It is rather difficult, I see, to formulate a code of behaviour for the Englishman in America that is at once judicious and honourable.
It is intended to be a set of rules to compensate real victims for the injury caused to them by serious and violent offences - not a code of behaviour for the model citizen.
"This guide sets out a code of behaviour for home-sharers and reminds us that the basic rules remain the same, whatever the situation, and should always be respected".
The treatise sought to establish a code of behaviour for medieval knights, espousing the ideals of valour and courtesy, yet he wrote at a time when the crippling expenses associated with knighthood (including armour, weaponry and horses) meant that the warrior class was undergoing a recruitment crisis.
It was Bernard de Clairvaux and founder Hugues de Payens who devised the specific code of behaviour for the Templar Order, known to modern historians as the Latin Rule.
Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, who presided over the city's social life from 1705 until his death in 1761, drew up a code of behaviour for public entertainments.
But you look in vain for flyting; for Touchstone's wonderful speech in As You Like It about the Retort Courteous and the Quip Modest; for the elaborate codes of behaviour of the German and Austrian student duelling societies.
Miliband said the same codes of behaviour were true for unions and employers, after the Daily Mail published allegations that family members of Ineos directors were intimidated by union tactics.
The arts practitioners in dissolving the everyday codes of behaviour did not aim for an absence of codes but the emergence of different ones, ideally based on anti-oppressive modes of 'power with' to facilitate mutual recognition of one another's strengths: 'in order for good creative work to be done, there has to be respect for the process and for each other'.
To determine the gravity of plagiarism, purposeful deception is the central issue and, if proven, is widely condemned (Pecorari 2013: KL441-42).a However, purposeful deception is often omitted from academic codes of behaviour to avoid creating a loophole for real plagiarists to allege unintentionality.
