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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    urban street sport involving climbing and leaping, using buildings, walls, curbs to ricochet off much as if one were on a skateboard, often in follow-the-leader style. Originally a phonetic form of the French word parcours, which means "a run, a route" Also known as, or the predecessor to, "free running", developed by Sébastien Foucan. parole

  3. French conjunctions - Wikipedia

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    They can be used to connect clauses or phrases and express relationships such as cause, condition, or concession. Some common conjunctional phrases in French include: afin que (so that) à condition que (provided that) à moins que (unless), au cas où (in case), en dépit de (despite), pour que (so that, in order that), tant que (as long as).

  4. Opinio juris sive necessitatis - Wikipedia

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    In the Paquete Habana case (decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1900 on the question of whether small coastal fishing boats are immune from capture during wartime under customary international law), evidence of opinio juris included medieval English royal ordinances, agreements between European nations, orders issued to the U.S. Navy ...

  5. Modality (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    The notions of necessity and possibility are then defined along the following lines: A proposition P follows necessarily from the set of accessible worlds, if all accessible worlds are part of P (that is, if p is true in all of these worlds).

  6. Necessity in English criminal law - Wikipedia

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    In English law, the defence of necessity recognises that there may be situations of such overwhelming urgency that a person must be allowed to respond by breaking the law. There have been very few cases in which the defence of necessity has succeeded, and in general terms there are very few situations where such a defence could even be applicable.

  7. Necessity (criminal law) - Wikipedia

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    Emergency law/right (nødret, nødrett) is the equivalent of necessity in Denmark and Norway.[1] [2] It is considered related to but separate from self-defence.Common legal examples of necessity includes: breaking windows and other objects in order to escape a fire, commandeering a vehicle to serve as an emergency ambulance, ignoring traffic rules while rushing a dying patient to a hospital ...

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  9. Gerundive - Wikipedia

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    In French the adjectival gerundive and participle forms merged completely, and the term gérondif is used for adverbial use of -ant forms. [ 1 ] There is no true equivalent to the gerundive in English, but it can be interpreted as a future passive participle , used adjectivally or adverbially; the closest translation is a passive to-infinitive ...