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  2. Bills of credit - Wikipedia

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    Interest-bearing notes are a grouping of Civil War-era bills of credit-related emissions of the US Treasury. The grouping includes the one- and two-year notes authorized by the Act of March 3, 1863, which bore interest at five percent annually, were a legal tender at face value, and were issued in denominations of $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and ...

  3. 2014 California Proposition 47 - Wikipedia

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    A 2018 study from the University of California, Irvine, maintains that Prop 47 was not a "driver" for recent upticks in crime, based upon comparison of data from 1970 to 2015, in New York, Nevada, Michigan and New Jersey, states that closely matched California's crime trends, but that "what the measure did do was cause less harm and suffering ...

  4. Legal tender - Wikipedia

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    Legal-tender notes are treasury notes or banknotes that, in the eyes of the law, must be accepted in the payment of debts." [ 47 ] The ruling in the Legal Tender Cases (which include Juilliard v. Greenman ) led later courts to "support the federal government's invalidation of gold clauses in private contracts in the 1930s."

  5. Gresham's law - Wikipedia

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    Sir Thomas Gresham. In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from circulation.

  6. California Code of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

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    The California Code of Civil Procedure (abbreviated to Code Civ. Proc. in the California Style Manual [a] or just CCP in treatises and other less formal contexts) is a California code enacted by the California State Legislature in March 1872 as the general codification of the law of civil procedure in the U.S. state of California, along with the three other original Codes.

  7. Monetae cudendae ratio - Wikipedia

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    Click on image to read the German version.. Copernicus' earliest draft of his essay in 1517 was entitled "De aestimatione monetae" ("On the Value of Coin"). He revised his original notes, while at Olsztyn (Allenstein) in 1519 (which he defended against the Teutonic Knights), as "Tractatus de monetis" ("Treatise on Coin") and "Modus cudendi monetam" ("The Way to Strike Coin").

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  9. 2006 California Proposition 90 - Wikipedia

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    California Proposition 90 was a 2006 ballot initiative in the state of California, United States. Passing of the initiative would have made two changes to California law: Eminent domain could not be used by government except to provide facilities for public use, to abate specific public nuisances, and to act in a declared state of emergency.