The Mayflower Compact was a social contract the pilgrims signed in November 1620 in order to establish law and order in the new colony. |
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It does not obey the law of conservation of mass since the reactants and products have different compositions of elements. |
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This demo would be appropriate at the beginning of a general chemistry course or anytime when the law of conservation of mass is discussed. |
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It obeys the law of conservation of mass since the amount of phosphorous and oxygen remains the same throughout the reaction. |
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It took early scientists hundreds of years of scientific study before the law of conservation of mass became accepted. |
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I think its news even to many chemists that the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of matter are different things. |
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The state gave the town a special dispensation, allowing it to ignore the law in this case. |
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The Barbados slave code was established on the island of Barbados, a British colony, in 1661. It was the first official law regarding slave status. |
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The law of conservation of mass states that mass is neither created nor destroyed. In a closed system, mass of reactants is equal to mass of products. |
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At the beginning of the century the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions was checked experimentally by Landolt and various other experimenters. |
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They came up with an evasion of the law to keep all the land for themselves. |
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During a chemical transformation atoms from reactants combines to form products as a result total mass doesn't change. This the law of conservation of mass. |
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Thus, Roman law is often still a mandatory subject for law students in civil law jurisdictions. |
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The agency sublets office space from a law firm in the building. |
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He's been in and out of trouble with the law for the last 10 years. |
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With the new federal law in place, the state law has become inoperative. |
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The new law would remove obstacles to obtaining a work permit. |
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The passage of the law was a tremendous victory for their cause. |
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Schools are required by law to provide a safe learning environment. |
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She has proposed a new law to protect people from being evicted unfairly. |
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I applied for a job at that law firm because I have a contact there. |
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The law obliges the government to release certain documents to the public. |
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The judges determined that the law was too vague to be fairly enforced. |
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Thus we have a clear division between homicide, which falls within the biblical law of persons, and aborticide, which is treated as a tort. |
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Delaware, Mississippi, and Tennessee still have separate courts of law and equity, for example, the Court of Chancery. |
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In many states there are separate divisions for law and equity within one court. |
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One of the major reforms of the late 19th century and early 20th century was the abolition of common law pleading requirements. |
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In common law systems, a single decided case is binding common law, under the principle of stare decisis. |
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In civil law systems, individual decisions have only advisory, not binding effect. |
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In common law systems, judge made law is binding to the same extent as statute or regulation. |
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Common law courts usually use an adversarial system, in which two sides present their cases to a neutral judge. |
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In common law jurisdictions, scholarly work is seldom cited as authority for what the law is. |
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For instance, the modern UK law of negligence is based on Donoghue v Stevenson, a case originating in Paisley, Scotland. |
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The state of New York, which also has a civil law history from its Dutch colonial days, began a codification of its law in the 19th century. |
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The original colony of New Netherland was settled by the Dutch and the law was also Dutch. |
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The codification of a law of general obligations shows how remnants of the civil law tradition in New York continued on from the Dutch days. |
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California and a number of other Western states, however, have retained the concept of community property derived from civil law. |
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Except on Constitutional issues, Congress is free to legislatively overrule federal courts' common 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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Much of contemporary Indian law shows substantial European and American influence. |
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Indian laws also adhere to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and environmental law. |
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In Goa, a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption. |
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Each province and territory is considered a separate jurisdiction with respect to common law matters. |
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As such, only the provincial legislature may enact legislation to amend private law. |
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Roman Dutch Common law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana. |
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Roman Dutch common law is a development of Roman Dutch law by courts in the Roman Dutch common law jurisdictions. |
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The main alternative to the common law system is the civil law system, which is used in Continental Europe, and most of the rest of the world. |
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This brought in a distinctly common law principle into an essentially civil law jurisdiction. |
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The former Soviet Bloc and other Socialist countries used a Socialist law system. |
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Lawyers in both England and America learned the law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century. |
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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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All legislation must be passed by the House of Commons to become law and it controls taxation and the supply of money to the government. |
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Factory inspectors supervised the execution of the law, however, their scarcity made enforcement difficult. |
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They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law. |
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The classification of the EU in terms of international or constitutional law has been much debated. |
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The interpretation and the application of EU law and the treaties are ensured by the Court of Justice of the European Union. |
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Decisions from the General Court can be appealed to the Court of Justice but only on a point of law. |
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Although, the EU is independent from Council of Europe, they share purpose and ideas especially on rule of law, human rights and democracy. |
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Furthermore, the Union has legislated in areas such as extradition, family law, asylum law, and criminal justice. |
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In international law, however, there are several theories of when a state should be recognised as sovereign. |
