Word: veult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After months of parliamentary wrangling that cut across party lines and set the House of Lords in bitter opposition to the House of Commons, a bewigged clerk intoned La Reine le veult, and the Queen wishing it, a bill restricting capital punishment became law. Under the new Homicide Act, murderers convicted in Britain will be hanged only if their crime...