#Legal Ruling

[scotianostra]

In a landmark ruling on January 15th 1778 Joseph Knight, won a landmark case freeing him from slavery in Scotland.

Joseph Knight was  born in Africa, and taken as a slave to Jamaica.  He was sold to a Scottish landowner. He was taken to Scotland in 1769. Three years later a ruling in England cast doubt on the legality of slavery under the common law. Assuming this applied to the rest of Britain he demanded wages from his owner, John Wedderburn of Ballendean, and ran away when this was refused.

When Wedderburn had him arrested, Knight brought a case before the justices of the peace court in Perth.

When the justices of the peace found in favour of Wedderburn, Knight appealed to the Sheriff of Perth, who found that “the state of slavery is not recognised by the laws of this kingdom, and is inconsistent with the principles thereof: That the regulations in Jamaica, concerning slaves, do not extend to this kingdom”.

In 1777 Wedderburn in turn appealed to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland’s supreme civil court, arguing that Knight still owed perpetual service, in the same manner as an indentured servant or an apprenticed artisan. The case was important enough that it was given a full panel of judges including Lord Kames the important legal and social historian.

The case for Knight was helped in preparation by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Their argument was that ‘no man is by nature the property of another”.

Since there was no proof that Knight had given up his natural freedom, he should be set free.

Lord Kames said “we sit here to enforce right not to enforce wrong” and the court emphatically rejected Wedderburn’s appeal, ruling that “the dominion assumed over this Negro, under the law of Jamaica, being unjust, could not be supported in this country to any extent: That, therefore, the defender had no right to the Negros’ service for any space of time, nor to send him out of the country against his consent: That the Negro was likewise protected under the act 1701, c.6. from being sent out of the country against his consent.”

In effect, slavery was not recognised by Scots law and runaway slaves (or perpetual servants) could be protected by the courts, if they wished to leave domestic service or were resisting attempts to return them to slavery in the colonies.

There is a novel based on Joseph Knight: Robertson, James (2004). Joseph Knight. Fourth Estate Ltd. ISBN 0-00-715025-3.

#scotland #scottish #history #africa #slavery #legal ruling

[pareidoliaonthemove]

A small glimmer of hope on the AI front:

#legal ruling #ai #link

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Milton Quintanilla | A federal judge ruled that an Indiana-based Catholic school is within its right to fire a former guidance counselor for being in a same-sex marriage. According to The Christian Post, former guidance counselor Shelly Fitzgerald sued Roncalli High School in 2019 after the school refused to renew her contract...

#religious liberty #Catholic High School allowed to dismiss LGBTQ+ staff members #legal ruling #Christian Headlines #christianheadlines.com

[thetaxguyin]

The Delhi High Court has shed light on the extended review period for Income-Tax (I-T) assessments

In a landmark ruling, the Delhi High Court has shed light on the extended review period for Income-Tax (I-T) assessments, offering clarity to taxpayers and practitioners alike. Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Girish Kathpalia emphasized that the 10-year review period applies only in cases where the estimated undisclosed income exceeds Rs 50 lakh. They clarified that in “normal cases,” no notice…

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#Assessing Officer #Delhi High Court #Finance Act 2022 #High Court petition #income concealment #Legal Proceedings #Legal Ruling #objection filing #reassessment process #Section 148 #tax evasion cases #tax experts #tax law #Taxpayer Rights

[quillsword]

#Supreme Court #US Constitution #Rule of Law #Trump #Ballot #Election #Legal Ruling #Democracy #Constitutional Law #Judicial Decision

[legalattorneyblog]

Federal High Court Orders CBN to Pay German ₦63.7m, $10,000 for Unlawful Detention.

An absolute garnishee order is a court directive that requires a third party, typically a financial institution, to release funds held on behalf of a judgment debtor to satisfy a judgment debt owed to a judgment creditor. In the context of legal proceedings, it serves as a means of enforcing a court judgment by compelling the garnishee (the third party holding the funds) to pay the specified…

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#Central Bank of Nigeria #COMPENSATION #ECOWAS Court #Enforcement #FEDERAL HIGH COURT #German #Illegal Detention #JUDGMENT #Justice Inyang Ekwo #Legal Ruling #NIGERIAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE

[countyfucker]

A WIN FOR LABOR

#news #labor politics #american politics #legal ruling #video #Youtube

[adriles]

Wow some of you are really mad at me. Probably b/c i maimed & killed your friends, brothers, fathers, and sons on the field of battle. Thats ok though. Im fated to die soon

#book 22 #book 24 #greatest hits #hello?? #why this #new rule for this post #if you tag anyone but achilles #with the exception of cu chulainn or wei wuxian. cause. i mean yeah #i am legally allowed to come to ur house and kill u #i will also make exception for deep myth pulls #if they are cool enough #but yeah. none of u people know what being doomed to die means anymore #macbeth is fine too i guess #grendel addition. im kissing u with great passion. u r so right

[bet-on-me-13]

Two-Face is a Liminal

So! Harvey Dent was splashed in the face with pure Acid, strong enough to instantly melt and burn off half of his Face.

