Search results for "Admiralty law" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • to Rome's, that is, to bring order and law to those who lacked both. ... *Screen in front of the Old Admiralty, Whitehall, London ...
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  • Otis favored extending the basic natural-law-freedoms of life, liberty ... Otis graduated from Harvard College in 1743, and practiced law briefly ...
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  • Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Admiral Rodney, who then ... The Admiralty, anxious to secure the services of trustworthy flag ...
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  • was forcibly deposed in 1688; her brother-in-law and her sister then became ... Princess Anne's sister and brother-in-law, Mary and William, ...
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  • also offices in central London (currently Admiralty Arch) and Norwich, both ... *Documents from the central courts of law from the twelfth century ...
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  • in 1903, after which he received a law degree from Northwestern University ... McCormick served as a clerk in a Chicago law firm, being admitted ...
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  • was appointed a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, holding that post until ... was opposed by Canadian-born Andrew Bonar Law, Walter Long, and the Ulster ...
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  • Category:Law [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right ... In English admiralty law, piracy was defined as petit treason during ...
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  • While seventeenth century English admiralty law allowed captains great ... a dubious defense of his capture, British admiralty and vice-admiralty courts ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Military members of the military subject to military law. Virtually all militaries ...
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  • and Hugh Rutledge) footsteps by studying law at Oxford University, being ... Rutledge established a successful law practice with his partner, Charles ...
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  • since a 1983 Act and under Argentine Law are eligible for Argentine ... (1659–1694), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition ...
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  • one of the most influential American common-law judges. His concern with issues ... Holmes practiced admiralty law and commercial law in Boston for 15 ...
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  • boy, encouraging him to take up a career in law and enter politics; his uncle ... in 1884 after taking Honors in his final law examination and set up his ...
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  • In 1922 the Conservatives left the coalition and Bonar Law, who had ... military base despite strong opposition from the Admiralty ...
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  • Confederacy no rights under international law. Any movement by Britain towards ... making plans to intercept and also reviewed law books on the subject. He decided ...
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  • and assigned to duties with the Admiralty in Whitehall. He was assigned ... and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1950 where he was ...
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  • implementation of several reforms: The poor law was updated, the municipal ... control of naval affairs, although the law required him to act, under ...
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  • are mainly a matter of custom rather than law, deriving from the incumbent ... first minister, is an officer unknown to the law of Britain, inconsistent with ...
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  • of them for a century, though, under British law they were the common wealth ... The Bahamians refused to help, and the Admiralty in Jamaica claimed the ...
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