However the Grand Duchy of Lithuania retained much autonomy, and was governed by a separate code of laws called the Lithuanian Statutes, which codified both civil and property rights.

Lodge Mother Kilwinning No 0 in the Grand Lodge of Scotland is known as the Mother Lodge of Scotland, having been referred to in the Schaw Statutes of 1598 and 1599, and having itself warranted other Lodges at a time when it did not subscribe to a Grand Lodge.

The Statutes of Lithuania originally known as the Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( Lithuanian: Lietuvos statutai, Polish: Statuty litewskie, Belarusian: Статуты Вялікага княства Літоўскага ) were a 16th century codification of all the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its successor, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

After forming an association with Poland — including both the dynastic union ( 1385 – 1569 ) and the confederated Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 )— the Lithuanian Statutes were the Grand Duchy's greatest expression of independence.

Later it was known as Pogonia, as approved in the Statutes of Lithuania.

* 1529: Statutes of Lithuania

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Statutes of Lithuania were also used in territories of Lithuania annexed by Poland shortly before Union of Lublin.

The Statutes of Lithuania were a sign of the progressive European legal tradition, and were cited as precedent in Polish and Livonian courts.

However, these plans came to naught when Russia, abetted by Austria and Prussia, partitioned the Commonwealth, although leaving the Lithuanian Statutes in effect in Lithuania until 1840.

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Statutes forbidding it and other sports were enacted in the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and other monarchs.

( This division of Crown Poland into two entities called Greater and Lesser Poland had its roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346 – 1362, where the laws of " Greater Poland " – the northern part of the country – were codified in the Piotrków statute, with those of " Lesser Poland " in the separate Wiślica statute.

Statutes forbade gens de couleur from taking up certain professions, marrying whites, wearing European clothing, carrying swords or firearms in public, or attending social functions where whites were present.

It is, indeed, not improbable that it was as a result of this war that Lord Ochiltree's Committee formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616 was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which ' marriages contracted for several years ' were prohibited ; and any who might disregard this regulation were to be ' punished as fornicators '".

Additionally, the Statutes of Iona were promulgated in 1609 to force an end to the Clan warfare between the MacLeods of Dunvegan and the MacDonalds of Eigg and Sleat as well as to create a more receptive path for Reformation and Protestantism by forcing the Chiefs of the Clans to encourage its spread and to finance the provisioning of Protestant minsters in their lands.

The original Statutes of the Court provided that all 11 judges were required to sit in every case.

The Statutes of Kilkenny were a series of thirty-five acts passed at Kilkenny in 1366.

The first legal documents which mentioned San Marino's institutional organs were the Statutes of 1600.

The Revised Statutes were enacted as positive law, but subsequent enactments were not incorporated into the official code, so that over time researchers once again had to delve through many volumes of the Statutes at Large.

Security vans previously had red lightbars, but after public scrutiny following the Sipkema case, were changed to amber to fall in line with Florida State Statutes.

( This division of Crown Poland into two entities called Greater and Lesser Poland had its roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346 – 1362, where the laws of " Greater Poland " – the northern part of the country – were codified in the Piotrków statute, with those of " Lesser Poland " in the separate Wiślica statute.

The venture failed, and the only lasting mark he left were the suppressive Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366.

On May 20, 1898, the Articles of Incorporation for the town of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma were established under the Arkansas Statutes, placing all of the densely settled areas under one jurisdiction.

In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill ; its Royal Charter and Statutes were approved by the Queen, in August, 1960.

Statutes forbade gens de couleur from taking up certain professions, marrying whites, wearing European clothing, carrying swords or firearms in public, or attending social functions where whites were present.

All three bills were later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Alberta Statutes, and that ruling was upheld by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

The Statutes of Iona were enacted in 1609, which required clan chiefs to: send their heirs to Lowland Scotland to be educated in English-speaking Protestant schools ; provide support for Protestant ministers to Highland Parishes ; outlaw bards ; and regularly report to Edinburgh to answer for their actions.

Statutes were created and it was decided that LACNIC headquarters would be in Montevideo, with technical people and equipment in São Paulo, in NIC. br premises.

