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A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. [1] [2] In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. [3]
Köstenberger concluded that teaching has a positive meaning in such passages as 1 Timothy 4:12, [87] 6:2, [88] and 2:2. [89] The force of the ouk ... oude construction therefore would mean that authenteo likewise has a positive meaning, and does not refer to domineering but the positive exercise of authority.
Nobody knows where it came from. Allowing the President to invoke the Act and declare martial law where public order breaks down as a result of natural disaster, epidemic, terrorist attack, is very ambiguous and gives him broad authority potentially to usurp the role of the Governors". [citation needed]
Perjury is considered a serious offence, as it can be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice. In Canada, those who commit perjury are guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. [1] Perjury is a statutory offence in England and Wales.
The word comes from the Latin roots of regis and cida (cidium), meaning "of monarch" and "killer" respectively. In the British tradition, it refers to the judicial execution of a king after a trial , reflecting the historical precedent of the trial and execution of Charles I of England .
Article 27: Let any individual who would usurp sovereignty be put to death instantly by free men. [82]... Articles 33–35: Resistance to oppression is the consequence of the other rights of man. There is oppression against the social body when a single one of its members is oppressed.
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Thereafter, the nine bestowments became typically a sign of a powerful official showing off his complete control of the emperor and establishing his intent to usurp the throne. For the rest of Chinese history, it became rare for a usurpation to happen without the nine bestowments having been given sometime before.