On 20 July 1903, Leo XIII died, and at the end of that month the conclave convened to elect his successor.

In 1903, he received the support of the Democratic minority in the California State Legislature during the legislature's vote to elect a United States Senator from California.

In 1903, the political arena was a hot place, it being the first taste of the Filipinos to elect their own leaders.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

* 1960 – Melvin Purvis, American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent ( b. 1903 )

" This was followed in 1903 by his qualification to teach criminal law in Heidelberg.

In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's ( ICC ) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.

The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

Category: 1903 in law

Category: 1903 in law

Congress renewed the law on March 3, 1903, since no action had yet been taken, and this time specified that it be recut from the existing model which ended any further discussion.

Educated from 1903 at St Joseph's Christian Brothers School in Fairview, North Dublin, he moved to the O ' Connell School in north Dublin for senior classes, and then attended University College Dublin and graduated with a degree in modern languages and law.

The Legislature passed a third annexation law in 1903, this time submitting it to the voters Stark County and the unorganized counties of Dunn and Hettinger for approval.

The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled the 1903 law unconstitutional in 1905.

The Legislature passed a third annexation law in 1903, this time submitting it to the voters Stark County and the unorganized counties of Dunn and Hettinger for approval.

The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled the 1903 law unconstitutional in 1905, which ended further attempts at annexation.

George Bull was from a family from the Trenton area and had moved to North Bay in 1903 to start a law firm.

An authority on international law, he served as associate counsel for the United States, in the Bering Sea Arbitration in 1892-93, as counsel for the United States Bering Sea Claims Commission in 1896-97, as solicitor for the government before the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903, as counsel for the North Atlantic Fisheries in the Arbitration at The Hague in 1909-10, and as agent of the United States in the American and British Arbitration in 1912-14.

Rockwood, which incorporated in 1890, passed an ordinance banning the sale of alcohol in 1903, but the ordinance didn't apply to railroads, and the so-called " jug train " from Chattanooga continued supplying Rockwood with liquor until the statewide prohibition law took effect in 1909.

During this period Hughes studied law, and was admitted as a barrister in 1903.

Eliot Ness ( April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957 ) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables.

He headed a joint deputation from Transvaal and Orange Free State to Europe and America during the Boer War to solicit support for the Boers, returning in 1903 to practice law in the newly formed Orange River Colony.

Mathews returned home to the private practice of law, although he did serve as mayor of the city of Brookings from 1897 – 1903.

He later apprenticed to a lawyer – a not uncommon practice then – read for the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1903.

The monks were again expelled from the monastery following a French law in 1903, and their real property, including the distillery, was confiscated by the government.

Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Ralston graduated from law school at Dalhousie University in 1903 and practised law in Amherst.

Authority to conduct executions was initially granted to local sheriffs, but in 1903, the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a law requiring all executions to be conducted at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

* 1903 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar ( d. 1990 )

* 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar ( d. 1990 )

* 1903, 10 May, Hans Jonas, died 5 Feb. 1993, Jewish-German philosopher and scholar, wrote extensively on ethics among other topics

* August 9-Gaston Paris, French writer and scholar ( died 1903 )

George Granville Bradley ( 11 December 1821 – 13 March 1903 ) was an English divine, scholar, and schoolteacher.

The first modern scholar to reconstruct the history of the ancient polity of Funan was Paul Pelliot, who in his ground-breaking article " Le Fou-nan " of 1903 drew exclusively on Chinese historical records in order to set forth the sequence of documented events connecting the foundation of Funan in approximately the 1st century C. E.

Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris ( August 9, 1839 – March 5, 1903 ) was a French writer and scholar.

A search of Spanish archives in 1903 by scholar Pascual de Gayangos and a search of Peruvian archives in 2003 by historian Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo found no mention of Bass.

* Albert Hugh Smith ( 1903 – 1967 ), English topographer and language scholar

* February 2-Louis-Marie Régis, philosopher, theologian, scholar and member of the Dominican Order ( b. 1903 )

Dr. Emerson retired in 1903 and William J. Rolfe, a Shakespearean scholar and actor, was named the second President of Emerson College of Oratory.

* T. N. Ramachandran ( 1903 – 1973 ), art historian, artist, archaeologist and a Sanskrit scholar

* Girolamo De Rada ( 1814 – 1903 ), poet, folklorist and Albanian nationalist, among the major intellectual scholar of the Albanian language and Arbëreshë folklore.

* Abul Ala Maududi one of the Muslim scholar ( 1903 – 1979 ) was born in Aurangabad, India.

* James Montgomery Beck, Class of 1880, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1896 – 1900 ; Assistant Attorney General of the United States, 1900 – 1903 ; Solicitor General of the United States, 1921 – 1925 ; Member of United States House of Representatives, 1927 – 1934 ; and noted constitutional law scholar.

* James Montgomery Beck, Class of 1880 and Trustee, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1896 – 1900 ; Assistant Attorney General of the United States, 1900 – 1903 ; Solicitor General of the United States, 1921 – 1925 ; Member of United States House of Representatives, 1927 – 1934 ; and noted constitutional law scholar ; his most famous book, The Constitution of the United States ( 1924 ), sold over 50, 000 copies, including translations in German and French ; President of the Philadelphia Shakespeare Society from 1913 until his death in April 1936 ; elected a bencher of Gray ’ s Inn in 1914, being the first foreigner in 600 years to receive that distinction ; received decorations from France and Belgium

* Eric A. Havelock ( 1903 – 1988 ), British ( later Canadian and American ) scholar

* Edward A. Jones ( born 1903 ), African-American linguist, scholar and diplomat

" Although Tolkien most likely was not the originator because he was merely 11 years old in 1903 when a strange novel called “ Gee-Boy ” — which also alludes to the aesthetic properties of cellar door — was published by the Shakespeare scholar Cyrus Lauron Hooper.

Joseph studied at the Torah Lehranstalt until 1903, when he was awarded semicha ( rabbinic ordination ), and in 1905 he completed university studies at the University of Strasbourg with a PhD on the work of legal scholar Anselm von Feuerbach.

The Danish scholar Axel Olrik ( 1903 ) has proposed a solution to why the sources vary.

* Daniel Silvan Evans ( 1818 – 1903 ), Welsh scholar and lexicographer

Daniel Silvan Evans ( 11 January 1818 – 12 April 1903 ) was a Welsh scholar and lexicographer.

In 1903 – 4 a Viennese ex-Cistercian monk, Bible scholar and inventor named Jörg Lanz-Liebenfels ( subsequently, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels ) published a lengthy article under the Latin title ' Anthropozoon Biblicum ' (" The Biblical Man-Animal ") in a journal for Biblical studies edited by Moritz Altschüler, a Jewish admirer of Guido von List.