He definitely nearly died from that, if not from the Blood Loss then from the Infections and Chemical Poisoning that you would expect. Now, since he didn't actually die he didn't become a Ghost, but multiple factors led to Harvey becoming a Liminal.

He was born in Gotham, a city with a very high Ecto Level, his attack was one filled with many extremely powerful emotions, and near death experiences tend to draw Ectoplasm to the location.

It makes sense doesn't it?

The sudden Split Personality, that's his Traumatized Ghost Side and his Barely hanging oon Human Side conflicting. It got so bad he developed DID.

His Obsession with the Coin is his Literal Ghostly Obsession. In Life he was always preaching about how "Crime always pays, its fate" so now he relies on Fate to make decisions.

Harvey Dent is a Liminal Human, parading around as a Villain in Gotham.

Imagine his surprise when Danny shows up at his Base, asking for a Lawyer? Apparently he needs help with a Legal Case of some sort.

What are these, Anti Ecto Acts?

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Harvey Dent is a Liminal #Two Face is a Liminal #Danny needs help with a Court Case #He decided that any big act of rebellion might just go wrong for him #So he is going to go about this in the entirely legal way #Danny is playing by their rules now #And he needs help #So he goes to find the best Liminal Lawyer he knows of #Harvey Dent didn't know he was a Liminal #But at least now he and Two Face can communicate on a more level playing field #Two Face is the Liminal Half that lacks human emotion #He didn't really know that what he was doing was wrong and was confused as to why Harvey was so against it

[reasonsforhope]

Btw, if you really just Need A Job (tm)

I'd really recommend looking into care work

Care work here is specifically being a home care aid, a care aid or assistant at any kind of residential home.

This for usually for elderly or disabled adults - and those are the ones that tend to be most entry level, from what I've seen, but also for mental health, addiction recovery etc. (With the obvious caveat that some of these jobs will be more emotionally intense than others)

I'm so serious about this guys. I was applying to jobs in care work for just three weeks, starting a couple days before Christmas, and in that time I got three interviews, two jobs offers, and five additional interview requests

Care work needs people CONSTANTLY

because it's a huge sector but very hard for them to keep staff long-term. Partly because it can be high burn-out, and there's definitely toxic places out there you should watch out for. And partly because a lot of people think care work is beneath them

AND they ACTUALLY MEAN IT when they say they're entry level. Because it's so hard for them to get staff that a lot of them will advertise super aggressively that they will train you themselves. A lot of them will straight up pay for your CPR and First Aid certifications, once they hire you, too (and you can get a leg up on applications by getting a CPR/First Aid certification for like. $30 to $80, at least in the US). They also accept experience taking care of elderly/disabled/etc. family members as real experience

Like, obviously don't do it if you hate taking care of people, but if you're open to it, it's probably by far your best shot of getting hired rn, statistically

(eta: Genuinely disclaimer that it can be super taxing emotionally and large portions of the industry are indeed fucked, and def don't take a job in this field if you're gonna be an asshole to the people you're caring for, but sometimes you just need whatever job you can get.)

Seriously, though, the first time I applied for a care work job (in October 2023, yes short timeline, like I said there's some toxic workplaces etc. out there), I applied to like ten or fifteen jobs over the course of a week or so. Within three weeks, I was working.

(And they did provide all of the training, fwiw)

If you need a job and no one is hiring, seriously consider looking into it

#not news #advice #adulting #jobs #job search #layoffs #me #care workers #care work #insert legal disclaimer about I can promise no results here lol but I wanted to share the tip #admittedly your chances are a lot higher if you're comfortable doing stuff like changing an adult's diaper #a thing which very many people get really unnecessarily snobby about #you don't have to be comfortable doing so yourself if you just aren't #that's fair enough considering some of the things involved #but don't be an ableist jerk about it to people who wear one #but yeah there are jobs where nothing like that is necessary so don't rule it out if you're not comfortable #job loss #jobsearch #unemployed #career advice #jobseekers #employment #fuck capitalism #cost of living crisis

[fuckmeyer]

if smeyer wasn't a coward vamp!Bella would have immediately eaten her daughter Rensesmem whole-hog like Saturn Devouring His Son

#twilight #twilight renaissance #bella swan #the twilight saga #breaking dawn #smeyer wanted to model all her books off of classic literature: romeo & juliet - wuthering heights - pride & prejudice #AMATEUR HOUR #HEY SMEYER I GOT A FUCKIN STORY TO MODEL YOUR TWILIGHT FANFICTION AFTER #BREAKING DAWN BOOK ONE: Bella fucks Edward for his power & breaks his stone dick in the process - & lo! Ravioli is born in the carnage! #Bella becomes a vamp. she takes over the Cullen coven AND the Volturi bc honestly fuck everyone here only Bella is Cool and Right #oh and vamp hybrids are now legal so vamps start gettin it on. hybrids everywhere. humans who? welcome to the Golden Age baybeeee #BD BOOK 2: Alice comes to Queen Bella with a vision: 'lmao bestie the prophecy says ur getting ur shit smacked' #oh_fuck.avi #Bella begins DEVOURING ALL THE CULLENS INCLUDING RAVIOLI so they can't fulfill the prophecy #vampire fluid contains 11 secret herbs & spices so it's lip-smackin finger-lickin good #omg but ONE vampire was hidden away........ gasp #surprise bitch! it's Ravioli! #turns out Bella mistook Ravioli for LITERAL Ravioli (Chef Boyardee Beefaroni to be exact) #Raviolo comes back and makes Bella throw up! bleh! the Cullens (& Beefaroni) are freed! #together with Benjamin Ravioli now rules over the Cullens and the vamp world #Bella is imprisoned #FUCK Bella #FUCK this story #still a better one than BD tho #the end

