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Draconian code
Draconian Dra*co"ni*an, a. Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. Draconian code, or Draconian laws, a code of laws made by Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of excessive rigor.

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- He replaced the system of oral law and blood feud by the Draconian constitution, a written code to be enforced only by a court of law. His laws were supposed...
- The Draconian constitution, or Draco's code, was a written law code enforced by Draco in Athens near the end of the 7th century BC; its composition started...
- message includes a Fibonacci sequence out of order and an anagram: "O, draconian devil! Oh, lame saint!" Langdon explains to Fache that the pentacle Saunière...
- fate and living by a well-defined code. In chain-gang films, Southern prisoners were often subjected to a draconian system of discipline in the blazing...
- the Daleks employ the Master to provoke a war between the human and Draconian galactic empires. The Third Doctor and Jo arrive on an Earth cargo ship...
- customs and traditions) Draconian constitution (late 7th century BC) Solonian Constitution (early 6th century BC) Gortyn code (5th century BC) Twelve...
- individuals who did the work to make and save copies of it, often risking draconian legal liability, regardless of how the studio feels about that work"....
- Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation conducted on June 22–23, 2001. It was designed to carry out...
- that before he died, Saunière wrote a numeric cipher and a message, "O Draconian Devil! Oh Lame Saint!" in blacklight ink. At this point, Sophie Neveu...
- kyrios of the woman they were found with. This was legal both under the Draconian code's provisions for justifiable homicide, and, as Carey believes, under...