The Legal Kiss
The Rule ofLaw Meets the Kiss
Victoria Sutton, M.P.A., Ph.D., J.D.
The Paul Whitfield Horn Professor
Texas Tech University School of Law
Table of Contents
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Introduction to the Legal History of the Kiss .......... 1
Some important scientific facts about kissing .......... 9
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The kiss: the sacred and the secular ............. .
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A Kiss is just a Kiss, except when it is w9t,tL ,
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The Celebrated Contractual Kisses .......... .
Kisses and the Konstitution [sic] ............ .
Is a Kiss "any other valuable inducement" ,in
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Kiss and Tell ............................................. .
The Forbidden Kiss ............................... .
Kiss the Bible, Or Not ........................ ............ 47
Order in the Court .......................................... 53
The Unwanted Kiss ........... ............................ 57
The Kiss Goodbye, The Kiss Hello; Kissing,
Kissing on the Go ........... ................................ 67
Kisses and Guns are not Wine and Roses .. ........... 73
T4.e Kiss in Diplomacy (or Lack Thereof) .. .......... 77
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Th~]nCO Kiss, aka, the Kiss of Honor
. and the Kiss of Death .. ..................................... 79
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O'\"ming a Kiss in Intellectual Propety . ............... 85
Kissing Animals . ........................................... 91
Kissing Trivia . ............................................. 95
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.. . . . . . . Global Kissing and the Law ............................. 99
Biblipi~.phy....................................................................... 109