[tending-the-hearth]

thinking about how canonically the pevensie siblings are 13, 12, 10, and 8 in "the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe"

thinking about how lucy needed a stool to be able to get up onto her throne, how peter's sword is a little too large for him, how susan's bow is a little too difficult for her to pull back, how edmund's shield nearly covers his entire body.

thinking about the pevensie siblings and their first few months in narnia, getting to know their new people, and half the narnians sitting there horrified because WHAT have these literal babies been through to give them such traumatized, old eyes, and the other half of the narnians are preparing to adopt them, no it doesn't matter that they're the rules, they're children who are being put in charge of too many things, and if peter looks at the old man council long enough he's going to cry, so someone needs to give him paternal support while aslan is off doing Lion Jesus Stuff™️ and whoops oreius is being nice and encouraging and now he's adopted his kings and queens they're his kids now he doesn't make the rules.

just the narnians and the pevensies being thrown into it together, and just as the pevensies will do anything to protect their new kingdom, the narnians will do anything to protect their rules, because let's be honest, these children have no sense of self-preservation, and are far too overprotective of each other and their people to take into account their own safety, so a lot of battles it's just one of the pevensie siblings running headfirst into danger with oreius running after them because his kids are feral and don't know proper royalty manners and won't threatening old kings from different countries because they're being assholes and the last time one of them tried undermining the queens susan called him a self-righteous asshole and lucy tried to stab him SOMEONE help him corral his children please

#this started off angsty but now i'm giggling #oreius didn't want to adopt the rulers they kind of just... attached to him #and who is he to oppose his kings and queens when lucy gives him her puppy eyes and edmund looks so sad #and peter just needs fatherly advice and susan looks like she could use a good dad hug #he's their adoptive father they make the rules #oreius is trying his best but his four kids are going through puberty and have bonded with every narnian #and it's not like he's opposing lucy's desire to stab rulers who act like they're better than them #but he can't legally encourage regicide #oreius and tumnus trying to corral the pevensies #meanwhile peter's challenging every ruler who tries to make comments about his sisters to a fistfight #edmund's conning the rulers who peter isn't fighting into handing over their kingdom's #susan's verbally destroying half their enemies #and lucy's running around making pacts with nature spirits to haunt the other half of their enemies #i love that canonically lucy is the most feral of the pevensie kids #chronicles of narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #peter pevensie #lucy pevensie #susan pevensie #edmund pevensie #oreius

[fump-2]

rule

#196 #196 campfire #r196 #r/196 #rule #for legal reasons i do not condone murder #these are from last year and it happened again #supreme court

[quillsword]

9 - 0 ! The Constitution WINS!

The United States Supreme Court just handed down a rare unanimous and per curiam decision in the Colorado case attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in which the court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court. Fancy words for the Supreme Court smacked the Colorado Supreme Court hard. Not only will Trump be on the ballot, the Court in no uncertain terms told Colorado and the rest of the…

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#Ballot #Constitutional Law #Democracy #election #Judicial Decision #Legal Ruling #Rule of Law #Supreme Court #Trump #US Constitution

[gimmethemprimals]

I was so caught up in a scenario in which every single FR player is lgbtq+ that I forgot a world where Flight Rising players can be homophobic

[If you are cishet and you come under this post going “well I play FR and I’m not apart of the lgbt-” I will fucking eat you]

#flight rising #fr #homophobia mention #i bring this up a lot but this reminds me of the one person who tried making a post in the forums to connect with other straight players #and in a thread about the laws put in place in player's clans this person also put that it was a rule that you had to be straight #like their dragons legally had to be straight #yeah i think about that person a lot

[merverelli]

dec 2023 - jan 2019 - sept 2017

its a redraw of a redraw!

(psst: here's a speedpaint if you're interested! https://youtu.be/9nn73oxU7eg)

#antisepticeye #jacksepticeye #septicart #gone back to my roots: smashing one interest into the other #ngl i was always scared of doing a second redraw of the 2019 art in case there was no difference between that one or the new one LMFAO #i basically dumped everything major that happened into the desc of the speedpaint so heres sparknotes version: #i graduated uni a second time lmfao #i got a temp contract job that fuckin ruled and i miss it #so now hopefully i can do more art (this is not a legally binding promise sadly) #thanks for sticking around! love u #just like art