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One of the major criticisms of this law is the confusion caused when some states recognise a new entity, but other states do not. |
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Recognition is often withheld when a new state is seen as illegitimate or has come about in breach of international law. |
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International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence, and the recognition of a country is a political issue. |
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They are considered de jure states only according to their own law and by states that recognise them. |
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Scots law developed into a distinctive system in the Middle Ages and was reformed and codified in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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Under Robert I in 1318, a parliament at Scone enacted a code of law that drew upon older practices. |
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In the late 15th century, unsuccessful attempts were made to form commissions of experts to codify, update or define Scots law. |
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The Judge accepts the payment, the law no longer has a hold on you, and therefore you are free to walk out of the court a free man or woman. |
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When he tried to get Parliament to pass a law allowing him to divorce his wife Queen Caroline, public opinion strongly supported her. |
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Norse was also widely spoken in the parts of England which fell under Danish law. |
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The new peoples greatly altered established society, including law, culture, religion, and patterns of property ownership. |
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A lengthy absence from politics and law followed while he wrote the Histories and the Annals. |
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English rule of law was reinforced and expanded in Ireland during the latter part of the 16th century, leading to the Tudor conquest of Ireland. |
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Religious allegiance now determined the perception in law of loyalty to the Irish King and Parliament. |
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He is largely regarded one of the founders of modern chemistry and is best known for the formulation of Boyle's law. |
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But there was a core principle missing in the law passed by the Assembly before Christmas. |
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Humians see no necessary uniformity in phenomena because they expect some logical law to which uniformity may be referred. |
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The result of these reforms was that any law passed by the plebeian would have the full force of law. |
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In 367 BC a law was passed which required the election of at least one plebeian aedile each year. |
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The old nobility existed through the force of law, because only patricians were allowed to stand for high office. |
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This was not the first law to require that an act of the Plebeian Council have the full force of law. |
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The significance of this law was in the fact that it robbed the patricians of their final weapon over the plebeians. |
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He attempted to enact a law which would have limited the amount of land that any individual could own. |
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Tiberius submitted this law to the Plebeian Council, but the law was vetoed by a tribune named Marcus Octavius. |
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His law was enacted, but Tiberius was murdered with 300 of his associates when he stood for reelection to the tribunate. |
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Gaius then proposed a law which would grant citizenship rights to Rome's Italian allies. |
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Sulla was so angry at Marius' tribune that he passed a law intended to permanently weaken the tribunate. |
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Clodius also passed a law to expand the previous partial grain subsidy to a fully free grain dole for citizens. |
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Roman law laid the foundations for the laws of many European countries and their colonies. |
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Having a personal interest in law, he presided at public trials, and issued up to twenty edicts a day. |
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Ancient historians have many complaints about this, stating that his judgments were variable and sometimes did not follow the law. |
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If freedmen had total control of money, letters, and law, it seemed it would not be hard for them to manipulate the Emperor. |
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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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After the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, the Roman law remained in effect in the Eastern Roman Empire. |
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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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Terentilius Arsa, proposed that the law should be written, in order to prevent magistrates from applying the law arbitrarily. |
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The fragments which did survive show that it was not a law code in the modern sense. |
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Although the provisions pertain to all areas of law, the largest part is dedicated to private law and civil procedure. |
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Another important statute from the Republican era is the Lex Aquilia of 286 BC, which may be regarded as the root of modern tort law. |
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The adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors. |
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Thus, over the course of time, parallel to the civil law and supplementing and correcting it, a new body of praetoric law emerged. |
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Ultimately, civil law and praetoric law were fused in the Corpus Juris Civilis. |
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The law of this period is often referred to as the classical period of Roman law. |
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The literary and practical achievements of the jurists of this period gave Roman law its unique shape. |
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The standard edict thus functioned like a comprehensive law code, even though it did not formally have the force of law. |
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The influence is visible even in the law of persons or of the family, which is traditionally the part of the law that changes least. |
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There have been several reasons why Roman law was favored in the Middle Ages. |
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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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Only England and the Nordic countries did not take part in the wholesale reception of Roman law. |
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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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Therefore, the practical advantages of Roman law were less obvious to English practitioners than to continental lawyers. |
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In addition, some concepts from Roman law made their way into the common law. |
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The practical application of Roman law and the era of the European Ius Commune came to an end, when national codifications were made. |
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Rather, the provisions of Roman law were fitted into a more coherent system and expressed in the national language. |
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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 law suit has negatively affected the company's public image. |
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Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. |
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A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. |
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He committed acts which put him afoul of Empire law, details classified, twenty-six years ago. |
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She has been a degreed paralegal for ten years, working for a suburban firm where she specializes in municipal law. |
