On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

* The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( 1988 ) ( signed in 1988, not in force )

* Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.

* 1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.

See the United Nations website for full text on " Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation ".

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Internationally, DMT is a Schedule I drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

The Commentary on the Convention on Psychotropic Substances notes, however, that the plants containing it are not subject to international control :< ref >

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

* 1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.

Conventions which used the Franc Poincaré included the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage.

The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, is a treaty adopted by a Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999.

The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty signed by Member States of the Council of Europe on November 27, 1963 in Strasbourg, France.

# REDIRECT Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

* The 1963 Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

# REDIRECT Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

# REDIRECT Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

# REDIRECT Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

# REDIRECT Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

# REDIRECT Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

The rights of the consignee under an air waybill are regulated by the Warsaw Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, 1929 and the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air 1999 and the relevant state laws ( which may be one law chosen as the proper law by the parties, or any combination of laws representing the seller, buyer, consignor, and carrier.

Placing minefields without marking and recording them for later removal is considered a war crime under Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which is itself an annex to the Geneva Conventions.

International law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets, but use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ( CCW ) in 1980.

* Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, signed 1980, entered into force 1983

* 1980 United Nations Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects ( CCW )

" However, " directed energy weapons that target the central nervous system and cause neurophysiological disorders " may violate the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980.

Certain leaders of the anti-woman party of temperance activists declared that the Whole World's Temperance Convention was not necessary — it need not take place — women were to be allowed to take part in their event.

* The 1963 Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft

* Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

Certain types of conventional weapons are also regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

Article 4 of the Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws of 1930 provides that " a State may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a state whose nationality such person also possesses ".

Use of aerial incendiary bombs against civilian populations, including against military targets in civilian areas, was banned in the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III.

The Traditions were first published in the April 1946 AA Grapevine under the title Twelve Points to Assure Our Future and were formally adopted at AA's First International Convention in 1950.

He served as Trustee and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention ; chairman of the Birmingham Consumer Advisory Council ; a member of the Board of Management-Five Points YMCA ; Trustee of the Birmingham Fabricating Company-Birmingham Bolt Company Bargaining Unit Employees Pension Fund ; a member of the Education Committee of the Alabama Real Estate Committee ; the Research Committee of the Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce and the Alabama Post Secondary 1202 Commission-Task force III.

Substantive patent law has been harmonized to a certain extent across national laws in Europe, notably upon signature of the Strasbourg Convention of 1963 and the European Patent Convention ( EPC ) of 1973, and upon entry into force of the TRIPs Agreement.

* Introductory note to the Basel Convention by Dr. Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention, UNEP on the website of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

* Introductory note by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, procedural history note and audiovisual material on the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the State Department has taken the position that the Vienna convention represents established law.

El Salvador has signed, but not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

" On 29 September, the Convention extended price limits from grain and bread to other household goods and established the Law of the Maximum, intended to prevent price gouging and supply food to the cities.

However, the dispute with Suriname was arbitrated by the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea and a ruling in favor of Guyana was announced in September, 2007.

Clark and W. Harrison Moore, who had contributed to the first draft of the constitution put before the 1897 Adelaide Convention and was Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, postulated that the letters patent and the royal instructions issued by Queen Victoria were unnecessary " or even of doubtful legality ".

* Definition of island from United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Insofar as treaties are concerned, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties writes on the topic of interpretation that:

* United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

It is an organization established by the Law of the Sea Convention.

Currently, the Authority has 159 members and the European Community, composed of all parties to the Law of the Sea Convention.

The exploitation system envisaged in the Law of the Sea Convention, overseen by the Authority, came to life with the signature in 2001 / 02 of 15-year contracts with seven organizations that had applied for specific seabed areas in which they were authorized to explore for polymetallic nodules.

Moreover, the United States, with some of the most advanced ocean technology in the world, has not yet ratified the Law of the Sea Convention and is thus not a member of the Authority.