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 term " allocution " is generally only in use in jurisdictions in the United States, though there are vaguely similar processes in other common law countries.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

In 1881 Alfonso refused to sanction a law by which the ministers were to remain in office for a fixed term of 18 months.

In law, affiliation ( from Latin ad-filiare, to adopt as a son ) is the term to describe a partnership between two or more parties.

The term is always positive since, according to the second law of thermodynamics, viscosity cannot add energy to the control volume.

The term " black-letter law " is also used commonly in the American legal system to mean well-established case law.

In English law, black letter law is a term used to describe those areas of law characterized by technical rules, rather than those areas of law characterized by having a more conceptual basis.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

then, according to the distributive law, there will be one term in the expansion for each choice of either x or y from each of the binomials of the product.

Later, the term was widely used in canon law for an important determination, especially a decree issued by the Pope, now referred to as an apostolic constitution.

The term common law has three main connotations and several historical meanings worth mentioning:

The term " common law " was used to describe the law held in common between the circuits and the different stops in each circuit.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

The report, published on 26 June, was critical of the Dublin administration, saying that " Ireland for several years had been administered on the principle that it was safer and more expedient to leave the law in abeyance if collision with any faction of the Irish people could thereby be avoided.

* the law of consecration also known as the United Order ( put in abeyance by the LDS Church in the 19th century );

The theme of his thesis was the nature of concordats and the function of canon law when a concordat falls into abeyance.

Under English inheritance law all daughters are co-heirs, so many older English peerage titles have fallen into abeyance between various female co-heirs.

If the Earldom and Barony of Courtenay had not been forfeited at the change of reign, they would ( by modern law ) have gone into abeyance among his sisters.

When his son died at the age of eight, the barony of Burgh ( according to modern law ) went into abeyance between the daughters.

Soon after taking office in 1913, he aroused a storm of protest, especially on the part of the large daily newspapers, by declaring that he would enforce the law ( requiring publications to print, among other things, a sworn statement of paid circulation ), which had been held in abeyance by his predecessor until its constitutionality might be confirmed.

Their application was held in abeyance because their population did not meet the needed number required by law.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

Perhaps the moralities of world law are not advanced by stealing American diplomatic papers and planes, but the Kennedy administration can always file a demurrer to the effect that, but for its own incompetence in protecting American interests, these things would not happen.

Correlatively, can we reduce the role of the district courts, so that the action is that of the people of the community or other school district and not that of the law court??

Because community not severalty of property is the law of nature no man can assert an absolutely unalterable right to what is his.

`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??

This can mean that where it is the defendant who appeals, the name of the case in the law reports reverses ( in some cases twice ) as the appeals work their way up the court hierarchy.

Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.

Adventurous experiences create psychological and physiological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative ( e. g. fear ) or positive ( e. g. flow ), and which can be detrimental as stated by the Yerkes-Dodson law.

Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

The associative law can also be expressed in functional notation thus:.

There is one test based on " Brazil law twinning " ( a form of quartz twinning where right and left hand quartz structures are combined in a single crystal ) which can be used to identify synthetic amethyst rather easily.

Such temperature changes can be quantified using the ideal gas law, or the hydrostatic equation for atmospheric processes.

We can solve for the temperature of the compressed gas in the engine cylinder as well, using the ideal gas law.

In common law states an assault is not committed by merely, for example, swearing at another ; without threat of battery, there can be no assault.

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 ).

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

Cardinal Murphy-O ' Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England, pointed out that Prince William ( later the Duke of Cambridge ) " can marry by law a Hindu, a Buddhist, anyone, but not a Roman Catholic ".

For example, if for a given problem size a parallelized implementation of an algorithm can run 12 % of the algorithm's operations arbitrarily quickly ( while the remaining 88 % of the operations are not parallelizable ), Amdahl's law states that the maximum speedup of the parallelized version is times as fast as the non-parallelized implementation.

More technically, the law is concerned with the speedup achievable from an improvement to a computation that affects a proportion P of that computation where the improvement has a speedup of S. ( For example, if an improvement can speed up 30 % of the computation, P will be 0. 3 ; if the improvement makes the portion affected twice as fast, S will be 2.