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natural law : a body of law or a specific principle of law that is held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law NOTE: While natural law, based on a notion of timeless order, does not receive as much credence as it did formerly, it was an important influence on the enumeration of natural rights by Thomas Jefferson and others. ...

Credent

Believing giving credence credulous...

Disbelief

The act of disbelieving a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion assertion or doctrine is not true refusal of assent credit or credence denial of belief...

Disbelieve

Not to believe to refuse belief or credence to to hold not to be true or actual...

Prothesis

A credence table so called by the Eastern or Greek Church...

Ambassador

Ambassador [legatus, Lat.], a representative minister sent by one sovereign power to another, with authority conferred on him by letters of credence to treat on affairs of state, 4 Inst. 153. Ambassadors are either ordinary, who reside in the place whither they are sent; or extraordinary, who are employed upon special matters. An ambassador during the period of his residence here is entirely exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts of this country, Magdalena Steam Navigation Co. v. Martin, (1859) 2 E&E 94; Musurus Bey v. Godban, 1894 (2) QB 352). Ambassadors and their domestic servants are protected from civil arrest and their goods from seizure under distress or execution by the (English) Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1708 (7 Anne, c. 12), which is declaratory of the Common Law, but imposes severe penalties, including corporal punishment, on persons violating its provisions. The King can veto the appointment of an ambassador, and this constitutional right was last exercised by William ...

In judicio non creditur nisi juratis

In judicio non creditur nisi juratis [Lat.], in judicial procedure there is no credit, save to things sworn.In judicio non creditur nisi juratis. Cro. Car. 54.--(In a trial credence is given only to those who are sworn.) For admission of unsworn evidence of a child, however, in case of cruelty, etc., to child, see (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 38. See CHILDREN (Evidence)....

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