Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survival and even the re-juvenescence of the Inquisition. It was temporarily in the hands of the Methodists, and the Catholics were naturally indignant at this breach of tradition. There seems to have been general sympathy with this protest; for the Americans have always tried to be a legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname...
...given the same degree by Cambridge University, England. Before being appointed to the Royall Professorship, Professor Beale held the Carter chair of general jurisprudence. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has published many books and monographs on legal questions...
...practice of law. "The students are enthusiastic and devoted," says Professor Beale. "Their minds are filled with thought about problems of law, and by the time they graduate they have really learned to think like lawyers." Many of the School's graduates have become men high in the legal practice of the country, and the present demand, never quite filled, for its graduates, shows how it is succeeding in its purpose. Its founders and its faculty have always believed, in spite of vigorous opposition in the past, that the best preparation for legal practice is a scientific study...
...school has also graduated 330 teachers of law, including 14 deans of law schools of high grade; three of its former students are now teaching law in the University of Cambridge, England. Seven graduates have been presidents of the American Bar Association, and many have been high in the legal and political life of the country...
...little notices which say "I will no longer be responsible for any debts which my wife may contract. Signed, John Doe." The House of Lords might very well have taken one of these notices for a text--it would have been more dignified than the description of woman's legal status as that of a "pet monkey". However true it may be, in or out of law, it should never have been given such official sanction. Much better to have said pet parrot, or any other innocuous animal...