His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

In the first place the new doctrine brought a formal separation of international from municipal law, rejecting the earlier view that both were parts of a universal legal system.

( 2 ) Realtors realize, of course, that they are involved in an increasingly complex legal and political system that is opening up opportunities for leverage on their relation to clients as well as opportunities for evasion of their responsibility for racial discrimination in housing.

The specific rules of the legal system will dictate exactly how the appeal is officially begun.

The United States legal system generally recognizes two types of appeals: a trial " de novo " or an appeal on the record.

The legal system was based on Portuguese and customary law but was weak and fragmented.

If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.

In some jurisdictions such as Singapore, judicial corporal punishment is part of the legal system.

Alfred was a learned and merciful man who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system and military structure.

Athens had an elaborate legal system centered on full citizen rights ( see atimia ).

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

As a homogeneous legal substance isolated in a system of jurisprudence, the administrative law of Ukraine is characterized as: 1 ) a branch of law ; 2 ) a science ; 3 ) a discipline.

The adversarial system ( or adversary system ) is a legal system where two advocates represent their parties ' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who attempt to determine the truth of the case.

There may also be legal or contractual requirements for acceptance of the system.

In regulation acceptance testing, a system is tested to ensure it meets governmental, legal and safety standards.

The term " black-letter law " is also used commonly in the American legal system to mean well-established case law.

Category: Abuse of the legal system

Chiefs and other leaders preside over customary, traditional courts, though all persons have the right to request that their case be considered under the formal British-based legal system.

Legal meaning of the terms bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation and dissolution are contested in the Indian legal system.

That said, there will still be competitors who " crack " the system when the legal barriers are light, especially where the old guard has become inefficient and is failing to meet the needs of the market.

A " common law system " is a legal system that gives great precedential weight to common law ,< ref > Washington Probate, " Estate Planning & Probate Glossary ", Washington ( State ) Probate, s. v.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

The day before Election Day, to which we are entitled as a legal holiday, we were informed to report to our respective polls to work as `` workers of the party ''.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

Send your return to the Director of Internal Revenue for the district in which you have your legal residence or principal place of business.

Yet the huge amount of money consumed by the Selden litigation, which many regarded as wasteful, indirectly contributed to constructive changes in legal procedure.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

But I had the proof, all documented in a legal agreement which I would show her the moment I was free to do so.

The mandate is distinguished from the appeal court's opinion, which sets out the legal reasoning for its decision.

The famous Latin Responsa Prudentium (" answers of the learned ones ") were the accumulated views of many successive generations of Roman lawyers, a body of legal opinion which gradually became authoritative.

Documents which have been notarized by a notary public, and certain other documents, and then certified with a conformant apostille are accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed the Hague Convention.

Distinctions in vocabulary persist, for example, in culinary terms, where communication with Germans is frequently difficult, and administrative and legal language, which is due to Austria's exclusion from the development of a German nation-state in the late 19th century and its manifold particular traditions.

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches.

Various theorists have differing, though similar, legal philosophies which are considered to fall under " anarcho-capitalism.

In Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism, there would first be the implementation of a mutually agreed-upon libertarian " legal code which would be generally accepted, and which the courts would pledge themselves to follow.

Doubleday assumed administrative duties in the defenses of Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of courts martial, which gave him legal experience that he used after the war.

In the 2001 film Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would ultimately aid her in discovering his location in Florence, Italy, due to it being legal only in few parts of the world.

This was perfectly legal in this case, but an example of the extreme severity with which the people could punish those who served them.

Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.