Holding the title of " author " over any " literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, certain other intellectual works " give rights to this person, the owner of the copyright, exclusive right to do or authorize any production or distribution of their work.

This use of the title is said to have originated in the right conceded to the king of France, by the concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I ( 1516 ), to appoint abbés commendataires to most of the abbeys in France.

In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.

The right to use only a title as a legal signature is only permitted to bishops, Peers of the Realm and peers by courtesy.

With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continue to assert their right to the imperial title.

The relating adjective is consular, from the Latin consularis ( which has been used, substantiated, as a title in its own right ).

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

Because the first duke had no surviving sons, the title was allowed ( by a special Act of Parliament ) to pass to his eldest daughter in her own right.

Recently pharmacists have obtained the right to use the title " dr " after successfully completing the faculty of pharmaceutical-chemistry in relevant universities.

Some states dispute the international acceptance of the right of their deposed monarchs to be referred to by their former title.

After being acclaimed imperator, the victorious general had a right to use the title after his name until the time of his triumph, where he would relinquish the title as well as his imperium.

Her official title was ' king ' rather than ' queen ', reflecting that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort.

The masculine gender of her title was also meant to emphasize that she was monarch in her own right, not a queen consort.

The right to use the organization title was afterward contested.

The style Dame Heather McCartney could be used for the wife of a knight ; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right ( such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted ).

That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

Most of these productions aped the format of Mad right down to choosing a synonym for the word Mad as their title.

The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father ; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe (" The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite !/ That ever I was born to set it right!

The prizes include but are not limited to any given championship belt ( the traditional prize ), a document granting the winner the right to a future title shot, or any document that matters to the wrestlers involved in the match.

In a craft conference in Kyoto in 1979, a heated debate sprang up between Western raku artists Paul Soldner and Rick Hirsh and the youngest in the dynastic raku succession, Kichiemon, ( of the fourteenth generation of the " Raku " family of potters ) concerning the right to use the title " raku ".

However, the right to stand for elections remains with matai title holders.

In covert socialism -- toward which America is moving -- private enterprise retains the ownership title to industries but government thru direct intervention and excessive regulations actually controls them.

* categorizing and prioritizing rights to property — for example, the same article of property often has a " legal title " and an " equitable title ," and these two groups of ownership rights may be held by different people.

* statements assuming possession or ownership (" he is the landlord ") with more operationally exact ones (" he owns the building and manages it ") that describe the implications that the title or credential assumes.

* Repudiation of absolute beneficial title of all lands: The majority in Mabo also rejected the proposition that immediately upon the acquisition of sovereignty, absolute beneficial ownership of all the lands of the Colony vested in the Crown.

In some cases, there can be formal title documents that show the ownership and transfer rights of that property after a person's death ( for example, motor vehicles, boats, etc.

In many countries the Torrens title system of real estate ownership is managed and guaranteed by the government and replaces cumbersome tracing of ownership.

Squatters often claim rights over the spaces they have squatted by virtue of occupation, rather than ownership ; in this sense, squatting is similar to ( and potentially a necessary condition of ) adverse possession, by which a possessor of real property without title may eventually gain legal title to the real property.

In the case of indigenous Australians, unlike with the Māori of New Zealand, no treaty was ever entered into with the indigenous peoples entitling the Europeans to land ownership, under the doctrine of terra nullius ( later overturned by Mabo v Queensland, establishing the concept of native title well after colonization was already a fait accompli ).

The trustee has legal title to the trust property, but the beneficiaries have equitable title to the trust property ( separation of control and ownership ).

In particular, ownership of a matrimonial home is commonly effected by a trust with both partners as beneficiaries and one, or both, owning the legal title as trustee.

* Alienation ( property law ), the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party

In Scotland the same person is always the Duke of Rothesay as well, but this is a dukedom ( title ) without a duchy ( territorial ownership ).

The castellan Bernat de Bell-lloc gave the title of town to Reus on 3 August 1183, giving the ownership of houses and gardens, establishing a census to pay for farmland and reserving justice, but recognizing its vassalage towards the archbishopric of Tarragona.

The Lancastrian inheritance, known as the Duchy of Lancaster, has remained in English and then British Royal ownership, with monarchs bearing the title Duke of Lancaster.

The title passed to the succeeding public bodies and is now in the ownership of the City of Westminster.

Thus, Plymouth landowners who could establish their chain of title retained ownership of their land, but came under the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania.

In return, Tower was to receive ownership and title to one half of all the land acquired once all the cost to Munson had been settled, or until Tower paid him half the value of the total land purchase. Sign constructed by the Rotary Club on Rt.

There follows the passing of title ( property or ownership ) in the item, and the application and due settlement of a price, the obligation for which arises due to the seller's requirement to pass ownership.

Under the ownership of Count Antoon de Lalaing ( 1480 – 1540 ) and his wife, Countess Elisabeth van Culemborg ( 1475 – 1555 ), the ‘ Land van Hoogstraten ’ became a county, a title bestowed by Margaretha of Austria.

* 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

The convergence of documentary evidence of the type used by academics for authorial attribution — title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians, and official records — sufficiently establishes Shakespeare's authorship for the overwhelming majority of Shakespeare scholars and literary historians, and no evidence links Oxford to Shakespeare's works.

* March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

de Paris, 1781 ), which is an elegant investigation of the problem with earthworks referred to in the title and establishes in connection with it his capital discovery of the curves of curvature of a surface.

The sources for Pilate's life are the four canonical gospels, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, a brief mention by Tacitus, and an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect.

As a result of his significance as a patriarch, Abraham is sometimes given the misleading title Father of the Prophets, which contradicts the teachings of the Qur ' an, which establishes that many prophets, such as Noah, lived before Abraham.

In the motion picture industry, the chain of title involves the series of documentation which establishes proprietary rights in a film.

Chain of title is extremely important to film purchasers and to film distributors, as it establishes the veracity of the owner's proprietary rights ( or rights under license ) in the intellectual property in a film, book or encyclopedia.

Subject to the requirements of the recording laws of the state in which the land is located, this attachment establishes the priority of the mortgage lien with respect to most other liens on the property's title.

The title theme music, composed by jazz pianist Roy Budd, establishes its rhythmic understone with the cimbalom, an instrument often associated with spy thrillers ( John Barry, for example, uses the cimbalom in his film score for The Ipcress File and The Quiller Memorandum ).

All the games in the series begin with a quick opening sequence that quickly establishes the game's premise, often ending with a cliffhanger, followed by a title card.

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The Holy See of Rome approved this title by giving recognitio to the " Code of Particular Canons of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church " which very clearly establishes the title Catholicos of the Father and Head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.

In its title on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union establishes that ‘ the Union shall develop and pursue its actions leading to the strengthening of its economic, social and territorial cohesion ’.

Its official title is " On the Status of International Military Headquarters Set up Pursuant to the North Atlantic Treaty " and it establishes

" Registration establishes proof of ownership and produces an easy-to-read document reflecting the contents of all the paper title deeds.

Article III of the Constitution of the Marshall Islands recognises the title, and establishes a Council of Iroij, composed of holders of the title of Iroijlaplap, or other analogous traditional titles, chosen from holders of the chieftainship among the several constituent islands.