Law

Law is a system of rules that are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. Laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or by judges through binding precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals can create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that may elect to accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process. The formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded therein. The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people.

A general distinction can be made between (a) civil law jurisdictions (including Catholic canon law and socialist law), in which the legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates their laws, and (b) common law systems, where judge-made precedent is accepted as binding law. Historically, religious laws played a significant role even in settling of secular matters, which is still the case in some religious communities, particularly Jewish, and some countries, particularly Islamic. Islamic Sharia law is the world's most widely used religious law.

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Beyond Voting: Hold Your Representatives Accountable Through Right to Information

Kashmir Observer 05 Oct 2024
Right to information, which is the most popular, reformative and progressive law in Indian political and administrative history, is a powerful tool that can be used by citizens to hold MLAs accountable ... This law empowers the citizens against administrative corruption and erratic/wrong administration....
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Determining Iowa’s constitutional amendments

Iowa City Press-Citizen 05 Oct 2024
Only a citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years, who shall have been a resident of this state for such period of time as shall be provided by law and of the county in which the citizen claims the citizen's vote for such period of time as shall be provided by law, ......
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Good Samaritans can make the difference between life and death

The Times of India 05 Oct 2024
'Following the directions of Supreme Court, the Good Samaritan Law came into force to protect individuals who assist accident victims, but many citizens are unaware of these provisions,' said the official, adding that the law ensures those who help accident victims don't face police harassment....
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New structures needed to enable the elderly to live independently

Manila Bulletin 05 Oct 2024
“By the year 2030, the Philippines will have a significant aging population, with senior citizens comprising 8.5 percent of the household population ... The activities focus on their stories of milestones, and significant community contributions, cultural shows, and seminars on laws that are related to senior citizen services and healthcare....
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Govt committed to protecting citizens, maintaining national stability: Ali Gohar

Urdu Point 05 Oct 2024
... He emphasized that their actions pose a significant threat to citizens' safety and well-being.</p><p> He made it clear that the government will not tolerate Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) violent tactics and will take action to maintain law and order....
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Many factors, personal and systematic, contribute to low voter turnout in Arkansas

Times Record - Fort Smith 05 Oct 2024
It takes the number of people who voted in an election and compares it to either the citizen voting age population or the voting-eligible population (removes felons according to state law, non-citizens, and those deemed mentally incapacitated.) ... Citizens have every right to use every legal recourse if they feel the outcome wasn’t legal and fair....
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Julian Assange’s fight for freedom and press sovereignty continues

Blitz 05 Oct 2024
The US government’s attempts to paint him as a criminal are rooted in his alleged violations of the 1917 Espionage Act-a law passed during World War I ... By applying this law to a non-US citizen for activities conducted outside US territory, Washington effectively claims the right to prosecute anyone, anywhere, for exposing its secrets....
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Why Pakistan needs a Constitutional Court

The News International 05 Oct 2024
Per the bi-annual report on judicial statistics for the second half of 2023 published by The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, approximately 0.4 million cases are pending before the superior courts in Pakistan ... The state of the judiciary, viz a viz the common citizen, is in absolute shambles. Access to justice and rule of law is a basic right....
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Repubblika publishes ‘Defending integrity’ – An anti-corruption strategy and manifesto

The Malta Independent 05 Oct 2024
... transient, that the influence they enjoy has been afforded to them as a service to the common good, that our expectation that they act within the law is our right; and that to demand that they respect this and to denounce them when they don't is our duty as responsible citizens....
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Unaware of Gandapur's whereabouts after LEAs entered KP House: top aide

The News International 05 Oct 2024
However, sources closer to the government rejected the reports about the KP chief minister's arrest by law enforcers. Defending the major opposition party's ongoing protests, the KP government official said that every citizen reserved the right to hold demonstration in accordance with the Constitution....
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Tension in Rivers as Fubara Insists on LG Polls

This Day 05 Oct 2024
“The Nigeria Police Force seeks to inform all law-abiding citizens and stakeholders in Rivers State about the upcoming Local Government Election, particularly in light of recent court rulings ... “So, we have come as concerned citizens of Rivers state to say the ......
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OPINION | Rev. Clint Schnekloth: Human first, then Christian.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 05 Oct 2024
Danish thinker N.F.S ... People are not first of all citizens of any particular nation, we are not separated by the countries in which we were born ... The truth is, immigrants generally improve the economies into which they move, create jobs and live out of an entrepreneurial spirit, and are more law-abiding and safer than their "citizen" neighbors ... ....
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CI-128 a Major Concern

Flathead Beacon 05 Oct 2024
When debating legislation, legislators are always looking for unintended consequences ... Montana’s tort laws are a protection for citizens that have been damaged in their person or property. Medical providers carry malpractice insurance for these reasons ... Sen ... ....
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