Fillmore decided to bake common sense into his state's legal code.
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The legal code has also incorporated many tribal customs that were later cloaked in religion.
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The "legal code" layer would be the actual policy, written by lawyers and interpreted by judges.
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The White House is arguing that what it's doing is just what the legal code says.
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I don't know what moral code or legal code we'll start to follow at that point.
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"This is evidence that Britain has become Sharia-compliant," she added, referring to the Islamic legal code.
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Trump and Giuliani can fairly argue that the US legal code doesn't say anything specific about election collusion.
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For example, China is trying to complete regulations for a new legal code governing foreign investment by January.
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Subjecting people to a separate legal code, penalizing them for the border they were born within, is irresponsible.
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Before McConnell, the small handful of towering Senate majority leaders left their legacies behind in the legal code.
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And suppose this society has no other law or principle enshrined in its legal code that would condemn slavery.
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All of this pain was inflicted for violating one of the most minor crimes in the U.S. legal code.
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Those licenses have a three-layer design: the "legal code" layer, the "human-readable" layer and the "machine-readable" layer.
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Indeed, few broadcasters could sustain an audience of millions with a discussion of the sixth-century legal code of Justinian.
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Critics say the vague wording of the legal code - and the judicial system's reputation for partiality - means rulings may lack independence.
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Org Inc, a bid by Georgia lawmakers to win federal copyright protection for an annotated version of the state's legal code.
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No regulation is perfect, and bugs can just as easily be found in legal code as they are in computer code.
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The Dutch legal code bars insults and incitement to hatred or discrimination on grounds of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or handicap.
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All revising of unjust systems, such as the American legal code, and all purposeful redirects of sinking ships, such as the Earth.
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Australia's legal code generally defines sexual assault as sexual intercourse or sexual penetration (including oral sex) without consent, according to the report.
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Her face was hidden beneath a beach umbrella with "Title 13A § 13A-11-8," Alabama's legal code for harassment, handwritten across it.
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It suggested that Ireland's parliament at least consider changing the legal code and even enact "constitutional change" to prevent this from happening.
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However, legal experts believe that women would not be criminalized under HB 481 because the state's legal code offers specific protections for women.
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It's just that, armed with the immunities enshrined in the United States legal code, the company's never had to do anything about it.
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By one account, he set up a legal code, helped the poor and advocated resistance in Chu State to the dominant Qin State.
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In the question and answer portion of the contest, women were asked how they would change the legal code to better protect women.
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The German legal code has been updated to say "marriage is entered into for life by two people of different or the same sex".
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Article 308 originates from a 1911 Ottoman legal code, largely based on the Napoleonic penal code of 1810, according to the official news agency.
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Otherwise, though, what falls under the category of impeachable offenses is a matter that floats free from the rest of the American legal code.
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In 1864, Czar Alexander II instituted sweeping changes to the legal code, the most radical of which was the introduction of the jury trial.
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Transactions have to comply with Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran, and are based on principles of risk and profit-sharing.
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The forests are regulated by the Ministry of Agriculture's Forest Department, and there's a legal code that prohibits any unauthorized cutting or burning of trees.
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But after the pictures turned up online Norma's mother, Arlene, looked up the New Jersey legal code and surmised that Morcos had broken a law.
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None of the five suspects have been named, as per the country's legal code, but they are among 11 people charged in connection with Khashoggi's death.
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It is the only province that criminalises same-sex relations and that uses Islamic law as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.
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They were all arrested, and the country's highest religious body issued an edict banning female driving, adding what was a customary ban to the legal code.
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The Islamic legal code also proscribes crimes like apostasy, blasphemy and extramarital sex — none of which can be a crime at all in any liberal society.
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In Malaysia on Wednesday, Kelantan's legislature, which is controlled by the conservative Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, amended the state's Shariah legal code to allow public punishment.
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"There's a lot of variation in every state's legal code on what [sexual assault] is," said Laura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
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The country initially defended its new legal code, claiming it focused "more on prevention and punishment," but the growing backlash appears to have forced the kingdom's hand.
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But even where computer code appears to be changing your life more than legal code, the reality is that new technology itself will be affected by policy.
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But by preserving a separate legal code for foreign investors, he said, the new arrangement ensures that foreign businesspeople would not be treated equally to domestic investors.
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The country's legal code offers a notably narrow selection of divorce-worthy faults, among them cruelty, incurable leprosy and renunciation of the world by entering religious orders.
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"Even when public records laws are clear, the different exemptions are typically found in other bits of the legal code," Michael Morisy, who founded Muckrock, told me.
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In October, Spain's attorney general decided to prosecute Catalan leaders for rebellion, though Spain's legal code had been revised to emphasize violence as a component of rebellion.
