In many localities, now, the law requires all pools to be fenced, usually to a minimum height of 5 feet.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

( d ) A legal obedience, where a particular law requires the taking of an oath of allegiance by subject or alien alike.

In March 2006 Texas judges upheld the state blue law that requires car dealerships to close either Saturday or Sunday each weekend.

The law requires companies listed on the major stock exchanges ( NYSE, NASDAQ ) to have a majority of independent directors -- directors who are not otherwise employed by the firm or in a business relationship with it.

For example, a reception statute enacted by legislation in the state of Washington requires that " he common law, so far as it is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Washington nor incompatible with the institutions and condition of society in this state, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.

Many of these jurisdictions recognise customary law, and in some, such as South Africa the Constitution requires that the common law be developed in accordance with the Bill of Rights.

In March 2007, Virginia passed a law similar to CIPA that requires public libraries receiving state funds to use content-control software.

Like CIPA, the law requires libraries to disable filters for an adult library user when requested to do so by the user.

However, U. S. law permits " blended " whisky to contain up to 80 % un-aged grain neutral spirits ( with an age statement on the label that refers only to the " straight " part of the blend ), while Canadian law requires that all of the spirits in a Canadian whisky be aged for at least three years.

However, existing law requires judicial approval of all class action settlements, and in most cases class members are given a chance to opt out of class settlement, though class members, despite opt-out notices, may be unaware of their right to opt out because they did not receive the notice, did not read it, or did not understand it.

# The law requires only one light each night per household,

The existence of a corporation requires a special legal framework and body of law that specifically grants the corporation legal personality, and typically views a corporation as a fictional person, a legal person, or a moral person ( as opposed to a natural person ).

The second feature requires special legislation and a special legal framework, as it cannot be reproduced via standard contract law.

One crucial sign of this is that one need not believe, or even do, anything to be Jewish ; the historic definition of ' Jewishness ' requires only that one be born of a Jewish mother, or that one convert to Judaism in accord with Jewish law.

In some jurisdictions the law also requires customers to collect the receipt and keep it at least for a short while after leaving the shop, again to check that the shop records sales, so that it cannot evade sales taxes.

For an appeal from an acquittal to be successful, the Supreme Court of Canada requires that the Crown show that an error in law was made during the trial and that the error contributed to the verdict.

The law establishes the United States ' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions.

Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.

For example, Swedish law requires owners of firearms either to store the entire firearm in a safe or lockable gun rack, or to lock the " vital piece " ( bolt, etc.

Under the Section 13 of Cap 238 Firearms and Ammunition Ordinance of the Hong Kong law, unrestricted firearms and ammunition requires a license.

However, US patent law was changed in 1995 such that patents now expire 20 years after filing, not 17 years after issuing.

Search and seizure ( including arrest ) should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it.

In order for such a warrant to be considered reasonable, it must be supported by probable cause and be limited in scope according to specific information supplied by a person ( usually a law enforcement officer ) who has sworn by it and is therefore accountable to the issuing court.

The use of cheques in a scam hinges on a US law ( and common practice in other countries ) concerning cheques: when an account holder presents a cheque for deposit or to cash, the bank must ( or in other countries, usually ) make the funds available to the account holder within 1 – 5 business days, regardless of how long it actually takes for the cheque to clear and funds to be transferred from the issuing bank.

The Norris – La Guardia Act ( also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill ) was a 1932 United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.

The pre-Valigura law 1989 Patton Village budget had a projection of $ 297, 700 in total revenues, with 79 %, $ 236, 000, to originate from the municipal court issuing citations.

In his book on the insurrection, Findley — a bitter political foe of Hamilton — maintained that the treasury secretary had deliberately provoked the uprising by issuing the subpoenas just before the law was made less onerous.

This was a defeat for the common law, and in response Coke spent the summer issuing writs of prohibition to again challenge Bancroft and the High Commission.

It was the Masters who started court cases, issuing the initial writs without which parties could not begin cases in the common law courts.

Litigation attorneys specialize in offensive and defensive legal actions involving other parties ( i. e. responding to a lawsuit from another person, issuing preliminary demands or commencing a legal action when one believe someone is violating his legal or contractual rights, responding to governmental inquiries or when accused of violations of the law, etc .).

In 1840, the Union Bank started issuing bank notes under provisions of British law, but these were not automatically legal tender.

Current strategies for improvement in pain management include framing it as an ethical issue ; promoting pain management as a legal right ; providing constitutional guarantees and statutory regulations that span negligence law, criminal law, and elder abuse ; defining pain management as a fundamental human right ; categorizing failure to provide pain management as professional misconduct, and issuing guidelines and standards of practice by professional bodies.

The law was an attempt to implement some of the policy objectives outlined by the federally commissioned Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, which had been established in 1963 and since that time had been issuing periodic reports on the inequitable manner in which Canada ’ s English-speaking and French-speaking populations were treated by the federal administration.

** City officials in San Francisco start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in violation of state law, staging what they view as an act of civil disobedience, by marrying Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon in the first known civil marriage of a same-sex couple in the country.

He concludes that current state law prohibits issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but that the Oregon Supreme Court is likely to conclude those statutes violate the state's constitution.

He then ordered a temporary stop to issuing new licenses, but gave the Oregon Legislative Assembly 90 days from the start of its next session to write a law that ensures identical rights for same-sex couples, which could happen through civil marriage or civil union.

After Malkin criticized hip hop artist Akon for " degrading women " in a Vent episode, Akon's record label, Universal Music Group, forced YouTube to remove the video by issuing a DMCA takedown notice, but decided to retract this notice after the Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin and Hot Air in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law.

According to The Times newspaper, Bakri was left alone by British law prior to July 2005 despite actions such as an issuing a fatwa " containing a death threat against President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan " because

Massachusetts, the state with the second lowest usage, has only a secondary safety belt law, which requires officers to observe another driving offense before issuing a safety belt citation.

The Central Bank of Armenia has the exclusive right of issuing the national currency according to Armenian law.

A motu proprio rescript begins by giving the reasons for issuing it, and then indicates the law or regulation made or the favour granted.

The statute did not stop the monarch issuing such patents in return for money ; after James I's death, Charles I continued issuing them and avoided having to obey the law by having any cases heard in the conciliar courts, such as the Star Chamber.