The jury said it found the court `` has incorporated into its operating procedures the recommendations '' of two previous grand juries, the Atlanta Bar Association and an interim citizens committee.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

The lawyer is an officer of the court and knows that a false swearing by him, if found out, could be grounds for severe penalty up to and including disbarment.

On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

As for the identity of Mordecai, the similar names Marduka and Marduku have been found as the name of officials in the Persian court in over thirty texts from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might after all be Mordecai.

The court found against Attlee and his fellow councillors and they were ordered to pay £ 300 damages.

A judge may impose sanctions such as a fine or jail for someone found guilty of contempt of court.

A person found in contempt of court is called a " contemnor.

Criminal offences are found within the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal / provincial laws, with the exception that contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada.

In practice a groveling letter of apology to the court is sufficient to ward off this possibility, and in any event the warrant is generally ' backed for bail ' i. e. bail will be granted once the arrest has been made and a location where the person can be found in future established.

In the United States, because of the broad protections granted by the First Amendment, with extremely limited exceptions, unless the media outlet is a party to the case, a media outlet cannot be found in contempt of court for reporting about a case because a court cannot order the media in general not to report on a case or forbid it from reporting facts discovered publicly.

Courts have ruled as excessive and invalidated damages which the parties contracted as liquidated, but which the court nonetheless found to be penal.

Examples, such as the Annadorn dolmen, have also been found in northern Ireland, where they may have co-existed with the court cairn tombs.

A 1993 court determined that the copyright loophole suggested by Ace Books was incorrect and its paperback edition was found to have been a violation of copyright under US law.

However, this does not apply if the civil suit is in regards to having committed a criminal act which the business has been found guilty of in court.

Although Adams was finally found innocent after years of being processed by the legal system, the judge in the habeas corpus hearing officially stated that, " much could be said about those videotape interviews, but nothing that would have any bearing on the matter before this court.

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

Andalusian Knights found El Cid their foe ill, thirsty and exiled from the court of Alfonso, he was presented before the elderly Yusuf al-Mu ' taman ibn Hud and accepted command of the forces of the Taifa of Zaragoza as their Master.

Fellini eventually found work as a cub reporter on the dailies Il Piccolo and Il Popolo di Roma but quit after a short stint, bored by the local court news assignments.

A layman could bring a bill of indictment to the grand jury ; if the grand jury found there was sufficient evidence for a trial, that the act was a crime under law, and that the court had jurisdiction, it would return the indictment to the complainant.

This pattern was also found in his court appearances: when a judge challenged him to remove his hat, Fox riposted by asking where in the Bible such an injunction could be found.

Carrington argued that a warrant from a Government minister, the Earl of Halifax was valid authority, even though there was no statutory provision or court order for it.

Corporations can be " dissolved " either by statutory operation, order of court, or voluntary action on the part of shareholders.

On an interpretation of state law, whether common law or statutory law, the federal courts are bound by the interpretation of a state court of last resort, and are required normally to defer to the precedent of intermediate state courts as well.

Though this defensive loophole slightly narrows the types of cases which may be prosecuted for perjury, the effect of this statutory defense is to promote a truthful retelling of facts by witnesses, thus helping to ensure the reliability of American court proceedings just as broadened perjury statutes aimed to do.

A court may also order a public company to re-register as private on approving a ' minute of reduction ' of share capital which results in the issued share capital falling below the statutory minimum.

Conservatorship is established either by court order ( with regard to individuals ) or via a statutory or regulatory authority ( with regard to organizations ).

Instead, the court laid out a set of directives requiring the State to implement some system whereby same-sex couples would be granted equivalent statutory rights and privileges to male-female couples.

This statement does not imply any approbation on the part of the courts, and the " general parliamentary law " is related neither to statutory legal requirements nor to common-law precedent derived from court judgments.

" court is to apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision, unless doing so would result in manifest injustice, or there is statutory direction or some legislative history to the contrary.

The statutory argument for Native American sovereignty persisted until the Supreme Court ruled in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ( 1831 ), that ( e. g. ) the Cherokees were not a sovereign and independent nation, and therefore not entitled to a hearing before the court.

Following several landmark decisions by this court, by the early 1990s the patentability of software was well established, and in 1996 the USPTO issued Final Computer Related Examination Guidelines stating that " A practical application of a computer-related invention is statutory subject matter.

Mandamus is a judicial remedy which is in the form of an order from a superior court to any government subordinate court, corporation or public authority to do or forbear from doing some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do or refrain from doing, as the case may be, and which is in the nature of public duty and in certain cases of a statutory duty.

In January 2008, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that even though " the trial court accurately characterized conduct attributable to Crosby as ' bigotry, sexism, or utter foolishness '", the plaintiff failed to prove by " clear and convincing evidence " that Crosby " knowingly or willfully " committed the type of misconduct essential to establish the requisite statutory grounds to remove a public official from office.

In late July, it was revealed that Norris had written a letter in 1992 ( 29 August 1992 ) to an Israeli court asking clemency for his former partner Ezra Nawi, who had been convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in 1992 but was awaiting sentencing.

Additionally, if any person commits any of the acts mentioned in the VA state code section 18. 2-90 with intent to commit larceny, or any felony other than murder, rape, robbery or arson in violation of VA state code section 18. 2-77, 18. 2-79, or 18. 2-80, or if any person commits any acts mentioned in 18. 2-89 or 18. 2-90 with intent to commit assault and battery, shall be guilty of statutory burglary, punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for not less than one or more than twenty years, or, in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, be confined in jail for a period not exceeding twelve months or fined not more than $ 2, 500, either or both.

When a marriage is validly contracted, whether according by statutory provision or according to common law, the marriage can be dissolved only by a formal legal proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction-usually a family or probate court.

Cases involving claims against government bodies, local authorities, or the national government, including all delegated legislation ( e. g., statutory instruments, ministerial orders ), are heard by the administrative courts for which the court of last resort is the Council of State.

The admiralty laws which are applied in this court is based upon the civil law-based Law of the Sea, as well as statutory and common law additions.

An officer of the court, Costs Judge or District Judge will then assess the reasonableness of the costs with reference to a statutory schedule of limits of entitlements of costs, together with legal precedents, unless the costs can be agreed between the parties.

A client who is unhappy with a lawyer's invoice for services can, in certain jurisdictions, apply to the court for an order or invoke a statutory procedure whereby the costs are assessed for their reasonableness by an officer of the court, for example a judge.