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For instance, the local charter of the Basque-colonized Ojacastro valley ( now in La Rioja ) allowed the inhabitants to use Basque in legal processes in the 13th and 14th centuries.

For example, many commercial contracts are more economically efficient, and create greater wealth, because the parties know ahead of time that the proposed arrangement, though perhaps close to the line, is almost certainly legal.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

For example, a calendar provides a way to determine which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires.

For example, Panama and El Salvador have declared U. S. currency to be legal tender, and from 1791 – 1857, Spanish silver coins were legal tender in the United States.

For example, recently several bird classified as threatened with extinction appeared in the legal wild bird trade because the CITES process never considered their status.

Nonetheless, Wilson believed that, in all cases, corporations “ should be erected with caution, and inspected with care .” The actions of corporations were clearly circumscribed: “ To every corporation a name must be assigned ; and by that name alone it can perform legal acts .” For non-binding external actions or transactions, corporations enjoyed the same latitude as private individuals ; but it was with an eye to internal affairs that many saw principal advantage in incorporation.

For example, comparative law can help international legal institutions, such as those of the United Nations System, in analyzing the laws of different countries regarding their treaty obligations.

For example, Duncan Kennedy, in explicit reference to semiotics and deconstruction procedures, maintains that various legal doctrines are constructed around the binary pairs of opposed concepts, each of which with a claim upon intuitive and formal forms of reasoning that must be made explicit, not only in their meaning but also its relative value, and criticized.

For example, Canada has passed legislation favouring the International System of Units, while also maintaining legal definitions for traditional Canadian imperial units.

For these social and religious reasons, most legal jurisdictions limit gambling.

For more than 400 years, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were wealthy Roman provinces and part of a cosmopolitan state whose citizens shared a common language, legal system, and Roman identity.

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.

For the national parliament, Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle ( PDI-P, led by Sukarno's daughter Megawati Sukarnoputri ) won 34 % of the vote ; Golkar ( Suharto's party ; formerly the only legal party of government ) 22 %; United Development Party ( PPP, led by Hamzah Haz ) 12 %; and National Awakening Party ( PKB, led by Abdurrahman Wahid ) 10 %.

For the purpose of legal entitlement, therefore, part or all of S3 is the same as S1.

For example, vehicle insurance would typically cover both the property risk ( theft or damage to the vehicle ) and the liability risk ( legal claims arising from an accident ).

For his one-day Italian trip, Ribbentrop was accompanied by a staff of thirty-five, including a gymnastics coach, a masseur, a doctor, two hairdressers, plus various legal and economic experts from the Foreign Office.

For a legal backup, the German German Restitution Laws ( Bundesentschädigungsgesetz ) were passed in 1956, allowing individuals and other ethnic groups than Jews to lay claims for compensation from the German state, if they were victims of Nazi prosecution.

For example, judiciary decisions may set legal precedents.

( For instance, in some elected monarchies only those of certain pedigrees are considered eligible, whereas many hereditary monarchies have legal requirements regarding the religion, age, gender, mental capacity, and other factors that act both as de facto elections and to create situations of rival claimants whose legitimacy is subject to effective election.

For many years Robinson also worked as legal advisor for the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with future Trinity College senator David Norris.

For the purposes of authentication, most countries require commercial or personal documents which originate from or are signed in another country to be notarized before they can be used or officially recorded or before they can have any legal effect.

For instance, certain political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another.

For purposes of this explanation, this percentage is referred to as the State's `` unadjusted Federal share ''.

For purposes of sample selection only ( individual tests were given later ) we obtained group test scores of reading achievement and intelligence from school records of the entire third-grade population in each school system.

For expository purposes, this is best treated as a model which spells out the conditions under which an important industry affected with the public interest would find it profitable to raise wages even in the absence of union pressures for higher wages.

For the purposes of setting the product price, the industry behaves as a single entity.

For the purposes of this discussion, the problem of relative prices is encompassed in these two variables, since GNP includes other prices.

For our present purposes we assume that the sole subject of bargaining is the basic wage rate ( not including productivity improvement factors or cost-of-living adjustments ), and it is this basic wage rate which determines the level of costs.

'' For present purposes it may be assumed that this charge so narrowly limited speech as to violate the federal Constitution.

For all practical purposes, the West stands disunited, undedicated, and unprepared for the tasks of world leadership.

For their purposes, oxygen and other gases were not drawn from the surrounding atmosphere through the medium of lungs but sustained artificially by solution in their shells.

For the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all of the land and ice shelves south of 60 ° S latitude.

For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa.

For socket numbers, a few well-known numbers were reserved for special purposes specific to the AppleTalk protocol itself.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

For administrative purposes the archipelago constitutes the comune of Favignana in the Province of Trapani.

For comparison purposes that is approximately the same size as Aylesbury, Carlisle, Guildford or Scunthorpe urban areas.

For commercial purposes, it is derived primarily from Gelidium amansii.

For statistical purposes, Baker is grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus North and South play against East and West.

For calendric purposes, Bede made a new calculation of the age of the world since the creation, which he dated as 3952 BC.

For scoring purposes, a standing eight count is treated as a knockdown.

For all practical purposes that was the Baltic language until 1919.

For most purposes, most jurisdictions, including the U. S. federal system and most states, have merged the two courts.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

For international banks, including the 55 member central banks of the Bank for International Settlements, the threshold is 8 % ( see the Basel Capital Accords ) of risk-adjusted assets, whereby certain assets ( such as government bonds ) are considered to have lower risk and are either partially or fully excluded from total assets for the purposes of calculating capital adequacy.

For enumeration purposes the country is demarcated into 4, 042 enumeration areas.