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This body of law, along with early Scandinavian law and continental Germanic law, descended from a family of ancient Germanic custom and legal thought.
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It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
The Lincoln Mills decision authorizes a whole new body of federal `` common law '' which, as Mr. Justice Frankfurter pointed out in dissent, leads to one of the following `` incongruities '': `` ( ( 1 ) conflict in federal and state court interpretations of collective bargaining agreements ; ;
Johnson said he would sooner sever his right arm from his body than sign the law, and vetoed it ; and Congress overrode his veto.
A habit of one group in society was thus codified as a law for the whole citizen body, which thus lost one axis of openness.
Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government.
As a body of law, administrative law deals with the decision-making of administrative units of government ( for example, tribunals, boards or commissions ) that are part of a national regulatory scheme in such areas as police law, international trade, manufacturing, the environment, taxation, broadcasting, immigration and transport.
This procedure is available only if the law on which the primary decision is based specifically provides for it and involves an appeal to a higher ranking administrative body.
The Community acquis or acquis communautaire (; ), sometimes called the EU acquis, and often shortened to acquis, is the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law.
For mammals, the relationship between brain volume and body mass essentially follows a power law with an exponent of about 0. 75.
The body of precedent is called " common law " and it binds future decisions.
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.
) include a Delaware choice of law clause, because of the deep body of law in Delaware on these issues.
The common theme in each case is that commercial parties seek predictability and simplicity in their contractual relations, and frequently choose the law of a common law jurisdiction with a well-developed body of common law to achieve that result.
Nonetheless, as a practical matter, no civil law legislature can ever address the full spectrum of factual possibilities in the breadth, depth and detail of the case law of the common law courts of even a smaller jurisdiction, and that deeper, more complete body of law provides additional predictability that promotes commerce.
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He climbed, as quickly as he could urge his body, up the two unbroken flights to the third floor, pulling himself along on a delicate balustrade, all that remained of the building's beauty.
apparently her many torsos, stretched out along the ground, had a greater capacity for retaining the drug than did his body.
They burrow in the manner of earthworms with zones of muscle contractions moving along the body.
In certain sensory neurons ( pseudounipolar neurons ), such as those for touch and warmth, the electrical impulse travels along an axon from the periphery to the cell body, and from the cell body to the spinal cord along another branch of the same axon.
Ambrose's body may still be viewed in the church of S. Ambrogio in Milan, where it has been continuously venerated — along with the bodies identified in his time as being those of Sts.
Between 70 and 118 grooves ( called ventral pleats ) run along the throat parallel to the body length.
Located around three-quarters of the way along the length of the body, it varies in shape from one individual to another ; some only have a barely perceptible lump, but others may have prominent and falcate ( sickle-shaped ) dorsals.
* Keyed or Fingered brass instruments used holes along the body of the instrument, which were covered by fingers or by finger-operated pads ( keys ) in a similar way to a woodwind instrument.
* They form part of a subtle energy body, along with the energy channels, or nadis, and the subtle winds ( vayus ), or pranas ( Thai: ปราณส ์).
In simple terms, centripetal force is defined as a force which keeps a body moving with a uniform speed along a circular path and is directed along the radius towards the centre.
These equations express mathematically that, in the case of an object that moves along a circular path with a changing speed, the acceleration of the body may be decomposed into a perpendicular component that changes the direction of motion ( the centripetal acceleration ), and a parallel, or tangential component, that changes the speed.
This is distinct from the Tripartite view that holds soul and spirit to be separate aspects of a person along with the body.
In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.
For twisting rotation to exist, it is necessary to tilt the body sideways after takeoff, so that there is now a small component of this horizontal angular momentum vector along the body's long axis.
The next morning, Robert Tisdall ( Derrick De Marney ) happens to be walking along the seaside cliffs when Christine's body washes ashore.
The text contains a list of medical symptoms and often detailed empirical observations along with logical rules used in combining observed symptoms on the body of a patient with its diagnosis and prognosis.
Further studies on animals that were traditionally assumed to be cold-blooded have shown that most creatures incorporate different variations of the three terms defined above, along with their counterparts ( ectothermy, poikilothermy and bradymetabolism ), thus creating a broad spectrum of body temperature types.
Radio frequency alternating current does not penetrate far into the body of a conductor but travels along its surface.
In addition, they ( along with the IATA ) are the body responsible for the standard international codes for airlines, airports, hotels, cities, and car rental firms ( for example, the three-digit codes that designate London Heathrow Airport as LHR ).
Kid Rock was referred to as Kidney Rock to go along with the cartoon aspect of being a cell in the body of Frank played by Bill Murray.
They are distinguished by an almond-shaped body with a bowled back constructed from curved strips of wood along its length.
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It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;
With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.
If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.
The removal of Stalin's body from the mausoleum he shared with Lenin to less distinguished quarters in the Kremlin wall is not unprecedented in history.
Each dancer follows the ancient Oriental pattern -- she glides sideways with shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips and away to the far end of the room.
Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.
Warren eased his rifle's safety off and gently, slowly sneaked another clip of ammunition from one of the cloth bandoleers that marked the upper part of his body with an Aj.
He could only watch with a sort of gentle dismay while his body did these quick, appalling, and efficient things.
They took Jesus's body, then, and wrapped it in winding-clothes with the spices ; ;
`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.
For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.
They seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.
But he was totally dissatisfied with his upper body.
I fingered it and had the feeling of adequacy that comes with the right texture, tilth and body.
He is a fine-looking colt with a good body, good set of legs and nice way of going.
It must be conceded that his native land provided Prokofieff with many of the necessary conditions for great creative incentive: economic security and cultural opportunities, incisive idioms, social fermentations for a new national ideology -- a sympathetic public and a large body of performers especially trained to fulfill his purpose.
As strength improves start in a standing position with legs wide apart and upper body bent forward.
Treat cattle with 10 grams per 100 pounds body weight with a maximum of 70 grams per animal.
The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.
Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.
What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes: ( 1 ) body parts and products, which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253, 25 out of 100 ) come out with nearly even ratios ; ;
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