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The legality of abortion in the United States and the restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly, among the states or other jurisdictions
Abortion law in the United States by state
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In the United States, abortion is a divisive issue in politics and culture wars. Prior to the mid-19th century, English common law formed the basis of
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Laws that allow, prohibit, or regulate abortion
common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening—when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman
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Both the Guttmacher Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly report abortion statistics in the United States. They
Abortion statistics in the United States
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Country primarily in North America
overruled Roe v. Wade (1973), abortion in the United States is no longer federally protected but is subject to the laws of each state or territory. American
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list of organizations involved in the United States abortion-rights movement (also called the pro-choice movement). The movement consists of a variety
List of abortion-rights organizations in the United States
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The legal status of first-cousin marriage varies considerably from one U.S. state to another, ranging from legality in some states to a criminal offense
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Laws to protect doctors providing abortion
Abortion shield laws in the United States are enacted in states where abortion is legal to protect healthcare practitioners who provide abortion services
Abortion shield laws in the United States
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Movement in the United States opposing abortion
expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (See Abortion in the United States.) The anti-abortion movement
United States anti-abortion movement
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Support for women's right to elective abortion
key point in abortion rights in the United States was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down most state laws restricting
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In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide
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The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories
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Transgender rights in the United States vary considerably by jurisdiction. In recent decades, there was an expansion of federal, state, and local laws and rulings
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anti-abortion organizations in the United States. Individual organizations on this list may either be primarily oriented towards anti-abortion activism
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Abortion is the termination of human pregnancy, often performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in Roe v
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Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and
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The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)
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increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being
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, the first fifteen weeks LMP). Elective abortion is being gradually legalized at the state level due to rulings by the Supreme Court, and in the meantime
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Political party
The Democratic Party is a liberal political party in the United States, sitting on the center to center-left of the political spectrum. Founded in 1828
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popularly called a miscarriage. But in what follows the term abortion will always refer to an induced abortion. Abortion laws and their enforcement have fluctuated
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The early United States inherited sodomy laws which constitutionally outlawed a variety of sexual acts deemed illegal, illicit, unlawful, unnatural or
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"substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful
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Comparative overview of abortion law and practice
Abortion in Europe varies considerably between countries and territories due to differing national laws and policies on its legality, availability of
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in the United States grew rapidly in the form of urban tourism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1850s, tourism in the
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Constituent polity of the United States
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental
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2003 U.S. federal law banning partial-birth abortion
signed by President George W. Bush, is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination of pregnancy called "partial-birth abortion", referred
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the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States
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Laws regarding incest in the United States vary widely between jurisdictions regarding both the definition of the offense and penalties for its commission
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Law enforcement in the United States operates primarily through governmental police agencies. There are 17,985 police agencies in the United States which
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Pornography has existed since the origins of the United States, and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century. Advanced by technological development
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Joint Statement by the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice in 2012 stated: The United Nations Working
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a trend in the United States at the state and national levels in various indices and analyses, primarily during the Jim Crow era and in the 21st century
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criminalized by the trigger law which states that a person who performs an abortion may face two to five years of imprisonment. The ban allows exceptions for
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Laws of individual U.S. states, which are separate sovereigns
In the United States, state law refers to the law of each separate U.S. state. The fifty states are separate limited sovereigns, with their own state
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Abortion in the United Kingdom is regulated under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 in Great Britain and the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No.2) Regulations
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In the United States, it is typically understood to touch on federal and state constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, and common law.
