Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...court's latest decision also brought into sharp question the constitutionality of the McCarran anti-subversive act, which Communists are currently defying. Forcing a person to register as a Communist might also conceivably be held as an infringement of his rights under the Fifth Amendment...
...indignant public statement they charged that many of the victims had no trials and had been shot without the consent of President Syngman Rhee or other civil officials. The clergymen appealed to the U.N. Commission in Korea to prevent any more "kangaroo court" executions...
Britain's highest court last week put an end to four years of legal wrangling, ruled that a man whose wife had a normal baby 360 days after he last saw her is entitled to a divorce on grounds of adultery. By a four-to-one majority the Law Lords of the House of Lords granted a decree to R.A.F. Veteran Charles Preston Jones. His wife gave birth on Aug. 13, 1946. Jones proved that he had not visited her since Aug. 18, 1945. Her claim that the baby was his was upheld by a lower court. The Lords...
Early this month, the Singapore Supreme Court ruled that Bertha, Dutch by nationality and Roman Catholic by baptism, should be returned to her parents. By British law, she was under the age of consent and therefore her marriage to Mansur was annulled. The girl bride wept over the verdict. "I am a Moslem," she wailed. "I don't want to go to Christian parents." She turned to Che Aminah. "Mother, what can I do?" The Malay woman fainted...
...expected, the defendants declared they would take their case "if necessary to the highest court in the land." Meanwhile, Superintendent Jansen had been reinforced in his right to ask questions, and would continue to do so whenever he thought it necessary...