| The slave code adopted in 1798 and modified from time to time presented in considerable detail the legal aspects of slavery in the state. |
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| Through a series of legal maneuvers, the defense lawyer kept her client out of jail. |
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| The threat of legal action is a powerful goad to companies that have ignored the regulations. |
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| The amount of alcohol in his blood exceeded the legal limit. |
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| There are legal consequences for companies that transgress the rules. |
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| He condemned the court and, by implication, the entire legal system. |
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| The company was involved in a legal battle with one of its employees. |
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| The company has hired some expensive legal talent for the trial. |
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| He accuses them of trying to dismantle the country's legal system. |
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| Clearly the libelous book is actionable, but I'm not commenting on anything to do with legal issues. |
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| For another trigger, the Department of Homeland Security must create a new, fraudproof system to verify the legal status of all job applicants. |
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| She hasn't been able to extricate herself from her legal problems. |
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| The company's new president will inherit some complicated legal problems. |
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| The attainder of her father, Clarence, was a legal bar to any claims to the throne by his children. |
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| Henry's reign saw significant legal changes, particularly in England and Normandy. |
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| The Hundred Rolls formed the basis for the later legal inquiries called the Quo warranto proceedings. |
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| Yet the most significant legal reform was probably that concerning the Justices of the Peace. |
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| Henry remained a minor and his government's legal ability to make permanently binding decisions on his behalf was limited. |
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| The Great Charter was referred to in legal cases throughout the medieval period. |
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| The King of France had the power to revoke all legal decisions made by the King of England in Aquitaine, which was unacceptable to the English. |
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| However, a legal decree issued by Edward III in 1376 had introduced some complexity into the question of who would ultimately take the throne. |
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| Catherine contested the proceedings, and a protracted legal battle followed. |
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| Royal Supremacy is specifically used to describe the legal sovereignty of the civil laws over the laws of the Church in England. |
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| Finally, in 1536, Parliament passed the Act against the Pope's Authority, which removed the last part of papal authority still legal. |
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| British judges and magistrates would also be sent to India to administer the legal system. |
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| Unlike a guilty finding in a court case, attainder did not require a legal burden of proof, but it did require the king's approval. |
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| Charles, however, argued that there was no legal bar to collecting the tax for defence during peacetime and throughout the whole of the kingdom. |
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| Muldoon felt that the dissolution would be immediate and he would later introduce a bill in parliament to retroactively make the abolition legal. |
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| In an incorporating annexation a state or states is united to and dissolved in an existing state, whose legal existence continues. |
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| If a state becomes a federated unit of another existing state, the former continuing its legal existence, then that is a federal annexation. |
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| As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. |
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| This declaration was given legal substance under the 1931 Statute of Westminster. |
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| The same year, the Canadian government severed its last legal link with Britain by patriating the Canadian constitution from Britain. |
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| The University of Law, the largest provider of vocation legal training in Europe, has a campus in the city. |
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| It was ratified by public referendum, but normal legal processes were suspended before it could take effect. |
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| The French legal system, however, was adopted, with its equal legal rights, and abolition of class distinctions. |
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| Great legal wranglings ensued, including the examination of every single vote cast, which dragged on for more than a year. |
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| However, he did not have such an opportunity, as Parliament spent months debating legal technicalities relating to the regency. |
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| The former prime minister appears to be jumping the gun, pre-empting the legal process that is just beginning to dig deeper. |
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| His legal achievement, the Napoleonic Code, has influenced the legal systems of more than 70 nations around the world. |
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| Scots continued to be used in official legal and court documents throughout the 18th century. |
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| First, by the 1830s the government had ended very high taxes and lifted severe legal restraints. |
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| The precise distinction between OTC and prescription depends on the legal jurisdiction. |
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| The legal Belgian government was reformed as a government in exile in London. |
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| German legal scholars of the 1930s carefully worked out guidelines for what type of bombing was permissible under international law. |
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| Many NHS trusts have become NHS foundation trusts, giving them an independent legal status and greater financial freedoms. |