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"There's a lot of variation in every state's legal code on what [sexual assault] is," said Laura Palumbo, the communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
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Podsnaps are delighted that England is breaking away from the continent, with its meddling bureaucrats and Napoleonic legal code (Podsnaps may say "Britain" but they really mean "England").
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It's still possible Mueller will find that the Trump campaign committed crimes that fall under the US legal code, such as a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Abiding by a legal code makes the believer feel upright in the eyes of God, even if she or he is immoral when dealing with fellow human beings.
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When convicted thieves are released from jail after just a few months, as is common, it creates a perception that the legal code is too lenient, she said.
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To advance the idea that you are dead really doesn't violate any sort of legal code, but all the ancillary steps involved with faking a death usually are illegal.
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"Such a forced change in Texas law would impair Texas' sovereign interest in 'the power to create and enforce a legal code,'" the state's lawyers wrote in a brief.
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In its more extreme forms, this view promotes conspiracies about government infiltration and the danger that Shariah, the legal code of Islam, may take over in the United States.
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Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that criminalizes same-sex relations and that uses sharia as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.
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The kingdom, which is set to allow women to drive this summer but still requires them to have a male guardian, does not have an all-encompassing codified legal code.
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Those institutions quickly imposed an extreme form of Shariah, the legal code based on the Quran, on the desert towns, where people were accustomed to a tolerant strain of Islam.
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To understand the threat from this process, it's worth looking at a country that has become an autocracy despite retaining a legal code that seems, on paper, fully democratic: Hungary.
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As lawmakers search for answers on why the Air Force failed to report the Texas church shooter's criminal record to the FBI, scrutiny is falling on the military's legal code.
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They tweeted about Saudi Arabia's restrictive male guardianship laws, writing that the legal code granted men considerable impunity, making widespread the alleged domestic abuse that Qunun said she was escaping.
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Sovereign citizens dismiss the power of the government, but sometimes become deeply familiar with its inner workings, studying legal code and familiarizing themselves with bureaucracy in their efforts to undermine it.
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"Robert George thinks that the state should endorse a specific conception of the good life, and put in place a legal code that pushes people towards that good life," said Pickett.
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I also return to my argument that the stringent legal code mandating headscarves and baggy overcoats for women are perhaps being appropriated by young women in creative and ultimately empowering ways.
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The kingdom's courts enforce a strict interpretation of Shariah law, the legal code of Islam based on the Quran, but are also easily influenced by the country's royal leaders, critics say.
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Indonesia has said it plans to stop sending domestic workers to several countries, he added, but Hong Kong was not on that list because its legal code provided better protections for migrants.
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China's legislature approved a new legal code for foreign investment in March, giving the government a face-saving way to justify changes in other laws without appearing to acquiesce to American pressure.
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Drawing on her memoirs and published research, he noted her many accomplishments, which included personally rewriting Russia's legal code, and offered a detailed account of her apparently sexless marriage to Peter III.
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The province, which was granted the right to establish Shariah after ending the brutal civil war with the government in 2005, has imposed a strict version of the legal code of Islam.
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"The lesson from this narration is that obedience to the caliph is an obligation if they rule by the Shariah," he says, referring to the legal code of Islam based on the Quran.
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Diego López Garrido, who drafted changes to the Spanish legal code relating to rebellion, told Antena 3 that "in my judgment, there is no crime of rebellion because no violence has been produced."
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Brunei, a tiny monarchy on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia, based the law on the most extreme interpretation of Shariah, an Islamic legal code drawn from the Quran and other writings.
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With the relevant legal code, communities and the private sector will invest in distributed renewables because there's cheaper, cleaner energy to gain, while their localities profit from tax revenues, wealth and job creation.
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Saudi Arabia has no written legal code to go with the texts making up sharia - the Islamic law that effectively governs the kingdom - but police and judiciary have long enforced a strict dress code.
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The BJP maintains that gender equality cannot be attained until the adoption of a uniform civil code, which is opposed by some Muslim groups since it would likely dilute sharia, the Islamic legal code.
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In accordance with these decisions, in April of this year Mexico's president presented a constitutional reform to legalize same-sex marriage in the country and make it a permanent part of the legal code.
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Their marriages have existed only under Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Quran, and could be ended only under Shariah, because British courts did not acknowledge the existence of the unions.
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Colorado also happens to be where the first unchallenged gay marriage license was granted, in 1975, by a Boulder County clerk named Clela Rorex, thanks to the vague wording of the Colorado legal code.
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Gorsuch's lazy originalism, with musings of Madison's concerns about a legal code so massive that it is unknowable, may have packed a punch at the dawn of the administrative state a hundred years ago.
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Having introduced a secular constitution and a Western-style civil and criminal legal code, Atatürk shut down the dervish lodges and religious schools, abolished polygamy, and introduced civil marriage and a national beauty contest.
