Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this legal torturing, the victim was raised by the help of the sergeants, had to salute his commanders thanking them for the punishment...
...have seen this ceremony performed hundreds of times. I have not witnessed a single case in which the victim uttered a word of resistance or complaint. This punishment was legal and considered a part of army discipline...
...Deal but the U. S. Treasury was the sufferer. Lawyers foresaw that the revenue from processing taxes, shrunken to a rivulet since legal battles began, would now dry up completely, stay dry until and unless processing taxes are found legal...
...most sympathy. The language in which George V invariably refers to how beauteous Helen was treated by her buck-toothed consort King Carol II of Rumania is salty with sea oaths (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). Helen although no longer Queen of Rumania, carries officially the style "Her Majesty." The legal nature of her relation to King Carol II is so anomalous that an act of the Rumanian Parliament would suffice to make her again his consort & wife, whether either of them liked...
Unenviable is the legal lot of a coroner or medical examiner. Unlike a private physician, who can abandon plans for an autopsy if relatives of the deceased refuse permission, he is ordinarily required by law to make such examination whenever violence is suspected or cause of death cannot otherwise be determined. But he may thereupon, like any private investigator, be sued by disgruntled relatives of the deceased. Last week medical examiners flocked to New City's court, hoping to see a precedent set against suits over the condition of a body after an official autopsy...