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Crime & Law Enforcement

Cite Find crime data and statistics, “Ten Most Wanted” list, incarceration, capital punishment, women on death row, and more. Crime DataLaw EnforcementIncarceration and…

Jude Law Biography

Jude LawactorBorn: 12/29/1972Birthplace: London, England Beguiling British actor who has played the bad boy in several films, Law's performance is often considered the best part of his early films,…

New Laws

(Encyclopedia) New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de.

Kepler's laws

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Schematic representation of Kepler's second law: The areas ABF and A′B′F′ are equal and are swept out in equal intervals of time by a planet orbiting around the sun (at F).…

Kirchhoff's laws

(Encyclopedia) Kirchhoff's laws [for Gustav R. Kirchhoff], pair of laws stating general restrictions on the current and voltage in an electric circuit. The first of these states that at any given…

liquor laws

(Encyclopedia) liquor laws, legislation designed to restrict, regulate, or totally abolish the manufacture, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages. The passage of liquor laws has been prompted chiefly…

Penal Laws

(Encyclopedia) Penal Laws, in English and Irish history, term generally applied to the body of discriminatory and oppressive legislation directed chiefly against Roman Catholics but also against…

sunset laws

(Encyclopedia) sunset laws, statutes that deal with the tendency of government agencies and programs to be self-perpetuating by providing for their periodic review.

sunshine laws

(Encyclopedia) sunshine laws: see Freedom of Information Act.

conservation laws

(Encyclopedia) conservation laws, in physics, basic laws that together determine which processes can or cannot occur in nature; each law maintains that the total value of the quantity governed by…