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111contrainte par corps — /kontreynt par kor/ In French law, the civil process of arrest of the person, which is imposed upon vendors falsely representing their property to be unincumbered, or upon persons mortgaging property which they are aware does not belong to them,… …
112grades of crime — Classification according to felony, misdemeanor, or a mere offense or violation. Classification according to the measure of punishment meted out on conviction and the consequences to the person convicted, the severity of the punishment varying… …
113heinous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ utterly abhorrent and wicked: a heinous crime. DERIVATIVES heinously adverb heinousness noun. ORIGIN Old French haineus, from hair to hate …
114heinously — heinous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ utterly abhorrent and wicked: a heinous crime. DERIVATIVES heinously adverb heinousness noun. ORIGIN Old French haineus, from hair to hate …
115heinous — [hā′nəs] adj. [ME hainous < OFr hainös (Fr haineux) < haine, hatred < hair, to hate < Frank * hatjan, akin to Ger hassen, HATE] outrageously evil or wicked; abominable [a heinous crime] SYN. OUTRAGEOUS heinously adv. heinousness n …
116heinous — adj. (of a crime or criminal) utterly odious or wicked. Derivatives: heinously adv. heinousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF haiumlneus ult. f. haiumlr to hate f. Frank …
117inhumaneness — noun the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others • Syn: ↑inhumanity • Ant: ↑humaneness • Derivationally related forms: ↑inhuman (for: ↑inhumanity), ↑i …
118ḤANINA BAR ḤAMA — (early third century C.E.), Palestinian scholar of the transitional generation from tannaim to amoraim. Ḥanina was born in Babylon (TJ, Pe ah 7:4, 20a), and studied there under a scholar called Hamnuna (TJ, Ta an. 4:2, 68a). He went to Ereẓ… …
119PARADISE — PARADISE, the English derivative of Παράδειοος, Greek for garden in the Eden narrative of Genesis 2:4b–3:24 (see garden of eden ). One of the best known and most widely interpreted pericopes in the Bible, this narrative is at the same time one of …
120SIN — In biblical Hebrew there are about 20 different words which denote sin. It may be inferred, therefore, that the ancient Israelites had more concepts expressing various nuances of sin than Western thought and theology. A study of the biblical… …
