derives from the French word communisme, a combination of the Latin word communis (which literally means common) and the suffix ‑isme (an act, practice, or process of doing something). [ 70 ] [ 71 ] Semantically, communis can be translated to "of or for the community", while isme is a suffix that indicates the abstraction into a ...
Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.Four series of thirteen 50-minute episodes were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first series, produced by David Maloney (series 1–3) and Vere Lorrimer (series 4), and the script editor throughout its run was Chris Boucher, who wrote nine of its episodes.
the Recommendation on Codes of Conduct for Public Officials (Recommendation No. R (2000) 10); [74] the Recommendation on Common Rules against Corruption in the Funding of Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns (Rec(2003)4) [75]