When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When sitting in review of a decision, the Court will only look at the method in which the decision was arrived at, whereas in an administrative appeal the correctness of the decision itself will be examined, usually by a higher body in the agency.

When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

When Bacon was appointed Lord Chancellor, " by special Warrant of the King ", Lady Bacon was given precedence over all other Court ladies.

When he refused, Tammany went to the New York Supreme Court and successfully sued to keep Kelly ’ s name off the ballot.

When the Court renders its decision, it will generally do so in a single majority opinion and one or more dissenting opinions.

When Frederick III needed the dukes to finance war against Hungary in 1486 and at the same time had his son, later Maximilian I elected king, he was presented with the dukes ' united demand to participate in an Imperial Court.

When the accused is charged with an indictable only offence, he is sent to the Crown Court for trial.

When interviewed about it, he stated, “ I certainly believe that people who are in pain should be helped and assisted in every way possible, that the drugs should be used to mitigate their pain but I believe the law of the United States of America which requires that drugs not be used except for legitimate health purposes .” " Attorney General Ashcroft Asks Supreme Court To Ban Assisted Suicide – California Healthline.

When the prosecution attempted to adduce evidence that this constituted insanity within the Rules, she changed her plea to guilty but on appeal, the Court ruled that she had been merely denying mens rea rather than raising a defence under the Rules and her conviction was quashed.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

When President Bill Clinton attempted to use executive privilege regarding the Lewinsky scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v. Jones,, that the privilege also could not be used in civil suits.

When the Court met for its initial session, opened on 30 January 1922 to allow for the establishment of procedure and the appointment of Court officials, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations passed an emergency resolution through the Assembly which designated an official of the League and his staff as the Registrar and Registry respectively, with the first Registrar being Åke Hammarskjöld.

When Little was sued for damages, the case made its way to the Supreme Court.

When local courts were often clogged or mismanaged, the Court of Star Chamber became a site of remittance for common people against the excesses of the nobility.

When Lucas refused Mason's demand to extradite Two Stickney back to Michigan for trial, Mason wrote to President Jackson for help, suggesting that the matter be referred to the United States Supreme Court.

When the Supreme Court revisited some of the territory covered by Luther v. Borden in cases like Baker v. Carr,, the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was the basis of its changed decisions.

When, under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court extended the right to a trial by jury to defendants in state courts, it re-examined some of the standards.

When the Court renders an opinion, the Chief Justice — when in the majority — decides who writes the Court's opinion.

When he visited the Vienna Court Opera to rehearse possible singers for this production, the management at Vienna suggested staging the opera in Vienna.

When a judge of the High Court who is not present is being referred to they are described as " Mr ./ Mrs. Justice N ." In writing, the post-nominal letter " J " is used to denote a Judge ( male or female ) of the High Court: for example, Smith J.

When Isabella's retinue — loyal to Edward, and ordered back to England by Isabella — returned to the English Court on 23 December, they brought further shocking news for the king: Isabella had formed a liaison with Roger Mortimer in Paris and they were now plotting an invasion of England.

When the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer was established in May 1692, Governor Sir William Phips appointed Hathorne to the panel, which was headed by Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

# When the newly elected Reichstag first convened on March 23, 1933, ( not including the Communist delegates, since their party had already been banned by that time ) it passed the Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), transferring all legislative powers to the Nazi government and, in effect, abolishing the remainder of the Weimar constitution as a whole.

When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1787, the 12 state delegations in attendance ( Rhode Island was absent ) brought with them an accumulated experience over a diverse set of institutional arrangements between legislative and executive branches from within their respective state governments.

When Stephen reached adolescence, Great Prince Géza convened an assembly where they decided that Stephen would follow his father as the monarch of the Hungarians.

When the Second Continental Congress convened at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia in May 1775, some delegates hoped for eventual independence, but no one yet advocated declaring it.

When the Palestinian National Council convened in Cairo on 3 February 1969, Yahya Hammuda stepped down from his chairmanship of the PLO.

When the General Assembly convened in June 1564, an argument broke out between Knox and Maitland over the authority of the civil government.

When the Witenagemot convened the next day, they selected Harold to succeed, and his coronation followed on 6 January, most likely held in Westminster Abbey, however there is no surviving evidence from the time to confirm this.

When the 110th Congress convened on January 4, 2007, she was nominated and elected as the 60th Speaker by a vote of 233-202, becoming the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House.

When the Senate convened, the ALP Senate leader, Ken Wriedt, made the motion.

When he won the vice presidency, he made arrangements to resign from the Senate, as he was required to do under federal law, as soon as it convened on January 3, 1961.

When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, Wisconsin.

When the cafeteria bombs failed to explode, Harris and Klebold armed themselves with their weapons, convened and walked towards the school.

When the 41st Canadian Parliament convened on 2 June 2011, Plamondon became the Bloc's interim parliamentary leader while Vivian Barbot, who became interim party president following Duceppe's resignation, continued in that role.

When the Kaufman County grand jury convened, it declined to indict her, and she was released.

When Charles convened the Short Parliament in 1640 he had ruled without Parliament for 11 years.

When the Texas State Legislature convened in January 1873, Democratic representative B. W. Brown of Upshur County introduced a bill to create a new county from parts of Harrison, Rusk, and Upshur counties.

When court convened the sheriff served a court order declaring a courthouse be built in Sycamore.

When the " house of parliament " was convened in 1922 it was treated by those in attendance as the Third Dáil, and its first act was to merge the Provisional Government and the Ministry of the Dáil into a single cabinet.

) When the new Parliament of Southern Ireland was called into session in June 1921, only the four Unionist members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and a handful of appointed senators, turned up in the Royal College of Science in Dublin, where the meeting was scheduled to take place ; the others convened elsewhere as the Dáil.

When representatives of the southern German cities convened in Ulm on 23 – 24 March 1532 to discuss their alliance with the Schmalkaldic League, Bucer advised them to sign the Augsburg Confession, if they were being pressured to do so.

When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the Contract with America – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.

When John reached Ephesus a few days after the council had begun, he convened a counter-council which condemned Cyril and vindicated Nestorius.

When the Estates-General of 1789 was convened at Versailles, the club was initially composed exclusively of deputies from Brittany.