The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

The constitution expanded citizens ' basic rights, including that of " tutela ," under which an immediate court action can be requested by an individual if he or she feels that their constitutional rights are being violated and if there is no other legal recourse.

American news media, including respected business publications such as Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, encouraged the public to invest in risky companies, despite many of the companies ' disregard for basic financial and even legal principles.

During the 17th century, the basic tenets of the Grotian or eclectic school, especially the doctrines of legal equality, territorial sovereignty, and independence of states, became the fundamental principles of the European political and legal system and were enshrined in the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.

When a company insures an individual entity, there are basic legal requirements.

Inheritance is an integral component of family, economic, and legal institutions, and a basic mechanism of class stratification.

Central to the Pure Theory of Law is the notion of a ' basic norm ( Grundnorm )'— a hypothetical norm, presupposed by the jurist, from which in a hierarchy all ' lower ' norms in a legal system, beginning with constitutional law, are understood to derive their authority or ' bindingness '.

Friedman argued for stronger basic legal ( constitutional ) protection of economic rights and freedoms in order to further promote industrial-commercial growth and prosperity and buttress democracy and freedom and the rule of law generally in society.

: Subject to its constitutional principles and the basic concepts of its legal system, each Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the possession, purchase or cultivation of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for personal consumption contrary to the provisions of the 1961 Convention, the 1961 Convention as amended or the 1971 Convention.

" No crime, no punishment without a previous penal law ") is a basic maxim in continental European legal thinking.

This basic legal principle has been incorporated into international criminal law.

Al-Ghazali abstracted these " basic goods " from the legal precepts in the Qur ' an and Sunnah: they are religion, life, reason, lineage and property.

The exact forms of what later came to be called Judaism during the times of Moses or during the eras of the Mishnah and Talmud cannot be known today, but Orthodox Jews believe that contemporary Orthodox Judaism maintains the same basic philosophy and legal framework that existed throughout Jewish history, whereas the other denominations depart from it.

The doctrine of binding precedent or stare decisis is basic to the English legal system, and to the legal systems that derived from it such as those of Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa.

Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy and jurisprudence which studies basic questions about law and legal systems, such as " what is law?

On the continent, Hans Kelsen was the most influential, where his notion of a Grundnorm or a " presupposed " ultimate and basic legal norm, still retains some influence.

After eliminating duplications and choosing between contradictory statements, he issued a single legal code, all the while being careful not to violate the basic laws of Islam.

The Han dynasty retained the basic legal system established under the Qin but modified some of the harsher aspects in line with the Confucian philosophy of social control.

In general, basic requirements for naturalization are that the applicant hold a legal status as a full-time resident for a minimum period of time and that the applicant promise to obey and uphold that country's laws, to which an oath or pledge of allegiance is sometimes added.

Institutional legacies remain to this day in the form of civil-law legal systems, with clearly redacted codes compiling their basic laws — an enduring legacy of the Napoleonic Code.

His acquittal established the legal precedent for " freedom of the press ," which was later incorporated as a basic freedom in the U. S. Bill of Rights.

The 1954 Amendments completely changed the financing of the vocational rehabilitation program, providing for a three-part grant structure -- for ( 1 ) basic support ; ;

The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

The basic morphological structure of the human breast — female and male — is determined during the prenatal development stage.

Important features of natural language syntax such as agreement and reference are not part of the context-free grammar, but the basic recursive structure of sentences, the way in which clauses nest inside other clauses, and the way in which lists of adjectives and adverbs are swallowed by nouns and verbs, is described exactly.

The Catholic Church views that Christ himself established the sacrament of marriage at the wedding feast of Cana ; therefore, since it is a divine institution, neither the Church nor state can alter the basic meaning and structure of marriage.

which has been significant in establishing the basic structure most ecclesias follow today.

Internal microcode execution in CISC processors, on the other hand, could be more or less pipelined depending on the particular design, and therefore more or less akin to the basic structure of RISC processors.

* The basic structure of Hyperion is taken from the Middle-English cycle of stories The Canterbury Tales.

The basic structure of matter involves charged particles bound together in many different ways.

* An object-oriented program structure in which a class serves as the basic unit of decomposition.

The session version makes clear that the basic structure of the song, including its signature bass-line, percussion arrangement and idiosyncratic introductory and middle eight sections, were already intact prior to any involvement from ZTT or eventual producer Trevor Horn.

Perhaps in more basic terms, the habitus could be understood as a structure of the mind characterized by a set of acquired schemata, sensibilities, dispositions and taste.

Within this basic structure, the author traces the way the Persians developed a custom of conquest and shows how their habits of thinking about the world finally brought about their downfall in Greece.

" The basic format and structure of the box score has changed little since the earliest of ones designed by Chadwick.

This revision was more radical than the Seventh but left unchanged the basic structure of the Classification and the general philosophy of classifying diseases, whenever possible, according to their etiology rather than a particular manifestation.

The final proposals presented to and accepted by the Conference retained the basic structure of the ICD, although with much additional detail at the level of the four digit subcategories, and some optional five digit subdivisions.

After declaring independence from the Soviet political structure completely dominated by Moscow and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) until 1991, Kazakhstan retained the basic governmental structure and, in fact, most of the same leadership that had occupied the top levels of power in 1990.

Some proponents of this view of language have advocated a formal approach which studies language structure by identifying its basic elements and then formulating a formal account of the rules according to which the elements combine to form words and sentences.

The dwellings were made of a combination of tree trunks for the basic structure, mud-clad wickerwork walls, and roofs of thatched reeds or straw.

Although Chomsky's theory of a generative grammar has been popular with some linguists since the 1950s, many criticisms of the basic assumptions of generative theory have been put forth by cognitive-functional linguistics, who argue that language structure is created through language use.

The T < sub > 6 </ sub > O < sub > 18 </ sub > is the basic ring structure, where T is usually Si < sup > 4 +</ sup >, but substitutable by Al < sub > 3 +</ sub > or B < sup > 3 +</ sup >.

The basic geographical structure is respected but the tube lines ( and the River Thames ) are smoothed to clarify the relationships between stations.

In poetry, metre ( meter in American English ) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.