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purpose and law
Human representation for the purpose of worship is uniformly considered idolatry as forbidden in Sharia law.
It serves the purpose to ensure a treatment in accordance with the rule of law by the public authority.
295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Greater difficulties arise where the director, while acting in good faith, is serving a purpose that is not regarded by the law as proper.
St. Sava's Nomocanon was the compilation of Civil law, based on Roman Law and Canon law, based on Ecumenical Councils and its basic purpose was to organize functioning of the young Serbian kingdom and the Serbian church.
The impact Roman law had decreased sharply after the age of Bracton, but the Roman divisions of actions into in rem ( typically, actions against a thing or property for the purpose of gaining title to that property ; must be filed in a court where the property is located ) and in personam ( typically, actions directed against a person ; these can affect a person's rights and, since a person often owns things, his property too ) used by Bracton had a lasting effect and laid the groundwork for a return of Roman law structural concepts in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In many jurisdictions, copyright law makes exceptions to these restrictions when the work is copied for the purpose of commentary or other related uses ( See fair use, fair dealing ).
Under common law, a liquidated damages clause will not be enforced if the purpose of the term is solely to punish a breach ( in this case it is termed penal damages ).
One of the simplest equations of state for this purpose is the ideal gas law, which is roughly accurate for weakly polar gases at low pressures and moderate temperatures.
Environmental law is a complex and interlocking body of international treaties ( conventions ), statutes, regulations, and common law or national legislation ( where applicable ) that operates to regulate the interaction of humanity and the natural environment, toward the purpose of reducing the impacts of human activity.
In 2008, the U. S. Supreme Court overturned a Washington, D. C. law that required handguns to be locked or otherwise kept inoperative within the home, saying that this " makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense.
" Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust ," Godwin has written.
Until recently, the purpose of intellectual property law was to give as little protection possible in order to encourage innovation.
The main purpose with IWAY is to make sure that the IKEA suppliers follows the law in each country where they are based.
To serve the purpose of a defense in law, the disorder must therefore amount to an absolute alienation of reason, ut continua mentis alienatione, omni intellectu careat-such a disease as deprives the patient of the knowledge of the true aspect and position of things about him-hinders him from distinguishing friend from foe-and gives him up to the impulse of his own distempered fancy.
What is the goal or purpose of law?
The main purpose of this law is to protect the integrity of the Afghan financial system and to gain compliance with international treaties and conventions.
" For Coke, human nature determined the purpose of law ; and law was superior to any one man's reason or will.
The " Takings " clause requires that the government ( whether state or federal — for the 14th Amendment's due process clause imposes the 5th Amendment's takings clause on state governments ) may take private property only for a public purpose, after exercising due process of law, and upon making " just compensation.
What is the goal or purpose of law?
* Patrimony of affectation, in civil law, a legal entitlement that can be divided for a purpose, as distinct from the general patrimony of the person ; in some respects similar to a common-law trust

purpose and Holmes
* In the videogame Portal 2, Wheatley mentions Holmes and Moriarty as a reference the way Chell ( Holmes ) pursuits Wheatley ( Moriarty ) with the purpose of finishing him off before he kills her.
However, as of August 3, 2006, the wildlife park project near Bonifay has been halted due to the termination of the agreement by the Holmes County Development Commission to sell to Jim Fowler and his Fowler Center for Wildlife Education for the purpose of building the park.
In 1907 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the " main purpose " of the First Amendment " was " to prevent all such previous restraints upon publications as had been practiced by other governments.
Holmes then proceeds to make his own purpose plain and tells the count that he wants to know where the Mazarin Stone is.
But this device failed in its purpose and pressure from fans eventually persuaded Doyle to bring Holmes back, writing The Hound of the Baskervilles ( set before " The Final Problem ") and reviving him in " The Adventure of the Empty House ".
Finally, the lady whom Holmes saves in the story's climatic chase, Lola Devereaux, appears on his ship as he departs for his sabbatical with the purpose of joining him and Holmes eagerly accepts the offer.
However, unlike Watson, whose primary purpose was to allow Holmes to explain his deductions, Sean O ' Lochlainn is more of a counterpart than a foil.
He thinks that the current formulation, based on Justice Holmes ' conception of free speech as a marketplace disserves the aspirations of those who wrote America ’ s founding document .” The purpose of this reformulation would be to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views .” He is concerned by the present situation in which like-minded people speak or listen mostly to one another ,” and thinks that in light of astonishing economic and technological changes, we must doubt whether, as interpreted, the constitutional guarantee of free speech is adequately serving democratic goals .” He proposes a New Deal for speech would draw on Justice Brandeis ' insistence on the role of free speech in promoting political deliberation and citizenship .”

purpose and insisted
Before the IBM representatives would explain the purpose of their visit, they insisted that Dorothy sign a non-disclosure agreement.
The most interesting of these, those that are relevant to my current purpose, have been those which insisted on the primacy of the self-activity and creativity of people in struggle against capitalism.
From the beginning of his reign, Alfonso employed Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars at his court, primarily for the purpose of translating books from Arabic and Hebrew into Latin and Castilian, although he always insisted in supervising personally the translations.
" Only God ," he insisted, " can give the affair a genuine purpose.
Borochov insisted that he was a Social Democrat, but Borochov's Left Poale Zion followers continued to vigorously advocate class struggle both in Palestine and eastern Europe, supporting the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917-Borochov himself returned to Russia for that purpose.
He insisted the kidnapped Americans were civilians while Trinidad's Defense argued that their main purpose was to spy on the FARC.
The five members arrested for the event insisted that they had intended to send Pollitt on a weekend break and even claimed that he had taken £ 5 in expenses they offered him for that purpose.
However, the IMU insisted that the decisions regarding invited speakers and Fields medalists be kept under exclusive jurisdiction of the ICM committees appointed for that purpose by the IMU.
Huxley always insisted that sociability was the only purpose of the club, but others in the club, most notably Hirst, claimed that the founding members had other intentions.
However, senior American commanders having faced fanatical enemies and experienced major logistical problems during WWII and the Korean War, insisted that a single powerful. 30 caliber cartridge be developed, that could not only be used by the new automatic rifle, but by the new general purpose machine gun ( GPMG ) in concurrent development.
The king had requested that Stigand go to Battle to consecrate the new abbot, however Stigand refused and insisted that the abbot elect go to Chichester for the purpose instead.

purpose and was
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
His purpose, however, was not to establish an empire, but to assert the principle of divine justice.
Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.
But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.
Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.
It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.
Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.
But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.
Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.
Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.
The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;
The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court's opinion: ``
It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.
At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;
-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.
It was stated earlier that one purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of variability of Onset and Completion in each of the 21 growth centers somewhat beyond that provided by the data in Tables 1 and 2.
The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.
One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.
The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.

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