Within classical Islamic jurisprudence — the development of which is to be dated into the first few centuries after the prophets death — jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and may consist in wars against unbelievers, apostates, rebels, highway robbers and dissenters renouncing the authority of Islam.

The will, which was not signed by Polo, but was validated by then relevant " signum manus " rule, by which the testator only had to touch the document to make it abide to the rule of law, was dated January 9, 1324.

A single law of his has survived, dated 11 March 473, addressed to Himilco, the Praetorian Prefect of Italy ; it concerns simony.

The regnal year standard is still used with respect to statutes and law reports published in some parts of the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries ( England abandoned this practice in 1963 ): a statute signed into law in Canada between February 6, 1994 and February 5, 1995 would be dated 43 Elizabeth II, for instance.

This universal law of nature embraces laws of motion as well, for an object moving others by its own force in fact imparts to another object the force it loses " ( first articulated in a letter to Leonhard Euler dated 5 July 1748, rephrased and published in Lomonosov's dissertation " Reflexion on the solidity and fluidity of bodies ", 1760 ).

Schmidt says that city rights were granted for the first time in a document dated 9 September 1310: Brandenburgian margraves Waldemar and Johann V granted Lübeck law, which he confirmed and extended in a second document, dated 2 February 1313.

It is probably to this time that another law is to be dated, the Novella Maioriani 12 known as De aurigis et seditiosis (" Concerning Charioteers and Seditious Persons "), to quell the disorders that sprang up during the chariot races.

The department was created in the early years of the French Revolution through the application of a law dated 22 December 1789, from part of the former province of Franche-Comté.

Attempts to harmonise copyright law in Europe ( and beyond ) can be dated to the signature of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works on 9 September 1886: all European Union Member States are signatories of the Berne Convention, and compliance with its dispositions is now obligatory before accession.

His answer is dated from Stuttgart, 6 October 1510 ; in it he divides the books into six classes — apart from the Bible which no one proposed to destroy — and, going through each class, he shows that the books openly insulting to Christianity are very few and viewed as worthless by most Jews themselves, while the others are either works necessary to the Jewish worship, which was licensed by papal as well as imperial law, or contain matter of value and scholarly interest which ought not to be sacrificed because they are connected with another faith than that of the Christians.

The " Gesetz über die Hitlerjugend " ( law about the HJ ) dated 1 December 1936 forced all eligible juveniles to be a member of HJ or BDM.

" He told a stewardess he had briefly dated that he was also a Harvard law student, and she introduced him to a lawyer friend.

By law dated 16 February 1791 this force was renamed the gendarmerie nationale.

A German legal decision dated 5 November 1930 at the I. Zivilsenat des Reichsgericht on copyright law, used a photographic copy in a textbook of the picture of Charles enthroned in the book as an example, referring to " The connection between the written work and a picture in it, the presentation and teaching purpose being to support the text ".

The U. S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions in a unanimous decision ( dated June 12, 1967 ), dismissing the Commonwealth of Virginia's argument that a law forbidding both white and black persons from marrying persons of another race, and providing identical penalties to white and black violators, could not be construed as racially discriminatory.

In a message dated June 21, 1884, the President explained " I do not question the constitutional right of Congress to pass a law relieving the family of an officer, in view of the services he had rendered his country, from the burdens of taxation, but I submit to Congress that this just gift of the nation to the family of such faithful officer should come from the National Treasury rather than from that of this District, and I therefore recommend that an appropriation be made to reimburse the District for the amount of taxes which would have been due to it had this act not become a law.

Turkish Flag Regulation No. 2 / 7175 dated July 28, 1937, and Supplementary Regulation No. 11604 / 2 dated July 29, 1939, were enacted to describe how the flag law would be implemented.

Subsequently, a law dated 29 July 1881 founded the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles located in Sèvres.

