Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.

He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court.

The sages investigated the rules by which the requirements of the oral law were derived from and established by the written law, i. e. the Torah.

All Orthodox authorities, however, agree that only later Rabbinical interpretations are subject to reconsideration, and hold that core sources of Divine written and oral law, such as the Torah the Mishnah and the Talmud, cannot be overridden.

While there have been Jewish groups whose beliefs were claimed to be based on the written text of the Torah alone ( e. g., the Sadducees, and the Karaites ), most Jews believed in what they call the oral law.

Rabbinic Judaism ( which derives from the Pharisees ) has always held that the books of the Torah ( called the written law ) have always been transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition.

This parallel set of material was originally transmitted orally, and came to be known as " the oral law ".

Rabbinic tradition holds that the details and interpretation of the law, which are called the Oral Torah or oral law, were originally an unwritten tradition based upon what God told Moses on Mount Sinai.

Like the Sadducees who relied only on the Torah, some Jews in the 8th and 9th centuries rejected the authority and divine inspiration of the oral law as recorded in the Mishnah ( and developed by later rabbis in the two Talmuds ), relying instead only upon the Tanakh.

In rabbinic literature, the Rabbis elaborated and explained the prophecies that were found in the Hebrew Bible along with the oral law and Rabbinic traditions about its meaning.

The Jewish oral law states that capital punishment would only be applicable if two men were caught in the act of anal sex, if there were two witnesses to the act, if the two witnesses warned the men involved that they committed a capital offense, and the two men-or the willing party, in case of rape-subsequently acknowledged the warning but continued to engage in the prohibited act anyway.

Jurisprudence already had this meaning in Ancient Rome even if at its origins the discipline was a ( periti ) in the jus of mos maiorum ( traditional law ), a body of oral laws and customs verbally transmitted " by father to son ".

Grimm's Weisthümer ( 4 vol., 1840 – 63 ), a compilation of partially oral legal traditions from rural Germany, allows research of the development of written law in Northern Europe.

Certain possible sources of law are specifically ended: laws of the Bábí religion, notably in the Persian Bayán, oral traditions ( linked with pilgrim notes, and natural law, ( that is to say God's sovereign will through revelation is the independent authority.

Their details and practical application, however, is set down in the oral law ( eventually codified in the Mishnah and Talmud ) and elaborated on in the later rabbinical literature.

The Torah's commandment to love God " with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might " ( Deuteronomy 6: 5 ) is taken by the Mishnah ( a central text of the Jewish oral law ) to refer to good deeds, willingness to sacrifice one's life rather than commit certain serious transgressions, willingness to sacrifice all of one's possessions, and being grateful to the Lord despite adversity ( tractate Berachoth 9: 5 ).

The earliest recorded oral law may have been of the midrashic form, in which halakhic discussion is structured as exegetical commentary on the Torah.

Jewish law and custom is based not only on a literal reading of the Tanakh, but on the combined oral and written tradition.

Some Jews did not accept the written codification of the oral law at all ; known as Karaites, they comprised a significant portion of the world Jewish population in the 10th and 11th Centuries CE, and remain extant, though they currently number in the thousands.

There is a wealth of stories and additional information about Moses in the Jewish apocrypha and in the genre of rabbinical exegesis known as Midrash, as well as in the primary works of the Jewish oral law, the Mishnah and the Talmud.

Orthodox Judaism, as it exists today, is an outgrowth that claims to extend from the time of Moses, to the time of the Mishnah and Talmud, through the development of oral law and rabbinic literature, until the present time.

Since none of these glimpses of poetizing without writing is intended to incorporate a signature into the epic matter, there is prima-facie evidence that Beowulf and the Homeric poems each derive from an oral tradition.

Many scholars believe that the original poem was composed in an oral tradition by an aoidos ( epic poet / singer ), perhaps a rhapsode ( professional performer ), and was more likely intended to be heard than read.

However, autopsies have found that crospovidone does contribute to pulmonary vascular injury in substance abusers who have injected pharmaceutical tablets intended for oral consumption.

Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, an assertive statement can be oral, written, or non-verbal conduct if it was intended to be an assertion.

The Federal Rules of Evidence defines a statement as an oral or written assertion or nonverbal conduct of a person, if the conduct is intended by the person as an assertion.

Composed in Old French and apparently intended for oral performance by jongleurs, the chansons de geste narrate legendary incidents ( sometimes based on real events ) in the history of France during the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries, the age of Charles Martel, Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, with emphasis on their conflicts with the Moors and Saracens, and also disputes between kings and their vassals.

The Court had also intended to include the case of Aikens v. California, but between the time Aikens had been heard in oral argument and a decision was to be issued, the Supreme Court of California decided in California v. Anderson that the death penalty violated the state constitution, thus the Aikens case was dismissed as moot since all death cases in California were overturned.

The oral is a discussion with the tutor or tutors intended to show that the student has read and understood the material covered ; it also allows the student to clarify aspects of the seminar essay and, it is hoped, to continue developing the essay's ideas.

Much of poetry has its source in an oral tradition: the Scots and English ballads, the tales of Robin Hood, of Iskandar, and various Baltic and Slavic heroic poems all were originally intended for recitation, rather than reading.

To create an intended oral consonant sound, the entire mouth plays a role in modifying the air's passageway.

A lecture is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher.

Although intended for oral inflation, a suitable low pressure pump may be used if preferred.

Modern lifejackets, inflated by means of a gas cartridge, usually if not always have oral inflation as well ; this is intended for topping up if the casualty is in the water for an extended period while awaiting rescue, but may also be useful for inflating the lifejacket for test purposes to verify the integrity of the bladder.

They generally have a set of soft plastic panels, with two circular end panels, one with an oral inflation valve, intended to be inflated by mouth or pump.

Prodrugs are often designed to improve oral bioavailability in cases where the intended drug is poorly absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract.

Though Rowbotham notes that the life stories of women interviewed for Dutiful Daughters were not intended to be representative of all British women, she argues that these snap-shots of different lives if combined with enough other oral histories can provide an understanding of the experience of ordinary women.

The publishers justified Rainbow Party on the grounds that it was a cautionary tale intended to teach readers that oral sex can be dangerous.

In 2003, OHRP, in conjunction with the Oral History Association and American Historical Association, issued a formal statement that taking oral histories, unstructured interviews ( as if for a piece of journalism ), collecting anecdotes, and similar free speech activities often do not constitute " human subject research " as defined in the regulations and were never intended to be covered by clinical research rules.

The Oath of Citizenship is today a legally binding oral and written contract intended to ensure that new Canadian citizens promise to obey the laws and customs of their new country, fulfil their duties as citizens, and recognize the authority of the monarch as the personification of the state and various entities and concepts.

It was intended as an international system of phonetic transcription for oral languages, originally for pedagogical purposes.

The effect of calcium ions on the rheological properties of procyanidin hydrogels containing potassium alginate and intended for oral administration has also been investigated.