I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

As in the case of Old Scatness in Shetland ( near Jarlshof and Burroughston on Shapinsay, brochs were sometimes located close to arable land and a source of water ( some have wells or natural springs rising within their central space ).

As is the case today, photosynthesizing organisms, such as phytoplankton and land plants, formed the primary part of the food chain in the late Cretaceous.

However, the court players may catch and touch the ball in the air within it as long as the player starts their jump outside the zone and releases the ball before they land ( landing inside the perimeter is allowed in this case as long as the ball has been released ).

Hengist asks Vortigern to give him only enough land that Hengist can encircle with a leather thong, so that Hengist may build a fortress upon it — in case a future retreat may require it.

In the case of large research or contract irradiation facilities, major capital costs include a radiation source ( cobalt-60 ), hardware ( irradiator, totes and conveyors, control systems, and other auxiliary equipment ), land ( 1 to 1. 5 acres ), radiation shield, and warehouse.

The action was brought as a test case to determine the legal rights of the Meriam people to land on the islands of Mer ( Murray Island ), Dauar and Waier in the Torres Strait, which were annexed to the state of Queensland in 1879.

Like Odysseus, Gilgamesh gets directions on how to reach the land of the dead from a divine helper: in this case, the goddess Siduri, who, like Circe, dwells by the sea at the ends of the earth.

In return, the British promised to protect Qatar from all aggression by sea and to lend their good offices in case of a land attack.

Women generally did not own property except in the rare case of inheriting land from a father who didn't bear sons.

In the Dutch case, the possibility of flooding large parts of the land provided an additional obstacle to besiegers, for example at the Siege of Leiden.

In North America, for example, some nations broke apart and reformed, as was the case with the Confederation of American States and the United Canadian and American States ; others became havens for specific racial or ethnic groups, like the councils of the Native American Nations, the Native Americans having used their new found magical abilities to regain massive tracts of land ; or the Elvish principality of Tír Tairngire, that encompasess all of the state of Oregon.

In either case it would require access to a significant amount of land to house the installation.

Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for ' earth ', and meaning ' land of Amerigo '.

In the case of indigenous Australians, unlike with the Māori of New Zealand, no treaty was ever entered into with the indigenous peoples entitling the Europeans to land ownership, under the doctrine of terra nullius ( later overturned by Mabo v Queensland, establishing the concept of native title well after colonization was already a fait accompli ).

The terms of the trust are usually written down in a trust instrument or deed but, in England and Wales, it is not necessary for them to be written down to be legally binding, except in the case of land.

In return, the British promised to protect the Trucial Coast from all aggression by sea and to help in case of land attack.

) it must fly high enough so that in the case of an engine failure, it is able to land clear without being a danger to people AND it must not fly less than 1000 ft above the highest fixed object within 600m of the aircraft.

The result of large scale eviction of competent commercial white farmers, the government's land reform efforts and the severing of economic ties with Mozambique, means that was longer the case.

In this manner, the Duke, being the largest land owner, could not act as a judge in his own case.

In any case, others who get involved such as NGOs and the government then make decisions about who can access the land and how it can be used, putting regulations on the local people.

The case established the " rough proportionality " test that is now applied throughout the United States when a local government evaluates a land use application and determines the exactions to require of the recipient of a land use approval.

In the road listings below, a dash ('–') indicates a land road connection between two towns / cities — the normal case — while an ellipsis ( three dots, '…') denotes a stretch across water.

Part of Title I was found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court as it pertains to states in the case of Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett as violating the sovereign immunity rights of the several states as specified by the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.

For private suits only the victims or their families could prosecute, while for public suits anyone ( ho boulomenos, ' whoever wants to ' i. e. any citizen with full citizen rights ) could bring a case since the issues in these major suits were regarded as affecting the community as a whole.

Some countries like the United Kingdom have no entrenched document setting out fundamental rights ; in those jurisdictions the constitution is composed of statute, case law and convention.

This auctioning was called venditio or locatio, and seems to have taken place in the month of March, in a public place in Rome The terms on which they were let, together with the rights and duties of the purchasers, were all specified in the leges censoriae, which the censors published in every case before the bidding commenced.

Any person who feels his or her rights have been violated under the Convention by a state party can take a case to the Court.

The case was used by several academics in discussing such rights in the digital age.

Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or ( as in the case of the Catholic Church ) to restrict certain rights within it.

The main difference between the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice is that the Federal Constitutional Court may only be called if a constitutional matter within a case is in question ( e. g. a possible violation of human rights in a criminal trial ), while the Federal Court of Justice may be called in any case.

However, this is usually not the case if the rights to sell the game outside its country of origin are sold to another publisher.

Medieval charters of liberty such as the English Magna Carta were not charters of human rights, let alone general charters of rights: they instead constituted a form of limited political and legal agreement to address specific political circumstances, in the case of Magna Carta later being mythologized in the course of early modern debates about rights.

Aeschines brought this suit against Timarchus to bar him from the rights of political office and his case succeeded.

These exclusive rights allow owners of intellectual property to benefit from the property they have created, providing a financial incentive for the creation of an investment in intellectual property, and, in case of patents, pay associated research and development costs.

As he described in his article, in 2003, U. S. Senator Rick Santorum commented on a pending U. S. Supreme Court case involving sodomy laws ( primarily as a matter of Constitutional rights to Privacy and Equal Protection under the Law ).

v. U. S. 156 U. S. 51 ( 1895 ), generally considered the pivotal case concerning the rights and powers of the jury, declared: " It is our deep and settled conviction, confirmed by a re-examination of the authorities that the jury, upon the general issue of guilty or not guilty in a criminal case, have the right, as well as the power, to decide, according to their own judgment and consciences, all questions, whether of law or of fact, involved in that issue.

But 28 years later, in an appearance on MSNBC television, Falwell said he was not troubled by reports that the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts ( whose appointment was confirmed by the U. S. Senate ) had done volunteer legal work for homosexual rights activists on the case of Romer v. Evans.

He was blocked from using it by the New Brunswick coal conglomerate because they had coal extraction rights for the province, and he lost a court case when their experts claimed albertite was a form of coal.

That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them.

In the case the ICJ found that its own temporary court orders were legally binding and that the rights contained in the convention could not be denied by the application of domestic legal procedures.

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

A Grand jirga was held at Kalat in September 2006 to announce that a case would be filed in the International Court of Justice regarding the sovereignty and rights of the Baloch people.