What does "the letter of the law, 1408" and "ET" have in common?
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In 1408 a czech guy named Huss protested against the catholic church saying it had strayed from the letter of the law, ET is an allegory for the life of Christ (yeah, I'm not kidding). Maybe there could be a connection there? Good luck,
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Can you be more specific in what you are looking for?\n\nFor example are you looking for laws that are pertinent only to England?
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Are you talking about the English Magna Carta or the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.???\nIt is confusing.
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Sorry, not familiar with the case, but I do suggest Lexis Nexis at your college library
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ultimus heres (or haeres):\nIn law, the last (or final) heir.
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Lawyers used to follow the letter of the law. Now, they petition the Supreme Court to change the letter of the law to suit their needs. So ... law is changing according to lawyers' personal ambitions and business needs. Cheers!
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'Et cetera' is a Latin phrase which means 'and the others' or 'and the rest'. So, it's not just one word. Anybody in the past who spoke Latin could have used it. The word 'et' means 'and', so it could be added with so many words and not just 'cetera'.
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The symbol is called an ampersand.  It's use goes back to Latin.  It was a combination of the letters E and T from the Latin word et meaning and.  You might do a search on the name ampersand for more details.
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i.e. is Latin for "id est"- that is\ne.g.is Latin for  "exempli gratia" -for example
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Well spotted sofiarose - that one passed me by too - and I like to think I keep an 'eagle-eye' on what they do (by getting daily e-mail updates from http://www.epolitix.com/ which includes the name of legislation to be debated, but not a description of the content).\n\nExcellent article although somewhat out of date (February) and misleading - thank you.\n\nAs of 8 November 2006 the beast became an Act of law.  It's already on the statute books as the "Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006" (2006 Ch. 51).\n\nI've had a quick look at it, and it's no-where near as bad as this LibDem MP makes out - he was scaremongering, unless it has been watered down from its original form.\n\nTake a look at it yourselves......
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Corpus Juris Civilis [Latin, The body of the civil law.] The name given in the early seventeenth century to the collection of civil law based upon the compilation and codification of the Roman system of jurisprudence directed by the Emperor Justinian I during the years from 528 to 534 a.d.
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No. But you should put a period after "et" and "al."\n\nExample:\n\n(James et. al.)
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Try http://www.law.upenn.edu/library/ulc/ulc.htm
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I'm not a lawyer either, but it appears that the provision was repealed in 1971 (165.140 [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]). I was going to recommend going to a law library and see if the law librarian would be able to point you to where the old ORS books are stored. If it was recent enough, they might even have them. But I doubt that they would for something this old. That said, the law librarian should be able to tell you how to look up the case that repealed the statute - and I would guess it would have the original text of the law.\n\nHope this helps!
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It's from the Count of Monte Christo by Baroness D'Orcay (not sure of the spelling here)so maybe if you look that up on the net - I think it was 'All the money to buy Italy' - but i'm not 100% sure. Chapter 18 of the book tings a bell - Good Luck!
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Not quite.\n\nLoosely translated, Annuit Coeptis  means "He has given approval to our undertakings."\n\nNovus Ordo Seclorum or New Order of the Ages
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As far as I know, the letters of the alphabet were the same in Shakespeare's time.  At one time (before Shakespeare) u and v were the same letter (the difference was whether it was used at the beginning of the word or not) as were i and j.  In handwriting and some printing there was a 'long s', which looks like an 'f' to us today.