Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Edmunds-Tucker Act

An 1882 federal law

Omnes actiones in mundo infra certa tempora habent limitationem

All actions in the world are limited within certain periods.

Ratio et auctoritas duo clarissima mundi lumina

Reason and authority are the two brightest lights in the world.

Ubi non est lex, ibi non est transgressio quoad mundum

Where there is not law, there is not transgression, as far as this world is concerned.

enacted to punish polygamy. 48 USCA § 1480a. - Sometimes shortened to Edmunds Act. educational expense.

See EXPENSE

mund

[Old English "hand"] Hist. A right to protection or guardianship; a guardian. Cf. MANUS (1). "Once more we see prerogatival rights growing, while feudal claims fall into the background; and in the case of lunacy we see a guardianship, a round, which is not profitable to the guardian, and this at present is a novel and noteworthy thing." 1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward 1481 (2d ed. 1898).