At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '" This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to " annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

Thus misfortune hounded successive generations of the House of Atreus, until atoned by Orestes in a court of justice held jointly by humans and gods.

Until Fath Ali Shah's death in 1834, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah enjoyed a quiet life and was held in high esteem at the Qajar court.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

On being ransomed he went to Constantinople, where was held the court of his cousin, the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, with whom he was a great favourite.

From 355 BC political trials were no longer held in the assembly, but only in a court.

Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 to 1792, Salieri dominated Italian language opera in Vienna.

In Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co Ch 407, it was expressed in purely subjective terms, where the court held that:

However, a more modern approach has since developed, and in Dorchester Finance Co Ltd v Stebbing BCLC 498 the court held that the rule in Equitable Fire related only to skill, and not to diligence.

The court looked to the contractual relationships, and held that liability would only flow as far as the person in immediate contract (" privity ") with the negligent party.

A first exception to this rule arose in an 1852 case by New York's highest court, Thomas v. Winchester, which held that mislabeling a poison as an innocuous herb, and then selling the mislabeled poison through a dealer who would be expected to resell it, put " human life in imminent danger.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

" However, held the Cadillac court, " one who manufactures articles dangerous only if defectively made, or installed, e. g., tables, chairs, pictures or mirrors hung on the walls, carriages, automobiles, and so on, is not liable to third parties for injuries caused by them, except in case of willful injury or fraud ,"

In southern China, fierce debates about whether Buddhism should be allowed to exist were held frequently by the royal court and nobles.

Contrary to court jests, clown have traditionally served a socio-religious and psychological role, and traditionally the role of priest and clown have been held by the same persons.

2002 ), a U. S. court of appeals held that H. Beatty Chadwick could be held indefinitely under federal law, for his failure to produce US $ 2. 5 mill.

Chadwick had been imprisoned for nine years at that time and continued to be held in prison until 2009, when a state court set him free after 14 years, making his imprisonment the longest on a contempt charge to date.

: Upon a certain Ascension Day King Arthur had come from Caerleon, and had held a very magnificent court at Camelot as was fitting on such a day.

The Supreme Court of California, in affirming the disbarment, held that Rosenthal engaged in transactions involving undisclosed conflicts of interest, took positions adverse to his former clients, overstated expenses, double-billed for legal fees, failed to return client files, failed to provide access to records, failed to give adequate legal advice, failed to provide clients with an opportunity to obtain independent counsel, filed fraudulent claims, gave false testimony, engaged in conduct designed to harass his clients, delayed court proceedings, obstructed justice and abused legal process.

On motion of the Amici Curiae, the court directed that a ruling be obtained from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as to the federal income tax consequences of the Government's plan.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.

For example, they had to pay the jizya, a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males, and they were also forbidden to bear arms or testify in court cases involving Muslims.

The Arizona program was challenged in court by a group of state taxpayers on the grounds that the tax credit violated the First Amendment because the tuition grants could go to students who attend private schools including schools with religious affiliations.

Case law in tax court and federal courts constitute the remainder of tax law in the United States.

Although the Sixteenth Amendment is often cited as the " source " of the Congressional power to tax incomes, at least one court has reiterated the point made in Brushaber and other cases that the Sixteenth Amendment itself did not grant the Congress the power to tax incomes, a power the Congress had since 1789, but only removed the possible requirement that any income tax be apportioned among the states according to their respective populations.

" The court ruled that Ms. Murphy was not entitled to the tax refund she claimed, and that the personal injury award she received was " within the reach of the congressional power to tax under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution " -- even if the award was " not income within the meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment ".

In 1982 Moon was convicted in United States federal court of willfully filing false Federal income tax returns and conspiracy.

* Just two years after the Ming Dynasty court of China allowed landowners paying the grain tax to pay their tax in silver instead, the Ming court now decides to close all silver mines and to ban all private silver mining in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.

In December 2006, a Norwegian court ruled that striptease is an art form and made strip clubs exempt from value added tax.

Other courts of limited jurisdiction include alderman's courts, police court, mayor's courts, recorder's courts, county courts, probate courts, municipal courts, juvenile courts, courts of claims, courts of common pleas, family courts, small claims courts, tax courts, water courts ( present in some western states such as Colorado and Montana ), and workers ' compensation courts.

For example, in Colorado, in 2002, about 87 % of all civil cases filed in the courts of inferior jurisdiction were debt collection and eviction cases, while in the court of general jurisdiction, about 60 % of all civil cases ( other than domestic relations and probate cases ) were debt collection, foreclosure and tax collection cases.

Betsy died in the midst of a court battle over whether the state of Maryland could tax her out of state bonds.

Scribes were also considered part of the royal court and did not have to pay tax or join the military.

Women were holding important roles in Lý society as the court ladies were in charge of tax collection.

Public records — such as birth, court, tax and other records — are increasily being digitized and made available online.

One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.

Generally speaking the appellate court examines the record of evidence presented in the trial court and the law that the lower court applied and decides whether that decision was legally sound or not.

On the other hand, the appellate court normally gives less deference to a lower court's decision on issues of law, and may reverse if it finds that the lower court applied the wrong legal standard.

At times it was applied to various priests, e. g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus (' of the palace ') and Abbas castrensis (' of the camp ') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns ’ court and army respectively.

Sometimes the problem is not that a statute is unconstitutional, but the application of it is, on a particular occasion, and a court may decide that while there are ways it could be applied that are constitutional, that instance was not allowed or legitimate.

There is no " Constitutional Court "-the constitutionality of a law can be contested only as applied to an individual court case.

In 1580, through his uncle, Lord Burghley, he applied for a post at court which might enable him to pursue a life of learning.

A district court has since held that the " Geneva Conventions applied to the Taliban detainees, but not to members of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

Though the essay did not earn him a place in Ferdinand's court, it did detail a new method for measuring lunar eclipses, which he applied during the July 10 eclipse in Graz.

Hours before Walter LaGrand was due to be executed, Germany applied for the Court to grant a provisional court order, requiring the United States to delay the execution of Walter LaGrand, which the court granted.

This is the most strict form of the doctrine of stare decisis ( one not applied, previously, in common law jurisdictions, where there was somewhat greater flexibility for a court of last resort to review its own precedent ).

# Once the applicable law is decided, that law must be proved before the forum court and applied to reach a judgment.

It cannot merely be pleaded, as the court has no expertise in the laws of foreign countries nor in how they might be applied in a foreign court.

In modern times, the term has been applied by archaeologists and historians to large structures that housed combined ruler, court and bureaucracy in " palace culturtes ".

Thus, Constitutional limitations applied to the validity of state court judgments.

The Qing court sent forces to defeat Yaqub Beg and Xinjiang was reconquered, and then the political system of China proper was formally applied onto Xinjiang.