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| Some countries, such as Germany, have multiple public insurance organizations linked by a common legal framework. |
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| The monarch is regarded as a separate legal personality in each realm, even though the same person is monarch of each realm. |
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| Due to their shared constitutional histories, several countries in the Commonwealth have similar legal and political systems. |
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| The Court was the highest authority in the law, settling legal disputes in the Community, while the Auditors had no power but to investigate. |
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| It officially established the territory of Nunavut and provided a legal framework for its government. |
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| The report argued that the unions had become too powerful and that their legal privileges ought to be curtailed. |
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| The General Secretary represents the party on behalf of the other members of the Labour Party in any legal matters or actions. |
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| In other member states, MEPs are immune from detention and from legal proceedings, except when caught in the act of committing an offence. |
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| The Louisiana political and legal structure has maintained several elements from the times of French and Spanish governance. |
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| The State Constitution of 1812 gave English official status in legal proceedings, but use of French remained widespread. |
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| Until the twentieth century, many legal terms were still expressed in Latin. |
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| The two major legal traditions of the western world are the civil law courts and the common law courts. |
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| This legal tradition is practiced in the English and American legal systems. |
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| Courts may consider rulings made in other courts that are of equivalent authority in the legal system. |
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| Courts may consider the writings of eminent legal scholars in treatises, restatements of the law, and law reviews. |
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| In cases of first impression, the trial judge will often ask both sides' attorneys for legal briefs. |
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| The doctrine of binding precedent or stare decisis is basic to the English legal system. |
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| One of the most important roles of precedent is to resolve ambiguities in other legal texts, such as constitutions, statutes, and regulations. |
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| The Senior Courts Costs Office, which quantifies legal costs pursuant to orders for costs, serves all divisions. |
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| Alternatively, cases raising important legal points could leapfrog from the High Court of England and Wales or High Court in Northern Ireland. |
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| Leave to appeal is not a feature of the Scottish legal system and appeals proceeded when two Advocates certified the appeal as suitable. |
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| The Lord High Steward presided, but the entire House could decide all legal, factual or procedural disputes. |
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| This led to the recording and standardisation of legal codes throughout Western Europe. |
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| The age of legal capacity under Scots law is 16, while it was previously 18 under English law. |
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| Subsequently, the border between England and Wales has taken on increasing legal and political significance. |
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| This title earns the site some legal protection from development, damage and neglect. |
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| For example, the gold sovereign was legal tender in Canada despite the use of the Canadian dollar. |
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| During the American war of independence and Napoleonic wars, Bank of England notes were legal tender and their value floated relative to gold. |
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| The gold standard was suspended at the outbreak of the war in 1914, with Bank of England and Treasury notes becoming legal tender. |
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| Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland. |
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| Leeds is now and the largest centre for legal services in the UK after London. |
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| For our part we are quite willing to pass the immortelles to Outerbridge Horsey, Banker Stillman's legal beagle. |
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| He made his reputation as a legal eagle as a prosecutor before entering private practice. |
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| The combined group was named the London Stock Exchange Group, but still remained two separate legal and regulatory entities. |
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| The new Exige has the same V6 as the Evora and is not available in US as a road legal vehicle. |
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| We take our obligations under the law extremely seriously and will continue to comply with all legal requirements around the world. |
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| In April 2013, Transport for London applied for the legal powers of a Transport and Works Act Order to proceed with the extension. |
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| Unlike normal issues, these coins are not legal tender in all the eurozone. |
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| There were also official communities within towns and villages, the overall defence, religion, the legal system and the Things. |
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| Education at this level prepared students for legal careers, and required that the students memorize the laws of Rome. |
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| English is also used as a second language among the middle and upper classes and is also widely used in higher education and the legal system. |
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| The item traded may be a tangible product such as apples or a service such as repair services, legal counsel, or entertainment. |
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| Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is an approach to legal theory that applies methods of economics to law. |
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| Another influence, also introduced by the missionaries, on the early English law codes was the Old Testament legal codes. |
