Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

However, legislating for alterations to the Act is a complex process, since the act is a common denominator in the shared succession of all the Commonwealth realms and the Statute of Westminster 1931 acknowledges by established convention that any changes to the rules of succession may be made only with the agreement of all of the states involved, with concurrent amendments to be made by each state's parliament or parliaments.

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

The President only serves for the duration of the session ( Statute ).

Under Article 34 Statute of the ICJ only states may be parties in cases before the Court and, under Article 36, the jurisdiction comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force.

The Statute did not provide any means for identifying authors, did not identify what constituted authored works, and covered only " books ", even while discussing " property " as a whole.

The burden of proving that a written contract exists only comes into play when a Statute of Frauds defense is raised by the defendant.

Thereafter, in accordance with the Statute of Westminster 1931, the appointment was made by the sovereign with the direction of his or her Canadian ministers only.

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ) the Bill of Rights cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament, and then, by convention, and as it touches on the succession to the shared throne, only with the consent of all the other realms.

The court can generally exercise jurisdiction only in cases where the accused is a national of a state party to the Rome Statute, the alleged crime took place on the territory of a state party, or a situation is referred to the court by the United Nations Security Council.

Some critics have interpreted Allende's responses as an admission that signing the Statute was only a tactical move.

The Statute recognised only the first use, and so land owners were again able to separate the legal and beneficial interests in their land.

As such, it is the only region that does not have a Statute of Autonomy per se, instead autonomy was via a " Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Chartered Regime ".

" Nonetheless, the concept of the Canadian Royal Family did not emerge until after the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, when Canadian officials only began to overtly consider putting the principles of Canada's new status as an independent kingdom into effect.

Under the Rome Statute, the ICC can only investigate and prosecute the core international crimes ( genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression ) in situations where states are unable or unwilling to do so themselves.

The court can investigate crimes only in states that signed the Rome Statute unless authorized by the U. N. Security Council.

In the first article of the treaty, Italy reaffirmed the principle established in the 4 March 1848 Statute of the Kingdom of Italy, that " the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Religion is the only religion of the State ".

The Statute can only be changed with the consent of all countries within the Kingdom ; the laws to this effect can be adopted with a simple absolute majority in each of their parliaments.

" The Rome Statute defines " intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population " to be illegal, but only came into effect on July 1, 2002 and has not been ratified by every country.

Until the Statute of Wills was passed in 1540, a will could control only the inheritance of personal property.

The parts of the 1535 Act relating to language were definitively repealed only in 1993, by the Welsh Language Act 1993, though annotations on the Statute Law Database copy of the act reads that sections 18 – 21 were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

His efforts to secure an effective authority over his Irish lands were only moderately successful ; and after holding a parliament at Kilkenny, which passed the celebrated Statute of Kilkenny in 1366, he dropped the task in disgust and returned to England.

Like other British Colonies, Pennsylvania was subject to the 1604 James I Statute against witchcraft, however Matson's and Hendrickson's is the only such trial recorded from the colony.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ( often referred to as the International Criminal Court Statute or the Rome Statute ) is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).

On 14 June 2002 Uganda deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute, and on 16 December 2003 the Government of Uganda referred the situation concerning Northern Uganda to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).

Many other statutes followed that of 1353, but that which was passed in the sixteenth year of Richard II's reign is, as mentioned before, usually referred to as the Statute of Praemunire.

* The Statute of Westminster 1931, which transformed the British Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations, is sometimes referred to ( particularly in the former dominions ) as a " Treaty " of Westminster

In 1279 the Statute De Viris Religiosis referred to the Provisions of Westminster as if they had been settled law, added a check on alienations made in mortmain.

It is currently referred to as the Statute of the Council of Europe.

The Communal Loggia ( loggia communis ) was first mentioned as early as in the 13th century and referred to again in the Statute of Hvar in 1331.

This was intended to stop the influx of cheap books from Ireland, and also repealed the price restrictions in the Statute of Anne.

The Donaldson v Beckett ruling confirmed that a large number of works and books first published in Britain were in the public domain, either because the copyright term granted by statute had expired, or because they were first published before the Statute of Anne was enacted in 1709.

The Act effectively became a " dead letter ", but was not formally removed from the books until passage of the Statute Law Revision Act 1861.

