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If courts, for instance, should prevent a man from breathing any air which had been breathed by another ( within, say a reasonable statute of limitations ), those individuals who breathed most vigorously and were quickest and wisest in selecting desirable locations in which to breathe ( or made the most advantageous contracts with such individuals ) would, by virtue of their property right in certain volumes of air, come to exercise and enjoy a peculiar economic advantage, which might, through various modes of economic exchange, be turned into other forms of economic advantage, e. g., the ownership of newspapers or fine clothing.
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If no other jurisdiction has been established, recourse shall be to the ordinary courts.
If the two sets of bodies do not have concurrent jurisdiction but, as in the case of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), the relationship is expressly based on the principle of complementarity, i. e. the international court is subsidiary or complementary to national courts, the difficulty is avoided.
If there is no direct effect or legislation, there are two theories to justify the courts incorporating international into municipal law:
If the suspect was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or suffered from an emotional or mental condition that substantially impaired their capacity to make rational decisions, the courts may well decide that the suspect's waiver was not knowing and intelligent.
If the offer is for a longer period courts will limit the offer period to 90 days.
If the right sought to be enforced is inconsistent with either of these, the English municipal courts cannot recognize it.
If there is no decision on point from the highest court of a state, the federal courts must attempt to predict how the state courts would resolve the issue, by looking at decisions from state appellate courts at all levels.
If A did not comply with the final judgement passed by the courts of State X, B could enforce that judgement in the state where A resides under the full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution.
If a protector also has fiduciary responsibilities then the courts — if asked by beneficiaries — could order him or her to act in the way the court decrees.
If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification of an unenacted title, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large.
If cocaine is to be reclassified, defendant's arguments should be made to the legislative branch, not the courts.
If every message is passed through several servers ( ideally in different legal and political jurisdictions ), then attacks based on legal systems become considerably more difficult, if only because of ' Clausewitzian ' friction amongst lawyers, courts, different statutes, organizational rivalries, legal systems, etc.
If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.
If the stories of rivalry are true, it may be surmised that Simonides's experiences at the courts of the tyrants, Hipparchus and Scopas, gave him a competitive edge over the proud Pindar and enabled him to promote the career of his nephew, Bacchylides, at Pindar's expense.
If the claim is denied, then the claimant ( or policyholder or applicant ) files a lawsuit with the courts and becomes a plaintiff.
If the Supreme Court could not review decisions from the highest State court, the State courts would be excluded from ever hearing a case in any way involving a Federal question, because the Supreme Court would be deprived of appellate jurisdiction in those cases.
If no superintending tribunal of this nature were established, different courts might adopt different and even contradictory rules of decision ; and the distractions, springing from these different and contradictory rules, would be without remedy and without end.
If a thief steals multiple items from one victim during a single episode the courts doubtlessly would treat the act as one crime.
If the defendant who claimed benefit of clergy was particularly deserving of death, courts occasionally would ask him to read a different passage from the Bible ; if, like most defendants, he was illiterate and simply had memorized Psalm 51, he would be unable to establish the defence and would be put to death.
Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines for federal courts, " If the victim's wrongful conduct contributed significantly to provoking the offense behavior, the court may reduce the sentence below the guideline range to reflect the nature and circumstances of the offense.
If the Government is dissatisfied with the law as stated by the courts, it may ask Parliament to rewrite the law, as long as no constitutional issue is involved.
If republican zeal has banished an area's erstwhile ruling nobility, courts may survive in exile.
If it appears that participants at a state-sponsored event are more likely to influence the State itself, courts may treat prayer as " legislative prayer ".
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.
If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.
`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.
If she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.
If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
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