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Sources this atlas cites that are short reference-style encyclopedia entries with no single named encyclopedia distinguished elsewhere in this heading set, this atlas's own single largest source subcategory by far. Belongs here: a compact reference entry on a legal system, doctrine, court, jurist or code. Does not belong here: a longer discursive Encyclopedia Article, or an entry from a specifically named work such as Britannica or the Max Planck encyclopedia, each carrying its own heading.

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Abstention Doctrine (Wikipedia)

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Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (Wikipedia)

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Act of State Doctrine (Wikipedia)

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Administrative jurisdiction in France (Wikipedia)

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Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (Wikipedia)

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Albie Sachs (Wikipedia)

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Alf Ross (Wikipedia)

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Anti-Monopoly Law of China (Wikipedia)

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Arthur Chaskalson (Wikipedia)

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Australia Act 1986 (Wikipedia)

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Bad Law (Wikipedia)

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Brown v. Board of Education (Wikipedia)

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Capital Punishment in South Africa (Wikipedia)

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Castle Doctrine (Wikipedia)

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Caveat Emptor (Wikipedia)

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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (Wikipedia)

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Charter of the Forest (Wikipedia)

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Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (Wikipedia)

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Chinese Exclusion Act (Wikipedia)

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Chinese Law (Wikipedia)

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Civil Code of Japan (Wikipedia)

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Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (Wikipedia)

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Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Wikipedia)

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Civil Rights Cases (Wikipedia)

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Clean Hands (Wikipedia)

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Clean Water Act (Wikipedia)

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Code of Hammurabi (Wikipedia)

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Code of Lipit-Ishtar (Wikipedia)

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Code of Ur-Nammu (Wikipedia)

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Codex Gregorianus (Wikipedia)

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Codex Hermogenianus (Wikipedia)

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Codex Justinianus (Wikipedia)

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Codex Theodosianus (Wikipedia)

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Commonwealth v Tasmania (Wikipedia)

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Competition Act 1998 (Wikipedia)

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Constitution Hill, Johannesburg (Wikipedia)

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Constitutional Council (France) (Wikipedia)

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Digest (Roman law) (Wikipedia)

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Diplomatic Immunity (Wikipedia)

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (Wikipedia)

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Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Wikipedia)

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Domingo de Soto (Wikipedia)

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Donoghue v Stevenson (Wikipedia)

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Double Jeopardy (Wikipedia)

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Draco (legislator) (Wikipedia)

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Draco's Law Code (World History Encyclopedia)

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Duke of Norfolk's Case (Wikipedia)

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Earl Warren (Wikipedia)

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Edict of Theodoric (Wikipedia)

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Emer de Vattel (Wikipedia)

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Enabling Act of 1933 (Wikipedia)

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Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Wikipedia)

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English Law (Wikipedia)

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Entick v Carrington (Wikipedia)

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Entrapment (Wikipedia)

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Espionage Act of 1917 (Wikipedia)

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Estoppel (Wikipedia)

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Eugen Huber (Wikipedia)

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Exclusionary Rule (Wikipedia)

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Factory Act 1833 (Wikipedia)

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Felony Murder Rule (Wikipedia)

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Filartiga v Pena-Irala (Wikipedia)

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Forum Non Conveniens (Wikipedia)

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Francisco de Vitoria (Wikipedia)

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Friedrich Carl von Savigny (Wikipedia)

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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (Wikipedia)

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Frustration of Purpose (Wikipedia)

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Gaius (Wikipedia)

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Gamble v. United States (Wikipedia)

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Georg Friedrich von Martens (Wikipedia)

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German Law (Wikipedia)

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Germanic Law (Wikipedia)

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Golden Bull of 1222 (Wikipedia)

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Gortyn Code (Wikipedia)

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Government of India Act 1935 (Wikipedia)

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Griswold v. Connecticut (Wikipedia)

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H. L. A. Hart (Wikipedia)

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Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (Wikipedia)

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Hans Kelsen (Wikipedia)

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (Wikipedia)

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Hedley Byrne v Heller (Wikipedia)

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Henry Baldwin (Wikipedia)

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High Court of Australia (Wikipedia)

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Hindu Law (Wikipedia)

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Hittite Laws (Wikipedia)

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Hozumi Nobushige (Wikipedia)

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Human Rights Act 1998 (Wikipedia)

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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Wikipedia)

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Importation Act 1846 (Wikipedia)

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Indian Removal Act (Wikipedia)

