Contract, tort and land law are typical black letter law subjects, whereas administrative law, for example, would be considered considerably less black letter.

Contract bridge is a trick-taking card game where on each of several deals the opposing sides first compete in a bidding auction for the right to establish the contract for that deal, the side winning the auction being known as the declaring side.

Contract pollination has overtaken the role of honey production for beekeepers in many countries.

So far, franchise agreements are covered under two standard commercial laws: the Contract Act 1872 and the Specific Relief Act 1963, which provide for both specific enforcement of covenants in a contract and remedies in the form of damages for breach of contract.

Many other French philosophes ( intellectuals ) exerted philosophical influence on a continental scale, including Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose essay The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right was a catalyst for governmental and societal reform throughout Europe.

Perhaps Rousseau's most important work is The Social Contract, which outlines the basis for a legitimate political order within a framework of classical republicanism.

His assertion in the Social Contract that true followers of Jesus would not make good citizens may have been another reason for Rousseau's condemnation in Geneva.

* Ellerman, David P. ( 1992 ) Property & Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy.

* The Contract with America ( 1994 ), by the Republican candidates for the House of Representatives

The Franz Joseph Blueprints, the book The Making of Star Trek and a handful of Star Trek novels state that NCC is an initialism for " Naval Construction Contract ".

Contract manufacturers had to manage bills of material with different part numbering schemes from multiple OEMs and support customer requests for work-in-process visibility and vendor-managed inventory ( VMI ).

Herbert W. Homer, a civilian employee of the Defense Contract Management Agency, was previously listed in error as unaccounted for at the Pentagon ; he was among the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 175.

Contract for Slave_trade # Slavery_in_North_Africa | sale and transportation of slaves in Timbuktu ( source: Collection of the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali )

He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded ; for his highly influential series The Spirit ; for his use of comics as an instructional medium ; for his leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature with his book A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories.

Eiffel Software applied for trademark registration for Design by Contract in December 2003, and it was granted in December 2004.

Various libraries, preprocessors and other tools have been developed for existing programming languages without native Design by Contract support:

* Contract language and tools for. NET

He used it to argue that the state was founded on a Social Contract in which men voluntarily gave up their liberty in return for the peace and security provided by total surrender to an absolute ruler, whose legitimacy stemmed from the Social Contract and not from God.

At the Fine Gael Ardfheis in March 2007 Kenny outlined his platform for the forthcoming general election entitled the ' Contract for a Better Ireland.

At the time, the Shreveport Swamp Dragons were affiliated with the San Francisco Giants ; Hicks cast aside this association and bought out the remaining two years of Tulsa's Player Development Contract.

At the international level, competitions and point awards are administered by the World Bridge Federation ( WBF ); its affiliates at the multi-national level, such as the American Contract Bridge League ( ACBL ), also issue points as do more local organisations such as the English Bridge Union ( EBU ), and the Deutsche Bridge Verband ( DBV ) and independent ones such as the American Bridge Association ( ABA ).

At this time, the original subway ( Contract 1 ) was built from City Hall to the Bronx, with the first part opening in October 1904 ; an extension to Atlantic Avenue at the LIRR Flatbush Terminal ( now Atlantic Terminal ) in Brooklyn was built soon after as Contract 2.

At the same time, the dual leaky bucket traffic policing function can limit the rate of cells in the bursts to a Peak Cell Rate ( PCR ) and a maximum Cell Delay Variation tolerance ( CDVt ): see Traffic Contract # Traffic Parameters.

At this time Fine Gael launched a " Contract for a Better Ireland " which was a centrepiece of their campaign.

Contract -- conceived as the free bargain of formal equals -- replaced the implied obligations of a more static and status-conscious society.

Contract tablets have been found dated in the years of the campaigns against Canaan and against Sarlak, king of Gutium.

Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking game using a standard 52-card deck.

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

The Old Babylonian Loan Contract: Its History and Geography.

Will Eisner popularized the term " graphic novel " when he used it on the cover of the paperback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories in 1978.

But in a seminal article of 1881, " Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract ," the Oxford political philosopher Thomas Hill Green disputed this reasoning.

" In 1909 Pound continued his assault on conceptual thinking in an essay on " Liberty of Contract.

The Debian Project is governed by the Debian Constitution and the Social Contract which set out the governance structure of the project and explicitly states that the goal of the project is the development of a free operating system.

* U. S. Defense Contract Management Agency Guidebook

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Through the friendly interposition of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La cambiale di matrimonio ( The Marriage Contract ), was produced at Venice when he was a youth of 18 years.

Moreover, Cleveland believed that altering Gould's franchise would violate the Contract Clause of the federal Constitution.

Goren's books have sold millions of copies ( especially Winning Bridge Made Easy and Contract Bridge Complete ); by 1958 his daily bridge column was appearing in 194 American newspapers.

* Precision System of Contract Bridge Bidding: Charles H. Goren Presents

His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought.

In 1762, Rousseau published Du Contrat Social, Principes du droit politique ( in English, literally Of the Social Contract, Principles of Political Right ) in April.

Even his friend Antoine-Jacques Roustan felt impelled to write a polite rebuttal of the chapter on Civil Religion in the Social Contract, which implied that the concept of a Christian Republic was paradoxical since Christianity taught submission rather than participation in public affairs.