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Latin law principles have survived partly in a long list of Latin legal terms. |
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An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world. |
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With foreigners already wary of investing in Thailand, the last thing the country needed, analysts say, was a new law perceived as antiforeign. |
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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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At present astrolaw is only an aspect or a subdivision of general space law. |
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Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law. |
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There should be some kind of law against this. They play Scottish bagpipes, Breton binioux and drums. |
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The law is a woefully blunt instrument when it comes to domestic violence of all kinds. |
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Though the new law is popular among the general public, it is hated in the boardroom. |
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Short of high treason, the gravest form of breach of the peace known to British law is riot. |
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Every possible pressure was brought to bear on the minister to ensure the unjust law was not passed. |
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Bishop Manning has his enemies, but those enemies have hardly ever caught him out on a point of theology or canon law. |
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Many believed this provision gutted the new law, as Lowry appointed three very conservative men to the body. |
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There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading. |
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The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer. |
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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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The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity. |
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The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon. |
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It adds to the trend that law schools and law journals are no longer content to count angels on pinheads. |
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This corporation law background is less known than his record as a crime-buster. |
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It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you're an American citizen. 'It's British law and order over here,' says he. |
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Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not. |
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Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement. |
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A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts. |
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The only time he had ever been in trouble with the law was when he was cited for a D.U.I. when he was in college. |
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The only time he got into trouble with the law was when he was cited for D.W.I. once in college. |
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The law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the law. |
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Other measures, such as compensation for victims, will be enshrined in the proposed new law. |
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A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practising it, if really and indeed it be against God's law. |
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In the Exopolitics model, life-bearing planets such as Earth are members of a collective Universe whole that operates under universal law. |
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Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days, which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice. |
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In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text. |
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Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it. |
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Belching cows and pigs could start costing farmers money if a proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law. |
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All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law. |
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Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine? |
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Hoffman's freehanded approach to the law in silencing the defendants had angered many, and would later be overruled by a higher court. |
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Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law. |
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Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation. |
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Judges were often stymied in settling cases because both parties could cite good law. |
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How can you be sure that these cases are good law? How do you know that these cases have not been overruled or reversed? |
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All law systems rely on written publication of the law, so that it is accessible to all. |
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God's good word, both law and gospel, is your bulwark, your defense against bad theology and techniques of spirituality that make you anxious. |
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Minimalist governmentists perhaps, but they believe in and respect the law, just more literally than most. |
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A real acuerdo gradually came to have the force of law in the form of administrative ordinances embracing a wide range of subjects. |
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In 2006, Florida law enforcement here discovered 480 homes growing marijuana indoors. Last year, 1,022 grow houses were busted. |
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He styled himself King of Great Britain, although this had no basis in English law. |
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To accommodate the union, institutions such as the law and national churches of each remained separate. |
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Newton developed the ideas of universal gravitation, Newtonian mechanics, and calculus, and Robert Hooke his eponymously named law of elasticity. |
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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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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom serves as the highest court of appeal for civil cases under Scots law. |
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Prior to 1611, there were several regional law systems in Scotland, most notably Udal law in Orkney and Shetland, based on old Norse law. |
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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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Early Germanic law reflects a hierarchy of worth within the society of free men, reflected in the differences in weregild. |
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The weregild or recompense due for the killing or injuring of a woman is notably set at twice that of a man of the same rank in Alemannic law. |
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The king was bound to uphold ancestral law, but was at the same time the source for new laws for cases not addressed in previous tradition. |
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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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For example, murder is a common law crime rather than one established by an Act of Parliament. |
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Common law is a term with historical origins in the legal system of England. |
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Common law systems originated during the Middle Ages in England, and from there propagated to the colonies of the British Empire. |
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Today, one third of the world's population live in common law jurisdictions or in systems mixed with civil law. |
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For example, the Napoleonic code expressly forbade French judges to pronounce general principles of law. |
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General law common to a country as a whole, as opposed to special law that has only local application. |