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| A bill passed in 2016 and effective as of 1 January 2017 created the Church of Norway as an independent legal entity. |
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| The year 1850 saw the victory of the Evangelical cleric George Cornelius Gorham in a celebrated legal action against church authorities. |
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| The right to use a title as a legal signature is only permitted to bishops, Peers of the Realm and peers by courtesy. |
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| As a result, legal proceedings against him ensued in which a clear resolution seemed unlikely. |
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| In the early days of the United States, there was doubt whether a marriage solemnized in that manner was entitled to legal recognition. |
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| There is no legal definition of sorcery in Saudi, but in 2007 an Egyptian pharmacist working there was accused, convicted, and executed. |
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| Some schools, parents and political parties object to the new legal framework. |
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| However, officially the MD title is not known, nor legal to use in the Netherlands. |
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| It is a legal deposit library, therefore it is entitled to request a free copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland. |
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| In 1976, a new charter restored UCL's legal independence, although still without the power to award its own degrees. |
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| In the area of licensing technoloiges, UCLB provides commercial, legal and administrative advice to help companies broker licensing agreements. |
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| It also discusses the access to legal instruments for enforcement with regard to mandatory disclosure of environmental information. |
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| A referee monitors the fight to ensure that competitors use only legal blows. |
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| Some Native American tribes on reservation lands sell fireworks that are not legal for sale outside the reservation. |
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| Although the manufacturing of fireworks for the whole state is legal if used as an artform and if you aren't distributing those fireworks. |
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| He also secured a legal ruling from Chief Justice Robert Tresilian that parliament's conduct had been unlawful and treasonable. |
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| Since 1963 it has been legal to brew any amount of beer at home, without a licence, providing it is not sold. |
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| They had no legal capacity and were not able to make contracts, even though they were not slaves. |
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| He wrote a number of clerical legal texts Institutes of Polity and Canons of Edgar. |
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| There is also a large volume of legal documents related to religious houses. |
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| What evidence there is can be found in legal records and other official documents. |
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| In 1591 Donne was accepted as a student at the Thavies Inn legal school, one of the Inns of Chancery in London. |
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| His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers. |
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| Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by the Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial. |
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| More recent scholarship on Bacon's jurisprudence has focused on his advocating torture as a legal recourse for the crown. |
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| The question of the relation between natural and legal rights, therefore, is often an aspect of social contract theory. |
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| Among his many proposals for legal and social reform was a design for a prison building he called the Panopticon. |
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| He not only proposed many legal and social reforms, but also expounded an underlying moral principle on which they should be based. |
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| Annabella considered Byron insane, and in January 1816 she left him, taking their daughter, and began proceedings for a legal separation. |
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| Historically, blame has often been laid on Abbey as legal guardian, but he may also have been unaware. |
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| In 1948 British representatives attempt to and are prevented from adding a legal framework to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
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| Russells made a donation to the Soldiers' Charity on Rowling's behalf and reimbursed her for her legal fees. |
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| A deputy city attorney stated that Oldman's blood alcohol content was found to be more than twice California's limit for legal intoxication. |
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| Vitaphone still had legal exclusivity, but having lapsed in its royalty payments, effective control of the rights was in ERPI's hands. |
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| Although Eon had wanted to adapt the book in 1962, it had not been possible until the legal obstacles had been cleared. |
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| After a prolonged lawsuit, Sony backed down, and McClory eventually exhausted all legal avenues to pursue. |
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| A legal service starts a rally, in which the players alternate hitting the ball across the net. |
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| A ball that hits the net during a rally is still considered a legal return as long as it crosses into the opposite side of the court. |
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| On 31 August 2007, HMRC decided not to pursue its legal challenge any further. |
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| Although this tactic was widely felt by commentators to be against the spirit of the game there was no legal stipulation against it. |
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| Within and only within the turf clubs, betting on horse racing is a legal form of gambling. |
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| There was another complaint at Malaysia after which BMW Sauber joined the appeal after they were deemed legal, again. |
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| The WDC players took the matter to court in a dispute which accrued large and perhaps unaffordable costs during a protracted legal process. |
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| The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary, as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives. |
