In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.

" The contains a simple and brief definition for the term bodhisattva, which is also the earliest known Mahāyāna definition.

It mostly contains scenes from the movie with brief linking sections performed by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman.

In the Chronicles version, which takes place forty years later but which still relies on 1920s nostalgia, the story contains a brief paragraph about medical treatments that slow the aging process, so that the characters can be traveling to Mars in the 2000s but still remember the 1920s.

Then, between 27 and 30 August 1865, he took up Parsifal again and made a prose draft of the work ; this contains a fairly brief outline of the plot and a considerable amount of detailed commentary on the characters and themes of the drama.

Regarding article 1 of the preface of Dei Verbum, Joseph Ratzinger writes, " The brief form of the Preface and the barely concealed illogicalities that it contains betray clearly the confusion from which it has emerged.

The work as planned had three parts: the Code ( Codex ) is a compilation, by selection and extraction, of imperial enactments to date ; the Digest or Pandects ( the Latin title contains both Digesta and Pandectae ) is an encyclopedia composed of mostly brief extracts from the writings of Roman jurists ; and the Institutes ( Institutiones ) is a student textbook, mainly introducing the Code although it has important conceptual elements that are less developed in the Code or the Digest.

The film contains explicit sexual dialogue, and was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early movie by a friend of Smith's.

Their website contains brief descriptions of Jewish festivals.

Chapter 1 contains a brief biography.

The work contains thirty brief, vigorous, and trenchant outlines of moral types, which form a most valuable picture of the life of his time, and in fact of human nature in general.

" Ken Russell's television film Dante's Inferno ( 1967 ) contains brief scenes on some of the leading Pre-Raphaelites but mainly concentrates on the life of Rossetti, played by Oliver Reed.

* Tzakhot ( 1145 ), on linguistic correctness, his best grammatical work, which also contains a brief outline of modern Hebrew meter ; first ed.

The publication is written in Classical Chinese and contains a preface, the alphabet letters ( jamo ), and brief descriptions of their corresponding sounds.

# The Discovery / Turn Your Back ( 5: 01 )* ( contains a brief alternate segment at 1: 34 – 1: 46 )

The trio contains contrasting lyrical material ; however, as it comes to a close, Mahler alludes again to the Ländler by interjecting brief rising material from the first section.

* Synaxarion ( Greek: Συναξάριον ; Romanian: Sinaxar )— The Synaxarion contains for each day of the year brief lives of the saints and meanings of celebrated feasts, appointed to be read after the Kontakion and Oikos at Matins.

La Vita Nuova contains 42 brief chapters ( 31 for Guglielmo Gorni ) with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni ; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lifelong love.

The back of the album cover contains an essay of biographical information of Stevens from his youth in his hometown of Clarkdale, Georgia to the time of this album's release and gives brief descriptions of all the songs on the album.

Finally, the film contains a brief reference to its predecessors by including a few short scenes from Halloween in a television commercial that advertises the airing of the film for that upcoming holiday as a minor story within a story.

The Stone contains Dorothy Dunnett's name, her coat of arms, and a brief quote from one of her books " Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past ".

" The first act contains " a brief scene " of ( simulated ) anal rape, but the Police had visited the production three times and found no basis for legal action.

While Agaricus bisporus only contains 16 IU of vitamin D as ergocalciferol ( vitamin D2 ), since they also contain high amounts of ergosterol, by brief exposure to UV light the ergocalciferol contents rise immensely.

The first part of the movement contains another brief but notable bit of tone painting: a fortissimo bottom B-flat ( sounding in octaves ) for bassoons and contrabassoon accompanying the last word of the line, " By heavy beasts the ground is trod.

* Earliest Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics: entry on F-distribution contains a brief history

* brief, concise notation

After that, Maharishi Bhrigu gave his predictions on different types of horoscopes compiled by him with the help of Lord Ganesha in a brief and concise manner.

Carroll's first mention of a Bandersnatch, in the poem " Jabberwocky " ( which appears in Through the Looking-Glass ), is very brief: the narrator of the poem admonishes his son to " shun / The frumious Bandersnatch "— this particular portmanteau being a concise way of describing the creature's fuming and furious nature.

