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Arson
Arson is the willful or malicious destruction of property by fire or explosion, once limited at common law to burning another's dwelling. Covers statutory definitions, penalties in England, Wales, and the US, fire investigation under NFPA 921, and wrongful-conviction reforms.
Artemis Accords
Non-binding U.S.-led principles for civil lunar and deep-space exploration, signed October 13, 2020 by the US and seven nations; grounded in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, covering resources, safety zones, and heritage; now 76 signatories.
Arthur J. Schwab
Arthur J. Schwab (born 1946) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Arthur Leigh Allen
Arthur Leigh Allen was a Vallejo schoolteacher and convicted child molester, the only suspect police publicly named in the Zodiac Killer case. Fingerprints, handwriting, and a 2002 partial DNA test all failed to match him; he died in 1992 denying guilt.
Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen (1874-1960), ninth prime minister of Canada, Conservative leader 1920-26 and briefly 1941; served July 1920-December 1921 and June-September 1926, famed as the House of Commons' finest debater.
Arthur R. Jones
Arthur Roberts Jones is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2026, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Arthur R. Randolph
Arthur R. Randolph, full name Arthur Raymond Randolph, is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Arthur Shawcross
Arthur Shawcross, the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered two children in Watertown, New York in 1972 and, after a controversial 1987 parole, 11 women in Rochester before his 1990 conviction; he died in prison in 2008.
Article 102 of the United Nations Charter
Article 102 of the United Nations Charter requires every member state to register its treaties with the UN Secretariat, and bars invoking unregistered treaties before UN organs.
Article 13
Article 13 names distinct provisions in many constitutions and rights documents: UDHR movement rights, ECHR effective remedy, Indian voiding of rights-inconsistent laws, Irish presidential functions, and unrelated national articles.
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, often called the "war guilt clause", made Germany accept responsibility for the war and served as the legal basis for reparations.
Article 35A of the Constitution of India
Article 35A of the Constitution of India, added by the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 1954 under Article 370, empowered the J&K legislature to define permanent residents and grant them special rights, shielding such laws from fundamental-rights challenge; it was superseded in 2019.
Article Five of the United States Constitution
Article Five of the United States Constitution, the amendment provision, sets two proposal routes (two-thirds of Congress or a convention on two-thirds of state applications) and ratification by three-fourths of the states; the convention route has never been used.
Article Four of the United States Constitution
Article IV of the U.S. Constitution governs state-to-state and state-federal relations: full faith and credit, privileges and immunities, extradition, the obsolete Fugitive Slave Clause, admission of new states, the Property Clause, and the Guarantee Clause.
Article I federal judicial appointees
Article I federal judicial appointees are judges on legislative tribunals created by Congress. These appointments differ from Article III judges who hold constitutional life tenure.
Article Six of the United States Constitution
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, the "Supreme Law" article, contains three clauses: the Debts and Engagements Clause honoring Confederation-era obligations, the Supremacy Clause making federal law supreme over state law, and the oath clause barring religious tests for office.
Article Three of the United States Constitution
Article III of the U.S. Constitution establishes the federal judiciary: one supreme Court, optional inferior courts, life-tenured judges with protected salaries, and nine categories of cases and controversies, implemented by the Judiciary Act of 1789.
Articles of association
Articles of association are a UK company's internal rulebook, binding on the company and members under the Companies Act 2006, with prescribed model articles as defaults and Table A as the historical format.
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, adopted November 15, 1777 and effective March 1, 1781 after Maryland's ratification; a league of 13 sovereign states with a one-vote-per-state Congress that could not tax or regulate commerce, replaced by the 1787 Constitution.
Arturo Guzmán Decena
Arturo Guzmán Decena (Z-1, 1976–2002) was a Mexican Army GAFE lieutenant who deserted in 1997 to Osiel Cárdenas' Gulf Cartel, recruited about 30 special-forces deserters, and founded Los Zetas; he died in a 2002 Matamoros shootout.
Arun Gawli (अरुण गुलाब गवळी)
Arun Gawli (Arun Gulab Gawli, अरुण गुलाब गवळी), alias Daddy, is a Mumbai gangster-turned-politician of Dagdi Chawl, Byculla, who feuded with Dawood Ibrahim, founded the Akhil Bharatiya Sena, served as MLA, and was convicted in the 2007 Jamsandekar murder before 2025 bail release.
Arun S. Subramanian
Arun S. Subramanian is an American district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Biden in 2023.
Aryan Brotherhood
Aryan Brotherhood (AB, "the Brand"): white supremacist prison gang formed in California prisons in the 1960s, now also in the federal system; RICO prosecutions, drug trafficking, murder-for-hire; distinct from Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), white supremacist prison gang and organized crime group founded in the early 1980s in the Texas prison system; unrelated to the California Aryan Brotherhood; run by five generals; dismantled by federal racketeering prosecutions in 2012-2014 and 2017.
ASEAN Charter
ASEAN Charter: constituent treaty of ASEAN, adopted 20 November 2007 in Singapore, in force 15 December 2008; confers legal personality, sets Summit, Coordinating and Community Councils, consensus rule, and AICHR; Timor-Leste acceded 2025.
ASEAN Declaration
ASEAN Declaration, or Bangkok Declaration, signed 8 August 1967 in Bangkok by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand; the non-binding founding document establishing ASEAN and its aims.
Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz
Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz (أشهب بن عبد العزيز) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist, one of Malik ibn Anas's great Egyptian students, who died in 204 AH.
Ashley Smith inquest
The Ashley Smith inquest was an Ontario coroner's inquest (2012-2013, Dr. John Carlisle) into the 2007 death of a 19-year-old woman in segregation at Grand Valley Institution; the jury ruled homicide and issued 104 recommendations to the Correctional Service of Canada.
Ashok Mahto gang
Ashok Mahto gang (अशोक महतो गैंग), a Kurmi-led Bihar organised crime group active 1990–2006 in Sheikhpura, Nawada, and Lakhisarai, fought a caste gang war with Akhilesh Singh over sand mining and extortion; leader convicted only in a jailbreak case, released 2023.
Asian Boyz
Asian Boyz (ABZ, ABZ Crips) is a Southeast Asian American street gang based in California, one of the largest Asian street gangs in the United States.