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In practice, common law systems are considerably more complicated than the simplified system described above. |
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Interactions between common law, constitutional law, statutory law and regulatory law also give rise to considerable complexity. |
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One example of the gradual change that typifies evolution of the common law is the gradual change in liability for negligence. |
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Common law decisions are published in law reports for use by lawyers, courts and the general public. |
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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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In the pontifical universities postgraduate courses of Canon law are taught in Latin, and papers are written in the same language. |
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These damages need not be set forth in statute as they already exist in the tradition of common law. |
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Canada's system, described below, avoids regional variability of federal law by giving national jurisdiction to both layers of appellate courts. |
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Crucially, the English common law was sufficiently flexible to adapt its archaic contractual rules into new formats suited to modern commerce. |
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The main sources for the history of the common law in the Middle Ages are the plea rolls and the Year Books. |
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Immediately after the American Revolution, there was widespread distrust and hostility to anything British, and the common law was no exception. |
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Jeffersonians decried lawyers and their common law tradition as threats to the new republic. |
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Well into the 19th century, ancient maxims played a large role in common law adjudication. |
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The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime. |
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All bills passed are given Royal Assent before becoming law. |
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Civil law lawyers consult case law to obtain their best prediction of how a court will rule, but comparatively, civil law judges are less bound to follow it. |
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Scots law has a basis derived from Roman law, combining features of both uncodified civil law, dating back to the Corpus Juris Civilis, and common law with medieval sources. |
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The law-making affair often has an Alice in Wonderland touch. Terms are defined by law, and if the law says black is white, then for the purpose of the law, black it white. |
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Royal Assent of the Monarch is required for all Bills to become law, and certain Delegated Legislation must be made by the Monarch by Order in Council. |
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But when you have a radical alt left fool appointing radical alt left judges who put radical political agendas above the law, this is what you get. |
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Praetors administered civil law and commanded provincial armies. |
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Shops, cafes and bars that trade on Hackney's streets are required by law to have a licence. This includes tables and chairs and fruit and veg stalls, amoung others. |
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This has had the effect of homogenising the law in certain areas. |
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In the Factortame case, the European Court of Justice ruled that British courts could have powers to overturn British legislation contravening European law. |
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Casino owners are lobbying against the proposed antigaming law. |
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According to the antinoise law, the pubs have to close by midnight. |
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Artistly people and some writerlies and some law students slumming. |
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All freemen had the right to participate in general assemblies or things, where disputes between freemen were addressed according to customary law. |
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Scotland maintains a separate criminal law system from the rest of the UK, with the High Court of Justiciary being the final court for criminal appeals. |
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Baksheesh is often the accepted manner of doing business in the Middle and Far East. However, one must be careful not to confuse ethics with the law. |
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The one new law that this country needs is one that will make it a banishable offense to preach or teach anything contradictory to established fact. |
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Corporal or capital punishment for free men does not figure in the Germanic law codes, and banishment appears to be the most severe penalty issued officially. |
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We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law. |
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Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood. |
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The extent of parliamentary privilege is based on law and custom. |
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The work includes a section called the Digesta which abstracts the principles of Roman law in such a way that they can be applied to any situation. |
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The first 250 years of the current era are the period during which Roman law and Roman legal science reached its greatest degree of sophistication. |
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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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If the bol'shak mismanaged the family farm, or was too often drunk and violent, the commune could replace him under customary law with another household member. |
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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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English criminal law derives its main principles from the common law. |
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The first calaboose or city jail used by the officers of the law was located on Cumberland Street, just below the vacant lot adjacent to the Star Steam Laundry. |
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In the United States, federal law as well as 40 state laws can impose harsh penalties for videotaping movies from theater screens, a process known as camming. |
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The canon law on this matter conflicts with several other canon laws. |
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It has often been suggested that England and Wales should codify its criminal law in an English Criminal Code, but there has been no overwhelming support for this in the past. |
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Common law is the body of law developed from the thirteenth century to the present day, as case law or precedent, by judges, courts, and similar tribunals. |
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Louisiana's criminal law largely rests on English common law. |
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Historically notable among the Louisiana code's differences from common law is the role of property rights among women, particularly in inheritance gained by widows. |
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Publication of decisions, and indexing, is essential to the development of common law, and thus governments and private publishers publish law reports. |
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Roman law recognised only patrician families as legal entities. |
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Unlike other states, where concealed carry is specifically prohibited in places of worship, Wisconsin's new law allows it anywhere except for specific locations. |
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In the family law of very early society descent is in the female line, the control of the children belongs to the mother and her consanguineal kindred. |
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The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting adults. |
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To ascertain those conventions, it is important to see how some of the tensions between natural law and positive law manifest themselves textually. |
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The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law. |
