Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

Some jurisdictions hold this as an absolute right, and in its absence, a sentence may potentially be overturned, with the result that a new sentencing hearing must be held.

Some established jurisdictions require adherence to design and historic preservation guidelines.

Some jurisdictions have incorporated the definition of civil assault into the definition of the crime making it a criminal assault to intentionally cause another person to apprehend a harmful or offensive contact.

Some jurisdictions allow force to be used in defense of property, to prevent damage either in its own right, or under one or both of the preceding classes of defense in that a threat or attempt to damage property might be considered a crime ( in English law, under s5 Criminal Damage Act 1971 it may be argued that the defendant has a lawful excuse to damaging property during the defense and a defense under s3 Criminal Law Act 1967 ) subject to the need to deter vigilantes and excessive self-help.

Some jurisdictions also permit the board of directors to appoint directors, either to fill a vacancy which arises on resignation or death, or as an addition to the existing directors.

Some jurisdictions have required formalities to establishing copyright, but most recognize copyright in any completed work, without formal registration.

Some jurisdictions have penal codes written to inflict permanent harsh punishments: legal mutilation, capital punishment or life without parole.

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.

Some jurisdictions give priority to motorized traffic, for example setting up one-way street systems, free-right turns, high capacity roundabouts, and slip roads.

Some jurisdictions classify as violent certain property crimes involving a strong likelihood of psychological trauma to the property owner ; for example, Virginia treats both common-law burglary ( the breaking and entering of a dwelling house at night with the intent to commit larceny, assault and battery, or any felony therein ) and statutory burglary ( breaking and entering with further criminal intent but without the dwelling-house or time elements, such that the definition applies to break-ins at any time and of businesses as well as of dwelling houses ) as felonies.

Some governors-general are considered de facto heads of state because, though not the de jure ( juridical or legal ) head of state, in practice they function like a head of state in most or all jurisdictions.

Some activities, known as sex crimes in some locations, are illegal in some jurisdictions, including those conducted between ( or among ) consenting and competent adults ( examples include sodomy law and adult-adult incest ).

Some jurisdictions forbid sexual activity outside of legal marriage completely.

Some jurisdictions also make allowances for young people engaged in sexual acts with each other.

Some jurisdictions forbid first-cousins to marry, while others limit the prohibition to brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles.

Some jurisdictions require the evaluation to address the defendant's ability to control their behavior at the time of the offense ( the volitional limb ).

Some jurisdictions limit court-ordered treatment to individuals who meet statutory criteria for presenting a danger " to self or others.

Some civil law jurisdictions do, however, have arbitration panels with non-legally trained members decide cases in select subject-matter areas relevant to the arbitration panel members ' areas of expertise.

Some jurisdictions with jury trials allow the defendant to waive their right to a jury trial, this leading to a bench trial.

Some jurisdictions also permit a verdict to be returned despite the dissent of one, two, or three jurors.

Some jurisdictions allow employers to count tips given to their workers as credit towards the minimum wage level.

Some departments and jurisdictions require that an officer ask " do you understand?

Some jurisdictions provide the right of a juvenile to remain silent if their parent or guardian is not present.

Some pluralist systems, such as Scots law in Scotland and so-called civil law jurisdictions in Quebec and Louisiana, do not precisely fit into the dual " common-civil " law system classifications.

Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.

Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.

Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.

Some fiscal changes are important.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

Some privately held inholdings are a source of direct damage to these Federal lands.

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

Some deductions are subtracted from Gross Income to determine Adjusted Gross Income.

Some renditions are of symphonic dimensions, with the contrabass given free rein.

Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.

Some tasty frank toppings are chili con carne, Coney Island sauce and savory sauerkraut.

Some general things to look for in a site, if you haven't already bought one, are accessibility, water drainage, and orientation.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

Some of these temperatures are plotted in figure 4.

( Some suspensions break up before they are near to the direction of shear, and some become asymptotic to it without breakup.

Some experiments are composed of repetitions of independent trials, each with two possible outcomes.

Some of these speculations may have some merit, others are somewhat ambiguous.

Some phonetic features, for example glottal catch or murmur, are sometimes to be assigned to segmental phonemics and sometimes to accentual systems.

Some are failing to achieve as much as their ability would permit ; ;