In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

Even with respect to slavery the new citizen law of 450 BC may have had effect: it is speculated that originally Athenian fathers had been able to register for citizenship offspring had with slave women ( Hansen 1987: 53 ).

The powers to review administrative decisions are usually established by statute, but were originally developed from the royal prerogative writs of English law, such as the writ of mandamus and the writ of certiorari.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

The Pravda Yaroslava, originally combined by Yaroslav the Wise the Grand Prince of Kiev, was granted to Great Novgorod around 1017, and in 1054 was incorporated into the Russkaya Pravda, that became the law for all of Kievan Rus.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

Quebec was settled as a French colony, and originally operated under the French civil law system, using the coûtume de Paris.

The territory now forming Ontario was originally part of Quebec, and thus was under the civil law.

In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a council ; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

The law of business organizations originally derived from the common law of England, but has evolved significantly in the 20th century.

All four were original colonies ( Kentucky was originally a part of the land grant of the Colony of Virginia ) and share a strong influence of colonial common law in some of their laws and institutions.

Their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification.

The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods ; other crimes were called misdemeanors.

This parallel set of material was originally transmitted orally, and came to be known as " the oral law ".

Rabbinic tradition holds that the details and interpretation of the law, which are called the Oral Torah or oral law, were originally an unwritten tradition based upon what God told Moses on Mount Sinai.

* 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

Calvin was originally interested in the priesthood, but he changed course to study law in Orléans and Bourges.

Although originally expressed in Newton's third law, the conservation of linear momentum also holds in special relativity ( with a modified formula ) and, with appropriate definitions, a ( generalized ) linear momentum conservation law holds in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and general relativity.

The charter first passed into law in 1225 ; the 1297 version, with the long title ( originally in Latin ) " The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest ," still remains on the statute books of England and Wales.

The common law courts originally took a very limited view of their own jurisdiction.

Although modern formulations differ by jurisdiction, the common law originally stated that the accident must satisfy the following conditions:

The state, in being bound by the natural law, was conceived as an institution directed at bringing its subjects to true happiness.

The parties ' interests may always be better protected by applying a law conceived with international realities in mind.

The plaintiffs also addressed the lower court's justification for limiting marital status to male-female couples — linking marital status to child rearing — noting that Vermont law recognizes same-sex couples ' right to adopt children, and to parent children conceived by natural and artificial means.

Maxwell conceived a thought experiment as a way of furthering the understanding of the second law.

The notion of Karma helped to overcome this problem as it was conceived as a " law of moral causation " which effectively excused the gods and Ṛta from the appearance of evil in the world, placing the responsibility for the same squarely upon the individual.

The idea of damages was first conceived in English law during the 13th century, when the Statutes of Merton and Gloucester provided for damages in certain circumstances.

An experimental result that seems to violate the law may be assumed to be inaccurate or wrongly conceived, for example due to failure to consider an important physical factor.

Natural law, as the stoics conceived it, was based upon this principle of spiritual equality.

... For fundamentalists the law is the most essential component of Islam, leading to an overwhelming emphasis upon jurisprudence, usually narrowly conceived.

Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film.

The law was written on wampum belts, conceived by Deganwidah, known as The Great Peacemaker, and his spokesman Hiawatha.

Magee had taken a prominent part in the Ritual controversy, opposing what he conceived to be romanising excess in ritual, as well as the endeavour of the opposite party to " put down Ritualism ," as Disraeli expressed it, by the operation of the civil law.

He speculates that, since determinism can emerge from underlying indeterminism ( via the law of large numbers ), and that indeterminism can emerge from determinism ( for instance, from classical chaos ), the universe could be conceived of as having alternating layers of causality and chaos.

The semi-automatic Tavor Carbine ( TC-21 ) has been conceived for civilian customers, and as a police patrol carbine for those countries, or law enforcement agencies, where full-automatic firearms are issued only to SWAT-like units.

Tracy himself, conceived by Gould as a " modern-day Sherlock Holmes ", was partly modeled on real-life law enforcer Eliot Ness, and his first, and most frequently recurring, antagonist, the Big Boy, was based on Ness's real-life nemesis Al Capone.

Deuteronomy is conceived as a covenant ( a treaty ) between Israel and Yahweh, who has chosen (" elected ") Israel as his people, and requires Israel to live according to his law.

On April 30, of the year it was conceived, the Code Adam Act of 2003 became a law.

It is ultimately an advanced form of pledge for real property, at least insofar as it was conceived of by Roman law from which it originates.

Auguste Comte, known as father of sociology, formulated the law of three stages: human development progresses from the theological stage, in which nature was mythically conceived and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from supernatural beings, through metaphysical stage in which nature was conceived of as a result of obscure forces and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from them until the final positive stage in which all abstract and obscure forces are discarded, and natural phenomena are explained by their constant relationship.

The Statute was originally conceived by Henry VIII of England as a way to rectify his financial problems by simplifying the law of uses, which moved land outside the royal tax revenue, traditionally gathered through seisin.

This would mean a " complete repudiation of a system of military justice conceived of only as an instrument of command ," but would also negate " a system designed to be administered as the criminal law is administered in a civilian criminal court.

The law of comparative judgment was conceived by L. L. Thurstone.

Auguste Comte, known as father of sociology, formulated the law of three stages: human development progresses from the theological stage, in which nature was mythically conceived and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from supernatural beings, through metaphysical stage in which nature was conceived of as a result of obscure forces and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from them until the final positive stage in which all abstract and obscure forces are discarded, and natural phenomena are explained by their constant relationship.