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Billings Learned Hand (/ ˈ l ɜːr n ɪ d / LURN-id; January 27, 1872 – August 18, 1961) was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher.He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 to 1961.
William Rougham (died 1393) was the second master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge (later Gonville and Caius College) from c. 1360. He had been a fellow of the college since the 1350s and was Bachelor of Medicine by 1366. He was also a priest with livings in the Diocese of Norwich and was a personal physician to Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich ...
Hand of justice displayed at the Louvre, Paris. High justice, also known as ius gladii ("right of the sword") or in German as Blutgerichtsbarkeit, Blutgericht (lit. "blood justice", "blood-court"; [2] sometimes also Halsgericht, lit. "neck-justice", or peinliches Gericht [3]) is the highest penal authority, including capital punishment, as held by a sovereign—the sword of justice and hand of ...
The College of Justice (Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste a' Cheartais) includes the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and its associated bodies. The constituent bodies of the national supreme courts are the Court of Session , the High Court of Justiciary , the Office of the Accountant of Court , and the Auditor of the Court of Session.
Justice Hand or Judge Hand may refer to: Augustus C. Hand (1803–1878), justice of the New York Supreme Court, and ex officio a judge of the New York Court of Appeals Augustus Noble Hand (1869–1954), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Saturday warned that support for freedom of speech is "declining dangerously," especially on college campuses, as part of a commencement address ...
The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 10 (the Court's tenth associate justice seat by order of creation), which was established on April 10, 1869 by the 41st Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1869 (16 Stat. 44). [4] [a] This seat is currently occupied by Justice Clarence Thomas
Court hand: alphabet (upper-cases and lower-cases) and some syllable abbreviations. Court hand (also common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, and charter hand [1]) was a style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts, and later by professionals such as lawyers and clerks.