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| Assuming arguendo that those assertions are factually true, we find respondent's claim to be without legal merit. |
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| I bought the car as is, so the seller was within his legal rights to refuse to repair it when it broke down after two days. |
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| Astrolaw contemplates the practice of law in outer space, the direct subjects being national and legal persons. |
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| The doctrine of perpetuity was excluded not because the remainder was legal but because it was barrable. |
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| But in important ways the ' but for ' test obscures the true role played by causal principles in assessing legal responsibility. |
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| But it is important to realise that but for causation is no more than indicative of true legal causation. |
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| I am pretty sure it's another computer glitch, but hey, it's not my fault and it's perfectly legal. |
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| Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country. |
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| Church and state are completely separate but all clergy can be licensed as civil celebrants for legal purposes. |
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| From a legal point of view, use of clickwrap clarifies matters considerably. |
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| Leadbetter needs to be thwacked with a legal clue stick. The law he's talking about applies only to Internet service providers, not reporters. |
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| As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them. |
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| The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal. |
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| There are no non-destructive ways to decomplexify complex systems, and the legal framework is one such system. |
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| This embarge is termed a moral one because it imposes no legal restraints upon would-be exporters, for there are no statutes providing for this. |
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| But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act. |
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| That employee got charged with perjury for starters, frivolousity amongst legal grounds and harassment. |
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| And the film shows how mother-care can be more convincing than a legal brief in getting the goods on the corporate villains. |
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| British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. |
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| The term has no definite legal connotation, but is used in law to refer to United Kingdom citizenship and matters to do with nationality. |
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| Some borders require presentation of legal paperwork like passports and visas, or other identity documents, for persons to cross borders. |
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| A relict border is a former boundary, which may no longer be a legal boundary at all. |
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| For many decades the Scots legal system was unique for being the only legal system without a parliament. |
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| Many laws differ between Scotland and the other parts of the United Kingdom, and many terms differ for certain legal concepts. |
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| In the following year, the Wales and Berwick Act 1746 was repealed and a legal definition of Wales and of the boundary with England was stated. |
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| English law is regarded as a common law system, with no major codification of the law, and legal precedents are binding as opposed to persuasive. |
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| From that point Wales became a legal unit in its own right, although it remains part of the single jurisdiction of England and Wales. |
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| To a large degree, many of the extant legal records from the Germanic tribes seem to revolve around property transactions. |
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| The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches. |
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| English law is the common law legal system governing England and Wales, comprising criminal law and civil law. |
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| Common law is a term with historical origins in the legal system of England. |
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| In common law legal systems, the common law is crucial to understanding almost all important areas of law. |
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| Ancient India represented a distinct tradition of law, and had an historically independent school of legal theory and practice. |
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| Nicaragua's legal system is also a mixture of the English Common Law and Civil Law. |
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| Scots common law covers matters including murder and theft, and has sources in custom, in legal writings and previous court decisions. |
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| The legal writings used are called Institutional Texts and come mostly from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. |
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| Great Britain provided the legal and cultural foundations that enabled entrepreneurs to pioneer the industrial revolution. |
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| These legal powers include the ability to enact legislation which can directly affect all member states and their inhabitants. |
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| The EU has legal personality, with the right to sign agreements and international treaties. |
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| In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty gave legal effect to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. |
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| The charter is a codified catalogue of fundamental rights against which the EU's legal acts can be judged. |
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| They are legal acts which only apply to specified individuals, companies or a particular member state. |
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| Regulations, directives, and decisions are of equal legal value and apply without any formal hierarchy. |
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| Conception statistics include pregnancies that result in either one or more live births or stillbirths or a legal abortion. |
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| Wales had retained a separate legal and administrative system, which had been established by Edward I in the late 13th century. |
