Word: legality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sacrificed the protection of these grants. Great Britain is released from the obligations imposed by her conditional promise not to interfere. Then passing to the second justification he pointed out that since British subjects have been maltreated by the administrative agents of the Transvaal, and the means of obtaining legal redress have been exhausted in vain, since British subjects have suffered from the unfair administration of the laws, and since the laws themselves have constituted grievous oppression, the general principles of international law sanctioned England's claim to a right to interfere...
...lecture on "Teaching of English Law at Harvard," which Professor A. V. Dicey delivered last spring upon his return to England. In a most eulogistic manner he analyses the methods used at the Law School, and after showing that the students have been taught to live in a legal atmosphere by means of their clubs and magazine, draws some lessons from the workings which Oxford would do well to follow...
...December of the same year he was promoted to a similar post in Chili. This office he filled most acceptably until August, 1897. On retiring from the legation he was retained to go to Brazil on legal business for a New York life insurance company, and was also appointed arbitrator between the governments of France and Chili on the claim of Charles Frerant, a French citizen, against Chili. He returned to the United States in March last...
...Butler became interested in politics as a supporter of the Democratic party. He was second comptroller of the United States Treasury during President Cleveland's first administration, and later was obliged to decline the position of private secretary to the President because of legal duties. He was a member of the board of visitors to West Point, president of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, secretary of the Boston Bar Association and attorney for the Boston and Maine Railroad...
These conditions may be changed by the executive committee of the H. A. A., but only with the consent of the donor of the cup, or his legal representative...