This canon allows Catholics who are unable to approach a Catholic minister to receive, under certain conditions, the sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Anointing of the Sick from " non-Catholic ministers ministers in whose Churches these sacraments are valid ", and declares it licit for Catholic priests to administer the same three sacraments to members of Churches which the Holy See judges to be in the same condition in regard to the sacraments as the Eastern Churches, if they ask for the sacraments of their own accord and are properly disposed.

If the borrowers later sue for breach of contract, the settlement ( offer and acceptance of the $ 1000 ) constitutes an accord and satisfaction and is a valid defense to the borrowers law suit.

In their monograph on the Lycaenopsis group of polyommatine genera, Eliot & Kawazoe, 1983, list 14 taxa as valid subspecies names, plus many further synonyms to which they accord lesser status.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

Science does not have to answer questions about the Triangle because those questions are not valid in the first place ...

He also presents an argument against qualia ; he argues that the concept is so confused that it cannot be put to any use or understood in any non-contradictory way, and therefore does not constitute a valid refutation of physicalism.

While the Russian Orthodox Church does recognize the first seven ecumenical councils as valid, some Russian Orthodox theologians believe that the infallibility of these councils ' statements derived from their acceptance by the faithful ( and thus from the infallibility of all believers ), and not from the acts of the councils themselves.

Spain currently does not recognize the fence as the valid border, since it claims the fence was built on Spanish soil.

A plot of the first few factorials makes clear that such a curve can be drawn, but it would be preferable to have a formula that precisely describes the curve, in which the number of operations does not depend on the size of n. The simple formula for the factorial, n < nowiki >!</ nowiki > = 1 × 2 × … × n, cannot be used directly for fractional values of n since it is only valid when n is a natural number ( i. e., a positive integer ).

Ignoratio elenchi, also known as irrelevant conclusion, irrelevant thesis or fallacy of distraction, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question.

If the defendant does reinitiate contact, a valid waiver must be obtained before interrogation may resume.

* when a party achieves 50 %+ 1 of first-preference valid votes in the election but does not secure a Parliamentary majority it is awarded enough seats ( filled by the best runner-up candidates ) to make a Parliamentary majority

For the intuitionist, this is not valid ; the refutation of the non-existence does not mean that it is possible to find a construction for the putative object, as is required in order to assert its existence.

Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status.

Statistics, like all mathematical disciplines, does not generate valid conclusions from nothing.

The base does not have to be a power of two ; for example 36rSMALLTALK is a valid number equal to 80738163270632 decimal.

Because it uses frequency modulation, SECAM is not linear with respect to the input image ( this is also what protects it against signal distortion ), so electrically mixing two ( synchronized ) SECAM signals does not yield a valid SECAM signal, unlike with analog PAL or NTSC.

The XFree86 Project states that the license is " as GPL compatible as any and all previous versions were ", but does not mention which version or versions of the GPL this is valid for.

This construction is only valid locally, or provided that the path does not loop around a singularity.

A universal model valid for all laser types does not exist.

Orthodox Judaism holds that this program does not produce valid rabbis.

The transfer principle states that true first order statements about R are also valid in * R. For example, the commutative law of addition, x + y = y + x, holds for the hyperreals just as it does for the reals ; since R is a real closed field, so is * R. Since for all integers n, one also has for all hyperintegers H. The transfer principle for ultrapowers is a consequence of Łoś ' theorem of 1955.

* The poacher does not possess a valid permit.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ( ICD ), maintained by the World Health Organization, does not recognize multiple chemical sensitivity or environmental sensitivity as a valid diagnosis.

Secondly, it should be computationally infeasible to generate a valid signature for a party who does not possess the private key.

Similarly, access to the public key only does not enable a fraudulent party to fake a valid signature.

) and the offence is category 4 ( the production of 9 plants or less, assuming 40g or less per plant ) the starting point for sentencing is a ' band c fine ' ( 150 % of your weekly income, after tax ), decreasing to ' discharge ' or increasing to ' low level community order ' ( community service, curfew, attendance centre or similar for a small amount of time ) depending on other mitigating or aggravating factors such as theft of electricity, the presence of children or whether the offender has grown the plants for use in the treatment of a valid medical condition.

