Noting that as recently as 1996, the legislature had authorized bills promoting same-sex adoption, the state determined that such a consistent policy did not exist ( this provision, however, did outline a potential path by which the legislature might avoid providing marriage rights to same-sex couples in the future if it so chose.

Some writers, such as Jeffrey Russell, suggested that Clutterbuck had been invented by Gardner, but Valiente obtained her birth, marriage and death certificates and published a basic outline of her life in 1982.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to law:

Most casebooks do not clearly outline the law ; instead, they force the student to interpret the cases and draw the basic legal concepts from the cases themselves.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to commercial law:

Chapter One gives an outline of the Republic's duties towards international law, saying ( in part ) that conflicts between domestic laws and international laws binding upon the Republic must be resolved in favor of international agreements.

One should remember that the procedures for evictions are established by the laws of various jurisdictions world-wide and may vary considerably between nations, and even between sub-national jurisdictions, depending on the specific content of the law ; this article aims only to present a general outline.

12. 1. 2 ) who used a derivative of ἐκτιθημι to describe a ‘ particular account, with great exactness ’ that he will give about the Arabians and Ishmael, and Diodorus Siculus who used a derivative of ἐκτιθημι to describe the outline of a proposed change to the law, given before a court, by a penniless orphan heiress who wished her next of kin to marry her ( Hist.

The constitution provides an outline of that board, " There shall be a board of trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs elected by qualified voters who are Hawaiians, as provided by law.

Because of its use in the US Code and other US law books, Many American lawyers consequently use this outline format.

The English common law rules, which apply in most common law jurisdictions, are in outline as follows:

The general framework of the common law rules has however survived in most jurisdictions and is in outline as follows:

The remaining articles in the protocol outline the standards for international law enforcement covering diverse issues such as jurisdictional factors, extradition, mutual assistance in investigations, criminal or extradition proceedings and seizure and confiscation of assets as well.

* Liability of directors to a NSULC arises mainly from a fiduciary duty at common law ( no statutory outline ) vs. ABCA expressly codifies director liability ( improper issuance of shares, improper payments to shareholders, unpaid wages, etc.

In the preface of Théorie des lois criminelles, Brissot explains that he submitted an outline of the book to Voltaire and quotes his answer from April 13, 1778.

These include, De la féodalité, des institutions de Saint Louis et de l ' influence de la législation de ce prince ( 1822 ); La Germanie au VIIIe et au IXe siècle, sa conversion au Christianisme, et son introduction dans la société civilisée de l ' Europe occidentale ( 1834 ); Essai sur la formation territoriale et politique de la France depuis la fin du XIe siècle jusqu ' à la fin du XVe ( 1836 ); all of which are rough sketches that mainly outline the subjects.

Likewise, tracing — drawing on a thin piece of paper, sometimes designed for that purpose ( tracing paper ), around the outline of preexisting shapes that show through the paper — is also not considered fine art, although it may be part of the draftsman's preparation.

In general there are two major approaches to the design outline shape of the double bass, these being the violin form ( shown in the labelled picture to the right ), and the viol da gamba form ( shown in the header picture ).

The 15th edition has a three-part structure: a 10-volume Micropædia of short articles ( generally fewer than 750 words ), a 19-volume Macropædia of long articles ( two to 310 pages ) and a single Propædia volume to give a hierarchical outline of knowledge.

Also in France, Émile Cohl fully developed drawn animation in a series of films starting with Fantasmagorie ( 1908 ), in which humans and objects drawn as outline figures went though a series of remarkable interactions and transformations.

The jazz soloist is often supported by a rhythm section who " comp " ( accompany the soloist ), by playing chords and rhythms that outline the song structure and complement the soloist.

Though the Virginia Plan was an outline rather than a draft of a possible constitution, and though it was extensively changed during the debate ( especially by John Rutledge and James Wilson in the Committee of Detail ), its use at the convention led many to call Madison the " Father of the Constitution ".

* Warrant ( town meeting ), a document used to call and outline a town meeting

* Reliability ( semiconductor ), outline of semiconductor device reliability drivers

Dalton communicated his atomic theory to Thomson who, by consent, included an outline of it in the third edition of his System of Chemistry ( 1807 ), and Dalton gave a further account of it in the first part of the first volume of his New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ).

