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The courthouse was a white-stucco building minus the customary dome.
The legal system was based on Portuguese and customary law but was weak and fragmented.
Such breadth was customary among the leading scientific intellectuals of the day.
In ancient China it was customary to burn amber during large festivities.
After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.
As was customary among the Lombards, Alboin took the crown after an election by the tribe's freemen, who traditionally selected the king from the dead sovereign's clan.
* Customary acre-The customary acre was a measure of roughly similar size to the acre described above, but it was subject to considerable local variation similar to the variation found in carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.
" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.
It was customary not to send children of nobility to schools.
In his defense, some baseball historians have suggested that it was not customary for game-ending hits to be fully " run out ", it was only Evers's insistence on following the rules strictly that resulted in this unusual play.
In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.
Until the 1460s, it was customary for cardinals to wear a violet or blue cape unless granted the privilege of wearing red when acting on papal business.
The kingdom of Alba was too new to be said to have a customary rule of succession, but Pictish and Irish precedents favoured an adult successor descended from Kenneth MacAlpin.
In 1605, Charles was created Duke of York, which is customary in the case of the sovereign's second son.
A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.
An artist's impression of Thompson based on historical accountsThompson's decision to defect to the North West Company in 1797 without providing the customary one-year notice was not well received by his former employers.
In theory, divine, natural, customary, and constitutional law still held sway over the king, but, absent a superior spiritual power, it was difficult to see how they could be enforced, since the king could not be tried by any of his own courts.
In such a system wealth derived from agriculture, which was organized not according to market forces but on the basis of customary labour services owed by serfs to landowning nobles.

was and IAAF
On 1 April 1986, the men's javelin () was redesigned by the governing body ( the IAAF Technical Committee ).
In a controversial case that strained Finland – Sweden relations and sparked an inter-IAAF battle, Nurmi was suspended before the 1932 Games by an IAAF council that questioned his amateur status.
Sigfrid Edström, president of the IAAF and chairman of its executive council, stated that the full congress of the IAAF, which was scheduled to start the next day, could not reinstate Nurmi for the Olympics but merely review the phases and political angles related to the case.
An international governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF ), was founded in 1912 ; it adopted its current name, the International Association of Athletics Federations, in 2001.
The annual IAAF World Cross Country Championships was inaugurated in 1973 and this remains the highest level of competition for the sport.
The following year, British runner Paula Radcliffe set the women's world record in 2: 15: 25 ( later briefly downgraded to " world best " by the IAAF as it was achieved in a mixed race, but restored to the title of " world Record " shortly thereafter ).
He then demonstrated his calibre by finishing first in the " IAAF Golden sprints " in Berlin ; which was the most prominent Sprint Meeting in the World that year.
To add to this, Wells won the 100 metres at the IAAF World cup in Rome, beating the American Champion and world's fastest 100m performer of the year which was 10. 00 by Carl Lewis ; Wells then finished 2nd in the world cup 200.
In 1999, she was voted " Female Athlete of the Century " by the International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF ).
At a gala in Monaco, organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF ), she was declared the " Female Athlete of the Century ".
However, the IAAF retained the word " amateur " in its name until its 2001 Congress at which the IAAF's name was changed to its current form.
According to the Boston Herald, race director Dave McGillivray said he was sending paperwork to the IAAF to have Mutai's mark ratified as a world record.
That same year, the International Amateur Athletic Federation ( IAAF ) was established, becoming the international governing body for track and field, and it enshrined amateurism as one of its founding principles for the sport.
In 2010, the series was replaced by the more lucrative IAAF Diamond League, a fourteen-meeting series held in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East — the first ever worldwide annual series of track and field meetings.
The pole vault has been an Olympic event since 1896 for men, but it was over 100 years later that the first women's world championship competition was held at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
This expanded and received IAAF backing as the IAAF Golden League in 1998, which was later supplemented by the branding of selected meetings worldwide as the IAAF World Athletics Tour.
In 2010, the Golden League idea was expanded globally as the IAAF Diamond League series and this now forms the top tier of professional one-day track and field meetings.
This was considered suitable for over 50 years until in the late 1960s the desire of many IAAF members to have their own World Championships began to grow.
In 1976 at the IAAF Council Meeting in Puerto Rico an Athletics World Championships separate from the Olympic Games was approved.
The decision was met with strong protest and in November 2011 an IAAF council member reported that Radcliffe's original mark would be allowed to stand with terminology for " side-by-side " still to be worked out.

was and accept
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.
The European customs on which international law was based were to become, by force and fiat, the customs that others were to accept as law if they were to join this community as sovereign states.
When he heard of his brothers' anger, Palfrey was still hopeful that they could be persuaded to accept his notion of paying wages.
Stanley had filled out the return and because, when he was finished, it was close to the lunch hour, he had politely asked Kitti to join him, never expecting her to accept.
Emory University's Board of Trustees announced Friday that it was prepared to accept students of any race as soon as the state's tax laws made such a step possible.
The inclination was to accept the statement that there would be no formal negotiations.
To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.
The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).
This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.
However, the committee of this French Missionary Society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be " incorrect ".
With the assistance of Corinth and Athens, it escaped complete domination at Philip's hands, but was nevertheless forced to accept a Macedonian garrison.
It was forced to accept that all of its traffic must pass through the " Aachener Reich ".
A convention was called at Borja to develop a consensus, but there Peter so alienated his own partisans with perceived arrogance that they abandoned him, yet were unwilling to accept Ramiro.
As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.
Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.
While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.
Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

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