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 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 school systems today maintain a system of cumulative records of pupils.

Most of the analog systems also suffer from generation loss.

Most familiar systems cannot achieve negative temperatures because adding energy always increases their entropy.

Most systems of classification have included this order, although sometimes under the name Capparales ( the name chosen depending on which is thought to have priority ).

Most early BBSes operated as individual systems.

Most current genome annotation systems work similarly, but the programs available for analysis of genomic DNA, such as the GeneMark program trained and used to find protein-coding genes in Haemophilus influenzae, are constantly changing and improving.

Most conjugative plasmids have systems ensuring that the recipient cell does not already contain a similar element.

In addition, the cities of Brno, Liberec, Most, Olomouc, Ostrava, Plzeň, and Prague have tram systems.

Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp — such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp — used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers.

Most commuter ( or suburban ) trains are built to main line rail standards, differing from light rail or rapid transit ( metro rail ) systems by:

Most modern systems combine both solutions, where appropriate.

Most systems may be assumed to have a second order and single variable system response in the time domain ignoring multi-variable.

Most computer systems provide utility programs to assist in the back-up process, which can become very time-consuming if there are many files to safeguard.

Most cable systems are required by their franchise agreement to offer some channels, including local broadcast stations, educational, and community access channels ( PEG ), for a low rate ; this is called " Basic Cable ".

Most systems use hybrid fiber coaxial ( HFC ) distribution ; this means the trunklines that carry the signal from the headend to local neighborhoods are optical fiber to provide greater bandwidth and also extra capacity for future expansion.

Most systems were purchased with two peripherals, the Type 30 vector graphics display, and a Soroban Engineering modified IBM Model B Electric typewriter that was used as a printer.

Most reports on ECHELON focus on satellite interception ; testimony before the European Parliament indicated that separate but similar UK-US systems are in place to monitor communication through undersea cables, microwave transmissions and other lines.

Most systems can be categorized as either proportional or majoritarian.

Most electric lighting is powered by centrally generated electric power, but lighting may also be powered by mobile or standby electric generators or battery systems.

Most filters implemented in analog electronics, in digital signal processing, or in mechanical systems are classified as causal, time invariant, and linear.

Most formal systems of logic operate on variable facts, i. e. facts the value of which changes several times during one reasoning.

Most notably, gerrymandering is particularly effective in non-proportional systems that tend towards fewer parties, such as first past the post.

Most democracies have partly proportional electoral systems, where several political parties are proportionally represented in the national parliaments, in proportion to the total numbers of votes of the parties in the regional or national elections.