Orthodox Judaism holds that Halakha is the divine law as laid out in the Torah ( First five books of Moses ), rabbinical laws, rabbinical decrees and customs combined.

File: GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689. jpg | Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642-1727 ): established three laws of motion and a law of universal gravitation in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ), laid foundations for classical mechanics, invented the reflecting telescope, observed that a prism splits white light into the colors of the visible spectrum, formulated a law of cooling, co-invented infinitesimal calculus

The maidens " incised the slip of wood ," " laid down laws " and " chose lives " for the children of mankind and the destinies ( ørlǫg ) of men.

The most remarkable Sardinian figure of the Middle Ages, Eleanor of Arborea, was co-ruler of that region in the late 14th century ; she laid the foundations for the laws that remained valid until 1827, the Carta de Logu.

The laws and constitutional amendments that laid the foundation for the most radical phase of Reconstruction were adopted from 1866 to 1871.

Alexander Grant repudiates James's reputation as the ' law giver ' and explains that nearly all of the king's legislation were reconstructs of laws laid down by previous monarchs and concludes that the notion of James's return to Scotland in 1424 was a sea change in the development of Scots law is ' an exaggeration '.

The critical distinction is that a " lawful combatant " ( defined above ) cannot be held personally responsible for violations of civilian laws that are permissible under the laws and customs of war ; and if captured, a lawful combatant has to be treated as a prisoner of war by the enemy Power under the conditions laid down in the Third Geneva Convention.

The following scene has a pair of young lovers unable to make their tryst as a succession of ever older and more hideous women attempting to and eventually succeeding in dragging the man off to make love to them first, as laid down by the new laws.

The Constitution of Pakistan, part IX, article 227 says " All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the Injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Quran and Sunnah, in this Part referred to as the Injunctions of Islam, and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such Injunctions ".

The official position of the Irish state, as laid out in the 1937 constitution, was that the territory of the state comprised the whole island of Ireland, but that its laws applied only to the territory of the Free State, as outlined in the 1922 Treaty.

Although these are the laws as laid down by FIDE and, as such, are used at almost all top-level tournaments, at lower levels different rules may operate, particularly with regard to rapid play finish provisions.

New revenue laws were also enacted, which, by taxing inheritances, laid the groundwork for the contemporary Federal income tax.

The modern German legal system is a system of law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws were developed prior to the 1949 constitution.

The role, duties and powers of the Sultan are as laid out in the State's constitution and other state laws.

Under United States laws, pesticide misuse is the use of a pesticide in a way that violates laws regulating their use or endangers humans or the environment ; many of these regulations are laid out in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ( FIFRA ).

In 1771 it was laid down in Jersey that no laws might be adopted without being passed by the States of Jersey.

This wording in the Rome Statute is taken almost word for word from Article 23 of the 1907 IV Hague Convention The Laws and Customs of War on Land: "... it is especially forbidden-... To kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion ", and is part of the customary laws of war.

Buddhists are expected to follow the civil laws regarding marriage laid out by their respective governments.

However, the autocratic Tsars were generally limited by two constraints: they and their spouses must profess the Russian Orthodox faith, and they must obey the laws of succession laid down by Emperor Paul I.

militia laws should everywhere be repealed, and military dresses and military titles should be laid aside.

Basically, the Spanish laws called for an open central plaza, surrounded by a fortified church, administrative buildings, and streets laid out in a grid, defining rectangles of limited size to be used for farming ( suertes ) and residences ( solares ).

Shaktimaan feels this since he defied the laws of nature once, in order to revive Geeta who was killed during escape from a plot laid by Dr. Jackal, and as a punishment for that, he has to stay without his powers for some period.

Other countries such as India, Poland, and Russia have enacted similar laws or decrees that allow the shooting down of hijacked planes.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws ( scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers ), which the Israelites are to observe ; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help.

The specter of having such laws suddenly brought down upon a business provides incentive to stay in the good graces of political officials.

Similarly, the consolidated Teutonic laws of the Germanic tribes, included a complex system of monetary compensations for what courts would consider the complete range of criminal offences against the person, from murder down.

A further example comes from Ancient Greece, where the Athenian legal system was first written down by Draco in about 621 BC: the death penalty was applied for a particularly wide range of crimes, though Solon later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

The Rump passed many restrictive laws to regulate people's moral behaviour, such as closing down theatres and requiring strict observance of Sunday.

The German-language Polish laws are based on the Sachsenspiegel and were written down to aid the judges.

Nonetheless, the cost benefit analysis for society at large between having laws that protect citizens from toxic or dangerous living and work conditions such as those that existed in the early industrial 1800's or not clearly comes down on the side of regulation.

They “ sit down where it pleases them, for there is no place appointed to any ”, and they “ with oath promise to do their utmost diligence, that the laws may be observed ”.

According to Jewish tradition, God gave both the Written Law ( Torah ) and the Oral Law ( additional laws and customs meant to be passed down from teacher to student ) to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Ronald Dworkin sought a theory of law which would justify judges ' ability to strike down democratically decided laws.

It was out of Congress, completely, entirely, and forever out of Congress, unless Congress dragged it in by breaking down the sacred laws which settled it!

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

In severe cases, ongoing unlawful conduct by a motel's clientele impacts the neighbourhood as a whole ; some municipalities have adopted a nuisance abatement strategy of attempting to shut down problematic motels under pretexts such as public health and fire safety violations or using taxation laws.

This would not resolve the paradox given the following argument: According to the laws of thermodynamics, the intermediate matter must eventually heat up ( or cool down, if it was initially hotter ) until it is in thermal equilibrium with the surrounding stars.

Each time a spouse invokes the application of foreign law, the process of divorce slows down, as the parties are directed to brief the issue of conflict of laws and provide translations of the foreign laws.

* The replacement of the Aristotelian idea that heavy bodies, by their nature, moved straight down toward their natural places ; that light bodies, by their nature, moved straight up toward their natural place ; and that ethereal bodies, by their nature, moved in unchanging circular motions with the idea that all bodies are heavy and move according to the same physical laws

According to religious tradition, all of the laws found in the Torah, both written and oral, were given by God to Moses, some of them at Mount Sinai and others at the Tabernacle, and all the teachings were written down by Moses, which resulted in the Torah we have today.

The Burger Court ( 1969 – 1986 ) expanded Griswolds right to privacy to strike down abortion laws ( Roe v. Wade ), but divided deeply on affirmative action ( Regents of the University of California v. Bakke ) and campaign finance regulation ( Buckley v. Valeo ), and dithered on the death penalty, ruling first that most applications were defective ( Furman v. Georgia ), then that the death penalty itself was not unconstitutional ( Gregg v. Georgia ).

It struck down single-sex state schools as a violation of equal protection ( United States v. Virginia ), laws against sodomy as violations of substantive due process ( Lawrence v. Texas ), and the line item veto ( Clinton v. New York ), but upheld school vouchers ( Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ) and reaffirmed Roes restrictions on abortion laws ( Planned Parenthood v. Casey ).