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Prisoners of War Law
Prisoners of War Law in Europe Introduction Prisoners of War Law is mainly covered under the Geneva Convention which defines POWs as a person, civilian or combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Prisioners of Law (POW) is […]
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Dueling
Dueling in Europe Dueling or Duel (from duellum, derived from duo) is a combat between two, at a time and place appointed in consequence of a challenge, and so is distinguished from an encounter taking place without any previous arrangement. The custom of dueling was derived from the […]
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Prafectus Urbi
Definition of Prafectus Urbi The city prefect or governor. His civil jurisdiction extended to one hundred miles round Rome and his criminal jurisdiction throughout Italy. An appeal lay to him from the Praetor. (Roman Law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]
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Exterritoriality
Definition of Exterritoriality A legal fiction by which certain persons and things are deemed for the purpose of jurisdiction and control to be outside the territory of the State in which they really are, and within that of some other State. Its principal applications are :(1) Sovereigns, […]
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General Index
This page is the overall index to the European Encyclopedia of Law; any page can ideally be reached directly or indirectly from this page. Note that the index is still somewhat incomplete. Europe: Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and…
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European Union Tasks
Tasks of the European UnionContent about European Union Tasks from the publication The ABC of European Union law (2010, European Union) by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt. The list of tasks entrusted to the EU strongly resembles the constitutional order of a state. These are not the narrowly […]