The Archbishop of Canterbury has a ceremonial provincial curia, or court, consisting of some of the senior bishops of his province.

Other telephone companies, many of which were publicly owned, were regulated by provincial authorities until court rulings during the 1990s affirmed federal jurisdiction over the sector, which also included some fifty small independent incumbents, most of them in Ontario and Quebec.

Criminal offences are found within the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal / provincial laws, with the exception that contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada.

Lesser members of the Fujiwara were court nobles, provincial governors and vice governors, members of the provincial aristocracy, and samurai.

The equestrian class would get to control a court that tried senators for misconduct in provincial administration.

In Canada, an individual charged with an indictable offence may elect to be tried by a judge alone in a provincial court, by judge alone in a superior court, or by judge and jury in a superior court ; summary offences cannot be tried by jury.

* Appeals of summary conviction offences go first to the highest trial court within the jurisdiction ( e. g. provincial superior court in Alberta is the Court of Queen ’ s Bench ).

* Almost always heard first in a provincial court ( although some exceptions apply, such as a summary conviction offence included for trial with an indictable offence ).

However, Palermo was now just another provincial city as the royal court resided in Naples.

The king alone raised a man to the position of a gesith, a thane, a provincial or local reeve, a court officer or a royal chaplain, one of which titles seems to have been the indispensable qualification for a vote.

The Chancellor's other duties included managing provincial registers for land and population, leading court conferences, acting as judge in lawsuits and recommending nominees for high office.

Generally, it is only appropriate to use the term " judge " when speaking of an anonymous or general position, such as " the trial judge ," or when referring to a member of an inferior or provincial court such as the Ontario Court of Justice.

Basil showed considerable statesmanship in his treatment of the defeated Bulgarians ; he gave many former Bulgarian leaders court titles, positions in provincial administration, and high commands in the army.

The province had a single provincial court ( Landgericht ) and a central administration with its seat at Hagenau.

The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.

On November 1, 1999, the provincial court of appeal ruled that nothing in the law prevented a person who was legally male from legally adopting a woman's name.

Since the passage of a 1981 provincial law, intended to promote gender equality as outlined in the Quebec Charter of Rights, no change may be made to a person's name without the authorization of the registrar of civil status or the authorization of the court.

A series of provincial superior court decisions allowing same-sex marriage led the federal government to introduce legislation that introduced same sex marriage in all of Canada.

He was the fifth son born to Beneigne Bossuet, a judge of the parlement ( a provincial high court ) at Dijon, and Marguerite Mouchet.

This ushered in the warlord era, during which much of the country was ruled by shifting coalitions of competing provincial military leaders.

Later, in the Persian Empire, a regulated and sustainable tax system was introduced by Darius I the Great in 500 BC ; the Persian system of taxation was tailored to each Satrapy ( the area ruled by a Satrap or provincial governor ).

These kingdoms were sometimes grouped together and ruled by a single, provincial ruler.

An earlier attempt to create an Employment and Social Insurance Act during the Great Depression had been ruled to be unconstitutional, since unemployment assistance was judged by the courts to be a provincial responsibility.

It is later described in the territory of the tribe of Asher and according to Josephus, was ruled by one of Solomon's provincial governors.

Finally, for purposes of taxation, Languedoc was ruled by the States of Languedoc, whose jurisdiction included only Languedoc proper ( and Albigeois ), but not Gévaudan, Velay, and Vivarais, which kept each their own provincial states until 1789.

In its decision in the Patriation Reference ( 1981 ), the Supreme Court of Canada had ruled there was a tradition that some provincial approval should be sought for constitutional reform.

This region is ruled by provincial kings called Paduka Bhattara with the title Bhre.

However, the act was ruled unconstitutional after Doctors for Life International challenged it at the Constitutional Court, citing the insufficient public participation at provincial level in the drafting of the act.

As Uroš was childless and the nobility could not agree on the rightful heir, the Empire continued to be ruled by semi-independent provincial lords, who often were in feud with each other.

Same-sex marriage was originally legalized as a result of court cases in which provincial or territorial justices ruled existing bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

The People's Republic of China ( PRC ), which has ruled the Chinese mainland since 1949, does not recognise the move of the provincial government from Taipei to Zhongxing New Village as legitimate.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Patriation Reference that provincial consent was not technically needed, but that substantial consent from the provinces was needed according to constitutional convention.

In March 2005, however, the Supreme Court Chief Justice ruled that the Federal Shari ' a Court had no jurisdiction to review a decision by a provincial high court even if the Federal Shari ' a Court should have had initial appellate jurisdiction.

In 1873, the Supreme Court of New Brunswick ruled that the provincial taxation statute was unconstitutional, because it intruded on federal jurisdiciton over inter-jurisdictional railways.

It was, however, ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada as unemployment was judged to be an insurance matter falling under provincial responsibility.

Under the emperor Aurelian ( r. 270-5 ), the Romans withdrew their forces, and possibly a significant proportion of the provincial population, from the part of Dacia they ruled.

However, his position was upheld on appeal by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire, which ruled that the statute was within provincial powers.

East of these mountains, local chieftains ruled under the nominal authority of the Sichuan provincial government ; Lhasa administered the area to the west.

The provincial governments of Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador also attacked the bill arguing it exceeded the federal government's mandate and arguing that it was too expensive ; however the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the registry in Reference re Firearms Act.

This began in 1882, when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ( then the supreme authority over Canadian law ) ruled in Russell v. The Queen that the federal government could legislate with regard to alcohol, because even though this would probably have been considered provincial jurisdiction in ordinary circumstances, the federal government was acting to ensure order in Canada.

This decision was then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Vriend v. Alberta, who finally ruled in 1998 that provincial governments could not exclude protection of individuals from human rights legislation on the basis of sexual orientation ..

On March 31, 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the interpretation made by the provincial administration of the " major part " criterion in Quebec's language of instruction provisions violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.