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 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 churches require more.

Some opcodes require one or more operands as part of the instruction, and most assemblers can take labels and symbols as operands to represent addresses and constants, instead of hard coding them into the program.

Some instances of exploring these " nearby " nodes require traversing up to 2 × log ( n ) links ( particularly when moving from the rightmost leaf of the root's left subtree to the leftmost leaf of the root's right subtree ).

Some contact adhesives require as long as 24 hours to dry before the surfaces are to be held together.

Some authors require in addition that μ ( C ) < ∞ for every compact set C. If a Borel measure μ is both inner regular and outer regular, it is called a regular Borel measure.

Some forms of Islamic law, as in Saudi Arabia, may require capital punishment, but there is great variation within Islamic nations as to actual capital punishment.

Some cities such as Seattle and San Francisco require food and yard waste to be sorted for composting.

Some casinos require all players to make a minimum Pass or Don't Pass bet whether they are currently shooting or not.

* Some such countries do not require tourist visas of citizens of other Commonwealth countries.

Some other cash registers require a numeric password or physical key to be used when attempting to open the till.

Some undergraduate courses require a team of 2 to 5 students to design, implement, and test a simple CPU in a FPGA in a single 15 week semester.

Some shotgun sports, such as skeet, use crossing targets presented in a narrow range of distance, and only require one level of choke.

Some of the roads in more rural area are rough and unpaved, and require a four-wheel drive vehicles.

Some holes may require a throw from a Drop Zone.

Some players will use mid-ranges as drivers, and there are tournaments that require players to use only mid-range discs.

Some digital synthesizers now exist in the form of " softsynth " software that synthesizes sound using conventional PC hardware, though they require careful programming and a fast CPU to get the same latency response as their dedicated equivalents.

Some programs offer programs with two pre-professional years followed by four professional years, while others require a four year undergraduate / bachelor's degree.

Some Protestant communities including most Lutheran churches practice closed communion and require catechetical instruction for all people before receiving the Eucharist.

Some authors also require the domain of the Euclidean function be the entire ring R ; this can always be accommodated by adding 1 to the values at all nonzero elements, and defining the function to be 0 at the zero element of R, but the result is somewhat awkward in the case of K. The definition is sometimes generalized by allowing the Euclidean function to take its values in any well-ordered set ; this weakening does not affect the most important implications of the Euclidean property.

Some definitions of epilepsy require that seizures be recurrent and unprovoked, but others require only a single seizure combined with brain alterations which increase the chance of future seizures.

Some patients, however, require polypharmacy, the use of two or more anticonvulsants.

Some of these risks may be self-insurable, while most will require the purchase of an insurance contract.

Some other weapons, such as crossbows, require the same license as is required for firearms.