:" Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones.

Along with information on official chess tournaments, the rules are described in the FIDE Handbook, Laws of Chess section.

Clarke's Three Laws are three " laws " of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

The rules and tournament regulations are now maintained by the International Laws Committee, established by the croquet associations of England and Wales ( CA ), Australia ( ACA ), New Zealand ( CNZ ) and the United States ( USCA ).

English and British statutes are part of Canadian law because of the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, section 129 of the Constitution Act, 1867, and the Statute of Westminster 1931.

Laws banning circumcision are also ancient.

Jews hold that other nations and peoples are not required ( nor expected ) to obey the Law of Moses, with the notable exception that the only laws Judaism believes are automatically binding ( in order to be assured of a place in the world to come ) on other nations are known as the Seven Laws of Noah.

Thus, as an ethnic religion, Judaism holds that others may have their own, different, paths to God ( or holiness, or " salvation "), as long as they are consistent with the Seven Laws of Noah.

Laws and regulations are promulgated by the Commissioner and enforced in the BIOT by Brit Rep.

Philo, Special Laws 2. 27 / 145 (" Many myriads of victims from noon till eventide are offered by the whole people ").

Maxwell's Laws, which unify light, fields, and charge are one of the great milestones of theoretical physics.

Roz Laws from the Sunday Mercury called the plot " shocking and ridiculous " and asked " are we really supposed to believe that Kat won't recognise that the baby looks different?

Laws dealing with pollution are often media-limited — i. e., pertain only to a single environmental medium, such as air, water ( whether surface water, groundwater or oceans ), soil, etc .— and control both emissions of pollutants into the medium, as well as liability for exceeding permitted emissions and responsibility for cleanup.

Laws concerning foreign relations are discussed in the parliamentary committee of foreign relations ( ulkoasiainvaliokunta ).

The Federal Courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, meaning that they can only exercise the powers that are granted to them by the Constitution and Federal Laws.

Laws and ordinances are promulgated by two cabinet members in unison " On Behalf of the Government ".

Judaism has always held that people who are not Jews are obliged only to follow the seven Noahide Laws ; these are laws that the Oral Law derives from the covenant God made with Noah after the flood, which apply to all descendants of Noah ( all living people ).

Laws prohibiting hate speech are unconstitutional in the United States ; the United States federal government and state governments are forbidden by the First Amendment of the Constitution from restricting speech .< ref >

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority ..." The first famous statement of " the judicial power " was Marbury v. Madison,.

In the Five Books of Moses, references are made in Deuteronomy 28-31, that the Jews will not be able to keep the Laws of Moses in the Land of Israel and will be subsequently exiled and ultimately redeemed.

In the struggles between Parliament and the monarch, Parliament often made reference to the Fundamental Laws of England, which were at times said to embody natural law principles since time immemorial and set limits on the power of the monarchy.

The papal bull of excommunication issued to the Genoese merchants of Caffa related to the buying and selling of Christians, but has been considered ineffectual as prior injunctions against the Viennese, including the Laws of Gazaria, made allowances for the sale of both Christian and Muslim slaves.

Laws restricting layoffs made businesses less likely to hire in the first place, as hiring becomes more risky, leaving many young people unemployed and unable to find work.

It codified longstanding antisemitic practices, both official and unofficial, in the Nuremberg Laws which made them official policies of the Third Reich.

The Laws in Wales Acts created an anomaly in that, although Monmouthshire was noted as being in the ' Country or Dominion of Wales ', it was made directly responsible to the courts of Westminster rather than falling under the Court of Great Sessions in Wales.

* Fisk was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on 24 June 2004.

The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the " inaction " clause, the same modification made in " Little Lost Robot "; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience ; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second ( i. e., a " New Law " robot cannot be ordered to destroy itself ); finally, Allen adds a Fourth Law which instructs the robot to do " whatever it likes " so long as this does not conflict with the first three laws.

At the outbreak of the war, the Transport Board wrote that " the prisoners in all the depots in the country are at full liberty to exercise their industry within the prisons, in manufacturing and selling any articles they may think proper excepting those which would affect the Revenue in opposition to the Laws, obscene toys and drawings, or articles made either from their clothing or the prison stores ".

Scholars have advanced several explanations to resolve the puzzle of why Peel made the seemingly irrational decision to sacrifice his government to repeal the Corn Laws, a policy which he had long opposed.

Laws varied from country to country: in England a serf who made his way to a chartered town ( i. e. a borough ) and evaded recapture for a year and a day obtained his freedom and became a burgher of the town.

He was made an honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Edinburgh in 1881, of the University of St Andrews in 1885, of the University of Cambridge in 1888, and of the Universities of Dublin and Glasgow in 1891, and an honorary Doctor of Civil Law of the University of Oxford in 1891.

The Supreme Court relied on Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, which provides that the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction in " all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority.

Catholics and Presbyterians — who together made up a large majority of the Irish population — were completely excluded from public life at this time under the Penal Laws, in force in Ireland from 1691 until the early 1780s.

National legislation on consent and tissue donation issues is expressed in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act ( 2006 ) passed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws which states that " an anatomical gift of a donor ’ s body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education " and prohibits trafficking in donated human organs for profit.

In 1879, in Reynolds v. United States, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Morrill Act, stating: " Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinion, they may with practices.

Contrast this with the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1 ( Titled Bill of Rights ) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder ; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: " No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made ".

The Corn Laws had imposed a tariff on all cheap imported wheat and, thus, kept the price of wheat and the bread made from wheat high.

He reviewed Canada's Official Language Laws, and made suggestions where improvements can be made.

( Bachelor of Legislative Laws ) or B. L.

Should that occur, it is sent to the Legislative Engrossing Division where it is typed on special parchment in accordance with the General Laws.

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands.

The power of the Legislative being derived from the People by a positive voluntary Grant and Institution, can be no other, than what the positive Grant conveyed, which being only to make Laws, and not to make Legislators, the Legislative can have no power to transfer their Authority of making laws, and place it it in other hands.

The Paternal Laws also provided for a Peoples Council ( Volksraad ) which was elected every five years and formed the Legislative of the Rehoboth government.

She served as Vice-chair of Legislative Counsel Committees on Drug Enforcement and Review of Sexual Assault Laws.

# Towards Legislative Reform of the Blasphemy and Racial Hatred Laws, in UKACIA document " Need for Reform ", 1993.

* Laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China, Volume 1, compiled by the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, Beijing, China: China Legal Pub.

* Computer Data Base Protection-The Impact of Japanese Legislative Developments on United States and Japanese Copyright Laws ( in English )