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    convicted. In the latter 2010s, a movement has emerged to repeal the exception clause from both the federal and state constitutions. Neither slavery nor...
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    usually the case, there have been occasional exceptions. The Supreme Court has interpreted the Qualifications Clause as an exclusive list of qualifications...
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  • of the recommendations of the Task Force, for the repeal of the Penal exception clause from the state constitution's ban on slavery and involuntary servitude...
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  • environmental pollution and human trafficking. Like Indian Penal Code, the BNS retains the marital rape exception. It retains the value laden phrase ‘outraging the...
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    exceptions, and safeguard clauses. A "Subject to a builder's inspection to purchaser's full satisfaction" clause is one example of an escape clause....
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    The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code of the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence. It remained in force...
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    Richmond introduced an amendment in the 116th Congress to repeal the penal exception clause from the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting unfree labor from being...
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    Amendment to states—a process known as incorporation—through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the...
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    compensate the injured party, in which case it is referred to as a penal or penalty clause. One reason for this is that the enforcement of the term would...
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  • Turkey. Production of pornography is legal in Turkey. However, the Turkish Penal Code imposes some restrictions. In addition to prohibiting child pornography...
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    Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, which created a statutory exception to privity, providing, in certain circumstances, third parties the right...
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    specified by § 206 of the penal code. (The term unmündig is specified in § 74 of the penal code.) § 206 (4) defines a close-in-age exception, lowering the age...
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    to 1945. The clause, in its original form, banned Jews from entering Norway, and also forbade Jesuits and monastic orders. An exception was made for so-called...
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  • already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country." However, it does not apply to prosecutions by...
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    disabilities. Many such abuses were given cover by the Amendment's penal labor exception. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as...
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  • under the declaration against interest exception to the hearsay rule is often limited by the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. A declaration...
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    document has not been signed, any exception clause which it contains will only be incorporated if the party relying on the clause (the 'proferens') can show...
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  • 338 of the Indian Penal Code for "causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others". Under an exception clause in Section 375 of...
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    into force on 1 June 2025. The penal law prohibits abortion without any explicit exception, but it exempts from penal liability actions done by necessity...
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    (Argentine Penal Code, Article 120). Charges can be brought only after a complaint by the minor, their parent or guardian – (Argentine Penal Code Article...
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    public interest, though a common exception to this trend exists for experimental procedures. Chart of exculpatory clause laws for all 50 U.S. states (begins...
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  • Crawford v. Washington (category Confrontation Clause case law)
    are excluded as hearsay. But Washington invoked a hearsay exception for statements against penal interest. The defense counsel objected to the admission...
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  • Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta read down Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to hold that sexual intercourse by a man...
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  • Declaration includes a prohibition on retrospectively holding anyone guilty of a penal offence that was not an offence at the time it was committed. The Australian...
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    Consideration (redirect from Bonus clause)
    exclusive rights to the movie script for at least one year. A bonus clause is a clause in a contract that rewards the contractor for doing more than the...
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    The Disciplinary and Penal Code (German: Lagerordnung), also known as the Punishment Catalogue (Strafkatalog), was a set of regulations for prisoners...
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    Penalties in English law (category Contract clauses)
    against penalty clauses in contracts. The law originated in the fifteenth century in relation to "defeasible bonds" (sometimes called penal bonds) which...
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    A hell or high water clause is a clause in a contract, usually a lease, which provides that the payments must continue irrespective of any difficulties...
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    Exclusion clause Efficient breach Deviation Fundamental breach Remedies Specific performance3 Money damages Liquidated, stipulated, or penal damages3 Rescission...
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    Homosexuality is illegal (penal code 14.74 Voluntary Sodomy). 14.75 Corruption of Minors specifies a 5-year "close in age" exception for sexual intercourse...
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