Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal sphere, Miss Arendt condemned the "cog" theory as moral evasion. This theory argues that a functionary, like Eichmann, is not responsible for the criminal action of the government whose command he obeys. The courts should not deal with "systems" or "isms," but persons, she added...
...World War I. But during the Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed. Was such a woman legally a bereaved widow or sorrow-stricken mistress? The Malpasset Dam disaster stirred public demand for a legal solution...
...when a British court held that a chimney sweep could keep a jewel he had found in a sooty flue. But over the years, specific exceptions to the old saying have been spelled out in an effort to clarify conflicts over accidentally discovered loot. Though practices vary widely, the legal distinctions are based mainly on the way the article was lost and on where it was found...
...woman was married to a living husband when a ceremony was performed that made her the legal widow of a long-dead soldier...
Divorced. By Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher, 32: Edwin Jack Fisher, 35; on grounds of abandonment, cruelty and inhuman treatment; after almost five years of legal marriage, no children; in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was, as they say, a Mexican standoff, Eddie being in Puerto Rico while Liz was in Toronto with the leading candidate to stretch her name by six more letters; but Liz did not have to be there in person, and when no one showed up from Eddie's side during the 21-day waiting period, Liz's lawyers won the award "by default...