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It is not obvious why applicants in Spain, for example, have to memorise swathes of the legal code; nor why Indian candidates must know which ancient kingdom was associated with the life of the Buddha.
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This changed with the fall of the Qing, the last imperial dynasty, in 1911 and the rise in the 1920s of the Nationalist, or Kuomintang, government, which tried to institute a Western-inspired legal code.
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But with an inflexible legal code preventing him from single-handedly restituting art back from Africa, he must rely on the goodwill of a hostile parliament unwilling to accommodate many of the president's policy goals.
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Mr Khamenei insists that the nuclear deal has no implications for any other forms of co-operation with the West; and he has set his face against any relaxation of the country's strict Islamic legal code.
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Which of course, makes you obligated by the rules of the internet (if not any binding legal code) to snap a shot and post it on Instagram for your friends to drool over and double-tap.
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Rouhani, who was elected in 2013 in a landslide on a promise to open Iranian society, has called for more transparency in the legal code about which crimes are political and therefore entitle defendants to greater protection.
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The Indonesian government granted Aceh a special right to impose a legal code based on the Quran in 2001, as part of a long-term effort to make peace with the leaders of an Islamic insurgency there.
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On April 3, the small oil-rich kingdom of Brunei introduced a strict Islamic legal code mandating death for adultery and sex between men, as well as lashes for lesbian sex and amputation for crimes like theft.
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Salman Alodah, my father, is a 61-year-old scholar of Islamic law in Saudi Arabia, a reformist who argued for greater respect for human rights within Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Quran.
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The 20113 Saudi women who drove in a motorcade through the city were all arrested, and the country's highest religious body issued an edict banning female driving, adding what had been a customary ban to the legal code.
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Unofficial results of Monday's special election in the Osage Nation in northern Oklahoma showed 52 percent approved a referendum amending the definition of marriage in the tribe's legal code to include same-sex couples, officials said this week.
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Like many of today's true crime authors, filmmakers and podcast hosts, Dostoyevsky wrote about crime (in both his fiction and journalism) as a way to uncover the lapses and deficiencies, as he perceived them, in the legal code.
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But despite South Africa's tolerant laws, gay and transgender people remain the target of violence there, exemplifying the wide disparities in some African countries between what the legal code says and how the authorities choose to enforce it.
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It is one of 35 states where armed law enforcement officers can evade sexual assault charges by claiming that such an encounter — from groping to intercourse — was consensual, according to a BuzzFeed News review of every state legal code.
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Another official said the administration would invoke a federal legal code that says if the surgeon general identifies "any communicable disease in a foreign country," he or she can prohibit people from that country from entering the United States.
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He is a whiz with briefs and apparently knows the legal code by number, but his partner is always the one who appears in court, having more tolerance for what Roman calls the "butchery" of plea deals and excessive sentences.
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This means its legal code has developed through a variety of customs, usage, precedent, statutes and legal instruments rather than a formal constitutional decree like in the US. In theory, this makes it easier to change the structure of Parliament.
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"Section 1325 is a shameful part of our legal code, written by a white supremacist Senator in the 1920s," Castro tweeted, referencing Section 85033 of Title 8 of the U.S. Code, which bars entering the U.S. anywhere but an authorized port of entry.
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The National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp legislature, approved the new legal code in March, but it was little more than a framework, with some critical issues addressed by only a single sentence and the details left to be resolved in the regulations.
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They are like lawyers, only their legal code is the Amazon Terms of Service, their court is a secretive and semiautomated corporate bureaucracy, and their jurisdiction is an algorithmically policed global bazaar rife with devious plots to hijack listings for novelty socks and plastic watches.
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The SEC in the Musk case cited as its authority coming in part from the broadly worded Manipulative and Deceptive Devices{here} clause of the U.S. Legal Code, a statute that bans all forms of intentional actions that mislead investors or disrupt the markets.
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NEW DELHI — India's Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a part of the country's legal code that had permitted men to have sex with their underage wives — a decision that human rights groups said was an important step forward for the rights of girls.
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But the real news for anyone who might have wandered into the event, exiting from Whole Foods with locally grown strawberries and little knowledge of the state's legal code, is that New York's own abortion laws place it nearer to the sentiments of the "Handmaid's Tale" than many would imagine.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by Georgia lawmakers to win federal copyright protection for an annotated version of the state's legal code and to decide whether state and local governments can sue people who publish such texts without permission, much like novels or films.
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She would have us remember that the colonists of Massachusetts Bay did not only burn witches and exterminate brutes; that they were, by historical standards, and by comparison to their brethren in Virginia, egalitarians who prized the freedoms of conscience over adherence to dogma; that their legal code was the ancestor of the Bill of Rights.
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Here's how the U.S. legal code defines the charge: If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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