The entire Act consists of a single effective section, which reads, " As from the date of the passing of this Act, the Island of Rockall ( of which possession was formally taken in the name of Her Majesty on 18th September 1955 in pursuance of a Royal Warrant dated 14th September 1955 addressed to the Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Vidal ) shall be incorporated into that part of the United Kingdom known as Scotland and shall form part of the District of Harris in the County of Inverness, and the law of Scotland shall apply accordingly.

An example of the legal sanction granted can be found in a Massachusetts Bay Colony law dated May 7, 1662: " This Court doth Order, as an encouragement to persons to destroy Woolves, That henceforth every person killing any Woolf, shall be allowed out of the Treasury of that County where such woolf was slain, Twenty shillings, and by the Town Ten shillings, and by the County Treasurer Ten shillings: which the Constable of each Town ( on the sight of the ears of such Woolves being cut off ) shall pay out of the next County rate, which the Treasurer shall allow.

However, in February 2006 the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany struck down these provisions of the law, stating such preventive measures were unconstitutional and would essentially be state-sponsored murder, even if such an act would save many more lives on the ground.

It signed Decree 200, of 25 February 1967, that the Ministry of the Armed Forces foresaw the promotion of studies to elaborate the law project creating.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

In February 1567 he was admitted to Gray's Inn to study law.

Its statutory law of 27 February 2004 gives it the particular designation of " overseas country " to underline the large autonomy of the territory.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

The French National Convention, the first elected Assembly of the First Republic ( 1792 – 1804 ), on the 4th of February 1794, under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, abolished slavery by law in France and all its colonies.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 of February 22, 1993 decided that " an international tribunal shall be established for the prosecution of persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 " and calling on the Secretary-General to " submit for consideration by the Council … a report on all aspects of this matter, including specific proposals and where appropriate options … taking into account suggestions put forward in this regard by Member States ".

A February 1996 referendum — in violation of the constitution and the law on referendums — amended the constitution to give President Akayev more power.

A February 1996 referendum – in violation of the Constitution and the law on referendums – amended the Constitution to give President Akayev more power.

On 1 February 2005 King Gyanendra suspended the Parliament, appointed a government led by himself, and enforced martial law.

The institutional organization is the result of the organic law and ordinary law passed by the Parliament on 16 February 1999.

Several attempted coups served to remind President Félix Pavia ( the former dean of law at the National University ) that although the February Revolution was out of power, it was far from dead.

On 20 February 2006, Irving was found guilty, and sentenced to three years imprisonment for Holocaust denial, under Austria's 1947 law banning Nazi revivalism and criminalising the " public denial, belittling or justification of National Socialist crimes ".

On 23 February 2005, the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) conservative majority at the French National Assembly voted a law compelling history textbooks and teachers to " acknowledge and recognize in particular the positive role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa ".

Moreover, further debate about colonialism, which is linked to immigration, continued in France ; historian Benjamin Stora noted that colonialism is an important " memory " stake influencing how communities, and the nation, itself, represent themselves, because official state history has accepted French historic crimes and errors with great difficulty ; the historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the 23 February 2005 law.

On 27 April 1848, following the February revolution in France, a law was passed in Paris enabling the Four Quarters to elect a Deputy to the French Parliament for the first time.

Following the downfall of the French Second Empire the Four Quarters was again allowed a parliamentary seat which was granted by law on 1 February 1871.

Nonetheless his function as commander in chief and his role of the symbol of national unity have been exercised, most notably in the military coup of 23 February 1981, where king Juan Carlos I addressed the country on national television in military uniform, denouncing the coup and urging the maintenance of the law and the continuance of the democratically elected government, thus defusing the uprising.

On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice gave the following advisory opinion: " The declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on 17 February 2008 did not violate international law.

He said, " If every parent uses this chip wisely, it can become a powerful voice against teen violence, teen pregnancy, teen drug use, and for both learning and entertainment ," as he signed the law on February 8, 1996.

* February 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that " an international tribunal shall be established " to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia.

* February 26 – Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law.