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with 95 in 1982, 65 in 1992, and 33 in 2014. There were 17,710 legal abortions performed in the state in 2014 and 17,098 in 2015. By 1950, the state legislature
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defined by the United Nations as a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age occurs legally in the United States. The United States is
Child marriage in the United States
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Most seat belt laws in the United States are left to state law. The first seat belt law was a federal law, Title 49 of the United States Code, Chapter
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All types of U.S. capital cities
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2022 protests following the ruling of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
abortion rights and anti-abortion counter-protests began in the United States on May 2, 2022, following the leak of a draft majority opinion for the U
United States abortion protests (2022–present)
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Highest court of jurisdiction in the U.S.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction
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Abortion in Florida is generally illegal after six weeks from the woman's last menstrual period, This law came into effect in May 2024, being approved
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an abortion. Kansas becomes the first state in the United States to ban the dilation and evacuation procedure. The law was later struck down by the Kansas
Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other than voting)
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Important decisions of US courts
The following landmark court decisions changed the interpretation of existing law in the United States. Such a decision may settle the law in more than
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Abortion in the Philippines is constitutionally prohibited. The constitutional provision that "[The State] shall equally protect the life of the mother
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Fetal rights laws in US
Born alive laws in the United States are fetal rights laws that extend various criminal laws, such as homicide and assault, to cover unlawful death or
Born alive laws in the United States
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Abortion in Germany is illegal except to save the life of the mother but is nonpunishable during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy upon condition of mandatory
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In addition, abortion in Australia, and, to a certain extent, abortion in the United States, is regulated at state/territory level, and laws vary by region
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In the United States, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution grants each state and territory the power to regulate intoxicating liquors
List of alcohol laws of the United States
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2024 U.S. Supreme Court case on abortion
Moyle v. United States, 603 U.S. 324 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case about whether an Idaho abortion law conflicted with the federal Emergency
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In the United States, terrorism is defined as the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a climate of fear with the goal of intimidating
Terrorism in the United States
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In the United States, the minimum wage is set by federal U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. The first federal minimum wage was instituted
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Government revenue systems at all levels
The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll,
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Medically induced suicide with help from another person
In the United States, the term "assisted suicide" is typically used to describe what proponents refer to as "medical aid in dying" (MAID), in which a
Assisted suicide in the United States
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Laws against interracial marriage
In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial
Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States
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The United States has 50 states and 5 territories that each elect a governor to serve as chief executive of the state or territorial government. The sole
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recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time. Most available data underestimate crime before the 1930s (due
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accommodations. Many LGBTQ rights in the United States have been established by the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated state laws banning protected class
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data, in Israel, abortion rates in 2016 dropped steadily to 9 per 1,000 women of childbearing age, lower than England (16.2) and the United States (13.2)
Abortion_in_Israel
be one of the most supportive states for abortion rights in the country; a 2014 Pew Research poll found that 74% of residents supported the right to an
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Abortion rights referendum in Arizona
passed by the Arizona Legislature in 2022, banning abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy. Later that year, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled
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remained illegal in Canadian law for the next 100 years. In 1969, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 legalized therapeutic abortions, as long as a committee
Abortion_in_Canada
January 2023. Rigdon, Susan (1996). "Abortion law and practice in China: an overview with comparisons to the United States". Social Science & Medicine. 42
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Political backlash against LGBTQ people
The 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States is an ongoing political backlash from social conservatives and the "MAGA" faction of the Republican
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
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Incidents of American terrorism
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territories have passed laws intended to protect medical facilities that provide induced abortion: Tasmania: Tasmania was the first state or territory to enforce
Legal protection of access to abortion
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In the United States, child pornography is illegal under federal law and in all states and is punishable by up to life imprisonment and fines of up to
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Market for risk in the United States
Insurance in the United States refers to the market for risk in the United States, the world's largest insurance market by premium volume. According to
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was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of a 2016 anti-abortion law passed in the state of Indiana. Indiana's law sought
Timeline of disability rights in the United States
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Termination of a pregnancy
concluded that in the United States, some state-level anti-abortion laws are correlated with lower rates of abortion in that state. The analysis, however
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2026 custody litigation case
West and anti-abortion activists covering the case referred to the child as Gabriel. Paxton withdrew from the case in August 19, stating that his office
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The platform of the Republican Party of the United States has historically been based on American conservatism, contrasting with the modern liberalism
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clause law in the United States, which was enacted immediately following the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, applied only to abortion and sterilization
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Voter referendum
abortion, birth control, and In vitro fertilisation. The issue of abortion became a key issue in the concurrent 2024 United States Senate election in
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Absolutist anti-abortion philosophy
between abortion and slavery. Abortion abolitionists argue that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and—in regards to the United States—the Fourteenth
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movement under United States law is governed primarily by the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the United States Constitution which states, "The Citizens
