Dictionary definition: Adams, John

Article: MP urges change in feudal law system
The Scotsman;  February 25, 1998 ;     507 words ...BRITAIN'S first wheelchair-bound MP is calling for changes to the feudal law system after she was forced to wait several months to get access to her new home. The Aberdeen South MP, Anne Begg, wants the ...

Article: After 450 years, Sark turns back on feudal law
The Independent - London;  April 10, 2008 ;     542 words ...For more than 450 years Sark stood alone as one of Europe's last bastions of feudal law, but yesterday marked the end of an era for the tiny Channel island as the UK Privy Council approved changes to its system of ...

Article: The World of Feudal Law Enforcement
Law & Order;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Law Enforcement is a calling more than a profession. Or at least it should be. However, some don't see it as such and this attitude diminishes us all. Some come to the job each day just as would a medieval serf doing the king's bidding. Strap on the belt and pull on the helmet to begin the day,

Article: Bill to end feudal law on property
The Scotsman;  October 7, 1999 ;     312 words ...A BILL to abolish Scotland's archaic feudal system of property ownership was introduced in parliament yesterday. Jim Wallace, the deputy first minister, said the system, which can cost ordinary householders hundreds of pounds for simple changes to their property, will be replaced by outright

Article: The Pakistani rape victim who exposed the brutal injustice of ...
The Independent - London;  March 8, 2007 ;     599 words ...IN THE NAME OF HONOUR By Mukhtar Mai with Marie-Therese Cuny; trans. Linda Coverdale VIRAGO, [pound]10.99. When community elders asked Mukhtaran Bibi to seek forgiveness from the powerful Mastoi family one evening in 2002 in a small Pakistani town, the illiterate divorcee had no idea of what was to

Encyclopedia entry: Boston Gazette, The
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      354 words ...Boston Gazette, The (1719–41), second newspaper in America, printed by James Franklin, became the organ of the conservative ...

Article: John Adams
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... Massachusetts political life. He contributed an important series of essays, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, to the Boston Gazette and prepared a series of anti-Stamp Act resolutions for the Braintree town meeting, which were widely ...