The books were frequently reprinted in Ireland, something that was permitted as the English copyright statute, the Statute of Anne, did not extend to Ireland.

He is the author of books including Change and Continuity: Statute, Equity, and Federalism, which is based upon the lectures he delivered at Oxford University in 1999 as part of the Clarendon law lectures series.

The Donaldson v Beckett ruling confirmed that a large number of works and books first published in Britain were in the public domain, either because the copyright term granted by statute had expired, or because they were first published before the Statute of Anne was enacted in 1709.

The old method of censorship had been limited by the Second Statute of Repeal, and with Mary's increasing unpopularity the existing system was unable to cope with the number of critical works being printed.

Section 6 of the Statute of Frauds Amendment Act 1828 ( commonly known as Lord Tenterden's Act ) was enacted to prevent section 4 of the 1677 Act being circumvented by bringing an action for the tort of deceit ( the tort in Freeman v. Palsey ).

However the Government of the Realm can strike void any law of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten for being incompatible with the Statute.

* Statute law initiative is a constitutionally-defined, citizen-initiated, petition process of " proposed statute law ", which, if successful, results in law being written directly into the state's statutes.

Following the end of the First World War, however, geo-political shifts took place that saw the emergence of the Dominions as sovereign states, the first step being the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1926, followed by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act the next year, and the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Maurras also criticized the 1940 Statute on Jews for being too moderate.

After this, the powers given to the autonomous Catalan government according to the Spanish Constitution of 1978 were transferred and the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia ( Estatut d ' Autonomia ) was passed after being approved both by referendum in Catalonia and by the Spanish Cortes Generales.

After 1931, when the Statute of Westminster came into being and the Dominions of the British Empire became independent states, equal in status to the UK, the Order of Merit remained an honour open to all the King's realms ; thus, as with the monarch who conferred it, the order ceased to be purely British.

After 1931, when the Statute of Westminster came into being and the Dominions of the British Empire became independent states, equal in status to Britain, the Royal Victorian Order remained an honour open to all the King's realms ; thus, as with the monarch who conferred it, the order ceased to be purely British.

These three elements may exist separately or be combined, the first element being the title may be held in moieties and may not be subdivided, this is prohibited by the Statute of preventing subinfeudation whereas the second and third elements can be subdivided.

An oral lease for a tenancy of years that violates the Statute of Frauds ( by committing to a lease of more than — depending on the jurisdiction — one year without being in writing ) may actually create a periodic tenancy, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction where the leased premises are located.

The three elements may exist separately or be combined, the first element being the title may be held in moieties and may not be subdivided, this is prohibited by the Statute of Quia Emptores preventing subinfeudation whereas the second and third elements can be subdivided.

An example of the latter being the requirement that contract of guarantee be evidenced in writing that is found in the Statute of Frauds.

Section 6 of the Statute of Frauds Amendment Act 1828 was enacted to prevent this section being circumvented by bringing an action for the tort of deceit ( the tort in Freeman v. Palsey ).

His first Parliament was summoned for the quinzaine of the Purification on but was prorogued until the day after Easter on 22 April 1275 and met at Westminster, its main work being the consideration of the Statute of Westminster I.

Karpov was the decisive voice in the creation of the Church Statute of 1945, its main author being one of his assistants.

On the contrary, at the time the right of alienation by substitution was being set in Statute, the King's claim to restrain any alienation by his tenants was strengthened.

Uncertainty over armorial right was removed by the Lyon Register being set up by Statute in 1672, such that no arms were to be borne in Scotland unless validly entered in Lyon Register.

Feoffees essentially had their titles stripped by the Statute of Uses 1535, whereby the legal title to the property being held by the feoffee was transferred to their cestui que use.

As a token for being acknowledged as Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund III Vasa revised the Union of Lublin and approved the Third Lithuanian Statute.

Pietrostefani, who was residing in France, and no chances of being extradited as French law would have considered the crimes to have fallen under the Statute of Limitations, voluntarily returned to Italy ( as would, in another affair, philosopher Antonio Negri ) in order to struggle, alongside his comrades, for the recognition of their innocence.

Prospects for Galician self-government and possible restoration of a Xunta came close while the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1936 was being discussed, at the time of the Spanish Second Republic ( 1931 – 1939 ).

Magical laws have been enacted over the centuries, designed to keep the existence of the Magical World hidden from Muggles, the first and most important being the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692.