The ministers were right in their conjectures ; the work not only provoked a great number of replies, but occasioned a formal complaint from the Lower House of Convocation: the Blasphemy Act 1697 still made it an offence for any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, to deny the Holy Trinity.

While the passage of both acts occasioned protest, the response to the Stamp Act included rioting in the streets, and united many factions in the province against the governor.

This means that sections 227 and 228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 ( which relate to extended sentences ) apply where a person is convicted of an offence under section 20, committed after the commencement of section 227 or 228 ( as the case may be ) and the court considers that there is a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm occasioned by the commission by the offender of further specified offences.

The Copyright Act of 1790 did not provide a formal definition of infringement, stating only that “ any person or persons who shall print or publish any manuscript, without the consent and approbation of the author or proprietor thereof … shall be liable to suffer and pay to the said author or proprietor all damages occasioned by such injury .” Furthermore, the Copyright Act of 1909 simply provided that any person who “ shall infringe the copyright in any work protected under the copyright laws of the United States … shall be liable ” for various remedies.

Further, it should be recalled that some very definite steps were taken by Congress to combat corruption in the labor movement by its passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act.

The impact of noncompliance under the Wagner-Peyser Act is clear: the withdrawal of some $11 million a year of administrative funds which finance our employment service program or, as a corollary, the taking over by the Federal Government of its operation.

What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.

Her entrance in Scene 2, Act 1, brought some disconcerting applause even before she had sung a note.

The debate over the Americans with Disabilities Act led some religious groups to take opposite positions.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

713 ) that Ontario's Retail Business Holiday Act, which required some Sunday closings, did not violate the Charter because it did not have a religious purpose.

This allowed substantial leeway for more traditionalist clergy to retain some of the vestments which they felt were appropriate to liturgical celebration ( at least until the Queen gave further instructions under the Act of Uniformity of 1559 ).

The Act had no effect on illegal practices: five clergy were imprisoned for contempt of court and after the trial of the much loved Bishop Edward King of Lincoln, it became clear that some revision of the liturgy had to be embarked upon.

This has been argued by some as misleading, and refers to the date the entity adopted its current name under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, of that year.

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

For the purpose of section 243 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992, a crime means an offence punishable on indictment, or an offence punishable on summary conviction, and for the commission of which the offender is liable under the statute making the offence punishable to be imprisoned either absolutely or at the discretion of the court as an alternative for some other punishment.

The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 provided for a distinct Canadian Citizenship, automatically conferred upon most individuals born in Canada, with some exceptions, and defined the conditions under which one could become a naturalized citizen.

The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act stated that some abusive class actions harmed class members with legitimate claims and defendants that have acted responsibly ; adversely affected interstate commerce ; and undermined public respect for the country's judicial system.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

* Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin by federal and state governments as well as some public places.

The unit is not used much, but is cited in some United States laws ( e. g., Section 1301 ( a ) of the Submerged Lands Act, which defines state seaward boundaries in terms of geographic miles ).

The 1894 Act formed an official system of civil parishes, separated from the ecclesiastical parishes, to carry on some of these responsibilities ( others being transferred to the district / county councils ).

The British Government codified this, to some extent, with the publication of the Official Secrets Act in 1889 and by the time of the First World War multi-tier classification systems were used to communicate information to and from various fronts.

In many respects, the act was almost identical to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, which gives some idea as to how secularized the law regarding Hindus had become.

Tribal courts were limited to sentences of one year or less, until on July 29, 2010 the Tribal Law and Order Act was enacted which in some measure reforms the system permitting tribal courts to impose sentences of up to three years provided proceedings are recorded and additional rights are extended to defendants.

On 6 December 1786, an Order in Council was issued, designating " the Eastern Coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the Islands adjacent " as the destination for transported convicts, as required by the Transportation Act of 1784 ( 24 Geo. III, c. 56 ) that authorised the sending of convicted felons to any place appointed by the King in Council.

After the English Restoration of 1660 and the 1662 Uniformity Act, almost all Puritan clergy left the Church of England, some becoming nonconformist ministers, and the nature of the movement in England changed radically, though it retained its character for much longer in New England.

This prompted some of the first major modern environmental legislation, The Clean Air Act of 1956.

In this period he undermined his previous liberal credentials to some extent by pushing through the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act, which, among other things, extended the length of time suspects could be held in custody and instituted exclusion orders.

Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, and began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests against the Townshend Acts ( enacted in 1767 ) became widespread.

Although Revere was not one of the " Loyal Nine "— organizers of the earliest protests against the Stamp Act — he was well connected with its members, who were laborers and artisans.

In the Thirteen Colonies, the Act, which had been passed in the same session of Parliament as a number of other Acts designed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party and other protests, was joined to those Acts as one of the Intolerable Acts.

These protests were ultimately successful, leading not only to desegregation of public accommodations in Birmingham but also the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations and disturbance.

* Meanwhile, Bayan urged the Supreme Court to " check serious threats to civil liberties and basic freedoms " including the anti-terror law or the Human Security Act of 2007, which took effect on 15 July despite protests from leftist groups.

In 1961, the entire length of the canal was proposed for official abandonment, but protests made meant that under the Transport Act 1968 it was classified as a cruiseway between the Trent and Worksop, while the rest was classified as remainder.

* The Stamp Act 1765, by which the British Parliament sought to tax the Thirteen Colonies, set off protests against taxation without representation.

Together with Halifax he opposed both the arbitrary Conventicle Act of 1670 and the Test Oath of 1675, his objection to the latter being chiefly founded on the invasion of the privileges of the peers which it involved ; and he defended with vigour the right of the Peers to record their protests.

During the war, the New York Draft Riots were started as violent protests against Abraham Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription plan to draft men to fight in the war.

In the aftermath of the Warren County protests, the 1984 Federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act focused on waste minimization and phasing out land disposal of hazardous waste as well as corrective action for releases of hazardous materials.

Despite Oakes ' protests that the vials were meant for pain relief and that the money he had was from a $ 666 workers ' compensation cheque, Section 8 of the Narcotic Control Act ( NCA ) established a ' rebuttable presumption " that possession of a narcotic inferred an intention to traffic unless the accused established the absence of such an intention.

Hutchinson's Boston mansion ," the first developed example of provincial Palladianismin New England ," according to a later historian of architecture, was ransacked in 1765 during protests against the Stamp Act, damaging his collection of materials on early Massachusetts history.

He returned to the islands, where he had to deal with protests of the recently enacted Stamp Act.

complied with the Espionage Act, ceased public protests, and did not solicit new

Poor supported the separatists as early as the Stamp Act protests in 1765.

The Act resulted largely from the protests of one man, the Labour politician Tony Benn, then second Viscount Stansgate.

Although protests led to the repeal of the Stamp and Townshend Acts, Parliament adhered to the position that it had the right to legislate for the colonies " in all cases whatsoever " in the Declaratory Act of 1766.

New York City had seen riots and protests over the Stamp Act.

This, combined with protests that had occurred in the colonies and, perhaps more importantly, protests which had arisen in Great Britain from manufacturers who were suffering from the colonies ' non-importation agreement, all led to the repeal of the Stamp Act.

When protests over the Stamp Act resulted in calling a Congress of the several colonies in New York, the Maryland Assembly sent Murdock as one of its delegates.

On May 17, 2006, the state of Illinois enacted Senate Bill 1144, the " Let Them Rest In Peace Act ", to shield grieving military families from protests during funerals and memorial services of fallen military service members.