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  2. Non liquet - Wikipedia

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    In law, a non liquet (commonly known as "lacuna in the law") is any situation for which there is no applicable law. Non liquet translates into English from the Latin as "it is not clear". [ 1 ] According to Cicero , the term was applied during the Roman Republic to a verdict of " not proven " if the guilt or innocence of the accused was "not ...

  3. Lacuna - Wikipedia

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    Lacuna or accidental gap, in linguistics, a word that does not exist but which would be permitted by the rules of a language Lacuna, in law, largely overlapping a non liquet ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)

  4. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Social law concept wherein citizenship of a nation is determined by place of birth. / ˈ dʒ ʌ s ˈ s oʊ l aɪ / jus tertii: law of the third Arguments made by a third party in disputes over possession, the intent of which is to question one of the principal parties' claims of ownership or rights to ownership. Jus tractatuum: lacuna: void, gap

  5. List of law school GPA curves - Wikipedia

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    Many, or perhaps most, law schools in the United States grade on a norm-referenced grading curve.The process generally works within each class, where the instructor grades each exam, and then ranks the exams against each other, adding to and subtracting from the initial grades so that the overall grade distribution matches the school's specified curve (usually a bell curve).

  6. Untranslatability - Wikipedia

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    Untranslatability is the property of text or speech for which no equivalent can be found when translated into another (given) language. A text that is considered to be untranslatable is considered a lacuna, or lexical gap.

  7. Law school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.. Law schools in the U.S. confer the degree of Juris Doctor (J.D.), which is a professional doctorate. [1]

  8. Accidental gap - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite being theoretically permissible by the grammatical rules of that language. [1]

  9. Legal education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Most law schools have a "flagship" journal usually called "School name Law Review" (e.g., the Harvard Law Review) or "School name Law Journal" (e.g., the Yale Law Journal) that publishes articles on all areas of law, and one or more other specialty law journals that publish articles concerning only a particular area of the law (for example, the ...