The common law, as applied in civil cases ( as distinct from criminal cases ), was devised as a means of compensating someone for wrongful acts known as torts, including both intentional torts and torts caused by negligence, and as developing the body of law recognizing and regulating contracts.

Many widely played card games, such as Canasta and Pinochle, have no official regulating body.

Epinephrine has many functions in the body, regulating heart rate, blood vessel and air passage diameters, and metabolic shifts ; epinephrine release is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.

The Office of Telecommunications Authority ( OFTA ) is the legislative body responsible for regulating the telecommunications industry.

Insulin is a peptide hormone, produced by beta cells of the pancreas, and is central to regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body.

Notaries are appointed by a government authority, such as a court or lieutenant governor, or by a regulating body often known as a society or faculty of notaries public.

A nephrologist is a physician ( MD, MBBS or DO ) who has been trained in the diagnosis and management of kidney disease, by regulating blood pressure, regulating electrolytes, balancing fluids in the body, and administering dialysis.

Minerals are important for the body because they help with the structure of bones, regulate heart beat, maintain muscle, and take part in regulating cell growth.

If any animal has a system of laws regulating the body politic, it is certainly the prairie dog.

" Chuck Bright wrote that refusing to endorse a procedure that " has been deemed unethical and potentially harmful by most medical and nearly every professional psychotherapy regulating body cannot be justifiably identified as prohibiting client self-determination.

However, in most other parts of Spain and throughout Latin America, the term paellera is more commonly used for this pan, though both terms are correct, as stated by the Royal Spanish Academy, the body responsible for regulating the Spanish language.

In order to provide cost effective services, the Corporation ( as the regulating body ) has contemplated privatization of public services, particularly water supply, solid waste, sewerage and parking.

The town council functions as a legislative governing body for the community, and is responsible for all aspects of community management, such as appointing officials, levying taxes, establishing a budget, maintaining public services and utilities, and regulating activity within the community.

While Spain has one regulating body, DOC Cava, spread across several different political regions, quality Espumante is produced solely in DOC Bairrada, located just south of Vinho Verde.

One branch of the central nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system, becomes primarily active during a stress response, regulating many of the body ’ s physiological functions in ways that ought to make an organism more adaptive to its environment.

* U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a US body enforcing and regulating the securities industry

In June 2008, New York State Senate passed legislation regulating body exhibits.

One of the critical roles of calcium in the body is regulating membrane fusion.

Because pantyhose raise the temperature of the body, the elderly, menopausal women, and other wearers who have difficulties regulating body temperature ( because of underlying issues such as thyroid malfunctions ) may find the garment unbearably warm.

Examples of this are numerous, from the regulating of body temperature, to the regulating of blood glucose levels.

* The regulating body for standard Romanian is the Romanian Academy ; its resolutions and recommendations are acknowledged by the Romanian state and other entities where Romanian is officially recognised ( e. g., the European Union and Vojvodina ).

The Act did give the provinces responsibility for regulating hospitals, and the provinces claimed that their general responsibility for local and private matters encompassed health care.

According to CEQA, all state and local agencies must give major consideration to environmental protection in regulating public and private activities, and should not approve projects for which there exist feasible and environmentally superior mitigation measures or alternatives.

CITES lists bongo as an Appendix III species, only regulating their exportation from a single country, Ghana.

Since the former allows for more control over the speed and direction of the ball, the bump is used only when the ball is so low it cannot be properly handled with fingertips, or in beach volleyball where rules regulating overhand setting are more stringent.

However the old laws regulating conscription have only been suspended, to be reactivated in case of emergency ; this is given a constitutional basis by Subarticle 2 ; delegation is allowed.

The NTT Law regulating NTT East and West requires them to serve only short distance communications and obligates them to maintain telephone service all over the country.

The Inns are responsible for training, regulating and selecting barristers within England and Wales, and are the only bodies allowed to call a barrister to the Bar and allow him or her to practice.

Organisms when presented with the problem of regulating body temperature have not only behavioural, physiological and structural adaptations, but also a feedback system to trigger these adaptations to regulate temperature accordingly.

Not only are they responsible for the training of future mages but also for regulating the use of arcane magic for all drow within Menzoberranzan.

The contentious session ended with only a few accomplishments, including passage of a fetal homicide law, an anti-price gouging measure, and a law barring the state public service commission from regulating broadband Internet providers beyond what restrictions were put in place by the Federal Communications Commission.

* The scope has increased from regulating only publishers to now regulating just about everyone.

They also discovered that this association is seen only in women with a variant form of another gene, Catechol-O-methyl transferase also known as COMT, which is involved in regulating the function of the prefrontal cortex, a critical regulator of mood.

The SCN is known to be involved not only in photoreception through innervation from the retinohypothalamic tract, but also in thermoregulation of vertebrates capable of homeostasis, as well as regulating locomotion and other behavioral outputs of the circadian clock within ectothermic vertebrates.

It follows a " black list / grey list " approach to regulating ocean dumping ; Annex I materials ( black list ) generally may not be ocean dumped ( though for certain Annex I materials dumping may be permissible if present only as " trace contaminants " or " rapidly rendered harmless " and Annex II materials ( grey list ) require " special care ".

The genes regulating the complex developmental sequence have only been partly elucidated.

It was the only legal party until July 1, 1992, when amendments to the national Constitution and a number of laws permitting and regulating the formation and operations of more than one political party were enacted by the National Assembly or Bunge.

All human institutions — religion, government, law, marriage, custom — together with innumerable other modes of regulating social, industrial and commercial life are, broadly viewed, only so many ways of meeting and checkmating the principle of competition as it manifests itself in society.

The United States Supreme Court struck down Georgia's laws as unconstitutional in its 1832 rulings in Worcester v. Georgia, ruling that only the federal government had the right to deal with the Native American tribes, and the states had no right to pass legislation regulating their activities.

The Kyoto mechanism is the only internationally agreed mechanism for regulating carbon credit activities, and, crucially, includes checks for additionality and overall effectiveness.

City Council rejected a public call for a deliberately segregated Chinese community and elected only to pass a bylaw regulating sleeping and living space in houses.

Raffelstetten Customs Regulations ( Latin: Inquisitio de theloneis Raffelstettensis, literally: " Inquisition on the Raffelstetten Tolls "), is the only legal document regulating customs in Early Medieval Europe.

:" A ' Bummel '," I explained, " I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end ; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started.

The ego reaches an impasse of one sort or another ; and has to turn for help to what she termed " a sort of hidden regulating or directing tendency ... organizing center " in the personality: " Jung called this center the ' Self ' and described it as the totality of the whole psyche, in order to distinguish it from the ' ego ', which constitutes only a small part of the psyche ".

As in the stipulations regulating the tolls of Raffelstaetten, and as in the law of Frederick II, only customs duties for goods or slaves were mentioned: therefore a personal tax was unknown.

Mutations in DNA that lead to cancer ( only certain mutations can lead to cancer and the majority of potential mutations will have no bearing ) disrupt these orderly processes by disrupting the programming regulating the processes.