If a senatus consultum conflicted with a law ( lex ) that was passed by a Roman Assembly, the law overrode the senatus consultum, because the senatus consultum had its authority based in precedent, and not in law.

If the loss caused by a wrong is minor enough, there is no compensation, which principle is known as de minimis non curat lex.

If a master harmed a slave in one of the ways covered by the lex talionis, the slave was to be compensated by manumission ; if the slave died within 24 to 48 hours, it was to be avenged ( whether this refers to the death penalty or not is uncertain ).

If all the parties and the relevant factual elements affecting formation, validity, and performance are geographically located in the same state, it will be obvious that, if the contract is silent on the point, the local municipal law ( usually called the lex loci contractus, i. e. the law of the place where the contract was made ) will be applied as the law governing substantive issues.

If an investor holds merely contractual rights against its intermediary for delivery of securities, it no longer seems accurate to refer to the lex rei sitae, which is a property law concept.

If all other factors weigh in favor of keeping the case in the jurisdiction where it was filed, then the court may choose between application of local law ( lex fori ) or relevant foreign law.

If the parties have selected a jurisdiction as the place for the resolution of a dispute, the implication is that the courts may nevertheless apply their lex fori which includes their general choice of law principles.

If a master harmed a slave in one of the ways covered by the lex talionis, the slave was to be compensated by manumission ; if the slave died within 24 to 48 hours, he or she was to be avenged ( whether this refers to the death penalty or not is uncertain ).

If all genes are in linkage equilibrium, the effect of an allele at one locus can be averaged across the gene pool at other loci.

If the loci we're analysing are very close ( less than 7 cM ) a double crossover is very unlikely.

If anyone looks into the logo of Indian Statistical institute, s / he will find a Sanskrit statement written in the Devanagari-font in the bottom of a banyan tree: bhinnesu (‘ in different others ’ loci ’, note the plural number in Locative in the Sanskrit word “ bhinnesu ”) aykyasya ( unity ’ s, the counterpositive, pratiyogin cf.

If n is the number of involved loci, then the coefficients of the binomial expansion of ( a + b )< sup > 2n </ sup > will give the frequency of distribution of all n allele combinations.

If two species differ at 1000 loci, and the mean rate of gene substitution, as has been suggested, is one per 300 generations, it will take 300, 000 generations to generate an interspecific difference.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the superintendents do not receive more cooperation from Handlers, it has been suggested that licensed Judges also be qualified to judge this Class.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

If design head has a deep cavity, clay lid will be quite thick at this point ; ;

If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

If cell Af has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text-form list, it is now assigned as the information cell of Af.

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

If she has not had such experiences, the female's normal adolescent degree of indecision will be compounded.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If I'd been careful it never woulda '' -- he stopped abruptly.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

If it were not for the effect of destructive agencies, sawtimber growth would have been nearly twice as great as the 47 billion board feet in 1952.

If private brand competition hasn't been felt in your product field as yet, have you thought how you will cope with it if and when it does appear??

If companies will take the time to give objective consideration to their major problems and to the questions they provoke, then a long constructive step will have been taken toward more effective marketing in next decade.

If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things.

If each text form is marked when matched with a dictionary form, the text forms not contained in the dictionary can be identified when all dictionary forms have been read.

If cell Af is an information cell, it and any information cells in the Y-region that have been linked to Af each contain an address in the W-region where a potentially matching form is stored.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If the retailer and hotelman's downtown unit sales have been decreasing, however, his dollar volume continues to rise, and it is dollars which you put in the bank.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.

If it was designed to put me on the spot, it would have to have been written before Peralta ever called me in on the case ''.