The Judiciary consists of a series of courts, of which the court of final adjudication is the Court of Final Appeal.

This goal was finally achieved by a series of laws in the 1920s and 1930s that made Flemish the language of government, education, and the courts in the northern provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and eastern Brabant.

He rechristened that enclosed park, which stood in front of the Trinidad courts and legislature, " The University of Woodford Square ", and proceeded to give a series of public lectures on world history, Greek democracy and philosophy, the history of slavery, and the history of the Caribbean to large audiences drawn from every social class.

But in 1261 Boniface held a church council at Lambeth, where a series of ecclesiastical laws were published which denounced any royal limitations on ecclesiastical courts.

Decisions of the United States courts of appeals have been published by the private company West Publishing in the Federal Reporter series since the courts were established.

Restitution developed as a series of writs called special assumpsit, which were later additions in the courts of law, and were more flexible tools of recovery, based on Equity.

The Warren Court ( the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren ), issued a series of rulings which redefined citizen's rights and substantially altered the powers and responsibilities of police and the courts.

* ( L n ): legal series: relating to fees or procedures in courts in England and Wales.

Further arrangements were made for the general arrival of visitors in order to entertain them whilst they were not at the Games ; a pleasure garden was opened north of the Olympic Stadium, and a series of indoor tennis courts were converted into a restaurant.

As a Presbyterian church, the Kirk has no bishops, but is rather governed by elders and ministers ( collectively called presbyters ) sitting in a series of courts.

In a series of decisions, given mainly by Lord Deas, a doctrine grew that various types of mental weakness could have the effect of reducing what would otherwise be a conviction for murder ( which attracted capital punishment ) to one for culpable homicide ( where the courts had greater discretion in sentencing ).

Instead, the French legal system subscribes to the legal doctrine of jurisprudence constante according to which courts should follow a series of decisions that are in accord with each other and judges should rule on their own interpretation of the law.

During the 1940s and early 1950s, federal courts made a series of decisions that indicated that the notion of " separate but equal " schools would soon be declared unconstitutional.

The two sides filed a series of law suits in the civil courts and some parallel attempts to reconcile both the parties also took place.

After serving his three years he was appointed to a series of positions including Register of Wills, Recorder of Deeds, Clerk of the Orphan's Court, Justice of the Peace, and judge in the lower courts.

In 2003, courts there prevented the distribution of a Dutch translation of the first in the series, Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, after Rowling and Time Warner's lawyers issued a cease and desist order, arguing that the Grotter books violated copyright law, specifically infringing Rowling's right to control derivative works.

Mason's Manual notes, " The courts, by a series of decisions, have explained away almost every essential feature of the privilege from arrest as it once existed ... A member of the legislature has no right to physically resist an officer attempting to make an arrest to the extent of assaulting such officer.

Here after the second birthday of Jahangir in 1571, Akbar then 28 years old, decided to shift his capital from Agra to the Sikri ridge, to honor Salim Chishti, and commenced the construction of a planned walled city which took the next fifteen years in planning and construction of a series royal palaces, harem, courts, a mosque, private quarters and other utility buildings.

The poster for the series shows a gavel, even though they are not used in British courts.

He also faced a series of verbal allegations from opposition party members ranging from mismanagement of public funds to human trafficking, however evidence was never presented and he was never formally accused at the courts nor charged.

Following a series of stalking incidents instigated by a man in Berlin, Masterson was the plaintiff in Carafano v. Metrosplash. com, a controversial legal case in which the courts ruled against Masterson and expanded the definition of " interactive computer services " under the Communications Decency Act.

The series was rarely away from the courts and the threat of legal action.

Later in the series it is revealed that Meredith is a fertility deity whose powers are of both courts.

Kung fu films are an obvious influence – Spike practises the martial arts and philosophies of Bruce Lee and some of the kung fu fights in the series seem to be lifted directly from Bruce Lee ’ s films.

Chiba's breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series ( 1974 ), which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema.

* Wu Qi, the Prime Minister of the State of Chu, enacts his first series of political, municipal, and martial reforms.

Showtime is an American premium cable television service featuring programming that consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures, along with original series, made-for-cable movies, and occasional boxing and mixed martial arts matches.

* Showtime ( SHO ): The flagship channel ; blockbuster movies, first-run films, original series, specials, mixed martial arts events and championship boxing.

In other media, The Green Hornets sidekick, Kato, has traditionally ( especially since the 1960s television series with Bruce Lee ) been depicted as a capable man of action, such as with martial arts.

Wong Fei-hung ( July 9, 1847 – March 25, 1924 ) was a Chinese martial artist, physician, acupuncturist and revolutionary who became a folk hero and the subject of numerous films and television series.

Other prominent actors who played the famed martial artist include Jet Li in the series, Once Upon a Time in China.

So, the style was a mixture of grappling, Greco-Roman wrestling, and some Japanese martial arts, which evolved during the course of the series.

He has also served as a martial arts advisor to various films and television productions, including the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, and in the first film from the highly popular Japanese series Shinobi no Mono.

* Kosho, a fictional martial art portrayed in the cult TV series The Prisoner

The story in each game in the main series documents the events of the fictional martial arts tournament, the King of Iron Fist Tournament, hosted by the Mishima Zaibatsu corporation.

The first game in the series, KOF ' 94, centers around a black market arms dealer named Rugal Bernstein, who hosts the well-known fighting tournament to lure worthy adversaries into his trap so that he can kill them and turn them into stone statues, adding them to his collection of defeated martial artists.

The martial arts moves and game engine cutscenes feature actions motion captured directly from the films ' actors and stunt doubles to recreate their unique fighting style, and were created under the supervision of the series ' fight scene choreographer Yuen Woo-ping.

Shaolin monks have been featured on Fight Science, a National Geographic television series, performing feats of strength, endurance, and martial arts.

That same year, the Abbot of Shaolin invites the K-Star martial arts reality TV show to film a TV series of foreigners competing to survive Shaolin style training.

In a series of interviews for the official Region 1 American DVDs, Imagawa explains that Tohofuhai martial arts ( the style practiced by Domon Kasshu and his mentor Master Asia ) is so successful because rather than sticking to one particular fighting style it is constantly evolving and accepts successful elements from any and all known fighting styles.

The Beatles were the first rock group to perform here, in a series of shows in June / July 1966 ; their appearances were met with opposition from those who felt the appearance of a western pop group would defile the martial arts arena.

However, contemporary ( 2000's ) movies based on Feluda stories feature scenes of violence uncharacteristic of the series, where Feluda demonstrates his martial art prowess.

* Sengoku Raiden Championship, a mixed martial arts competition series

The goal of these men was to create a series of Okinawan kata in order to teach both physical education and very basic Okinawan independent style martial arts to school children.

In this form martial arts, various stages of physical training include ayurvedic massage with sesame oil to impart suppleness to the body ( uzichil ); a series of sharp body movements so as to gain control over various parts of the body ( miapayattu ); and, complex sword fighting techniques ( paliyankam ).

Full martial law was not introduced but in a series of Orders in Council and Emergency Regulations, 1936 – 37 ‘ statutory ’ martial law, a stage between semi-military rule under civil powers and full martial law under military powers, and one in which the army and not the civil High Commissioner was pre-eminent was put in place.