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| Under James IV the legal functions of the council were rationalised, with Court of Session meeting daily in Edinburgh. |
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| The Parliament of Scotland also emerged as a major legal institution, gaining an oversight of taxation and policy. |
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| Sheriffs, originally appointed by the King as royal administrators and tax collectors, developed legal functions. |
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| From the reign of King James I a legal profession began to develop and the administration of criminal and civil justice was centralised. |
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| It was primarily the codification of the oral legal tradition of the people. |
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| Latin law principles have survived partly in a long list of Latin legal terms. |
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| The historical importance of Roman law is reflected by the continued use of Latin legal terminology in many legal systems influenced by it. |
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| Roman law also denotes the legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the 18th century. |
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| It did not provide a complete and coherent system of all applicable rules or give legal solutions for all possible cases. |
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| Traditionally, the origins of Roman legal science are connected to Gnaeus Flavius. |
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| This edict contained detailed descriptions of all cases, in which the praetor would allow a legal action and in which he would grant a defense. |
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| The edict therefore became the basis for extensive legal commentaries by later classical jurists like Paulus and Ulpian. |
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| By the middle of the 3rd century, the conditions for the flourishing of a refined legal culture had become less favourable. |
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| Rei vindicatio is a legal action by which the plaintiff demands that the defendant return a thing that belongs to the plaintiff. |
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| To describe a person's position in the legal system, Romans mostly used the expression togeus. |
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| Continuing official suspicion and legal restrictions continued well into the 19th century. |
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| From that time, scholars began to study the ancient Roman legal texts, and to teach others what they learned from their studies. |
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| By the middle of the 16th century, the rediscovered Roman law dominated the legal practice of many European countries. |
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| A legal system, in which Roman law was mixed with elements of canon law and of Germanic custom, especially feudal law, had emerged. |
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| One reason for this is that the English legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time Roman law was rediscovered. |
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| For this reason, knowledge of Roman law is indispensable to understand the legal systems of today. |
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| The Roman basilica was a large public building where business or legal matters could be transacted. |
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| It established, for example, equivalences in areas of legal contentiousness, such as the amount of reparation that should be payable in wergild. |
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| Four legal codes were adopted at Royal Councils in the early 930s at Grately in Hampshire, Exeter, Faversham in Kent, and Thunderfield in Surrey. |
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| The legal nature of the Kingdom of Denmark is fundamentally one of a unitary sovereign state. |
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| Danish currency is also legal tender and Denmark is responsible for the military defense. |
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| Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, is the legal and rightful heir to the throne and the Kingdom. |
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| As of January 1, 2017 the Church of Norway is a separate legal entity and no longer a branch of the civil service. |
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| The practice of slavery was not outlawed, and the Leges Henrici Primi from the reign of King Henry I continue to mention slaveholding as legal. |
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| Also, in England no other coinage was allowed, while on the continent other coinage was considered legal tender. |
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| Evidence for Edward's involvement in legal reform is hard to find but his reign saw a major programme of legal change. |
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| The French monarchy asserted its rights to encroach on Edward's legal rights in Gascony. |
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| Beer was lumped in with the rest of booze, and for 13 awful years, not one legal drop of precious amber fluid could be found between San Francisco and New York City. |
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| The Stannary court administered equity, through special laws and legal exemptions, for all matters relating to the tin mines and tin trade in Cornwall. |
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| Henry went to convoluted legal means to justify his succession. |
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| A litigant may also consider obiter dicta if a court has previously signaled that a particular legal argument is weak and may even warrant sanctions if repeated. |
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| The band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the band's songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. |
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| I was going to sue, until my legal advisors told me to back off. |
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| Despite these reforms it is uncertain if Henry had a grand vision for his new legal system and the reforms seem to have proceeded in a steady, pragmatic fashion. |
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| Men providing massage and bodywork exemplify a gray zone between a legal personal service and a sexualized encounter forbidden by law in most of the United States. |
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| The legal argument was complex at the time and remains contentious. |
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| His legal changes are generally considered to have laid the basis for English Common Law, with the Exchequer court a forerunner of the later Common Bench at Westminster. |
