The Law Dictionary for Everyone
The term “spoils of war” refers to any profits or prizes collected by the U.S. as the result of winning a war or during some other such military activity. For example, spoils of war, or “prizes of war,” can be legitimate or illegal. A legitimate prize of war may be a piece of enemy property taken by a soldier either […]
Read moreThe term “ethnic cleansing” refers to the forced removal of a racial or ethnic group from an area either by murder or deportation. An example of ethnic cleansing is the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” wherein they detailed their plan to exterminate the entire Jewish race. Methods of carrying out ethnic cleansing include destroying people’s homes and businesses as a way to […]
Read moreFollowing is the case brief for Bond v. United States, 134 S. Ct. 2077 (2014) Case Summary of Bond v. United States: Petitioner Bond used chemicals to get revenge on her husband’s lover. She was prosecuted in federal court for violations of the Chemical Weapons Implementation Act, an Act implementing a global treaty on chemical weapons. On appeal, Bond argued […]
Read morePerfidy is a kind of deception wherein someone promises to do the right thing, but has every intention of breaking that promise later on. An example of perfidy, most commonly thought of in terms of war, is an enemy raising a flag as a symbol of truce, only to attack the opposing side as they come forward to meet. Perfidy […]
Read moreThe term ethnic cleansing refers to the removal of people who belong to a specific ethnic or religious group from a country, whether by forcefully displacing them, or by killing them. The goal of such actions is to establish an ethnically uniform country, or other geographic region. In addition to removing people, ethnic cleansing often involves removing any physical, cultural […]
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