Glanville Williams, for instance, has voiced the concern of many by focusing on the very foundations of the system: the calibre of individual jurors: "persons whose ordinary occupations are of a humble character rarely qualify to be regarded as first rate intellectual machines. ... This Assize was to replace the earlier case settlement method "trial by battle" (where the parties duelled to determine successful party) or "trial by ordeal" where an accused person would have to undergo a rather gruesome and painful task on the premise that, if they completed without inju...

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This case doesn't turn out well - although Tom's lawyer tries to convince the jurors and the judge that Tom was innocent, they still didn't believe him because Tom is African American. ... On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ...

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It is not a secret that parents are our support and guide; they are the persons that can help us in everything that is why a child that lives without one of them, or without both, cannot be happy and will not grow without consequences. These personal belongings are the kind of problems that bring more and more consequences because we are not only talking about laws and rights we are talking about feelings, and even more importantly, emotional and psychological disorders of the vulnerable individuals in the world that are the children, innocents that don't understand some situations that t...

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To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. ... But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any crea...

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In other words, if there is a person residing on someone else's land without any right, title or payment of rent under government regulation, this person is allowed to acquire the title to the land and extinguish the rights of the 'paper owner'. ... It balances the equity between the person using the land and the owner who may not even know he has the land and encourages the alienability of the land. ... It is a necessary legal rule in order to ensure the benefit of innocent third parties. ...

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The UN Secretary General Koffi Annan on his part defined that rule of law as "a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities...including the state itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and....which are consistent with international human rights norms and standard.......

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