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| Selective publication is the legal process which a judge or justices of a court decide whether a decision is to be or not published in a reporter. |
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| Thus, a word may have different definitions in different areas of the law, or different rules may apply so that a question has different answers in different legal contexts. |
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| Plain as it may be, the walkway does give kayakers and canoers, who have long clamored for access to the creek, a safe, legal launching area for the first time. |
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| The original charters were written on parchment sheets using quill pens, in heavily abbreviated medieval Latin, which was the convention for legal documents at that time. |
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| The band's situation made normal functioning complicated, with band members living in different countries, and legal barriers restricting where they could tour. |
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| Stare decisis is not usually a doctrine used in civil law systems, because it violates the legal positivist principle that only the legislature may make law. |
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| This is the result of the legal positivist view that the court is only interpreting the legislature's intent and therefore detailed exposition is unnecessary. |
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| For instance, if immigration has become more and more restricted under the law, then the next legal decision on that subject may serve to restrict it further still. |
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| That case, like the present one, involved a declinatory exception by the respondent State when it was sued for fees for legal services and for an accounting. |
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| The Formula One Group is the legal holder of the commercial rights. |
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| Asked why, a spokesman gave a dodgy answer about legal ramifications. |
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| If a chicken invades your garden to steal seed and your dog barks at it in the line of dogly duty, the chicken's owner has the legal right to kill your dog. |
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| A drink driver is anyone who is over the legal alcohol limit for driving. |
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| Richard's reputation as a promoter of legal fairness persisted, however. |
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| Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces. |
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| Where possible he draws upon legal records and other biographers. |
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| This simulation has four separate fact patterns, each followed by five legal conclusions relating to the fact pattern preceding those five numbered legal conclusions. |
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| As I walked out of the court I recollected having read somewhere that the Honourable Sally Boucaut was the President of this group of legal feminasties. |
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| All the 'performers' were of legal consenting adultivity, and I could easily track them down if I needed to get any sort of signed statement to verify their age. |
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| To the extent that the underlying legal provision was determinate, however, courts were not thought to be similarly bound by precedent that misinterpreted it. |
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| Harrogate and Knaresborough both have small legal and financial sectors. |
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| The intention was to create a single state and legal jurisdiction. |
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| The effort was to create a national church in legal continuity with its traditions, but inclusive of certain doctrinal and liturgical beliefs of the Reformers. |
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| This reality was recognised with the legal transfer of sovereignty in 1750 of most of the Amazon basin and surrounding areas to Portugal in the Treaty of Madrid. |
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| The United Kingdom does not have a single legal system, as Article 19 of the 1706 Treaty of Union provided for the continuation of Scotland's separate legal system. |
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| Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. |
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| Of the Court's current members, Justices Scalia and Thomas seem to have the most faith in the determinacy of the legal texts that come before the Court. |
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| The new legal structure provided a single Court of Appeal, which heard appeals from all the various Divisions of the new unified High Court of Justice. |
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| The terms of the Treaty of Union with England in 1707 guaranteed the continued existence of a separate legal system in Scotland from that of England and Wales. |
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| Its name is abbreviated as EWHC for legal citation purposes. |
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| Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic. |
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| This left the Rump as basically a conservative body whose vested interests in the existing land ownership and legal systems made it unlikely to want to reform them. |
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| However, members were divided over key issues, only 25 had previous parliamentary experience, and although many had some legal training, there were no qualified lawyers. |
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| By fleeing, James ultimately helped resolve the awkward question of whether he was still the legal king or not, having created according to many a situation of interregnum. |
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| That June, De Forest entered into an extended legal battle with an employee, Freeman Harrison Owens, for title to one of the crucial Phonofilm patents. |
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| Generally speaking, Roman legal codes eventually provided the model for many Germanic laws and they were fixed in writing along with Germanic legal customs. |
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| In 1557 they managed to convince the Ming court to agree on a legal port treaty that would establish Macau as an official Portuguese trade colony. |
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| The Whigs thoroughly purged the Tories from all major positions in government, the army, the Church of England, the legal profession, and local offices. |
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| Jacobites contended that James II had not been legally deprived of his throne, and that the Convention Parliament and its successors were not legal. |
