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• Jurisdiction
  *1 : the [[power]], right, or [[authority]] to [[interpret]] and apply the [[law]] *2 a : the [[authority]] of a [[sovereign]] power to govern or legislate
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• Vigilante
  ...who undertakes law enforcement without [[legal]] [[authority]] or illegal authority. "Vigilante justice" is rationalized by the [[idea]] that adequate legal [[mechanisms]] for criminal punishment are either nonexistent or insufficie
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• Kidnapping
  ...rg/wiki/Child_custody child custody] dispute. When it is done with legal [[authority]], it is often called [[arrest]] or imprisonment. ...[[divorced]] or legally separated, whereupon the parent who does not have legal custody will [[commit]] the act, also known as "childnapping").
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• Divorce
  ...ries, divorce requires the sanction of a judge or other [[authority]] in a legal [[process]]. ...] is [[law]], this allows each partner to marry another. Where polygyny is legal, divorce allows the woman to marry another.
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• Valid
  ...ficacy or [[force]]; especially : [[executed]] with the proper [[legal]] [[authority]] and formalities <a valid contract> ...implies being supported by [[objective]] [[truth]] or generally accepted [[authority]] <a valid reason for being absent>
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• Command
  ...the [[authority]] [[bestowed]]. Naval and military officers have a legal [[authority]] by [[virtue]] of their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioned_office ...es over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment. Command includes the authority and responsibility for effectively using available resources and for planni
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• Sexism
  ...usband]] and [[wife]] are one person in [[law]]; that is the very being or legal [[existence]] of the [[woman]] is [[suspended]] during the marriage". U.S. In many countries, women still lose significant legal rights at marriage. For example, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen Yemen
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• Usurper
  ...rench usorper, from [[Latin]] usurpare to take [[possession]] of without [[legal]] claim, from usu (abl. of usus use) + rapere to seize ...ing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_vires ultra vires], outside his [[authority]] or [[jurisdiction]].
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• Complaint
  ...aint''' is a [[formal]] legal [[document]] that sets out the [[facts]] and legal reasons (see: cause of [[action]]) that the filing party or parties (the pl ...t. All criminal cases are prosecuted in the [[name]] of the governmental [[authority]] that promulgates criminal statutes and enforces the [https://en.wikipedia
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• Law
  ...legal'' comes from the Latin word ''lex''. [https://www.m-w.com/dictionary/legal Merriam-Webster's Dictionary] ...system of rules", as an "interpretive concept to achieve justice, as in "[[authority]]" to mediate people's conflicting interests, and even as "the command of a
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• Authority
  ...r to punish a criminal, such as through lynching, only the courts have the authority to order capital punishment. ...rity''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Authority this link].</center>
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• Children
  ...ority. "Child" may also describe a [[relationship]] with a [[parent]] or [[authority]] figure, or signify [[group]] membership in a clan, [[tribe]], or [[religi ==Legal definitions==
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• Summons
  *1: the act of summoning; especially : a call by [[authority]] to [[appear]] at a place named or to attend to a [[duty]] ...'''summons''' (also known in England and Wales as a ''claim form'') is a [[legal]] [[document]] issued by a [[court]] (a judicial summons) or by an [[admini
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• Indictment
  *1:a: the [[action]] or the [[legal]] [[process]] of indicting 2: a [[formal]] [[written]] [[statement]] framed by a prosecuting [[authority]] and found by a [[jury]] (as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Jury g
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• Custody
  ...trol]] (as over a ward or a suspect) [[exercised]] by a [[person]] or an [[authority]]; also : safekeeping ...uardianship are [[legal]] terms which are sometimes used to describe the [[legal]] and [[practical]] [[relationship]] between a [[parent]] and his or her c
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• Crime
  '''Crime''' is the breach of rules or [[laws]] for which some [[governing]] [[authority]] (via [[mechanisms]] such as police [[power]]) ultimately prescribes a [[c ...ed]] or stricter [[systems]] of social [[control]]. With institutional and legal [[machinery]] at their disposal, [[agents]] of the State can compel [[popul
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• Bill of Rights
  ...legal bill of rights recognized by the government in principle holds more authority than the legislative bodies alone. An unentrenched bill of rights, on the o * [https://web.onetel.com/~isr/Business%20and%20the%20political-legal%20environment.htm#Rights A New British Bill of Rights: The Case For]
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• Marriage
  ...here illegitimacy means only that the mother is unmarried and has no other legal implications, a legitimacy-based definition of marriage is circular. He pro '''Marriage''' is a [[social]] [[union]] or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an [[institution]] in w
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• Desertion
  ...aking, or abandoning, esp. a [[person]] or [[thing]] that has [[moral]] or legal claims to the deserter's [[support]]; sometimes simply, abandonment of or d ...he wilful abandonment of an employment or of [[duty]], in violation of a [[legal]] or [[moral]] [[obligation]]; esp. such abandonment of the [[military]] or
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• Chain of command
  *1: a [[series]] of positions of [[military]] or civil [[authority]] such that each holder is directly [[responsible]] to, and takes his order In a [[military]] [[context]], the '''chain of command''' is the line of [[authority]] and responsibility along which orders are passed within a military unit a
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