Draft evasion is distinct from desertion in that only an active member of a military service can become a deserter by absenting himself from military service without receiving a valid leave of absence or discharge and without any intention of returning to the service.

" On December 15, 2011, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Case No. 10-2172, ruled that DeGuelle had alleged a valid claim that the company's discharge of him was part of the tax fraud scheme.

More idealized motion in the " sublunary " realm could only be achieved through artifice, and prior to the 17th century, many did not view artificial experiments as a valid means of learning about the natural world.

Ciro Benedettini of the Holy See Press Office, who was responsible for publicly issuing, during the press conference, the communique on Milingo, stated to reporters that any ordinations the excommunicated Milingo had performed prior to his laicization were " illicit but valid ", while any subsequent ordinations would be invalid.

The first clause of the Article provides that debts contracted prior to the adoption of the Constitution remain valid, as they were under the Articles of Confederation.

The exact pattern of bipolar violations that is transmitted in any given case depends on the line rate ( i. e., the level of the line code in the T-carrier hierarchy ) and the polarity of the last valid mark in the user data prior to the unacceptably long string of zeros.

The RSS 2. 0 specification was later updated to include examples of entity-encoded HTML ; however, all prior plain text usages remain valid.

If the seller completes the first two above stages ( consent and passing ownership ) of the sale prior to settlement of the price, the sale remains valid and gives rise to an obligation to pay.

As software development is a complex process, with high variance on both methodologies and objectives, it is difficult to define or measure software qualities and quantities and to determine a valid and concurrent measurement metric, especially when making such a prediction prior to the detail design.

A prenuptial agreement is only valid if it is completed prior to marriage.

In 2004, a judge ruled in favor of Palm, saying Xerox's patent was not valid on the basis that " prior art references anticipate and render obvious the claim.

Though the prior ministers ' fates and the level of contention in the village were valid reasons for caution in accepting the position, Reverend Parris only increased the village's divisions by delaying accepting his position in Salem Village.

The United States regarded the Treaties of Velasco as valid and maintained that even if they were not ratified by the Mexican Congress, a state of war continued to exist between the Republic of Texas and Mexico, a war both Texas and Mexico continued to wage after the Battle of San Jacinto and prior to annexation of Texas by the United States.

In this case, the signer's response is first " un-blinded " prior to verification in such a way that the signature remains valid for the un-blinded message.

Dollond's patent was upheld, as the court found that the patent was valid due to Dollond's exploitation of the invention while prior inventors did not.

Licences are typically valid for five years and must be renewed prior to expiry to maintain all classes.

Defendant Muirhead, the conveyancer, had discovered the lien prior to the sale but told Watson the title was clear after his lawyer had ( erroneously ) determined that the lien was not valid.

In short, Hollingsworths holding is limited to its facts: no presidential signature is necessary for valid ratification when the proposed amendment was presented more than ten days prior to congressional adjournment, and the necessary number of States ratified, and the President proclaimed the ratification as effective.

If an invention has been described in the prior art, a patent on that invention is not valid.

The arising of the sprout is causally linked to the valid designation of the term-concept " sprout ," and not some causal force that existed previously in the seed, nor some identity of sproutness that existed somewhere prior to the arising of the sprout.

Vehicles used on public roads should display a current vehicle licence ( tax disc ) as proof of payment which will not be issued without prior proof that the vehicle has valid MOT and insurance.

Ciro Benedettini of the Holy See Press Office, who was responsible for publicly issuing, during the press conference, the communique on Milingo, stated to reporters that any ordinations the excommunicated Milingo had performed prior to his laicization were " illicit but valid ", while any subsequent ordinations would be invalid.

* To show that an unambiguous term in the contract is in fact a mistaken transcription of a prior valid agreement.

" Even though a prior conviction may be valid because it entailed its own jury trial, the fact that that prior conviction was being used to enhance a new sentence meant that that fact must be submitted to a jury again.

Furthermore, patents are only valid if the inventions they disclose were not known by the public prior to the filing of the patent application, or if the inventions were not obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art at the time the patent application was filed.

The abuse of office charge was no longer valid, due to some changes in legislation, and the other allegations could not be pursued further due to the statute of limitations, as the events in question had occurred more than 15 years prior.