Dawes Act. 1887. US law granting citizenship and land rights to individual Indians.

De Vries. Mutation laws, 1901.

Delaware. “First” US state. Owasco, Delaware, Nanticoke, Assateague. 1609 English exploredl. 1631 Dutch. 1638 Swedish. 1655 Dutch. 1664 England.

Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.

Deuteronomy. 5th Book of Bible. Includes 10 Commandments and other laws. Law code found c622BC in Temple of Jerusalem.

Dharma-sastra. 8C BC. Sanskrit books of Hindu family law.

Draco. Author of written law code, Athens, 621BC. Death was penalty for petty crimes. Later repealed.

Draft Riots. 1863. New York City workers vs Union army draft laws.

Dunces Parliament. 1404. Coventry. No lawyers.

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.

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.

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