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The Law of Moses (Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה Torat Moshe), also called the Mosaic Law, is the law said to have been revealed to Moses by God. The term primarily...

The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) is an international agreement that regulates treaties among sovereign states. Known as the "treaty...

Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...

sovereign, to whom people have a habit of obedience". Natural lawyers, on the other hand, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, argue that law reflects essentially...

not the case", holds. One reason to have this law is the principle of explosion, which states that anything follows from a contradiction. The law is employed...

for NBC. The first spin-off of Law & Order, it stars Mariska Hargitay as Detective (ultimately promoted to Captain) Olivia Benson, now the commanding...

European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international...

States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of...

of law. You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future...

law, with every U.S. state and the District of Columbia having its own lemon law. Although the exact criteria vary by state, new vehicle lemon laws require...

of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith. In Arabic, the term sharīʿah...

to their children. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws unanimously recommended in 1970 that all such laws should be repealed...

sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement...

"positive law") are either silent or ambiguous on the question, judges have the authority and duty to resolve the issue. The opinion from a common law judge...

of the spouses on a state-issued form. Due to their colonial past, the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean have statutes concerning common-law marriage...

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on Saturdays at 9:30–10:00 pm (EST) from...

name. Many countries around the world have such laws, with most governing the meaning of the name, while some only govern the scripts in which it is written...

law review articles have been influential in the development of the law; they have been frequently cited as persuasive authority by courts. Some law schools...

The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (abbreviated as UC Law SF or UC Law) is a public law school in San Francisco, California...