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313 matches to Anti-Corn Law League
Durrell, Lawrence. 1912-90. British erotic writer. The Alexandria Quartet 1957-60.
Edmunds Law. 1882. US bans polygamy.
Enlightenment. 17-18C. Intellectual movement. Rationalism, natural laws vs dogma, authority. J-J Rousseau. Smith. Mendlessohn. Fontenelle. Voltaire. Montesquieu. Hume. Berkeley. Sturm und Drang.
Ethelbert. 552-616. King of Kent 560-. First Christian Anglo-Saxon king. first extant A-S law code.
Euric. Visigoth king 466-484. First Visigoth law code.
Executive Branch. Department of US government which carries out laws, under supervision of President.
Fair Labor Standards Act. 1938. US fixes minimum wage(25¢/hr), child labor laws, 44hr week.
Falloux, Frédéric. 1811-56. French politician. Sponsored Law on Education: Loi Falloux.
Gay-Lussac, Louis. 1778-1850. French chemist. Laws of combining gases, 1804. Meteorology.
Gentili, Alberico. 1552-1608. Italian jurist. International laws on the conduct of war.
Gratian. Italian monk. Codified canon Law. Decretum Gratiani c1142.
Grattan, Henry. 1746-1820. Irish independence leader. Irish Parliament 1782. Poyning’s Law repeal movement.
Gresham, Thomas. 1519-79. English founder of Stock Exchange 1560. Gresham’s Law-“Bad money drives out good” (mistakenly attributed).
Grotius, Hugo. 1583-1645. Dutch jurist. Laws of War and Peace 1625.
Group of Seven. 1920-74. Canadian Impressionist painters. MacDonald, Harris, Lismer, Varley, Carmichael, Johnston, Jackson. Thomson 1913.
Guarantees, Law of. 1871. Failed to define relationship between papacy and Italian government. Lateran Treaty, 1929.
Hammurabi. -1750BC. Babylonian king 1792- who codified the law.
Hand, Learned. 1872-1961. US jurist. Alcoa Antitrust case. Monopoly unlawful. No duty not to minimize one’s taxes 1947.
Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.
Harris, Paul. 1868-1947. US lawyer. Founded Rotary International 1905.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Hickock, James (Wild Bill). 1837-76. US frontier lawman.
Hobbes, Thomas. 1588-1679. English Materialist Determinist philosopher. Nominalist. Royalist. Good is that which brings pleasure; evil, pain. Mind is the result of physical activity in the brain. Elements of Law 1640. Leviathan 1651.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1841-1935. US Supreme Court Justice 1902-32. Law as social instrument.
Hoover, Herbert. 1874-1964. US President 1929-33. Hoover Dam. St. Lawrence Seaway. Opposed direct federal aid to unemployed during Depression.