Perhaps most importantly, the Basic Statutes provide rules for setting Sultan Qaboos ' succession.

The legal titles of parliamentary sessions of the Cavalier parliament are as given in the two most prominent compilations of statutes-the popular Statutes at Large ( ed.

The " Statutes of Autonomy " of the different regions are the second most important Spanish legal normatives when it comes to the political structure of the country.

Slip laws and U. S. Statutes at Large are available in most academic libraries and Federal Depository Library Program institutions, and at the U. S. Government Printing Office.

" Whereas the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers, employed by Him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom ..( b ) y assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without Consent of Parliament ....( b ) y causing several good Subjects, being Protestants, to be disarmed, at the same Time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law ...( a ) ll which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm ..... the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections, being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation, taking into their most serious Consideration the best Means for attaining the Ends aforesaid, do in the First Place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ), for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ,.... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence, suitable to their Condition, and as allowed by Law.

Statutes in the village of Agua Fria, where most of the nearly 1, 000 residents practice a mix of traditional Huichol animism and Roman Catholicism, specify that residents may live in the village only if they practice Huichol culture, defined in part by religion.

The fifth and the sixth Statutes, on March 21, 1808, separated the Consulta from the Council of State, and renamed it the Senate, with the duty of to informing the king about the wishes of the most important subjects.

One of the opponents of his election, José Nicolás Matienzo ( who would later become Attorney General of Argentina ) said about the reform of the Statutes in 1920: " Examining the proposed reforms to the statutes of the National University of La Plata, I believe that amongst all the universities of the republic, this is the one that has endured the most oligarchic regime until now .".

Statutes are sometimes referred to as legislation or " black letter law.

Statutes of lower jurisdictions are subordinate to the law of higher.

By law, the text of the Statutes at Large is " legal evidence " of the laws enacted by Congress.

If a particular title of the United States Code is enacted into law, the enactment repeals all previous enactments on the subject ( including those found in the Statutes at Large ), thereby making that title of the United States Code " legal evidence " of the law in force.

However, In case of a conflict between the text of the Statutes at Large and the text of a provision of the United States Code that has not been enacted as positive law, the text of the Statutes at Large takes precedence.

After the Archivist receives the Act, he or she provides for its publication as a slip law and in the United States Statutes at Large.

* Kentucky Revised Statutes, the statutory law of the U. S. state of Kentucky

Since the recent construction of a golf course located on Kentucky Route 11, this portion of Kentucky law may be relevant: According to Kentucky Revised Statutes ( KRS ) 242. 123, an individual precinct within any dry territory — which can be a dry county, or a dry portion of an otherwise wet county — that contains a USGA-regulation golf course may vote to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages.

In Arizona law, the authority of constables is defined by Arizona Revised Statutes Title 22, Section 131.

The idea of damages was first conceived in English law during the 13th century, when the Statutes of Merton and Gloucester provided for damages in certain circumstances.

" The " session law " publication for Federal statutes is called the United States Statutes at Large.

From time to time, the federal government will consolidate its current laws into a single consolidation of law known as the Revised Statutes of Canada.

During Venetian rule the city adopted the Statutes of Scutari, a civic law written in Venetian, which also contained Albanian elements such as Besa and Gjakmarrja.

In 1872, less than a decade after he began to practice law, the Connecticut legislature elected him one of a commission of five that made the Revision of 1875, the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut.

The Chronological Table of the Statutes does not mention such a 1430 law, as it was included in the Consolidated Statutes as a recital in the Electors of Knights of the Shire Act 1432 ( 10 Hen.

This prompted a new law ( Statutes of California, 1937, chapter 380 ), which " established for the first time a definite pictured design with which the master die was ' substantially ' to conform, and at the same time established the legality of all previous seals which were essentially the same as this one.

The law creating the 1957 state flag is located in Chapter 1 of the Official State Statutes.

Statutes are the predominant legal source of Russian law, and may only be enacted through the legislative process.

It emphasized the special and distinct role that Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have under domestic and international law and the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.