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Additionally, even before the separate courts were merged, most courts were permitted to apply both law and equity, though under potentially different procedural law. |
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Courts of equity rely on common law principles of binding precedent. |
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Customary laws, such as the Law of Clan MacDuff, came under attack from the Stewart Dynasty which consequently extended the reach of Scots common law. |
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The law school there gradually developed into Europe's first university. |
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Especially in the early 19th century, English lawyers and judges were willing to borrow rules and ideas from continental jurists and directly from Roman law. |
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The University of Edinburgh developed out of public lectures were established in the town 1440s on law, Greek, Latin and philosophy, under the patronage of Mary of Guise. |
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Crooked law enforcement, corrupt lawmakers, dirty-handed and hypocritical adjudicators and other miscellaneous murky state and Federal government officials. |
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The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color. |
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A ship should be documented according to the directions of law. |
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International law does not require a state to recognise other states. |
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Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law. |
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Further European Convention on Human Rights and European Social Charter, the source of law of Charter of Fundamental Rights are created by Council of Europe. |
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As newer states needed law, they often looked first to the Massachusetts Reports for authoritative precedents as a basis for their own common law. |
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When the time limit for implementing directives passes, they may, under certain conditions, have direct effect in national law against member states. |
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The enactment of this law will be a great step backward for our country. |
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An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. |
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They are most often used in competition law, or on rulings on State Aid, but are also frequently used for procedural or administrative matters within the institutions. |
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Constitution, which prohibited ex post facto laws at both the federal and state level, the question was raised whether there could be common law crimes in the United States. |
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For example, in Virginia, the definition of the conduct that constitutes the crime of robbery exists only in the common law, and the robbery statute only sets the punishment. |
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The decemvirate of 451 is believed to have included the most controversial points of customary law, and to have assumed the leading functions in Rome. |
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The law will be repealed if it is found to be facially unconstitutional. |
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Judge Charles R. Richey last week tried to apply some firm rules of law to such indelicate situations. He came close to succeeding, then fell on his face. |
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Each has its own procedural law, statutorily created provincial courts and superior trial courts with inherent jurisdiction culminating in the Court of Appeal of the province. |
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If you carry on like that, the law will soon be feeling your collar. |
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Connecticut courts failed to recognize feme couvert property rights until 1723, when the legislature finally passed an act significantly reforming the law on conveyancing. |
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The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend, and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity. |
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English also became the language of the law courts during this period. |
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This is not to say that common law is better in every situation. |
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A young law student, Sandra Fluke, came before this body, before the Members of Congress, and testified regarding coverage for family planning and contraceptives. |
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While in some sense an early form of jury came to be part of the procedure in the shire courts, the development of the common law grand jury and petty jury came later. |
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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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Thus prophetic spake A voice of faith, forecharged with evolution's law. |
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However, the first common law scholars, most notably Glanvill and Bracton, as well as the early royal common law judges, had been well accustomed with Roman law. |
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Niven's law. No cause is so noble that it won't attract fuggheads. |
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Other reptiles found in the district are the chamaeleon, geco and monitor lizard, the last getting extinct due to netting and shooting. It is now protected by law. |
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A sovereign state is, in international law, a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralized government that has sovereignty over a geographic area. |
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But note that in each case, the statute sets the general principles, but the interstitial common law process determines the scope and application of the statute. |
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Both cases are good law, and if here, the husband were dead, and the title remained in the wife, and the bond was sought to be enforced against her, it would be held invalid. |
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It is also the language of the existing Welsh law manuscripts. |
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Judicial decisions and treatises of the 17th and 18th centuries, such at those of Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, presented the common law as a collection of such maxims. |
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Common law decisions today reflect both precedent and policy judgment drawn from economics, the social sciences, business, decisions of foreign courts, and the like. |
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The constitutive theory of statehood defines a state as a person of international law if, and only if, it is recognised as sovereign by other states. |
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However the case may be with societies under widely different conditions of development, the law of mass and individuality holds true of the social facts known to us. |
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His works are still cited by common law courts around the world. |
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Today it has been superseded in the English part of the United Kingdom by Halsbury's Laws of England that covers both common and statutory English law. |
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I have sometimes known a poet in danger of being convicted as a thief, upon much worse evidence than the resemblance of hands hath been held to be in the law. |
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In contrast, in civil law systems, case law only acquires weight when a long series of cases use consistent reasoning, called jurisprudence constante. |
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The Corpus Juris Secundum is an encyclopedia whose main content is a compendium of the common law and its variations throughout the various state jurisdictions. |
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For that reason, statutes in civil law systems are more comprehensive, detailed, and continuously updated, covering all matters capable of being brought before a court. |
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After the Norman conquest in 1066 various Castles in England were created so law lords could uphold their authority and in the north to protect from invasion. |
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Claudius also made a law requiring plaintiffs to remain in the city while their cases were pending, as defendants had previously been required to do. |
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