Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demands of the present campaign would indicate, but the minimum required has been asked for. If the school is to carry on according to the calibre of its past achievements it must have these funds, and the country, if it is to see a solution of its present legal tangle, must be provided with the findings of some such research. This is the form of the appeal which Dean Pound has made to public-spirited citizens...
Since Barrister Farinacci has never before exercised his profession to the extent of appearing in court to plead a case, the "for- mula" under which he now appears was reverently admired by connoisseurs of legal quibbling. Suave, Farinacci remarked to the presiding justice, Signor Danza, last week: "I have never appeared before so courteous a judge." Bland, Signor Danza replied: "Nor have I ever listened to so able a lawyer...
Meanwhile the Communists and the Socialists "stole" with all possible energy. They accomplished the first stage of what their enemies call "a gigantic legal theft" by whooping up 10,000,000 Germans to cast ballots calling for a national referendum (TIME, March 15) on the question of whether property belonging to the former German nobility and seized by the Republic may be retained without compensating the original owners...
...from the courtroom). Above each nose a pair of eyes peered intently at five learned judges, at a culprit quite as learned as they. Eyebrows were lifted all round because the five judges were defying tradition and sitting without wigs or gowns?an event said to be without English legal precedent during the last century...
...with lewd import. To the prurient not even a Latin numeral is pure. The "Six Men" of Cambridge were wronged. Meanwhile the five judges at London decided that the "Sex Viri" had wronged Dr. Haldane. They sustained his appeal and rendered a verdict which is expected to create the legal precedent that the private life of a university man shall be considered as of no relation to his scholastic position...