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(f t´ m , fä´t m , f t ´m ) (KEY) , 616?–633?, daughter of Muhammad by his first wife, Khadija. Fatima was the wife of Ali, the mother of Hasan ...
(j h n´ n b n z k´ ) (KEY) , leader of the Pharisees of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, afterward founder of the Jewish ...
(z l ´k s) (KEY) , fl. c.650 B.C., Greek lawgiver of Locris, in Italy. According to tradition, his was the earliest codification of Greek law. Refere...
(m t´l nd) (KEY) , 1850–1906, English legal historian, educated at Cambridge. A thorough scholar, he founded the Selden Society for the publication...
1912–2000, American biochemist, b. Neisse, Germany (now Nysa, Poland). He became a U.S. citizen in 1944. Bloch was educated at Munich and at Columbi...
1422?–1481, English jurist. He became a sergeant-at-law, i.e., a barrister, in the Court of Common Pleas in 1453 and a judge in 1466. He is best kno...