Peace in Europe
Definition of Peace
In early times criminal matters and offences against public order were within the jurisdiction of local lords and local Courts, and the King’s Court exercised jurisdiction over offences committed within the vicinity of the King himself: committed “contra pacem Domini,” or “against the peace of our Lord the King”.
By a fiction that the King’s peace extended to the highways and ultimately over the whole realm, the King’s Court acquired its comprehensive jurisdiction. It remained necessary to allege in an indictment that an offence was committed contra pacem Domini until the Criminal Procedure Act, 1851. See Articles of the Peace; Bill of Peace; Clerk of the Peace; Commission of the Peace; Justice of the Peace
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The European Union As Guarantor of Peace
Content about Peace from the publication “The ABC of European Union law” (2010, European Union) by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt.There is no greater motivation for European unification than the desire for peace. In the last century, two world wars were waged in Europe between countries that are now Member States of the European Union. Thus, a policy for Europe means at the same time a policy for peace, and the establishment of the EU simultaneously created the centrepiece of a framework for peace in Europe that renders a war between the Member States impossible. Fifty years of peace in Europe are proof of this. The more European States that join the EU, the stronger this framework of peace will become. The last two enlargements of the EU, including 12 predominantly east and central European States, have made a major contribution in this respect.
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