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Dehradun, November 24: Two women were killed and 14 others injured when a terrace of a house caved in during the felicitation ceremony of the 'doli' of Lord Madh Maheswar in Dangwadi village of Ukhimath in Rudraprayag district, the police said today.
unknown title 2009
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His bride was carried on a special litter called a doli.
As diversity grows, Md. catering hall becomes a 'United Nations for weddings' 2010
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Also, under fourteen, though an infant shall be prima facie adjudged to be doli incapax[,] ... if it appear to the court and jury[] that he was doli capax, and could discern between good and evil, he may be convicted and suffer death.
If the question is whether a life sentence for rape is "cruel and unusual" when imposed on a 13-year-old... Ann Althouse 2009
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Also, under fourteen, though an infant shall be prima facie adjudged to be doli incapax[,] ... if it appear to the court and jury[] that he was doli capax, and could discern between good and evil, he may be convicted and suffer death.
If the question is whether a life sentence for rape is "cruel and unusual" when imposed on a 13-year-old... Ann Althouse 2009
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The idea was echoed by Peter in his attack on the Petrobrusians. 34 Their lack of discretion, their inability to distinguish right from wrong, and their inability to deceive or defraud (doli non capaces) precluded infants from committing actual sins.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Penitential literature acknowledged that children could sin but were not necessarily aware of their crime, because they were unable to commit deceit (doli non capax).
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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As we have seen with accusations of ritual murder, one common definition of the child's nature, found in canon law, involves an ignorance of deceit (doli non capax).
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Crescunt tamen feminini doli, crudelitas, vitia et insatiabilis luxuria.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Then you were i n the doli, which again was covered by another cloth.
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Secede huc nunciam, si videtur, procul. ne arbitri dicta nostra arbitrari queant 220 neu permanet palam haec nostra fallacia. nam doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas, sed malum maxumum, si id palam provenit.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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