By virtue of Article II of the Treaty of Union, which defined the succession to the throne of Great Britain, the Act of Settlement became part of Scots Law as well.

The Gayanashagowa, the oral constitution of the Iroquois nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance in which sachems ( tribal chiefs ) of the members of the Iroquois League made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single tribe.

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

In January 2002, the partially nude female statue of the Spirit of Justice, which stands in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, where Ashcroft held press conferences, was covered with blue curtains, along with its male counterpart, the Majesty of Law.

The Great Poor Law Report of 1834 showed that communism was widespread in the rural areas of England.

* Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law See Great Lakes ; St. Lawrence River and Seaway.

The TNOFC is an interim, un-incorporated government based on provisions outlined in wampum 96 of the Haudenosaunee ( Iroquois League ) Great Law of Peace.

The Great Moore's Law Compensator ( TGMLC ), generally referred to as bloat, and also known as Wirth's law, is the principle that successive generations of computer software acquire enough bloat to offset the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law.

Soon after Jagiello accession to the Polish throne, Jagiello granted Vilnius a city charter like that of Kraków, modeled on the Magdeburg Law ; and Vytautas issued a privilege to a Jewish commune of Trakai on almost the same terms as privileges issued to the Jews of Poland in the reigns of Boleslaus the Pious and Casimir the Great.

* Justinian I the Great ( 483 – 565 ), Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565 noted for his codification of Law

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

In his hagiographic spiritual biography Li Hongzhi is said to have been taught ways of " cultivation practice " by several masters of the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, including Quan Jue, the 10th Heir to the Great Law of the Buddha School, a Taoist master from age eight to twelve, and a master of the Great Way School with the Taoist alias of True Taoist from the Changbai Mountains.

The Iroquois Confederacy or League, combining five to six American Indian nations or tribes before the U. S. became a nation, operated by The Great Binding Law of Peace, a constitution by which women participated in the League's political decision-making, including deciding whether to proceed to war, through what may have been a matriarchy or "' gyneocracy '".

By virtue of Poynings ' Law, a statute of King Henry VII of England, all proposed Irish legislation had to be submitted to the Privy Council for its approval under the Great Seal of England before being passed by the Irish parliament.

The sinking almost caused a diplomatic conflict between Japan and Great Britain, but it was finally recognized by British jurists as in total conformity with International Law, making Tōgō famous overnight for his mastery of contentious issues involving foreign countries and regulations.

In the Republic of Ireland the Union with Ireland Act 1800 ( that passed in Great Britain ) was not formally repealed until the passing by the Oireachtas of the Statute Law Revision Act 1983.

* Great Ideas in Physics: the Conservation of Energy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.

The word Daishonin is an honorific title meaning " Great Sage ", as SGI practitioners believe him to be the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law.

Some laws are only applicable when there is a Temple in Jerusalem ( see Third Temple ); after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the year 70 during the Great Jewish Revolt, Jewish Oral Law was developed through intensive and expansive interpretation of the written Torah, see School of Jamnia.

Other areas of Poor Law historiography which have concerned historians include the extent to which the Second Great Reform Act contributed to the Poor Law Amendment Act and the extend to which outdoor relief was abolished following the New Poor Law.

** The Declaration of Christmas Peace ( Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City )

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme

The Kingdom of Italy at the 1919 Paris " Conference of Peace " received nothing from German colonies, but as a compensation Great Britain gave it the Oltre Giuba and France agreed to give some Saharan territories to the Italian Libya.

His third experience was in 1942 during the worst fighting of WWII, Ueshiba had a vision of the " Great Spirit of Peace ".

In 1986, hundreds of people walked from Los Angeles to Washington DC in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.

* Hong Xiuquan, established the heterodox Christian sect " Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace " (; ).

The Taoist scripture " Classic of Great Peace ( Taiping jing )" foretells " the coming Age of Great Peace ( taiping ).

Roosevelt was the force behind the completion of the Panama Canal ; sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to demonstrate American power ; and negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, the rebel faction of the Taiping Rebellion in 1860s Qing China was a heterodox Christian Theocracy led by the self-proclaimed younger brother of Jesus Christ, Hong Xiuquan.

* August 4 – The Great Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France and its Huron and Algonquian allies.

The dedicatee long remained unidentified, but John Harley's researches into the heraldic design on the fly-leaf have shown that she was Lady Elizabeth Neville, the third wife of Sir Henry Neville ( Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ) of Billingbear in Berkshire, who was a Justice of the Peace and a warden of Windsor Great Park.

* Peace of Paris ( 1783 ) in which Great Britain signed treaties with France, Spain and the Dutch Republic and the United States.

He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered world peace after the Great War.

This surprise move and pressure by the Maritime Powers ( Great Britain and the Dutch Republic ) forced Denmark – Norway to withdraw from the war in August 1700 according to the terms of the Peace of Travendal.

* 1778-Carlisle Peace Commission sent by Great Britain ; offers Americans all the terms they sought in 1775, but not independence ; rejected

As a result, the Iroquois would become enemies of the French and be involved in multiple conflicts ( known as the French and Iroquois Wars ) until the signing of the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701.

On April 28, 1786, the Congress authorized creation of Indian Peace Medals with the coat of arms ( obverse of the Great Seal ) on one side, and various designs on the other.

The emperor presented him with 700 measures of silver objects and bestowed the title of ' Precious Religious King, Great Loving One of the West, Mighty Buddha of Peace '.

The Peace and Athabasca Rivers along with Great Bear and Great Slave Lake ( respectively the largest and second largest lakes wholly enclosed within Canada ), are significant elements of the Arctic watershed.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.