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Gens
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GensA word used by the Romans to represent race and nation. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 259, n. 13. In the French law, it is used to signify people or nations, as Droit des Gens, the law of nations.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Nation
A group or race of people that share history, traditions and culture. The United Kingdom is comprised of four nations or national groups: the English, Scots, Irish and Welsh. Canada includes French-Canadians, English-Canadians and a number of aboriginal nations. Thus, states may be comprised of one or several nations. It is common English to use the word "nation" when referring to what is known in law as "states."
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
People
A state.
Nations
Nations or states are independent bodies politic; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength.
Droit
A French word, which, in that language, signifies the whole collection of laws, written and unwritten, and is synonymous to our word law.
Gens
A word used by the Romans to represent race and nation. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 259, n. 13. In the French law, it is used to signify people or nations, as Droit des Gens, the law of nations.
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General special imparlance
Pleading. One in which the defendant reserves to himself " all advantages and exceptions whatsoever."
General texts
An approach to conflict of laws whereby solutions to conflict problems are sought in commentaries, general textbooks and essays by conflict of laws scholars, but without reliance on any multiple numbered rules, infra.
General traverse
Pleading. One preceded by a general inducement, and denying, in general terms, all that is last before alleged on the opposite side, instead of pursuing the words of the allegations, which it denies.
Generalia specialibus non derogant
A Latin maxim meaning "general things do not derogate from special things". The maxim expresses a rule of construction of statutes and international conventions, whereby their general provisions are held not to qualify their particular provisions.
Geneva conventions
The Geneva Conventions on the High Seas, on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, on the Continental Shelf and on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, adopted at Geneva on April 29, 1958.
Gens
Gentleman
In the English law, according to Sir Edward Coke, is one who bears a coat of armor. In the United States, this word is unknown to the law, but in many places it is applied, by courtesy, to all men.
Gentlewoman
This word is unknown to the law in the United States, and is but little used. In England. it was, formerly, a good addition of the state or degree of a woman.
Genus
It denotes the number of beings, or objects, which agree in certain general properties, common to them all, so that genus is, in fact, only an abstract idea, expressed by some general name or term; or rather a name or term, to signify what is called au abstract idea. Thus, goods is the generic name, and includes, generally, all personal property; but this word may be restrained, particularly in bequests to such goods as are of the same kind as those previously enumerated.
Geographic area of chargeability
Any one of five regions -Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Near East and South Asia, and the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe--into which the world is divided for the initial admission of refugees to the United States. Annual consultations between the Executive Branch and the Congress determine the ceiling on the number of refugees who can be admitted to the United States from each area. Beginning in fiscal year 1987, an unallocated reserve was incorporated into the admission ceilings.
German
Relations, germanus. Whole or entire, as respects genealogy or descent; thus, "brother-german," denotes one who is brother both by the father and mother's side cousins-germane" those in the first and nearest degree, children of brothers or sisters.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Nation
A group or race of people that share history, traditions and culture. The United Kingdom is comprised of four nations or national groups: the English, Scots, Irish and Welsh. Canada includes French-Canadians, English-Canadians and a number of aboriginal nations. Thus, states may be comprised of one or several nations. It is common English to use the word "nation" when referring to what is known in law as "states."
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
People
A state.
Nations
Nations or states are independent bodies politic; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength.
Droit
A French word, which, in that language, signifies the whole collection of laws, written and unwritten, and is synonymous to our word law.
Gens
A word used by the Romans to represent race and nation. 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 259, n. 13. In the French law, it is used to signify people or nations, as Droit des Gens, the law of nations.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
General special imparlance
Pleading. One in which the defendant reserves to himself " all advantages and exceptions whatsoever."
General texts
An approach to conflict of laws whereby solutions to conflict problems are sought in commentaries, general textbooks and essays by conflict of laws scholars, but without reliance on any multiple numbered rules, infra.
General traverse
Pleading. One preceded by a general inducement, and denying, in general terms, all that is last before alleged on the opposite side, instead of pursuing the words of the allegations, which it denies.
Generalia specialibus non derogant
A Latin maxim meaning "general things do not derogate from special things". The maxim expresses a rule of construction of statutes and international conventions, whereby their general provisions are held not to qualify their particular provisions.
Geneva conventions
The Geneva Conventions on the High Seas, on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, on the Continental Shelf and on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, adopted at Geneva on April 29, 1958.
Gens
Gentleman
In the English law, according to Sir Edward Coke, is one who bears a coat of armor. In the United States, this word is unknown to the law, but in many places it is applied, by courtesy, to all men.
Gentlewoman
This word is unknown to the law in the United States, and is but little used. In England. it was, formerly, a good addition of the state or degree of a woman.
Genus
It denotes the number of beings, or objects, which agree in certain general properties, common to them all, so that genus is, in fact, only an abstract idea, expressed by some general name or term; or rather a name or term, to signify what is called au abstract idea. Thus, goods is the generic name, and includes, generally, all personal property; but this word may be restrained, particularly in bequests to such goods as are of the same kind as those previously enumerated.
Geographic area of chargeability
Any one of five regions -Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Near East and South Asia, and the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe--into which the world is divided for the initial admission of refugees to the United States. Annual consultations between the Executive Branch and the Congress determine the ceiling on the number of refugees who can be admitted to the United States from each area. Beginning in fiscal year 1987, an unallocated reserve was incorporated into the admission ceilings.
German
Relations, germanus. Whole or entire, as respects genealogy or descent; thus, "brother-german," denotes one who is brother both by the father and mother's side cousins-germane" those in the first and nearest degree, children of brothers or sisters.
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