Pass the iron rations, please, and light another candle, for it's getting dark down here and we're minded to read a bit of world law just to pass the time away.

For that reason, civil law statutes tend to be somewhat more detailed than statutes written by common law legislatures – but, conversely, that tends to make the statute more difficult to read ( the United States tax code is an example ).

Law professor John Chipman Gray's The Nature and Sources of the Law, an examination and survey of the common law, is also still commonly read in U. S. law schools.

However, existing law requires judicial approval of all class action settlements, and in most cases class members are given a chance to opt out of class settlement, though class members, despite opt-out notices, may be unaware of their right to opt out because they did not receive the notice, did not read it, or did not understand it.

Many more errors came from the tendency of actors to interpolate words and sentences, producing so many corruptions and variations that a law was proposed by Lycurgus of Athens in 330 BC "... that the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides should be written down and preserved in a public office ; and that the town clerk should read the text over with the actors ; and that all performances which did not comply with this regulation should be illegal.

Once this task was completed Nehemiah had Ezra read the Law of Moses ( the Torah ) to the assembled Jews, and the people and priests entered into a covenant to keep the law and separate themselves from all other peoples.

Luther controversially added the word " alone " ( allein in German ) to so that it read: " thus, we hold, then, that man is justified without doing the works of the law, alone through faith ".

After studying and being tutored at home, Elias Boudinot went to Princeton, New Jersey to read the law as a legal apprentice to Richard Stockton.

When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.

Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

It is the book that S. E. Hinton's runaway teenage characters, " Ponyboy " and " Johnny ", read while hiding from the law in the young adult novel about lost innocence, The Outsiders ( 1967 ).

He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and following two years in the Royal Air Force read law at St Peter's College, Oxford.

The 1686 church law ( kyrkolagen ) of the Kingdom of Sweden ( which at the time included all of modern Sweden, Finland, and Estonia ) enforced literacy on the people, and by 1800 the ability to read was close to 100 %.

Some provisions of WTO telecommunications law can be read to require unbundling:

Under the broad method, the court may reinterpret the law at will when it is clear that there is only one way to read the statute.

Besides the Bible, children needed to read in order to “ understand ... the capital laws of this country ,” as the Massachusetts code declared, order being of the utmost importance, and children not taught to read would grow “ barbarous ” ( the 1648 amendment to the Massachusetts law and the 1650 Connecticut code, both used the word “ barbarisme ”).

The most one may read into the Torcaso footnote is the idea that a particular non-theistic group calling itself the " Fellowship of Humanity " qualified as a religious organization under California law.

Jefferson read law while working as a law clerk for Wythe.

On a Sabbath in September, 1304, the letter was to be read before the congregation, when Jacob Machir Don Profiat Tibbon, the renowned astronomical and mathematical writer, entered his protest against such unlawful interference by the Barcelona rabbis, and a schism ensued.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

When a new symbol has been entered, the device typically sends an interrupt to alert the CPU to read it.

The parties entered into a contract dispute before the 1980 season, and when negotiations lasted into spring training, the Padres renewed Smith's contract at his 1979 salary of $ 72, 500 Angered by the Padres ' attitude during those contract talks, Gottlieb took out a help-wanted ad in the San Diego Union, part of which read, " Padre baseball player wants part-time employment to supplement income.

A traveler who entered the accelerated mouth at this moment would exit the stationary mouth when its clock also read 2005, in the same region but now five years in the past.

The Ante Prandium is read after the Fellows have entered, the Post Prandium after they have finished dining:

When Moses entered Jethro's household he read the Name, and by means of it was able to draw up the rod, for which service Zipporah, Jethro's daughter, was given to him in marriage.

Because the authorities were required to read the proclamation that referred to the Riot Act before they could enforce it, the expression " to read the Riot Act " entered into common language as a phrase meaning " to reprimand severely ", with the added sense of a stern warning.

The British Wilson-Dalby gun director used a pair of trackers and mechanical tachymetry ; the operator entered the fuze length, and deflection angles were read from the instruments.

He then entered Trinity College, the University of Dublin, to read for the degree of B. A.

At dawn he entered the Senate, but while the letter was being read Macro assumed control of the Praetorian Guard, and members of the vigiles led by Graecinius Laco surrounded the building.

Things he overheard or read seem to have entered his imagination and been mistaken for lived experience.

During a stay in Tübingen, Spener read Grossgebauer's Alarm Cry, and in 1666 he entered upon his first pastoral charge at Frankfurt with a profound opinion that the Christian life within Evangelical Lutheranism was being sacrificed to zeal for rigid Lutheran orthodoxy.

Article IV of a peace protocol entered into between United States and Spain on August 2, 1898 read as follows:

Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution provides that " for any Speech or Debate in either House, Senator or Representative shall not be questioned in any other Place ", thus the Senator could not be prosecuted for anything said on the Senate floor, and, by extension, for anything entered to the Congressional Record, allowing the Papers to be publicly read without threat of a treason trial and conviction.

He entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer and Otto Weininger and studied the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger.

The court's verdict not only upheld his discharge, but ruled that he was "... unfit to serve his Majesty in any military capacity whatsoever ", then ordered that their verdict be read to and entered in the orderly book of every regiment in the Army.

A and B are entered on the horizontal and vertical scales, and the result is read from the diagonal scale.

In the autumn of 1924, she entered St Hugh's College, Oxford, one of the women's colleges at Oxford, where she read English.

Thomas has said her father's surname, " Antonious ," was anglicized to " Thomas " when he entered the U. S. at Ellis Island, and that her parents could neither read nor write.

After completing national service he entered King's College, Cambridge in 1948, to read Classics.

On the morning of the election a protest in which Newton's name appeared was read, and entered in the Regent House.