Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development...

The legal profession has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome. Although in Greece it was forbidden to take payment for pleading the cause of another...

In 1931 the first supreme court was established. Though the contemporary legal system and laws have no direct links to traditional Chinese law, their impact...

published orally in open court. The witnesses must be idonei, or free from legal disability. For instance, women and slaves were not good witnesses. The...

The history of the American legal profession covers the work, training, and professional activities of lawyers from the colonial era to the present. Lawyers...

The legal history of France is commonly divided into three periods: that of the old French law (Ancien Droit), that of the Revolutionary or intermediary...

Malaysian legal history has been determined by events spanning a period of some six hundred years. Of these, three major periods were largely responsible...

In the United States, increased restrictions and labeling of cannabis (legal term marijuana or marihuana) as a poison began in many states from 1906 onward...

Western law comprises the legal traditions of Western culture, with roots in Roman law and canon law. As Western culture shares a Graeco-Roman Classical...

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