Most legal cases in adversarial systems do not go to trial ; this can lead to great injustice when the defendant has an unskilled or overworked attorney, which is likely to be the case when the defendant is poor.

Most of the Antarctic region is situated south of 60 ° S latitude parallel, and is governed in accordance with the international legal regime of the Antarctic Treaty System.

Most legal systems require sufficient notice to be given to all directors of these meetings, and that a quorum must be present before any business may be conducted.

Most often and familiarly, defendants are persons: either natural persons ( actual human beings ) or legal persons ( persona ficta ) under the legal fiction of treating organizations as persons.

Most sources credit St. Louis University's Bradbury Robinson from Bellevue, Ohio with throwing the first legal forward pass.

Most actions by the federal government can find some legal support among the express powers, such as the Commerce Clause, whose applicability has been narrowed by the Supreme Court in recent years.

Most legal systems distinguish different types ( immovable property, estate in land, real estate, real property ) of property, especially between land and all other forms of property — goods and chattels, movable property or personal property.

Most broadly and concisely, property in the legal sense refers to the rights of people in or over certain objects or things.

Most legal proceedings require a prima facie case to exist, following which proceedings may then commence to test it, and create a ruling.

Most of these countries have modernized their laws and now have legal systems with significant differences when compared to classical sharia.

Most of these proposals did not go through the established approval procedures and have unclear legal status.

Most General Assembly resolutions are not enforceable as a legal or practical matter, because the General Assembly lacks enforcement powers with respect to most issues.

Most of the company's legal files, scripts, and production materials were donated to the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Most Linux distributions found the potential legal issues unacceptable and moved to a fork from before the license change.

Most legal professionals were not lawyers but generalists trained in philosophy and literature.

Most Chinese and Westerners of the early 20th century regarded the traditional Chinese legal system as backward and barbaric.

Most of the American settlers in Mexico were from southern states, where slavery was still legal.

Most of the Contracting Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights have incorporated the Convention into their own national legal orders, either through constitutional provision, statute or judicial decision.

Most legislatures prefer to base liability on either intention or recklessness and, faced with the need to establish recklessness as the default mens rea for guilt, those practising in most legal systems rely heavily on objective tests to establish the minimum requirement of foresight for recklessness.

Most pseudonym holders use pseudonyms because they wish to remain anonymous, but anonymity is difficult to achieve, and is often fraught with legal issues.

Most Islamic legal systems define this type of modest dressing as covering everything except the face and hands in public.

Most countries place some limits on the patenting of invention involving software, but there is no legal definition of a software patent.

Most towns in the county have local Constables that carry out some municipal legal and security functions.

Most of the gang were eventually caught and, in February 1979, received the longest combined prison sentences in United Kingdom legal history.

Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

Most commentators structure Numbers in three sections based on locale ( Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab ), linked by two travel sections.

Most commentators see Lamentations as reflecting the period immediately following the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, though Provan argues for an interpretation that is ahistorical.

Most commentators assume that this indicates that Jude accepts the antediluvian patriarch Enoch as the author of the Book of Enoch which contains the same quotation.

Most commentators seem to agree that Matthew, alone among the gospels, alternates five blocks of narrative with five of discourse, marking each off with the phrase " When Jesus had finished ..." ( see Five Discourses of Matthew ).

Most commentators assume that this referred to their " slippery " effect on meter in classical Greek verse when they occur as the second member of a consonant cluster.

Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert ( 1656 ), Guynaud ( 1693 ) and Bareste ( 1840 ), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th century French texts, or on pure invention.

Most commentators believed the 1993 election was " unwinnable " for Labor ; the government had been in power for 10 years and the pace of economic recovery from the early 1990s recession was ' weak and slow '.

Most British commentators claim it is false the riots were due to a breakdown of multiculturalism alone and instead is more likely to have been caused by other factors such as disillusioned youth, high unemployment and a growing attraction to ' gangsta ' culture by a sizeable proportion of the youth, across all ethnicities, of The United Kingdom.

Most commentators consider that Jesus ' statements refer to the specific group of Pharisees he was addressing, or possibly the Pharisaic movement as a whole, but not to the Jewish people as a whole, which would have included Jesus and all his followers.

" Most commentators concur that the story is an allegory, but they disagree as to what is represented.

Most commentators believe that Loeb struck the blow that killed Franks.

By the time the affiliation restrictions in the Glass – Steagall Act were repealed through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, many commentators argued Glass-Steagall was already “ dead .” Most notably, Citibank ’ s 1998 affiliation with Salomon Smith Barney, one of the largest US securities firms, was permitted under the Federal Reserve Board ’ s then existing interpretation of the Glass-Steagall Act.

Most commentators are suspicious of the utopian goals of the advocates of such non-adversarial processes, viewing competition as essential to a good result.

Most commentators see this episode as effectively squelching of the open expression of modernist ideas in Catholic circles, until at least the papacy of Leo XIII at the end of the century.

Most modern commentators, however, regard the son's identification as least important in a narrative which is given for its moral lesson.

Most political commentators today acknowledge that the current SNP leadership is by and large of the gradualist mould.

Most modern commentators have concluded that Grandier was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Most commentators have considered suicide the more likely cause ; Peache and Heseltine's close friend Lionel Jellinek both recalled that he had previously threatened to take his life by gas, and the outline of a new will was found among the papers in the flat.

Most commentators agree that the suppression was characterized by its egregious brutality, including several incidents where military forces fired automatic weapons into crowds of unarmed demonstrators.

Most commentators associate Jaspers with the philosophy of existentialism, in part because he draws largely upon the existentialist roots of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and in part because the theme of individual freedom permeates his work.

Most commentators aim to resolve criticisms of the Raavad, and to trace Maimonides ' sources to the text of the Talmud, Midrash and Geonim.

Most commentators regarded his recruitment as a high-risk tactic, seeing the potential advantage to Labor of Garrett's popularity among young people as being offset by the possibility that his record of radical and anti-American statements in the past would offend moderate voters.

Most modern commentators on work songs have included both songs sung while working as well as songs about work, since the two categories are seen as interconnected.