Under United States patent law, the abstract may be called " Abstract of the Disclosure ".

xiii, " Cum ad Sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae ") prescribes their work, determines how much they may charge for their labour, fixes a certain tax for an abstract or abridgment of twenty-five words, or their equivalent, 150 letters, forbids them to charge more, even though the abstract goes over twenty-five words but less than fifty words, enacts that the basis of the tax is the labour employed in writing, expediting, etc., the Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.

natural law, in the abstract, can nowise be blotted out from men's hearts.

As it is customarily stated in textbooks, taken alone, the so-called ' zeroth law of thermodynamics ' fails to deliver this information, but the statement of the zeroth law of thermodynamics by James Serrin in 1977, though rather mathematically abstract, is more informative for thermometry: " Zeroth Law-There exists a topological line which serves as a coordinate manifold of material behaviour.

* King Alaric II issues the " Lex Romana Visigothorum " or Breviary of Alaric, an abstract of Roman laws and imperial decrees compiled by a commission appointed to provide a law code for Alaric's Roman subjects.

This applies not only to physical principles, like the law of gravity, but to abstract phenomena that we observe only in human brains: in ours and in those of others.

Asher ben Jehiel-Ashkenazi ( Hebrew, אשר בן יחיאל, or Asher ben Yechiel, sometimes Asheri ) ( 1250 or 1259 – 1327 ) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law.

Rabbenu Asher ’ s best known work is his abstract of Talmudic law.

* Formal groups are used to define an abstract group law using formal power series

* abstract regulation control — the federal government, a government of one of the federal states or a quarter of the Bundestag's members can bring suit against a law.

The Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice ( such as the feud ), rather than one organized around rationalistic, abstract law, in which social order is maintained predominately through relatively impersonal institutions.

Civil law systems are characterized by their emphasis on abstract rules and methodology.

For example, U. S. patent law excludes " abstract ideas ", and this has been used to refuse some patents involving software.

Generality meant that the law should be general and abstract, focusing not on ends or means, as a command would, but on general rules which, by their lack of specificity, could not be said to grant privileges, discriminate or compel any specific individual to an end.

Ṛta appears most frequently as representing abstract concepts such as " law ", " commandment ", " order ", " sacrifice ", " truth ", and " regularity ", but also occasionally as concrete objects such as the waters, the heavens or the sun as manifestations of the operation of Ṛta in the physical universe.

In abstract algebra and logic, distributivity is a property of binary operations that generalizes the distributive law from elementary algebra.

" The law is this :-that each of our leading conceptions ,-each branch of our knowledge ,-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract ; and the Scientific, or positive.

McGee offers the example of Richard Nixon ’ s attempt to defend his decision not to turn over documents to Congress during the Watergate investigation by invoking “ the principle of confidentiality .” Recognizing that his refusal to submit to Congress could be seen as a violation of the “ rule of law ,” Nixon pitted “ the principle of confidentiality ” against the “ rule of law ,” despite the fact that these two ideographs would, in the abstract, not likely be seen as in conflict with one another ..

Thus, Dennis reading of the First Amendment remained in force: advocacy of law violation, even as an abstract doctrine, could be punished under law consistent with the free speech clause.

The U. S. Supreme Court reversed Brandenburg's conviction, holding that government cannot constitutionally punish abstract advocacy of force or law violation.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

Moreover, the law of the land is not irrevocable ; ;

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

) In reliance on this assumption, modern statutes often leave a number of terms and fine distinctions unstated — for example, a statute might be very brief, leaving the precise definition of terms unstated, under the assumption that these fine distinctions will be inherited from pre-existing common law.

She later had a brief solo music career in the early 2000s after the dissolution of Hole, releasing America's Sweetheart ( 2004 ), and went through several rehab sentences and run-ins with the law until achieving sobriety.

Giovanni d ' Andrea was born at Rifredo, near Florence, and studied Roman law and canon law at the University of Bologna, the great law school of the age, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at Padua, and then at Pisa before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301-02 until his death, save for brief seasons at Padua 1307-09 and 1319.

However, notaries public in the U. S., of which the vast majority are lay people, require only a brief training seminar and are expressly forbidden to engage in any activities that could be construed as the practice of law unless they are also qualified attorneys.

Because court decisions in civil law traditions are brief and not amenable to establishing precedent, much of the exposition of the law in civil law traditions is done by academics rather than by judges ; this is called doctrine and may be published in treatises or in journals such as Recueil Dalloz in France.

By contrast, court decisions in some civil law jurisdictions ( most prominently France ) tend to be extremely brief, mentioning only the relevant legislation and not going into great detail about how a decision was reached.

Each time a spouse invokes the application of foreign law, the process of divorce slows down, as the parties are directed to brief the issue of conflict of laws and provide translations of the foreign laws.

Upon graduating, he had stints as a teacher and insurance man, and made a brief attempt at reading the law.

He assisted Charles Butler, his brother-in-law, with business matters related to opening a new building for New York University, attending the law school for a brief period himself.

Combined with the effects of the American law suits, this meant the activity died out in Bermuda until a brief resurgence during the American War of 1812.

In another brief return to Rockford, Anderson practiced at the law firm Large, Reno & Zahm ( now Reno & Zahm LLP ).

After a classical education, Giovanni studied law at the University of Palermo following a brief period of study at Livorno's naval academy.

Another example of the way the shows stayed within the law was the fan dance, in which a naked dancer's body was concealed by her fans and those of her attendants, until the end of her act in when she posed naked for a brief interval whilst standing still.

Grotius's 1604 seminal work on international law, De Iure Praedae ( Of The Law of Prize and Booty ), was an advocate's brief defending Dutch raids on Spanish and Portuguese shipping.

After graduating from school, Balaguer earned a law degree from the University of Santo Domingo and studied for a brief period at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.

After a brief career in law, Buchan simultaneously began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in First World War.

After a brief appointment to a rural parish in Perdiguera, he went to Madrid, the Spanish capital, in 1927 to study law at the Central University.

For a brief period from 1936 to 1937, following the abolition of the office of Governor-General, certain of the Governor-General's functions were transferred to the Ceann Comhairle, who was assigned the role of signing bills into law and convening and dissolving the Dáil.

Although the assessment could have been sustained solely on prior precedent, Justice Stone added a dash of the pragmatism that, with a brief interlude, has since become our aspiration in this quarter of the law.