Another important constitutional move at Roncaglia was the establishment of a new peace ( Landfrieden ) for all of the Empire, an attempt to ( on the one hand ) abolish private feuds not only between the many dukes, but on the other hand a means to tie the Emperor's subordinates to a legal system of jurisdiction and public prosecution of criminal acts — a predecessor of the modern concept of " rule of law ".

Hoover expanded civil service coverage of Federal positions, canceled private oil leases on government lands, and by instructing the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster Al Capone.

Even so, to avoid becoming a private citizen and thus be open to prosecution for his debts, Caesar left for his province before his praetorship had ended.

This Caesar would not do, as such an act would at least temporarily render him a private citizen and thereby leave him open to prosecution for his acts while proconsul.

The lack of compulsory prosecution also gives prosecutors greater discretion as well as the inability of crime victims to mount a private prosecution and their limited ability to influence plea agreements.

Nevertheless, he continued harassing Wilde, who eventually launched a private prosecution against the peer for criminal libel, triggering a series of trials ending in Wilde's imprisonment for gross indecency.

** Mary Whitehouse's private prosecution of The Romans in Britain collapses.

Prior to it the doctrine was that all persons had a right to pursue a private prosecution of a public right.

The Attorney General of Israel is the head of the public prosecution from the state, the person who advises the government in legal matters, the person who represents the state's authorities in the courts, and advises in preparation of law memoranda of the government in general and the Justice Minister in particular ( likewise he examines and advises for private proposals for a law of Knesset members ).

* It restored the use of the French civil law for private matters while maintaining the use of the English common law for public administration, including criminal prosecution.

The private investigator Jeff Katz, who was hired by Calvi's family in 1991 to look into his death, claimed it was likely that senior figures in the Italian establishment had escaped prosecution.

Although some systems, including the English and French, allow private persons to bring a criminal prosecution against another person, prosecutions are nearly always started by the state, in order to punish the defendant.

Massachusetts Solicitor General Samuel Quincy and private attorney Robert Treat Paine, hired by the town of Boston, handled the prosecution.

As the Trust grew it was able to campaign more effectively and in 1984 hit the national headlines when it won a private prosecution against five men caught badger digging.

In surviving private letters from Somerset to his friend Lord Esher, Somerset denies knowing anything about Albert Victor, but confirms that he has heard the rumours and hopes that they will help quash any prosecution.

* The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton, directed by Michael Bogdanov, subject of a private prosecution by Mary Whitehouse ( 1980 )

In 1774, as a result of a ruling by the British courts in Campbell v Hall about the status of legal systems found in acquired territories, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act which restored the former French civil law for private law while keeping and reserving English common law for public law including criminal prosecution.

In 1982 she pursued another private prosecution, this time against Michael Bogdanov, the director of a National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain, a play that " drew a direct parallel between the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain in 54 BC and the contemporary British presence in Northern Ireland.

In the private prosecution Whitehouse's counsel claimed Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, which described the offence of " procuring an act of gross indecency ", was applicable.

The criminal appeal was a private criminal prosecution instituted by the accuser directly against the accused.

Such a private prosecution was last conducted in the case of Ashford v Thornton in 1818, as recorded in The Newgate Calendar.

The prosecution of that " inner circle " of the union was then funded, in part, by direct contributions from the Ceour d ' Alene District Mine Owners ' Association to prosecuting attorneys who were, ostensibly, working for the state rather than for private interests.

* In Australia's One Nation Party case, it has been revealed that Federal Cabinet Minister Tony Abbott controlled " slush funds " which were used to lay the groundwork for party leader Pauline Hanson's prosecution, and to guarantee a private lawsuit against the party.

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin: The civil law is concerned with public crimes.

These were mainly concerned with private property, civil justice, and minting.

In 1978, Hayek came into conflict with the Liberal Party leader, David Steel, who claimed that liberty was possible only with " social justice and an equitable distribution of wealth and power, which in turn require a degree of active government intervention " and that the Conservative Party were more concerned with the connection between liberty and private enterprise than between liberty and democracy.

Public international law should not be confused with " private international law ", which is concerned with the resolution of conflict of laws.

An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with private — as opposed to public — affairs.

James S. Packer described him as malignant and ferocious, slaughtering his enemies with a private army, while Walter Ullmann described Sergius as a typical representative of the House of Theophylact, concerned with power and sexual liaisons.

The European view of public relations notes that besides a relational form of interactivity there is also a reflective paradigm that is concerned with publics and the public sphere ; not only with relational, which can in principle be private, but also with public consequences of organizational behavior.

Similarly, Internet email users generally consider their emails to be private and hence would be concerned if their email was being accessed, read, stored or forwarded by third parties without their consent.

Other private interest groups, such as churches and ethnic groups, are more concerned about broader issues of policy that can affect their organizations or their beliefs.

The bulk of the personal statements by the officers concerned their private grievances.

There were many anti-Communist committees, panels, and " loyalty review boards " in federal, state, and local governments, as well as many private agencies that carried out investigations for small and large companies concerned about possible Communists in their work force.

Modern French conceptions of eroticism can be traced to The Enlightenment, when " in the eighteenth century, dictionaries defined the erotic as that which concerned love ... eroticism was the intrusion into the public sphere of something that was at base private ".

In private he was concerned at this huge swing to the right.

Unable to afford the asking price, and concerned that, ostensibly because of the former private owner's tax concerns, Witten refused to reveal the provenance of the map, Yale contacted another alumnus, Paul Mellon, who agreed to buy it ( for a price later stated to be about $ 300, 000 ) and donate it to the university if it could be authenticated.

However, the reality was that China was a fragmented nation dominated by warlords, who were more concerned with their own political powers and private armies than national interests.

Volunteers include police and fire personnel, dispatchers, EMS workers, public utility workers and other concerned private citizens.

The Sparta Education Foundation was founded in 2006 to help with budgetary issues in the Sparta School district and to bring extra funds to the public school district from concerned private citizens and groups.

" As a Cardinal, Castiglione had continued to live modestly, made no enemies, and although his own private life had always been irreproachable, he had shown no signs of censoriousness where others were concerned.

He was also concerned about the lack of coordination between the federal government and private firms, believing that organizational chaos would lead to a failure in technology production.

The ombudsman can not investigate the European Court of Justice in its judicial capacity, its General Court, the Civil Service Tribunal, national / regional administrations ( even where EU law is concerned ) or judiciaries or private individuals or corporations.

As Harriet Guest explains, " the theme Barbauld's essays of the 1790s repeatedly return to is that of the constitution of the public as a religious, civic, and national body, and she is always concerned to emphasize the continuity between the rights of private individuals and those of the public defined in capaciously inclusive terms.

We are not concerned at all with private personal salvation but we are concerned, earnestly, seriously, with what the human mind has become, what humanity is facing.

The defense of " private defence " or " protective force ," when unlawful force is used or threatened against a person who may use proportionate force to defend persons or property, is distinguished from the line of authority concerned with a similar defense against trespassers.