In the rules of the United States Supreme Court and circuit courts of appeals the brief is required to contain a concise statement of the case, a specification of errors relied on, including the substance of evidence, the admission or rejection of which is to be reviewed, or any extract from a charge excepted to, and an argument exhibiting clearly the points of law or fact to be discussed.

Through brief flash-forward sequences of still images, Lola's fleeting interactions with bystanders are revealed to have surprising and drastic effects on their future lives, serving as concise illustrations of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which minor, seemingly inconsequential variations in any interaction can blossom into much wider results than is often recognized.

Anslinger sometimes used the very brief and concise language in many police reports when he wrote about drug crimes:

EAs are concise public documents that include: a brief discussion of the need for the proposal ; a listing of alternatives and a listing of agencies and persons consulted.

A suicide note is typically brief, concise and highly propositional with a degree of evasiveness.

On the whole his style is brief and concise, but too frequently deficient in ease and clearness.

His aim was to be brief, concise, strong and bitter, to aim at the sublime as opposed to the lowly and pastoral.

Though brief, it includes a thorough collection of tables, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs, and is useful as a concise introduction to the nature of the Wehrmacht's ground forces of the period.

The Epitome is a brief and concise presentation of the Formula's twelve articles ; the Solid Declaration a detailed exposition.

Part 4, is a brief summary.

* Argument ( literature ), a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work

In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.

For organization and ease of reference here, the relevant major terrorist attacks are listed by date below, with a brief summary for each, identifying the terror cells most directly responsible for the attack.

* Survey of Floating-Point Formats This page gives a very brief summary of floating-point formats that have been used over the years.

The brief allusion to the Judgment in the Iliad ( 24. 25 – 30 ) shows that the episode initiating all the subsequent action was already familiar to its audience ; a fuller version was told in the Cypria, a lost work of the Epic Cycle, of which only fragments ( and a reliable summary ) remain.

It also included a " document summary " screen for each document, another Wang feature, which allowed more sophisticated document-management than the brief file names allowed by MS-DOS and PC-DOS.

A brief summary of the acts was read at and accepted by the Councils of Carthage in 397 and 419.

Maurice Keen provides a brief summary and useful critique of the once-popular view that Robin Hood had mythological origins, while ( unlike some ) refraining from utterly and finally dismissing it.

In a paper presented by Gerber, Barnard and Van der Merwe the Semantic Web landscape is charted and a brief summary of related terms and enabling technologies is presented.

The chief work of Severus is the Chronicle ( Chronica, Chronicorum Libri duo or Historia sacra, c. 403 ), a summary of sacred history from the beginning of the world to his own times, with the omission of the events recorded in the Gospels and the Acts, " lest the form of his brief work should detract from the honour due to those events ".

A brief summary of the plots of the two sagas, given at the end of this article, shows many more examples.

A brief summary of data from this report can be found online. go to Vol 13, No. 15

After a brief lull in the summer of 1924, Trotsky published The Lessons of October, an extensive summary of the events of 1917.

A brief summary and confirmation can be found in Time magazine on November 15, 1954. under the heading “ Subway of the Future ”.

Following is a brief textual summary of the most commonly used RAID levels.

Within the narrative of The Lord of the Rings, the kingdom is first introduced at the Council of Elrond, with a brief summary of the Second and Third Ages.

The following is a brief summary of the central recurring characters.

* A brief summary of the game

Note: This is a brief summary of the main events of Abraham's life as recognized in Islam

The greeting in the card can be personalized but brief, or may include a summary of the year's news.

A brief summary of the clan's history.

The CIA's senior political analyst for the Iran-Iraq war, Stephen C. Pelletiere, co-authored an unclassified analysis of the war which contained a brief summary of the DIA study's key points.

* Synopsis — a brief summary of the episode's plot

Published judgments are extremely brief, containing a statement of the case — citing relevant statutory authorities — and a summary of ruling.