Portal:Law/Did you know/13

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|that the Prime Minister of Hyderabad Sir Kishen Pershad (pictured) passed the Mulki regulation which gave more preference to local citizens than Britishers in administrative posts of the state?

|that the Leges Henrici Primi (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?

|that English barrister Joseph Keble went to the Court of King's Bench every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a brief for a client?

|that the English case of Pepper v Hart, at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?

|that according to one theory, English secret trusts are entirely constructed by the courts?

|that St. Louis County police officers arrested engineers and announcers of KXLW because their tower violated local zoning laws?

|that two sections of the British 1973 Sale of Goods Act were completely identical?

|image=KishenPershad ca1915.jpeg

|caption=Kishen Pershad

|alt=Black and white photograph of a man in formal dress}}