The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

In the United Kingdom, bankruptcy ( in a strict legal sense ) relates only to individuals ( including sole proprietors ) and partnerships.

The social status of outcastes mirrored their legal status, both reflected their sense of social identity.

In Finland, the state-owned broadcasting company Yleisradio and the private broadcaster Mainos-TV had a legal duopoly ( in the economists ' sense of the word ) from the 1950s to 1993.

In a more specific sense, Gleichschaltung refers to the legal measures taken by the government during the first months following January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

Intergovernmental organizations in a legal sense should be distinguished from simple groupings or coalitions of states, such as the G8 or the Quartet.

Early legal consultations on conducting inquisition stress that it is better that the guilty go free than that the innocent be punished ; though in practice, inquisitors had quite a wide sense of what constituted guilt, making innocence a rare commodity.

It was held that, as the defendant had been aware of his actions, he could neither have been in a state of automatism nor insane, and the fact that he believed that God had told him to do this merely provided an explanation of his motive and did not prevent him from knowing that what he was doing was wrong in the legal sense.

" In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps, " monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme ", and in Georges Chastellain's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of Jean Meschinot.

A person may be a national of a state, in the sense of having a formal legal relationship with it, without subjectively or emotionally feeling a part of that state.

Most broadly and concisely, property in the legal sense refers to the rights of people in or over certain objects or things.

However, if an entire industry tacitly settles on a somewhat careless standard of conduct ( that is, as analyzed from the perspective of a layperson ), then the plaintiff may not be able to recover even though he or she is severely injured, because although the defendant's conduct caused his or her injuries, such conduct was not negligent in the legal sense ( if everyone within the trade would inevitably testify that the defendant's conduct conformed to that of a reasonable tradeperson in such circumstances ).

Because the list of types of claims eligible for consideration was capped early during the development of the English legal system, claims that might have been acceptable to the courts ' evolving sense of justice often did not match up perfectly with any of the established forms of action.

The Prime Minister specified that the motion used the " cultural " and " sociological " as opposed to the " legal " sense of the word " nation ".

Squatters often claim rights over the spaces they have squatted by virtue of occupation, rather than ownership ; in this sense, squatting is similar to ( and potentially a necessary condition of ) adverse possession, by which a possessor of real property without title may eventually gain legal title to the real property.

The issue of whether and in what sense secular humanism might be considered a religion, and what the implications of this would be has become the subject of legal maneuvering and political debate in the United States.

Prior to this time the word is attested in Scottish legal English to describe restraining orders against debt collection, restraint being its original Latin sense.

Should a legal distinction be necessary between a ( location ) channel as defined above and a television channel in this sense, the terms " programming service " ( e. g. ) or " programming undertaking " ( for instance, ) may be used instead for the latter definition.

In the United States, the term " treaty " has a different, more restricted legal sense than exists in international law.

The essence of common-law is that law is made by judges sitting in courts, applying their common sense and knowledge of legal precedent ( stare decisis ) to the facts before them.

Act utilitarians, on the other hand, do not accept human rights as moral principles in and of themselves, but that does not mean that they reject them altogether: first, most act utilitarians, as explained above, would agree that acts such as enslavement and genocide always cause great unhappiness and very little happiness ; second, human rights could be considered rules of thumb so that, although torture might be acceptable under some circumstances, as a rule it is immoral ; and, finally, act utilitarians often support human rights in a legal sense because utilitarians support laws that cause more good than harm.

" Counsel for the state later admitted at the Supreme Court oral argument that the " legislature may not < nowiki ></ nowiki > used the term ' academic freedom ' in the correct legal sense.

By traditional Chinese historiography, no Three Kingdoms era officially existed, since in a legal sense the Mandate of Heaven was passed legitimately from the Han Emperor Xian to Cao Wei, and then on to the Jìn Dynasty.

Legal support from the ACLU can take the form of direct legal representation, or preparation of amicus curiae briefs expressing legal arguments ( when another law firm is already providing representation ).

His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company.

In legal firms the title is used to indicated a lawyer who is not a partner of the law firm.

His situation was not helped by the 1999 failure of his trucking firm and subsequent related legal issues.

Bass did not spend much time at the firm, being elected to Congress in 1873, but Cleveland and Bissell soon found themselves at the top of Buffalo's legal community.

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

Jardine was known as the planner, the tough negotiator and strategist of the firm and Matheson was known as the organization man, who handled the firm's correspondence, and other complex articles including legal affairs.

After years of legal wrangling between the Matarrese firm, Bari Council and environmental groups such as Save the Earth, the court ruled in favour of its demolition and thousands gathered on the Bari seafront in April 2006 to see the event.

He graduated with a Ph. D. in 1922 and joined the legal department of a Gelsenkirchen mining firm.

In 1972, after a long-running financial struggle, legal expenses, and a lack of business interest among some of the Steinway family members, the firm was sold to CBS.

*" Hanging out a shingle ", a common phrase in the legal profession meaning to start one's own law firm.

Moreover, Clifford's law firm was retained as general counsel, and also handled most of BCCI's American legal work.

A lifelong Democrat, Acheson worked at a law firm in Washington D. C., Covington & Burling, often dealing with international legal issues before Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed him Undersecretary of the United States Treasury in 1933.

Hence, legal action is uncalled for and wrongly harms the firm and consumers.

American Lawyer magazine called the firm one of the " best places " in the country for legal staff to work.

There are also a Finance Director who helps guide the government on fiduciary matters and a law firm that serves as the Village Attorneys to guide the government on legal matters.

Meanwhile, the three-term city alderman Charlene Lewis and the municipal legal counsel, Charles Jacobs, resigned after ethics complaints surfaced regarding Lewis ' employment with Jacobs ’ firm.

In April 2010, a claim against the Duchess was made by Davenport Lyons, a London firm of solicitors, for a reported £ 200, 000 in unpaid legal fees.

After receiving his LL. M., Ma worked as an associate for a Wall Street law firm in New York and as a legal consultant for a major bank in Massachusetts in the US before completing his doctoral studies.

In addition to the substantive legal experience, students gain practical experience managing a law firm.

* February 4 – Paul McCartney hires the law firm of Eastman & Eastman, Linda Eastman's father's law firm, as general legal counsel for Apple.

In May 2006 the Genealogy & Heraldry Bill was introduced into Seanad Éireann to reform the Office and provide a firm legal basis for grants and confirmations of arms.

In late 2005, the Washington Post reported that the Christian Coalition was unable to pay its office postage bill to Pitney Bowes, and that the Christian Coalition had not paid its new lawyers in Virginia Beach and that the law firm had also sued the Christian Coalition for its legal bills.