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| Emergency Committee decisions made are immediately put into legal effect, although they need to be ratified at the next Executive Committee meeting. |
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| This may be a legacy of the Norman conquest of England, when a number of legal concepts and institutions from Norman law were introduced to England. |
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| The customary laws of Wales within the Kingdom of England were abolished by King Henry VIII's Laws in Wales Acts which brought Wales into legal conformity with England. |
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| While historically the ius commune became a secure point of reference in continental European legal systems, in England it was not a point of reference at all. |
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| However motorsport's governing body ruled that the car was legal. |
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| The new federated state thus ceases to be a state in international law but retains its legal existence in domestic law, subsidiary to the federal authority. |
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| The Arthashastra, dating from 400 BCE and the Manusmriti, from 100 CE, were influential treatises in India, texts that were considered authoritative legal guidance. |
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| A healthy, and legal, publishing industry existed throughout Europe, although established publishers and book sellers occasionally ran afoul of the law. |
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| But many works were sold without running into any legal trouble at all. |
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| The Duchy administers bona vacantia within the County Palatine, receiving the property of persons who die intestate and where the legal ownership cannot be ascertained. |
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| Unions slowly overcame the legal restrictions on the right to strike. |
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| Director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, Mrs. Krug was a national leader in several legal cases that rose to the Supreme Court. |
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| The history of the America's Cup has included legal battles and disputes over rule changes including most recently over the rule changes for the 2017 America's Cup. |
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| According to his friend, theologian Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, More once seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career to become a monk. |
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| This, and a further Act in 1542, had the effect of annexing Wales to England and creating a single state and legal jurisdiction, commonly referred to as England and Wales. |
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| Now that access is available to legal deposit collection material, it is necessary for visitors to register as a Reader to use the Boston Spa Reading Room. |
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| This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. |
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| There is also a significant legal and ebusiness industry in Leeds. |
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| However, if the serve is in, it is considered a legal service. |
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| Napoleon's impact on Poland was huge, including the Napoleonic legal code, the abolition of serfdom, and the introduction of modern middle class bureaucracies. |
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| The laws of England were unaffected, with the legal jurisdiction continuing to be that of England and Wales, while Scotland continued to have its own laws and law courts. |
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| The Acts had the effect of annexing Wales to England and creating a single state and legal jurisdiction, commonly referred to as England and Wales. |
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| In actual practice, the criteria are mainly political, not legal. |
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| Parliament also emerged as a major legal institution, gaining an oversight of taxation and policy, but was never as central to the national life as its counterpart in England. |
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| Illegal use is considered a misdemeanor and subject to legal prosecution. |
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| The development of the code was a fundamental change in the nature of the civil law legal system with its stress on clearly written and accessible law. |
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| The legal tract, the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, set out a system of compensation for injury and death based on ranks and the solidarity of kin groups. |
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| Napoleon was responsible for spreading the values of the French Revolution to other countries, especially in legal reform and the abolition of serfdom. |
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| They lie as Public Law legal entities and their regular operation funding comes from the national state, pursuant to what is set out on the annual national budget act. |
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| Under James IV the legal functions of the council were rationalised, with a royal Court of Session meeting daily in Edinburgh to deal with civil cases. |
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| After a long legal battle, the BDO was forced to acknowledge the WDC's legitimacy and the right of players to choose which body they competed for. |
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| Horse racing was introduced to Singapore by the British during the colonial era and remained one of the legal forms of gambling after independence. |
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| Binding precedent relies on the legal principle of stare decisis. |
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| Although they lost militarily, the allies achieved their objectives with legal proclamations which granted citizenship to more than 500,000 Italians. |
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| Roman law recognised only patrician families as legal entities. |
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| Claudius personally judged many of the legal cases tried during his reign. |
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| Alaska Congressman Don Young... spent a huge share of his campaign donations on legal fees to keep his nose clean in the face of an FBI investigation into his dealings. |
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| From the 7th century onward, the legal language in the East was Greek. |
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| You don't want to be a legal beagle about it. You are not a dog! Still, a passing familiarity with employment law isn't such a bad thing when you're working for others. |
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| The first player or team to fail to make a legal return loses the point. |
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