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Constitution of a state in the United States of America
In the United States of America, each state has its own written constitution. The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI
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times "when the United States is in war." The U.S. was in a declared a state of war at the time of passage, the First World War. The law was repealed
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list of United States state legislatures. Each state in the United States has a legislature as part of its form of civil government. Most of the fundamental
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numbers. Abortion in the United States by state Diamant, Jeff; Mohamed, Besheer (25 March 2024). "What the data says about abortion in the U.S." Butts
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or that the child will suffer from a particularly severe illness recognized as incurable. The abortion law was liberalized by the Veil Act in 1975. It
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Head of state and government
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch
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The most popular given names by state in the United States vary. This is a list of the top 10 names in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia
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American lawyer and political activist
approval of mifepristone, stating that the medication is a danger to women. Hawley argued that "federal approval of the abortion pill went forward without
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Christian denominational views on the issue of abortion
in May 1973 in response to the US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision (which struck down most state laws in the United States restricting abortion in the
Christian_views_on_abortion
division in the world. The area of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and equivalent to 21% of the area of the contiguous United States. The second
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Supreme law of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first
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Proposed amendment to the Nevada Constitution
proposed constitutional amendment for the state of Nevada in the United States, that protected the right to an abortion until fetal viability, which is generally
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have been marked by discrimination in the history of the United States. Many forms of discrimination have come to be recognized in American society,
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The Catholic Church and abortion in the United States deals with the views and activities of the Catholic Church in the United States in relation to the
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again in 2017 and 2018. The 2018 bill was introduced in the legislature to ban abortion after 15 weeks. Around 2016, the state legislature passed a law that
Abortion_in_Missouri
of law on abortion, resulting from multiple laws passed over the decades. However, abortion proponents argue in ongoing litigation that these laws are
Abortion_in_Ohio
like the debate in the United States". Parliament passed and in 2011 President Dmitri Medvedev signed several restrictions on abortion into law to combat
Abortion_in_Russia
Abortion in Liechtenstein is illegal in most circumstances with limited exceptions in cases where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk, or serious
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List of landmark US court cases by year
page rearranges the Wikipedia page List of landmark court decisions in the United States into chronological order with cases grouped by Supreme Court justice
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Korea criminalized abortion in the 1953 Criminal Code in all circumstances. The law was amended by the Maternal and Child Health Law of 1973 to permit
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U.S. government holidays
Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays. On these days non-essential U.S. federal
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Female
Welsh
Welsh unisex name GLAW means "rain."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English
From the Hill
Surname or Lastname
Indian (northern states)
Indian (northern states) : Hindu name meaning ‘lamp’, from Sanskrit dīpa. It occurs commonly as the final element of compound personal names, e.g. in Kuldeep ‘light of the family’. Subsequently, it appears to have evolved into a surname.English : presumably from the adjective deep, either a topographic name for someone who lived in a deep valley, or perhaps a nickname for a ‘deep’, thoughtful person.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
Male
Chamoru
, jurisprudence; law.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly in the West Midlands)
English (chiefly in the West Midlands) : topographic name for someone who lived by an extensive (Middle English long) marsh or fen (Middle English more).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent post or stake, for example a boundary marker, from Middle English stake ‘post’, ‘stake’, or from the same word used as a nickname for a tall, thin person.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who made and drove in stakes, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary post for example, from a derivative of Middle English stake ‘post’, ‘stake’.
Surname or Lastname
English and North German
English and North German : nickname for someone who stammered, from Middle English, Middle Low German stamer ‘stammerer’.
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, UNITY means "oneness, unity."
Male
English
Middle English short form of English Lawrence, LAW means "of Laurentum."
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a slater, from an agent derivative of Middle English s(c)late ‘slate’.
Surname or Lastname
English (common in the Midlands)
English (common in the Midlands) : from Middle English cope ‘cloak’, ‘cape’ (from Old English cÄp reinforced by the Old Norse cognate kápa), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made cloaks or capes, or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive one. Compare Cape.
Surname or Lastname
English (very common in England, especially in the south Midlands, and in Wales) and German (especially northwestern Germany)
English (very common in England, especially in the south Midlands,
and in Wales) and German (especially northwestern Germany) : patronymic
from the personal name Adam. In the U.S. this form has absorbed
many patronymics and other derivatives of Adam in languages
other than English. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)This American family name was borne by two early presidents of the
United States, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams,
who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David,
Somerset, England. The younger of the two presidents, John Quincy
Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal
grandmother’s family name (see
Male
English
English unisex pet form of Latin Anastasia and Anastasius, both STACEY means "resurrection."
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Chinese, English
Roof Slater
Female
English
Feminine variant spelling of English unisex Stacey, STACEE means "resurrection."
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
Henry VI, Part 2' Lord Scales.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a stable, or an occupational name for someone employed in one, from Middle English stable, plural stables (via Old French from Latin stabulum, a derivative of stare ‘to stand’). In Middle English the term was used of the quarters occupied by cattle as well as those reserved for horses.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Compare Starnes.
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pl.
of Brother-in-law
n.
A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
n.
Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
a.
Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.
n.
The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
v. t.
United; joint; as, unite consent.
adv.
In an united manner.
imp. & p. p.
of Unite
pl.
of Son-in-law
pl.
of Daughter-in-law
n.
Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
n.
A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.
pl.
of Sister-in-law
n.
The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.
n.
In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
v.
Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
pl.
of Father-in-law
v.
Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
a.
Abiding the law; waiting for the operation of law for the enforcement of rights; also, abiding by the law; obedient to the law; as, law-abiding people.
n.
Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
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