The size and shape of the civil ensign (" Koffardiflaget ") for merchant ships is given in the regulation of June 11, 1748, which says: A red flag with a white cross with no split end.

This definition are the absolute proportions for the Danish national flag to this day, for both the civil version of the flag (" Stutflaget "), as well as the merchant flag (" Handelsflaget ").

In addition to the flags use by the government and people, the flag is also used in EU military operations ; however, it is not used as a civil ensign.

In 2003, a member of the European Parliament tabled a proposal in a temporary committee of the European Parliament that national civil ensigns be defaced with the European flag.

This proposal was rejected by Parliament in 2004, and hence the European flag is not used as a European civil ensign.

In some countries the civil flag is the same as the war flag or state flag, but without the coat of arms, such as in the case of Spain, and in others it's an alteration of the war flag.

In most cases, the civil flag is a simplified version of the state flag, with the difference often being the presence of a coat of arms on the state flag that is absent from the civil flag.

Although inspired in the National flag, the yacht ensign is not always corresponding with the civil or merchant ensign of the state in question.

It can be traced back to 1823 when it was created as a signal flag, never intended as a civil jack.

The square-cut Swedish state flag is identical to the civil ensign.

The flag is also flown by the defence ministry, while civil ministries fly square flags.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

This finding is consistent also with the fact that student leaders are more likely to be supporters of the values implicit in civil liberties than the other students.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

The concern of Utopia is with the optimo reipublicae statu, the best ordering of a civil society ; ;

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin: The civil law is concerned with public crimes.

Only confusion, failure and anarchy result when the effort is made to impose upon the civil authority the impossible task of policing private homes to preclude the possibility of sin.

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

It is the basis for Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ), which is used for civil timekeeping all over the Earth's surface, and for Terrestrial Time, which is used for astronomical calculations.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

Generally speaking in private, civil cases there is no plea entered of guilt or innocence.

" Österreichische Kanzleisprache " is now used less and less, thanks to various administrative reforms which have led to there being fewer of the classic civil servants, the Beamter.

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

It is thus much better equipped for fulfilling its civil roles as opposed to providing a deterrence against would-be aggressors or in defending the nation during a war.

The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability.

* 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.

* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

Any person who is seen as a threat to civil aviation is banned from flying.

* Supermarine Channel ( 1919 ) – civil version of the AD Flying Boat

Use of the Dutch name, " Wim ", a shortened version of the baptismal name " Wilhelm / Willem ", reflected his mother's Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the civil registration authorities in 1945 as " unGerman ".

For civil, commercial cases and criminal cases with the panel of judges presiding the right version is " Respected Court ".

It was a short version of Austrian civil code ( called Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ), which was made on the basis of Corpus Juris Civilis.

Bankston maintains that this secular version of social justice became widely accepted due to the rise of demand-side economics and to the moral influence of the civil rights movement.

The airline's initial fleet comprised four ex-military Douglas Dakotas and three Avro Lancastrians, the 13-seater civil version of the Lancaster Mark 3 bomber.

* The courts of Louisiana and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are organized under a civil law model with significantly different procedures from those of the courts in all other states and the District of Columbia, which are organized on an American version of the common law system established originally in England.

In 1972 Peck produced the film version of Daniel Berrigan's play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine about the prosecution of a group of Vietnam protesters for civil disobedience.

Since the civil rights movement, however, this version has been increasingly challenged by blacks who have sought to portray the black experience in Natchez.

This version of Ireton is ready to denounce the King and plunge England into civil war before Cromwell becomes convinced that this is a necessary step.

The British Red Ensign being paraded alongside the Australian Red Ensign during the 2007 Anzac Day celebrations in Brisbane, Australia. The Australian Red Ensign, is a red version of the Australian Flag and is a reserved civil ensign.

The land version of the national flag was to be used by ministries, embassies, and in general by all civil and military services, while the sea flag was to be used by naval and merchant vessels, consulates and private citizens.

In any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, only the Department for Transport's current printed version of the Code should be relied upon.

: Civil version of Mk 20 but fitted to civil standards, 28 built.

The latest version of the UK civil space strategy which defined the goals of BNSC was published in February 2008.

The other version is used for civil purposes.

* July 17 – Beagle B. 206 Basset Series 1, civil version of the Beagle Basset

* May 13 – Beagle B. 206 Basset Series 1, civil version of the Beagle Basset, with Rolls Royce Limited

* Antonov An-12 " Cub " ( civil version ) with Aeroflot

* A digitized version of Amalio Marichalar, Marqués de Montesa, Historia de la legislación y recitaciones del derecho civil de España: Fueros de Navarra, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa y Alava, 2ª ed.