Until the passage of the Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990, television captioning was performed by a set-top box manufactured by Sanyo Electric and marketed by The National Captioning Institute ( NCI ).

Until 18 December 2010, Eton College was an exempt charity under English law ( Charities Act 1993, Schedule 2 ).

Until the formal opening of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 1 October 2009, life peers created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act were known as " Lords of Appeal in Ordinary " or in common parlance " Law Lords ".

Until the Australia Act 1986, each state was constitutionally dependent upon the British Crown directly.

Until the 1980s, Acts of the Australian state of Victoria were numbered in a continuous sequence from 1857 ; thus the Age of Majority Act 1977 was No. 9075 of 1977.

Included in the Acts of Philip is an appendix, entitled " Of the Journey of Philip the Apostle: From the Fifteenth Act Until the End, and Among Them the Martyrdom.

Until the boundary reformation by the Local Government Act 1888, the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary ran through the centre of Todmorden, following the River Calder to the north-west and the Walsden Water for less than a mile to the south before turning south-eastwards across Langfield Common.

Until the passing of the Education Reform Act 1988, the Polytechnic was under the control of the Inner London Education Authority — part of the then Greater London Council and awarded the degrees of the former Council for National Academic Awards.

Until the Common Law Procedure Act 1854, the Court of Chancery was the only body qualified to grant injunctions and specific performance.

Until the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which implemented the recommendations of the Wolfenden report, homosexual acts between consenting male adults were illegal in England and Wales.

Until 1844, trains were pulled up the incline to Camden Town by cables because the London and Birmingham Railway's Act of Parliament prohibited the use of locomotives in the Euston area ; this prohibition is said to have been at the request of Lord Southampton, who owned land bordering this section of the line.

Until the 1900s there was a tradition that the actor who plays Polonius also plays the quick-witted gravedigger in Act V. This bit suggests that the actor who played Polonius was an actor used to playing clowns much like the Fool in King Lear: not a doddering old fool, but an alive and intelligent master of illusion and misdirection.

Until the passing of the Unitarian Relief Act in 1813 it was a criminal offence to deny the doctrine of the Trinity.

Until the Courts Act 2003 came into force, magistrates were tied to a particular area ( see Magistrates ' Courts ' Committees, commission area, petty sessions area ).

Until the Federal Reserve Act, the U. S. government had left control of its money supply largely to unregulated private banks.

Until then, Ecuador shall have only civil jurisdiction in the zones evacuated by Peru, which remain in the same status as the demilitarized zone of the Talara Act.

Until the rulings in these so-called Insular Cases, children born of two US citizens in the Canal Zone had been subject to the Naturalization Act of 1795, which granted them statutory US citizenship at birth.

Until 1968, the Theatres Act 1843 required scripts to be submitted for approval by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, this conflicted with the improvisational theatre techniques used by Littlewood to develop plays for performance.

Until the passing of Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, the British Transport Police was such a force.

Until the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 the freemen were the exclusive electorate for the boroughs.

Until the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 such a marriage was not possible in England, so the ceremony took place in Norway.

Until 1982, the British North America Act, 1867 and later amendments served as the basis of Canada's constitution.

Until the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 came into force on 3 April 2006, the Lord Chief Justice was also the head of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court.

Until the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 came into force in October 2009, this right of appeal was to the House of Lords ( or sometimes to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ).

Until the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia had followed that of the Soviet Union.

Until 1991, President Mauno Koivisto and two of the three major parties, Center Party and the Social Democrats opposed the idea of European Union membership and preferred entering into the European Economic Area treaty.

Until the late years of the Soviet Union, political science as a field was subjected to tight control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Until 1997, the Amtrak Desert Wind train service ran through Las Vegas using the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.

Until the war with the Soviet Union was finished, Hitler was reluctant to have a war with the United States, and insisted upon avoiding " incidents " with the U. S. Navy as much as possible, whereas Raeder was all for a war with the United States.

Until its closing in 1991 the Hudson Dispatch, a morning daily newspaper that once had a circulation of 39, 132, was based in Union City for 117 years.

Until recently it was properly called the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, though it is now known as the Llangollen Canal.

Until 1861, Brady Township also included what is now Gregg Township, Union County.

Until that time, the Socialists were a mainstay of this working-class town, organizing the Workingmen's Co-operative Store and creating community pillars with Local Twenty-six of the American Flint Glass Workers ' Union and the Young People's Socialist League.

Until 1936, Taylor was an opponent of British rearmament as he felt that a re-armed Britain would ally itself with Germany against the Soviet Union.

Author of " Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984 ".

Until the 1970s, some longwave stations in the Soviet Union operated on frequencies as high as 400 kHz, and there was even a station on 433 kHz in Finland.

Until the Union, the cruciform shields on the reverse showed the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland in order, separated by sceptres and with a central rose, and the legend (" Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland Queen ").

Until the Union, the cruciform shields on the reverse showed the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland in order, separated by sceptres and with a central rose, and the legend.

Until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Saratov was designated a " closed city ", that is, strictly off limits to all foreigners due to its military importance.

Until 1916, Bulgaria's silver and gold coins were issued to the same specifications as those of the Latin Monetary Union.

Until recently the French constitutional court has regarded itself not empowered to review administrative measures, as it did not recognise the review power and duty provided to it by European Union law.

Until the 1950s, thousands of newspapers received and used this kind of boilerplate from the nation's largest supplier, the Western Newspaper Union.

Until September 2008 he accomplished the duties of the Director of the Romanian Office for Science and Technology to the European Union ( ROST ) in Brussels.

Until the Acts of Union, Radnor was outside the Principality of Wales.

Until 1834 it was a parish workhouse, but in 1836 the Uppingham Poor Law Union began, and a new Union workhouse was built on Leicester Road to house 158 people to a design by architect William Donthorne.

Until 1994, the group had the position of a national monopoly for production and distribution, but this was abolished when Sweden joined the European Union in 1995.