Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adultery should be a criminal offense, the Archbishop of Canterbury told the Canterbury Diocesan Conference in London last week. Although it is a "private act" and has never been a legal crime in England,-Dr. Fisher felt that because of the "tremendous damage" it causes in terms of broken homes and unhappy children, adultery should be punishable by more than mere church censure...
...rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council...
...professor would find it hard to research extensively and to teach at the same time, Byse noted. Therefore, to help fulfill the dual responsibility of law schools, he suggested increased financial aid for legal research. If funds were used to enlarge faculties, each professor could focus his attention, both as a teacher and a scholar, on a particular section of the law, he explained...
When Tadhg Sweeney was moved to an interior line position late in the campaign, a grim, unspoken battle took place in each game. The rugged Sweeney's stock in trade was charging the goalie--a perfectly legal maneuver, as long as the netminder does not have control of the ball. For a while in each first period, it was a question of whether the enemy goalie was going to yield to Sweeney's insistent pounding or play a charging game. In both the Brown and Yale contests, the goalie chose to hang back; each time, this was a vitally important...
...quiz witnesses who appeared before the New York County grand jury and swore before God (or on their affirmations) to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no less than 100, said District Attorney Frank Hogan, had lied, or to put it in legal language, perjured themselves...