In the European Union member states, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment.

The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder.

Bamford provides an alternative view, highlighting that legislation prohibits the use of intercepted communications for commercial purposes, although does not elaborate on how intercepted communications are used as part of an all-source intelligence process.

In addition, Ghanaian law prohibits the photographing of police or military personnel and vehicles while on duty, strategic sites such as Kotoka International Airport when in use, and the seat of the Ghanaian government, Osu Castle.

Jainism prohibits the use of leather since it is obtained by killing animals.

Some Muslims believe that hadiths such as in Sahih Bukhari prohibits every intoxicating substance, though the use of intoxicants in medicine has been widely permitted by scholars.

Wider use of domestic laws include the 1990 French Gayssot Act that prohibits any " racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic " speech., and the Czech Republic and the Ukraine have criminalised the denial and the minimisation of Communist-era crimes.

Upon discovering that Skardon law prohibits the use of weaponry or other foreign objects in the arena of legal dispute, she requested that the Champion face her in a rematch without using the Power Gem.

The organization promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention which prohibits of the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction.

For example, the law of land warfare prohibits the use of a flag of truce or clearly marked medical vehicles as cover for an attack or ambush, but an asymmetric combatant using this prohibited tactic to its advantage depends on the superior power's obedience to the corresponding law.

The US Constitution and US federal law prohibits the use of torture, yet such human rights violations occurred.

It prohibits the use of chemical weapons and biological weapons, but has nothing to say about production, storage or transfer.

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of federal military forces to " execute the laws "; however, there is disagreement over whether this language may apply to troops used in an advisory, support, disaster response, or other homeland defense role, as opposed to conventional law enforcement.

Although in most cases the software itself functions exactly like the full product, the MSDN end-user license agreement prohibits use of the software in a business production environment.

) Act 1993 and the consolidating Merchant Shipping Act 1995 which, in Section 4, Subsection 1, prohibits the use of any distinctive national colours or those used or resembling flags or pendants on Her Majesty's Ships, " except the Red Ensign, the Union flag ( commonly known as the Union Jack ) with a white border ", and some other exceptions permitted elsewhere in the Acts.

The state of New Jersey prohibits the possession and use of hollow-point ammunition by private citizens, specifically in firearms carried outside the home, but with many exceptions.

Article 11 prohibits the use of imprisonment as a punishment for breach of contract.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment.

Some LDP politicians in Japan have openly expressed a desire to change Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which prohibits the use of force as a tool for resolving international disputes.

A unique local ordinance prohibits the use of any motor vehicles on the island.

Similar laws apply to other activities involving transportation ; Michigan prohibits intoxicated bicycling, horseback riding, buggy driving, use of motorized farm implements, or boating, the latter whether a pilot or passenger, with much the same threshold of intoxication.

( The Fifth Amendment prohibits the federal government from taking property for public use without " just compensation ," which American courts have interpreted in the usual case to mean " fair market value ".

The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on children in armed conflict, which came into force in February 2002, prohibits the direct use of any child under the age of 18 in armed conflict and prohibits all use of under-18s by non-state armed groups.

* prohibits the use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets located within concentrations of civilians and loosely regulates the use of other types of incendiary weapons in such circumstances.

The Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act now prohibits United States civilian ownership or transfer of automatic weapons unless they were registered before May 19, 1986.

It exclusively limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications ( Art. IV ).

" The Knives Act 1997 prohibits the marketing of knives as offensive weapons, while the Criminal Justice Act 1988 prohibits the carrying of blades or sharply pointed objects in a public place without " good reason or lawful authority ".

Some states had pointed out that a series of U. N. resolutions had been issued “ that deal with nuclear weapons and that affirm, with consistent regularity, the illegality of nuclear weapons ,” and argued that this signified “ the existence of a rule of international customary law which prohibits recourse to those weapons .” Nonetheless, the ICJ noted that states possessing nuclear weapons had almost always objected to these resolutions, which strongly suggests that those states did not believe that a customary law prohibiting their use existed.

Title VII also prohibits retaliation against any person for opposing any practice forbidden by statute, or for making a charge, testifying, assisting, or participating in a proceeding under the statute.

France prohibits by its penal code and by its press laws public and private communication which is defamatory or insulting, or which incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or a group of persons on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap.

The law prohibits declarations that justify or deny crimes against humanity, for example, the Holocaust ( Gayssot Act ).

In its judgment, the U. S. Supreme Court held that it lacked jurisdiction with respect to Germany's complaint against Arizona due to the eleventh amendment of the U. S. constitution, which prohibits federal courts from hearing lawsuits of foreign states against a U. S. state.

When an individual, or entity, has no " minimum contacts " with a forum State, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits that State from acting against that individual, or entity.

The lack of " minimum contacts " with the owner of property also constitutionally prohibits action against that property ( in rem jurisdiction ) even when the property is located within the forum state.

Additionally, the law prohibits employers from retaliating against whistleblowers.

CEPA, New Jersey's whistleblower law, prohibits an employer from taking any retaliatory action against an employee because the employee does any of the following:

* October 30 – Queen Isabella I of Spain prohibits violence against native tribes.

In protest against legislation that prohibits publication of copy protection circumvention code in countries that implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty ( such as the United States ' Digital Millennium Copyright Act ), some have devised clever ways of distributing descriptions of the DeCSS algorithm, such as through steganography, through various Internet protocols, on t-shirts and in dramatic readings, as MIDI files, as a series of haiku poems, and even as a so-called illegal prime number.

The ADA prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in public accommodations or commercial facilities.

A more recent law, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( ADA ), which came into effect in 1992, prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, or in the terms, conditions and privileges of employment.

Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that the Bible prohibits the consumption, storage and transfusion of blood, based on their understanding of scriptures such as Leviticus 17: 10, 11: " I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood ," and Acts 15: 29: " abstain from ...

Due to their excessive noise-making and drug dealing, Randal Graves files a restraining order against Jay and Silent Bob that prohibits them from coming within 100 feet of the Quick Stop or RST Video.

Article 8 ( 2 )( b )( i ) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court also prohibits attacks directed against civilians.

While NATO did not have the backing of the United Nations Security Council to use force in Yugoslavia, nor claims an armed attack occurred against another state, its advocates contend that its actions were consistent with the United Nations Charter, claiming that the UN Charter prohibits unprovoked attacks only by individual states but condones unprovoked attacks by military coalitions of several states, such as NATO.

In the post World War Two era, the UN Charter prohibits signatory countries from engaging in war except 1 ) as a means of defending themselves against aggression, or 2 ) unless the UN as a body has given prior approval to the operation.

Title VII also prohibits discrimination against an individual because of his or her association with another individual of a particular race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

§ 922 ( g )( 8 )( C )( ii ), a federal statute that prohibited the transportation of firearms or ammunition in interstate commerce by persons subject to a court order that, by its explicit terms, prohibits the use of physical force against an intimate partner or child.

* Human dignity is the basis of § 131 StGB, which prohibits the depiction of cruelty against humans in an approving way.

The campaign against the politically powerful Norman — and Davis ' high profile generally — ruffled feathers within the NYPD, and Davis was fired for violating a rule that prohibits paid city employees from engaging in electoral politics.