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Institutes of Justinian (Wikipedia)

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Wikipedia)

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International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Wikipedia)

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Israeli Law (Wikipedia)

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James Wilson (Wikipedia)

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Jeremy Bentham (Wikipedia)

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Jerome Frank (Wikipedia)

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Johannes Althusius (Wikipedia)

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John Austin (Legal Philosopher) (Wikipedia)

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John Catron (Wikipedia)

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John Finnis (Wikipedia)

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John Marshall Harlan (Wikipedia)

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John McKinley (Wikipedia)

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John Selden (Wikipedia)

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Karl Llewellyn (Wikipedia)

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Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala (Wikipedia)

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Laches (Equity) (Wikipedia)

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Law of France (Wikipedia)

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Law of India (Wikipedia)

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Law of Japan (Wikipedia)

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Law of the United States (Wikipedia)

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Lex Alamannorum (Wikipedia)

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Lex Baiuvariorum (Wikipedia)

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Lex Ripuaria (Wikipedia)

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Living Constitution (Wikipedia)

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Lochner v. New York (Wikipedia)

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Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (Wikipedia)

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Magna Carta (Wikipedia)

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Manusmriti (Wikipedia)

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Mapp v Ohio (Wikipedia)

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Marbury v. Madison (Wikipedia)

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Mecelle (Wikipedia)

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Mens Rea (Wikipedia)

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Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie (Wikipedia)

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Miranda v. Arizona (Wikipedia)

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M'Naghten Rules (Wikipedia)

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Montesquieu (Wikipedia)

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National Labor Relations Act (Wikipedia)

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Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (Wikipedia)

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Nondelegation Doctrine (Wikipedia)

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Non-Refoulement (Wikipedia)

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Novellae Constitutiones (Wikipedia)

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Nuremberg Laws (Wikipedia)

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Nuremberg Trials (Wikipedia)

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Occupational Safety and Health Act (Wikipedia)

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Originalism (Wikipedia)

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Ottoman Land Code of 1858 (Wikipedia)

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Papinian (Wikipedia)

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Parol Evidence Rule (Wikipedia)

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Permanent Court of Arbitration (Wikipedia)

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Petition of Right (Wikipedia)

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Pierson v Post (Wikipedia)

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Plessy v. Ferguson (Wikipedia)

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Population Registration Act, 1950 (Wikipedia)

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Promissory Estoppel (Wikipedia)

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Proportionality (Law) (Wikipedia)

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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Wikipedia)

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Qualified Immunity (Wikipedia)

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Quebec Law (Wikipedia)

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R v Dudley and Stephens (Wikipedia)

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R v Oakes (Wikipedia)

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Reference re Secession of Quebec (Wikipedia)

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Rene David (Wikipedia)

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Representation of the People Act 1918 (Wikipedia)

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Res Ipsa Loquitur (Wikipedia)

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Res Judicata (Wikipedia)

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Richard Posner (Wikipedia)

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Roe v. Wade (Wikipedia)

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Roman-Dutch Law (Wikipedia)

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Roscoe Pound (Wikipedia)

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Rudolf von Jhering (Wikipedia)

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Rule Against Perpetuities (Wikipedia)

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Russian Civil Code (Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law)

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S v Makwanyane (Wikipedia)

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Sachsenspiegel (Wikipedia)

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Salic Law (Wikipedia)

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Scandinavian Law (Wikipedia)

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Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Wikipedia)

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Separation of Powers (Wikipedia)

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Servius Sulpicius Rufus (Wikipedia)

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Sherman Antitrust Act (Wikipedia)

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Smith Thompson (Wikipedia)

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Socialist Law (Wikipedia)

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Solon (Wikipedia)

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South China Sea Arbitration (Wikipedia)

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Supreme Court of Canada (Wikipedia)

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Supreme Court of Israel (Wikipedia)

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Swiss Civil Code (Wikipedia)

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Taiho Code (Wikipedia)

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Taylor v Caldwell (Wikipedia)

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Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Wikipedia)

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Tribonian (Wikipedia)

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Twelve Tables (Wikipedia)

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Ulpian (Wikipedia)

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Unconscionability (Wikipedia)

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Wikipedia)

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USA PATRIOT Act (Wikipedia)

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Vicarious Liability (Wikipedia)

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Visigothic Code (Wikipedia)

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Weeks v United States (Wikipedia)

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William Johnson (Wikipedia)

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