Fleta
Fleta , treatise of unknown authorship on the English common law, written in the late 13th cent. Its name is derived from the belief that it was written in the old Fleet Prison. The book is almost entirely based upon the work of Henry de Bracton . The name is sometimes spelled Fleda.
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Fifty glorious legal years? English law during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the wider world than ever before. The English common law has tried to keep up. It rarely...not apply so well to statutes. The English common law is a system for producing bespoke...minorities. Most people would say that the English common law was born in or around the twelfth...
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Spy story highlights presidential overreach.(COLUMNS)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/13/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...writs of assistance on the basis of rights long granted in English common law. Nevertheless, given the court's sympathy for the Crown...remember that so ingrained were the notions of civil rights in English common law that tampering with those rights lit the spark of revolution...
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Suicide and the law. (Death With Dignity)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...crime in the United States. It was considered a felony under English common law, and the punishment was burial in a public highway with...adopted in America, and, as the states turned away from English common law, suicide ceased to be regarded as a crime. At, tempted...
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Jury is still out on Republican democracy: time may yet prove that our Loyalist ancestors made the right choice.
Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...series of mutual misunderstandings in which the principles of English Common Law, including the idea that power to govern is derived...over which the revolution was fought had been entrenched in English Common Law for many generations. These are the principles for which...
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Suicide debate reaches Suprme Court. (right to die)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/17/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...licit even when a sick person is no longer able to live. English common law of the Middle Ages regarded God as the author of human...suicide. But the early American states remained true to English common law, confiscating family property if the owner committed...
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Florida common law jurisprudence.
Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...reference, this article refers to that part of the English common law made until July 4, 1776, as the English half or English common law. In practical terms, the key to the application of English common law in Florida is F.S. [section] 2.01, which...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1998; ; 668 words
; ...tracks the evolution of law and slavery over time. Because English common law provided no explicit legal definitions for slavery...pre-existing body of law. Yet, as Morris makes clear, the English common law regarding property provided a framework for treating...
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Explaining the deadly force decision: "justifiable homicide." (Massad Ayoob on Lethal Force, part 3)
Magazine article from: Shooting Industry; 8/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Napoleonic Code, the Dutch-Roman Principles, and of course the English Common Law all made it clear. So did virtually every human interpretation...citizen in self defense. No more, no less. This is, under the English Common Law from which US law derives, one classical exception...
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Loss of consortium: a continuing evolution.
Magazine article from: Trial; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...examines both. Although widely believed to have originated in English common law, the claim for loss of consortium can be traced to Roman...of his wife and children.(3) This concept was accepted by English common law, which recognized that a husband--as master of the household...
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Liberty of expression in Ireland and the need for a constitutional law of defamation.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...courts have emphasized a continued adherence to traditional English common law, which has served as virtually the sole source of law...allowed Irish defamation law to remain remarkably close to its English common law origins. But the common law of defamation was not designed...
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Caballe, Monserrat
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...Ibanez in the UNESCO Courier. When she was a child, she would often listen to recordings of Miguel Fleta with her father. When she heard how Fleta could sing high notes extremely softly, she decided that she could learn to do it, too. Caballe wanted...
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John Selden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...England's Epinomis and Jani Anglorum (1610) established him as the father of legal antiquarianism. The preface to his edition of the Fleta (1647) summarizes his lifelong study in the origins of British law. Selden's reputation as an Orientalist was begun with his...
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Morton, Azie Taylor
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...belief that a person can accomplish anything they set their mind to. Azie Taylor was born on February 1, 1936, in Dale, Texas, to Fleta Hazel Taylor. Morton said in a speech to the student body of a small college in South Carolina (as quoted in Chicken Soup for...
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Pettiford, Valarie 1960 –
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...sophisticated ladies, Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies (musical revue), Lunt – Fontanne Theatre, 1981 – 1983. Fleta, Grind (musical), Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1985. Pearl, band singer, and first shadow, Big Deal (musical), Broadway...
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