The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.

Coca, despite eradication programmes in some countries, remains an important crop for legal local use in a mildly stimulating herbal tea, and, both controversially and illegally, for the production of cocaine.

This situation can have important corporate, social, economic, and legal consequences, and has been the subject of significant research.

In common law legal systems ( connotation 2 ), the common law ( connotation 1 ) is crucial to understanding almost all important areas of law.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

Use of modern refining techniques was especially important because the British Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire ( but slavery itself remained legal until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).

Class-action lawsuits are an important and valuable part of the legal system when they permit the fair and efficient resolution of legitimate claims of numerous parties by allowing the claims to be aggregated into a single action against a defendant that has allegedly caused harm.

Comparative law is a very important discipline in communication between legal systems.

The incident set an important precedent in terms of the apparent authority of Parliament to safeguard the nation's interests and its capacity to launch legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the Earl of Strafford and Charles I.

The term Alaska Native has important legal usage in Alaska and the rest of the United States as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.

While subject to criticism at home and abroad on issues of protection, enforcement, over-regulation, and imposition of externalities, the country remains an important source of environmental legal expertise and experience.

A number of important legal institutions were developed by Muslim jurists during the classical period of Islam, known as the Islamic Golden Age.

Another important constitutional move at Roncaglia was the establishment of a new peace ( Landfrieden ) for all of the Empire, an attempt to ( on the one hand ) abolish private feuds not only between the many dukes, but on the other hand a means to tie the Emperor's subordinates to a legal system of jurisdiction and public prosecution of criminal acts — a predecessor of the modern concept of " rule of law ".

In Britain, a governor's role was primarily military, but numerous other tasks were also his responsibility such as maintaining diplomatic relations with local client kings, building roads, ensuring the public courier system functioned, supervising the civitates and acting as a judge in important legal cases.

It has historically been an important legal instrument safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary state action.

This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states.

For this reason, however, ' narcotic ' has come to mean any illegally used drug, but it is useful as a shorthand for referring to a controlled drug in a context where its legal status is more important than its physiological effects.

The Institute of technology system was organised on the committee areas or " functional areas ", these still remain legal but are not as important as originally envisioned as the institutes are now more national in character and are only really applied today when selecting governing councils, similarly Dublin Institute of Technology was originally a group of several colleges of the City of Dublin committee.

While " legal " insider trading cannot be based on material non-public information, some investors believe corporate insiders nonetheless may have better insights into the health of a corporation ( broadly speaking ) and that their trades otherwise convey important information ( e. g., about the pending retirement of an important officer selling shares, greater commitment to the corporation by officers purchasing shares, etc.

" " The second part of the principle is almost as important: software on other hosts may contain deficiencies that make it unwise to exploit legal but obscure protocol features.

Thomas Aquinas was the most important Western medieval legal scholar

One important debate is within legal positivism.

It is considered an important milestone in the development of mathematics.

Canada's centennial in 1967 is often seen as an important milestone in the history of Canadian patriotism, and in Canada's maturing as a distinct, independent country, after which Dominion Day became more popular with average Canadians.

The establishment of universal male suffrage in France in 1848 was an important milestone in the history of democracy.

The US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Still, the US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Version 3. 1. 1 remains an important milestone release being the last version of Euphoria which supports the Microsoft MS-DOS platform.

His 30 September 1989 speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague was an important milestone on the road to the end of the GDR.

William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that this was a " show, that, like ' Show Boat ', became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to ' Oklahoma.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

An important milestone was announced August 31, 2009, marking an agreement between the landowners and the National Park Service to allow the purchase of land for around 9. 5 million dollars.

* 487 BC: Athenian Archonship becomes elective by lot, an important milestone in the move towards radical Athenian democracy

The first appearance of WNV in the Western Hemisphere was in 1999 with encephalitis reported in humans, dogs, cats, and horses, and the subsequent spread in the United States may be an important milestone in the evolving history of this virus.

* The Athenian Archonship becomes elective by lot from all the citizens, an important milestone in the move towards radical Athenian democracy.

Starting in the 11th century, the Way of Saint James grew a very important milestone for the territory and source of European cultural influence.

Simulation allows an HDL description of a design ( called a model ) to pass design verification, an important milestone that validates the design's intended function ( specification ) against the code implementation in the HDL description.

Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation.

Although it failed to function before reaching Venus, Venera-1 was an important milestone in spacecraft design — the first truly modern planetary probe.

The first act of sexual intercourse by a female is commonly considered within many cultures to be an important personal milestone.

The work marked an important milestone in Nielsen's career as it was not only his first real success but it was also the first of his pieces he conducted himself when it was played in Odense a month later.

The Bexhill 100 Festival of Motoring, held on Bexhill's seafront, celebrated this important milestone in motoring history from 1990 until 2002.

Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

Strategic considerations aside, Alexander's victory was an important milestone in the development of Muscovite Russia.

1972 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Irish Free State and so was an important milestone in the history of Fine Gael.

An important milestone for the politics of the city was reached in 1627, when the patricians drew up a new constitution, in which they declared that they were the only people capable of ruling the city, and thereby took control of all voting rights.

An equally important milestone was the In-Service Reliability Demonstration ( ISRD ) in 1999.