The word necromancy is adapted from Late Latin necromantia, itself borrowed from post-Classical Greek Î½ÎµÎºÏÎ¿Î¼Î±Î½ÏÎµÎ¯Î± (nekromanteÃ­a), a compound of Ancient Greek Î½ÎµÎºÏÏÏ (nekrÃ³s), dead body, and Î¼Î±Î½ÏÎµÎ¯Î± (manteÃ­a), divination by means of; this compound form was first used by Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century AD.
The European Convention on Human Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is a treaty signed in 1950 by the then members of the Council of Europe. In this way, it predates the Euopean Communities and Union and arises from a quite different organisation.
In order to handle the growing number of cases more efficiently, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Commission of Human Rights, which was established in 1954, were merged in 1998 into a reconstituted court and enabled to hear individual cases without the prior assent of the individualâs national government.