The college statutes required them to fill the vacancy within a certain time and so could not wait for a further royal nomination.

Laches essentially alleges prejudicial delay and unfairness in the context of a particular situation, whereas statutes of limitation tend to define a specific legally prescribed period of time ( after the cause of action has accrued ) within which a lawsuit for a particular type of cause of action may be commenced or after which the right to recovery is barred.

* In Canada, municipalities are local governments established through provincial and territorial legislation, usually within general municipal statutes.

Following the FDA ’ s standards, a number of states have, at various times, enacted their own statutes that serve as mandates for various forms of macaroni and noodle products that may be produced or sold within their borders.

In many countries, statutes are organized in topical arrangements ( or " codified ") within publications called codes, such as the United States Code.

They state that lack of definition of obscenity in the statutes, coupled with the existence of hypothetical entities and standards as ultimate arbiters within the Miller Test ( hypothetical " reasonable persons " and " contemporary community standards ") proves that federal obscenity laws are in fact not defined, do not satisfy the vagueness doctrine, and thus are unenforceable and legally dubious.

In legal writing, it is used whenever one must cite a specific paragraph within pleadings, law review articles, statutes, or other legal documents and materials.

The determination of alimony varies greatly from country to country and from state to state within the U. S. Some state statutes, including those of Texas, Montana, Kansas, Utah, Kentucky and Maine, give explicit guidelines to judges on the amount and / or duration of alimony.

South Tucson was incorporated as a city chiefly to take advantage of provisions in Arizona statutes of the time that permitted an incorporated city to have more alcohol licenses than comparable county areas and to permit dog racing to be allowed within city limits if regulated by the city.

Customary law is a recognized source of law within jurisdictions of the civil law tradition, inferior to both statutes and regulations.

The new statutes of the University enacted in 1828 defined the task of the University as promoting the development of “ the Sciences and Humanities within Finland and, furthermore, educating the youth for the service of the Tsar and the Fatherland ”.

Medical ghostwriting has been criticized by a variety of professional organizations representing the drug industry, publishers, and medical societies, and it may violate American laws prohibiting off-label promotion by drug manufacturers as well as anti-kickback provisions within the statutes governing Medicare.

Later statutes gave the governor the power to appoint advisory committees on reorganization, appoint deputy heads of divisions, transfer employees and change their responsibilities within the executive branch, and establish general rules of conduct for executive branch members.

Students were not part of the foundation at this stage and would not come within the scope of the statutes for another 200 years.

Criminal offences are found only within the Criminal Code of Canada and other federal statutes ; an exception is that contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada.

* Family-violence battery may be limited in its scope between persons within a certain degree of relationship: statutes for this offense have been enacted in response to increasing awareness of the problem of domestic violence.

These constabularies are not within the scope of the legislation applicable to the previously mentioned organisations but can still be the subject of statutes applicable to e. g. docks, harbours or railways.

While the Lord Lyon depended on the Government for its reforms and statutes, the College has always been able to carry out changes from within itself.

: And further Her Majesty with Advice aforesaid expressly declares and statutes that none of the Subjects of this Kingdom shall be liable to but all and every one of them for ever free of any Oath Test or Subscription within this Kingdom contrary to or inconsistent with the foresaid true Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government Worship and Discipline as above established and that the same within the Bounds of this Church and Kingdom shall never be imposed upon or required of them in any sort And lastly that after the decease of Her present Majesty ( whom God long preserve ) the Soveraign succeeding to Her in the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain shall in all time coming at His or Her Accession to the Crown swear and subscribe that they shall inviolably maintain and preserve the foresaid Settlement of the true Protestant Religion with the Government Worship Discipline right and Privileges of this Church as above established by the Laws of this Kingdom in Prosecution of the Claim of Right

First, the Act required the Federal Government no longer interact with the various tribes through treaties, but rather through statutes by stating, in part, “ o Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation.

* To guide, co-ordinate and oversee the monetary, financial, foreign exchange and insurance markets, ensure their smooth operation and supervise the actions of those operating within them according to the terms established in the regulatory statutes governing each respective area ;

DCIS, USACIDC, Army Counterintelligence, NCIS, and AFOSI special agents not only investigate statutes within the United States Code and state and local laws with a nexus to their branch ; they are also tasked with enforcing the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ), a jurisdiction not held by most of the larger federal agencies.