Unlike more common outline font formats ( such as TrueType or PostScript Type 1 ), a Metafont font is primarily made up of strokes with finite-width " pens ", along with filled regions.

During his time at Swansea he produced some of his most exciting works of literary criticism: A School of Welsh Augustans ( 1924 ), Williams Pantycelyn ( 1927 ), and Braslun o hanes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg ( An outline history of Welsh literature ) ( 1932 ).

While competing printers and their associated control languages offered some of the capabilities of PostScript, they were limited in their ability to reproduce free-form layouts ( as a desktop publishing application might produce ), use outline fonts, or offer the level of detail and control over the page layout.

New Zealander Bruce Stewart, who had adapted various science fiction short stories for the anthology series Out of this World ( 1962 ) and Out of the Unknown ( 1965 – 71 ), was tasked with developing Boswell's outline into scripts.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

From the mid-1980s, as digital typography has grown, users have almost universally adopted the American spelling font, which nowadays nearly always means a computer file containing scalable outline letterforms ( digital font ), in one of several common formats.

It is generally longer and more detailed than a standard synopsis ( 1-2 paragraphs ), but shorter and less detailed than a treatment or a step outline.

* National Security Directive-63 ( PDF ), a policy outline written by Brzezinski and signed by Carter, giving an overview of the goals of the Carter Doctrine.

The basic outline of begins with the ( Holy Wind ) being created, the mists of lights which arose through the darkness to animate and bring purpose to the myriad ( Holy People ), supernatural and sacred in the different three lower worlds.

Facade of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church in Whitesburg, Kentucky ( built in 1934 by Italian immigrant stonemasons ), featuring the outline of a map of Italy

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

The Challicum bunyip, an outline image of a bunyip carved by Aborigines into the bank of Fiery Creek, near Ararat, Victoria, was first recorded by The Australasian newspaper in 1851.

It was the outline of a stored-program computer that would eventually be completed in August 1949.

The great news that had leaked out was the discovery of fission and at least the outline of its interpretation.

The grammatical description in the earliest books was somewhat vague, so a consensus on usage ( influenced by Zamenhof's answers to some questions ) developed over time within boundaries set by the initial outline ( Auld 1988 ).

Attended by top Nazi officials, it was used to outline the plans for the " final solution to the Jewish question ".

Darwin's primary approach to heredity was to outline how it appeared to work ( noticing that traits that were not expressed explicitly in the parent at the time of reproduction could be inherited, that certain traits could be sex-linked, etc.

In Canada, the long-running series Train 48 was improvised from scripts which contained a minimal outline of each scene.

However in terms of modern competition, it was during the 1950s that a Japanese karateka named Tatsuo Yamada first established an outline of a new sport that combined karate and muay thai.

Due to problems including transport issues Glamorgan County Council never gave outline planning permission for the proposals and by June 1964 the scheme was abandoned.

An outline of a path was put forward in 1992 for building a table-top factory in the absence of an assembler.

In fact, the outline of the old Pilots logo was clearly visible on the Brewers ' uniforms.

However, the outline of the Pilots ' logo was clearly visible.

Type 1 was effectively a simplification of the PS system to store outline information only, as opposed to being a complete language ( PDF is similar in this regard ).

" In outline, all accounts agree: Silverius was deposed by Belisarius in March 537 and sent into exile.

It was while the leaders of the Levellers were being held in the Tower that they wrote an outline of the reforms the Levellers wanted, in a pamphlet entitled " An Agreement Of The Free People Of England " ( written on May 1, 1649 ).

These two authors were thus the first to outline what was to become the classification of the Finno-Ugric ( and later Uralic ) family.

This was used in the design of a much smaller tube outline, known as the miniature tube, having 7 or 9 pins.

Let me endeavour, very briefly to sketch, in the rudest outline what the Turkish race was and what it is.

While he had submitted an outline of his work in reciprocal relations to the Norwegian Institute of Technology, they had decided it was too incomplete to qualify as a doctoral dissertation.

In the outline below we will consider the NERVA-derived engine that was considered by NASA in the 1960s, comparing it with the S-IVB stage from the Saturn it was intended to replace.

In the Commedia dell ' arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play that was literally pinned to the back of the scenery.