The contemporary form of Murphy's law goes back as far as 1952, as an epigraph to a mountaineering book by Jack Sack, who described it as an " ancient mountaineering adage ":

Murphy's daughter Rachel accompanied her on a trip to India at the age of five ; they flew into Bombay and traveled to Goa and Coorg ( described in On a Shoestring to Coorg ).

The whole story is described in " The Autochthonous American Gamelan ", Murphy's thesis written while working towards his Ph. D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

" Assault is in Indian criminal law an attempt to use criminal force ( with criminal force being described in s. 350 ).

The arrangement of the spines is very precise, and is described by what is called the Müllerian law.

In addition to the system described above there is another part of administrative law which is called " administratief beroep " ( administrative appeal ).

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".

This widely observed trend is described by Moore's law, which has proven to be a fairly accurate predictor of the growth of CPU ( and other IC ) complexity.

In practice, common law systems are considerably more complicated than the simplified system described above.

Canada's system, described below, avoids regional variability of federal law by giving national jurisdiction to both layers of appellate courts.

In Commentaries on the Laws of England ( Bk I, ch. 4, pp 106 – 108 ), Sir William Blackstone described the process by which English common law followed English colonization:

Drude's model described properties of metals in terms of a gas of free electrons, and was the first microscopic model to explain empirical observations such as the Wiedemann – Franz law.

“ A corporation is described to be a person in a political capacity created by the law, to endure in perpetual succession .” Americans in the 1790s knew of a variety of corporations established for various purposes, including those of commerce, education, and religion.

In Judaism, Heaven is sometimes described as a place where God debates Talmudic law with the angels, and where Jews spend eternity studying the Written and Oral Torah.

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

With thermal energy, however, there are often limits to the efficiency of the conversion to other forms of energy, as described by the second law of thermodynamics.

The way in which charges and currents interact with the electromagnetic field is described by Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law.

These interactions are described by Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law.

Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.

On a mesoscopic scale, that is, between the macroscopic scale described by Fick's law and

Human rights are also described as a sociological pattern of rule setting ( as in the sociological theory of law and the work of Weber ).

Their ideology was also described as being influenced by Pashtunwali tribal law, Wahhabism, and the jihadism pan-Islamism of their guest Osama bin Laden.

In it, Kepler described the inverse-square law governing the intensity of light, reflection by flat and curved mirrors, and principles of pinhole cameras, as well as the astronomical implications of optics such as parallax and the apparent sizes of heavenly bodies.

As well as the libre licences described above, which require copyright law to function, members of the libre movement have also created symbols and statements that purport to operate without a legal mechanism.

In 1908, Weber published an article in which he drew a sharp methodological distinction between psychology and economics and attacked the claims that the marginal theory of value in economics reflected the form of the psychological response to stimuli as described by the Weber-Fechner law.

An object's motion cannot change unless it is acted upon by a force, as described by Newton's first law.

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.

( A fourth, Elihu the Buzite ( Heb: Alieua ben Barakal the Buzite ), begins talking in Chapter 32 and plays a significant role in the dialogue, but his arrival is not described ).

It is sometimes described as a fourth Merzbau, although Schwitters himself only ever referred to three.

at the end of the fourth century, saw the Mouseion and described the images of the philosophers in it.

Most rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond to sets of rhymes, so if the first, second and fourth lines of a quatrain rhyme with each other and the third line does not rhyme, the quatrain is said to have an " a-a-b-a " rhyme scheme.

A fourth kind has sometimes been described since Quine's work.

Benaud erroneously recalled in an autobiography that this was his maiden wicket — it was his fourth — and described the ball as " the worst I ever bowled ".

Although he did not excel as a student ( he dropped out of high school in his fourth year and did not graduate ), his teachers described him as bright.

The intermolecular forces created by ionic attractions and repulsions give these compositions distinct properties, for which reason plasma is described as a fourth state of matter.

Ribosomal RNA gene sequencing of soil suggests that there may be a fourth subphylum of Ascomycota ( termed Soil Clone Group I or SCGI ), that has not been described in cultures or based on fruiting bodies.

Jan van Mill has described as a ' three headed monster ' — the three heads being a smiling and friendly head ( the behaviour under the assumption of the continuum hypothesis ), the ugly head of independence which constantly tries to confuse you ( determining what behaviour is possible in different models of set theory ), and the third head is the smallest of all ( what you can prove about it in ZFC ).< ref > It has relatively recently been observed that this characterisation isn't quite right-there is in fact a fourth head of, in which forcing axioms and Ramsey type axioms give properties of almost diametrically opposed to those under the continuum hypothesis, giving very few maps from indeed.

A fourth species, the giant peccary ( Pecari maximus ) was recently described from the Brazilian Amazon by Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen.

Informants who described their nature sometimes held aspects of both the third and the fourth view, or observed that the matter was disputed.

By the time of the fourth edition of The Nazi Dictatorship in 2000, Irving was described only as a historical writer who had in the 1970s engaged in " provocations " intended to provide an " exculpation of Hitler's role in the Final Solution ".

In one of the Mexica creation accounts Tlaltecuhtli is described as a sea monster who dwelled in the ocean after the fourth Great Flood, an embodiment of the raging chaos before creation.

Mandragora ( mandrake ) was described by Theophrastus in the fourth century B. C.

Marine infantry regiments use battalion and company designations as described above under Theatre of War II, with company letters D, H, and M not normally used but rather held in " reserve " for use in augmenting a fourth rifle company into each battalion as needed.

The battalion structure is designed to readily expand to include a fourth rifle company, if required, as described above under battalion organization.

You can also identify service pack, international client pack, and hotfix numbers from the fourth element of the version number, as described below.

The fourth movement of the Second Symphony contains a passage consisting of a long arching line for unison violins ( followed by ' cellos ), accompanied by swirling woodwind, which the composer described as " a very long melody ".

" The first and third are slow movements, the second a scherzo, and the fourth fugal, described by the Bliss specialist Andrew Burn as " a compositional tour de force, a superbly constructed double fugue, the initial subject slow and angular for strings, gradually becoming an Elgarian ceremonial march, the second a bubbling theme for winds.

The term " third " is usually understood to mean " other "; some anthropologists and sociologists have described fourth, fifth, and even some genders.

A fourth European species is described as Pseudaelurus romieviensis, smaller than P. quadridentatus but larger than P. lorteti.

The fourth movement ( the second " Nachtmusik "), with its " amorous " marking and reduced instrumentation — trombones, tuba and trumpets are silent and woodwinds reduced by half — has been described as " a long stretch of chamber music set amidst this huge orchestral work ".