Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
5261 Cultural Issues Law Civil suit
1776 Cultural Issues Law Clue
4361 Cultural Issues Law Compensation
4036 Cultural Issues Law Constitutional right to remain silent
4549 Cultural Issues Law Contract
4718 Cultural Issues Law Conviction
2815 Cultural Issues Law Corruption
4739 Cultural Issues Law County attorney
4037 Cultural Issues Law Criminal assault
4038 Cultural Issues Law Criminal assault and battery
1244 Cultural Issues Law Custody
660 Cultural Issues Law Evidence
808 Cultural Issues Law Execution
1157 Cultural Issues Law Eye for an eye

I opted for the more familiar phrase over "Talionic code of justice" to facilitate searching. JW
1772 Cultural Issues Law Eyewitness
5555 Cultural Issues Law Federal vs state crime
1983 Cultural Issues Law Firearms

Any formal or informal practices regarding firearms that are functionally law, whether these practices are recognized in a court or not. For example, the assumption that no one in Maury Priest's workplace would bring a gun in the Reivers or the shop owner who refuses to sells Mink ammunition in the Mansion. This definition also includes legal violations of laws surrounding firearms. JB
3018 Cultural Issues Law Frontier justice
1151 Cultural Issues Law Grand jury
5328 Cultural Issues Law Guardianship
1156 Cultural Issues Law Hearing
1163 Cultural Issues Law Hung jury
2944 Cultural Issues Law Incarceration

There are already a number of similar words in the keyword list that denote some type of legal confinement. This one is meant to indicate the general concept of going to jail, not the direct action of someone being sent to jail or prison. JB
1152 Cultural Issues Law Indictment
2038 Cultural Issues Law Informal arrangement

Whenever there is an arrangement between two or multiple parties that is not strictly legal, but is adhered to as law. For example, Judge Steven's arrangement with Maury Priest over the actions of Ludus and Boon in the Reivers. This won't hold up in a court of law, but is adhered to by both parties. J. Burgers
681 Cultural Issues Law Inheritance
4133 Cultural Issues Law Inheritance refusal
4796 Cultural Issues Law Inquest
5345 Cultural Issues Law Insanity plea
4757 Cultural Issues Law Investigation
1748 Cultural Issues Law Jury
652 Cultural Issues Law Justice of the Peace
3999 Cultural Issues Law Kidnapping
1132 Cultural Issues Law Law school
4543 Cultural Issues Law Lawsuit
4551 Cultural Issues Law Lawyers
5547 Cultural Issues Law Legal advice
1249 Cultural Issues Law Legal authority
1232 Cultural Issues Law Legal document
4049 Cultural Issues Law Legal fine
1011 Cultural Issues Law Legal issue
5298 Cultural Issues Law Legal ownership
4738 Cultural Issues Law Making a case
847 Cultural Issues Law Marshal
1762 Cultural Issues Law Miscarriage of justice
874 Cultural Issues Law Missing person
542 Cultural Issues Law Mistrial
2277 Cultural Issues Law Motor vehicle

This keyword notes the creation and enforcement of motor vehicle laws. Notably the prohibition on automobiles by Colonel John Sartoris. JB
1771 Cultural Issues Law Pardon
5344 Cultural Issues Law Parole
4699 Cultural Issues Law Perjury
5199 Cultural Issues Law Plead guilty/not guilty
962 Cultural Issues Law Police
4750 Cultural Issues Law Probate
1148 Cultural Issues Law Property
4715 Cultural Issues Law Reformatory
1534 Cultural Issues Law Regulation
1171 Cultural Issues Law Retrial
904 Cultural Issues Law Revenue officer
804 Cultural Issues Law Sheriff
907 Cultural Issues Law Sheriff's deputy
1014 Cultural Issues Law Spousal privilege
4689 Cultural Issues Law Subpoena
4602 Cultural Issues Law Territory
574 Cultural Issues Law Testimony
4262 Cultural Issues Law Trespassing
511 Cultural Issues Law Trial
1974 Cultural Issues Law Wanted poster

Any paraphernalia used to publicly identify a possible criminal. The example used is from The Reivers, which refers to a "Bertillon chart or a police poster" (3). JB
1504 Cultural Issues Law Warrant
1048 Cultural Issues Law Wedding license
1009 Cultural Issues Law Witness
1758 Actions Legal Arraign
1405 Actions Legal Arrest
3393 Actions Legal Bailing out
3313 Actions Legal Bonding
3600 Actions Legal Calling police
2914 Actions Legal Charge/accuse
1145 Actions Legal Claim
1144 Actions Legal Confession
4057 Actions Legal Counsel
1133 Actions Legal Defending

Serving as a defense attorney. JW
1169 Actions Legal Deliberating
1170 Actions Legal Discharging jury
4063 Actions Legal Dismissing a case
3752 Actions Legal Divorce
4598 Actions Legal Exhumation order
4039 Actions Legal Handcuffing
3334 Actions Legal Hearing
1717 Actions Legal Locking up
1238 Actions Legal Marriage
4035 Actions Legal Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer
1766 Actions Legal Pardon
2979 Actions Legal Pronouncing sentence
1162 Actions Legal Recess
1679 Actions Legal Record keeping
4053 Actions Legal Release of prisoner
3813 Actions Legal Remarriage
4588 Actions Legal Standing guard
1158 Actions Legal Summation
5652 Actions Legal Testifying

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