The same rule applies if one were to address a particle by its constituent components.

Outside of the US, some other countries have adopted the one-drop rule, but the definition of who is black and the extent to which the one-drop " rule " applies varies greatly from country to country.

In other words, if an ' uninhabited ' or ' infidel ' territory is colonized by Britain, then the English law automatically applies in this territory from the moment of colonization ; however if the colonized territory has a pre-existing legal system, the native law would apply ( effectively a form of indirect rule ) until formally superseded by the English law, through Royal Prerogative subjected to the Westminster Parliament.

The NFL has a similar rule in the final minute of the half, but it applies only to specified violations against the offensive team.

The new NCAA rule applies to penalties on both sides of the ball.

The double jeopardy rule no longer applies absolutely in Scotland since the Double Jeopardy ( Scotland ) Act 2011 came into force on 28 November 2011.

This rule does not usually apply to intentional torts ( for example, deceit ), and also has stunted applicability to the quantum in negligence where the maxim Intended consequences are never too remote applies ' never ' is inaccurate here but resorts to unforeseeable direct and natural consequences of an act.

The refrigerator rule applies ( you can't stand in a fridge, the door always opens towards you )-If the hinges are on the left then its a left hand ( or left hung ) door.

This rule applies to any doctor of any grade who has passed the appropriate exams, and is not the exclusive province of consultant-level surgeons.

In general, the Bancroft rule applies.

A similar rule penalizing frivolous litigation applies in U. S. Bankruptcy Court under Rule 9011.

Under subsection 23 ( 3 ), the same rule applies to deeds and other instruments.

This applies regardless of whether overlines are considered as wins, but it assumes that the rule of three and three is not used.

The strong likelihood principle applies this same criterion to cases such as sequential experiments where the sample of data that is available results from applying a stopping rule to the observations earlier in the experiment.

* A Reduce step applies a completed grammar rule to some of the recent parse trees, joining them together as one tree with a new root symbol.

The Miranda rule applies to the use of testimonial evidence in criminal proceedings that is the product of custodial police interrogation.

However, the Fifth Amendment exclusionary rule applies only to criminal proceedings.

Assuming that a Miranda violation occurred — the six factors are present and no exception applies — the statement will be subject to suppression under the Miranda exclusionary rule.

Specifically, the Massiah rule applies to the use of testimonial evidence in criminal proceedings deliberately elicited by the police from a defendant after formal charges have been filed.

For example, in the European Union, all major jurisdictional matters are regulated under the Brussels Regime, e. g. the rule of lis alibi pendens from Brussels 1 Regulation applies in the Member States and its interpretation is controlled by the European Court of Justice rather than by local courts.

On the one hand, this notion is used to describe the situation where a local court applies a rule other than the Lex fori ( local law ).

One can then argue that since the factual situation is within the British territory, where an American judge applies the English Law, he does not give an extraterritorial application to the foreign rule.

This rule applies even if a player can play a straight flush ; if a straight or flush makes a better hand in front, play it that way.

The same rule of specialization and division of labor guides him in the FELA certiorari cases, in the administrative law area, and indeed in the whole realm of judicial review.

The atomic mass of these isotopes varied by integer amounts, called the whole number rule.

Under Arab rule Mesopotamia as a whole underwent a process of Arabisation and Islamification, and the region saw a large influx of non indigenous Arabs, Kurds, and later Turkic peoples.

Through this treaty, the Marathas controlled virtually the whole of India from their capital at Pune and Mughal rule was restricted only to Delhi ( the Mughals remained the nominal heads of Delhi ).

This was mainly carried out by the adoption of a rule that all antiphons and responses should be in the exact words of Scripture, which, of course, cut out the whole class of appeals to created beings.

Turkey, which does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, and the Turkish Cypriot administration of the northern part of the island, do not accept the Republic's rule over the whole island and refer to it not by its international name, but as the " Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus ".

Sixteen kingdoms were a plethora of short-lived non-Chinese dynasties that came to rule the whole or parts of northern China in the 4th and 5th centuries.

This was the first dynasty to rule the whole of China from Beijing as the capital.

The sharp increase in the number of edicts and rescripts produced under Diocletian's rule has been read as evidence of an ongoing effort to realign the whole Empire on terms dictated by the imperial center.

During the whole interwar period, the British, appealing to the terms of the Mandate, rejected the principle of majority rule or any other measure that would give the Arab majority control over the government of Palestine.

Latvia, in whole or in parts, remained under foreign rule for the next eight centuries, finding itself at the cross-roads of all the regional superpowers of their day, including Denmark ( the Danes held on lands around the Gulf of Riga ), Sweden, and Russia, with southern ( Courland ) Latvia being at one time a vassal to Poland-Lithuania as well as Latgale falling directly under Poland-Lithuania rule.

From this hypothesis was derived the whole number rule, which was the rule of thumb that atomic masses were whole number multiples of the mass of hydrogen.

Since the 1920s this discrepancy has been explained by the presence of isotopes ; the atomic mass of any isotope is very close to satisfying the whole number rule, with the mass defect caused by differing binding energies being significantly smaller.

It appears in early times, when Thessaly was mainly governed by a few aristocratic families, as an important city under the rule of the Aleuadae, whose authority extended over the whole district of Pelasgiotis.

During the 5 years of Italian rule over the whole Horn of Africa ( a colony in Eritrea was set by Rome in 1870 and Ethiopia occupied in 1936 ), Italian geographers accurately mapped the population of their colony and eventually referred to the Oromos preferably as Gallas in all the official maps as well as in a guide-book still available nowadays called " Guida all Africa Orientale Italiana " (" A Guide-Book to Italian Eastern Africa ").

For example, if a player declaring swing has the best high hand but loses for low ( or ties for low with a no-ties rule ), the whole pot is awarded to the low hand that defeated him.

Whereas act utilitarianism requires us to choose our actions by calculating which action will maximise utility and rule utilitarianism requires us to implement rules which will, on the whole, maximise utility, motive utilitarianism “ has the utility calculus being used to select motives and dispositions according to their general felicific effects, and those motives and dispositions then dictate our choices of actions .”

The Muslims rule within the whole island lasted for about 120 years.

Rousseau believed that liberty was possible only where there was direct rule by the people as a whole in lawmaking, where popular sovereignty was indivisible and inalienable.

With the whole kingdom cowed beneath his strict, if fair, rule, he was ready to consider greater conquests.