In ruling on the disputes between Prop 22 and the domestic partnership enactments, California Courts of Appeal have reached differing conclusions as to Prop 22's scope within the marriage statutes.

If the business fails to make a reasonable offer of settlement within a specified period of time, and is subsequently found liable in court, it may be liable for punitive damages and the injured parties reasonable attorney's fees under many statutes.

This body of common law, sometimes called " interstitial common law ," includes judicial interpretations of the Constitution, of statutes, and of regulations, and examples of application of law to facts.

:: Example: To characterize the first element as a " distortion ," however, requires the concurrence to second-guess the way in which the state court resolved a plain conflict in the language of different statutes.

In 1972, the U. S. Supreme Court dismissed, " for want of a substantial question ," an appeal by two men who unsuccessfully challenged Minnesota's marriage statutes in state court.

However, the Court acknowledged " the inherent dangers of undertaking to regulate any form of expression ," and said that " State statutes designed to regulate obscene materials must be carefully limited.

In the United States, acts of Congress, such as federal statutes, are published chronologically in the order in which they become law — often by being signed by the President, on an individual basis in official pamphlets called " slip laws ," and are grouped together in official bound book form, also chronologically, as " session laws.

Indiana is believed to have the most far-reaching right of publicity statutes in the world, providing recognition of the right for 100 years after death, and protecting not only the usual " name, image and likeness ," but also signature, photograph, gestures, distinctive appearances, and mannerisms.

As there is no technical difference between ordinary statutes and " constitutional law ," the UK Parliament can perform " constitutional reform " simply by passing Acts of Parliament and thus has the political power to change or abolish almost any written or unwritten element of the constitution.

On October 5, 2010, President Barack Obama signed Senate Bill 2781, known as " Rosa's Law ," which changed references in many Federal statutes that referred to " mental retardation " to refer instead to " intellectual disability.

See cases collected in Jeffrey F. Ghent, " Validity of statutes authorizing asexualization or sterilization of criminals or mental defectives ," 53 A. L. R. 3d 960.

Based on the findings of Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., which found that CompuServe " was a distributor for the purposes of defamation liability ," Zeran contended that AOL was a distributor of information, not a publisher, and because § 230 ( c )( 1 ) of the CDA spoke specifically to publishers, Zeran alleged that there was not a conflict between the two statutes.

Although U. S. law provides no overarching explicit definition of the term " illegal alien ," the term is used in many statutes and elsewhere ( e. g., court cases, executive orders ).

PIP is sometimes referred to as " no-fault " coverage, because the statutes enacting it are generally known as no-fault laws, and PIP is designed to be paid without regard to " fault ," or more properly, legal liability.

Harassment by computer statutes are typically distinct from cyberbullying laws, in that the former usually relates to a person's " use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act ," while the latter need not involve anything of a sexual nature.

According to its statutes, the federation was designed to " aid Chinese nationals in the social, cultural, public health, and medical fields ," to administer the property owned jointly by the Chinese community in Phnom Penh and elsewhere, and to promote friendly relations between Cambodians and Chinese.

The street was named for Samuel Jones, a lawyer who became known as " The Father of The New York Bar ," due to his work on revising New York State's statutes in 1789 with Richard Varick, who also had a street named after him in SoHo.

In 1997, Pope John Paul II " encouraged and Hernández to examine their thirty-year experience of the Way, and to formalize it with a written statute ," and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger urged the drafting of the Statutes as " a very important step that will open the way to the formal juridical recognition by the Church, and giving you a further guarantee of the authenticity of your charism " The Statutes drafted in response were approved ad experimentum for five years in 2002, and on June 13, 2008, after review by five dicasteries and the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Stanislaw Cardinal Rylko published a decree containing the definitive approval of the statutes of the Neocatechumenal Way.

In Ireland, the earliest written record of a similar ball game is contained in the town statutes of Galway of 1527, which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls of the town.