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impeachment impeachment
impeachment formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. Impeachment developed in England, beginning in the 14th cent., as a... Read more
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IMPEACH To accuse; to charge a liability upon; to sue. To dispute, disparage, deny, or contradict; as in to impeach a judgment or decree, or impeach a witness; or as used in the rule that a jury cannot impeach its verdict. To proceed against a public officer for crime or misfeasance, before a... Read more
Sir Philip Francis Sir Philip Francis
Sir Philip Francis 1740-1818, British statesman and pamphleteer. He may have been the author known as Junius . He held several minor posts in government offices before being appointed to the council of Bengal in 1773. While in India he conducted a long, bitter feud with Warren Hastings , which... Read more
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LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT(b. Paris, France, 26 August 1743; d. Paris, 8 May 1794),chemistry, physiology, geology, economics, social reform. For the original article on Lavoisier see DSB, vol. 8.While Henry Guerlac’s article in the original DSB offers a reliable and useful guide to the life and... Read more
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Pietro Pomponazzi , 1462-1525, Italian philosopher, b. Mantua. He was a professor at Padua, Ferrara, and Bologna. Pomponazzi aroused great interest in intellectual circles when he questioned St. Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of Aristotle. In his De immortalitate animae (1516), Pomponazzi argued... Read more
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WAREHOUSE RECEIPT A written document given by a warehouseman for items received for storage in his or her warehouse, which serves as evidence of title to the stored goods. A number of warehouse receipts are negotiable instruments, and the law governing such receipts is embodied in Article 7 of... Read more
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evidence in law, material submitted to a judge or a judicial body to resolve disputed questions of fact. The rules discussed in this article were developed in England for use in jury trials. Today, they are generally observed in all countries having the common law , although they have been... Read more

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