An
obscure provision is a clause or section in a legal document, contract, or law that is not well-known or widely understood by the public.
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The collection was created utilizing a relatively
obscure provision of copy right law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to make available works published between 1923 and 1941 if they meet certain criteria.
An almost equally
obscure provision in the Act provides the peg upon which well - disposed judges could hang a broad CP jurisprudence, filling the definitional void left by CPA 2004, s 1.
Obscure provisions in California's tough environmental laws require that scientists be dispatched to construction sites in geologically promising areas, so utility company Southern California Edison had a team of paleontologists standing by.
The administration has invoked
an obscure provision of the US Trade Expansion Act of 1962 called Section 232, which says that if the US doesn't have reliable access to materials required for national security, it has license to set up big trade barriers in order to boost domestic production of them.
At the behest of the Iraqi government, President Bush will veto the annual defense authorization bill, saying
an obscure provision in the legislation could make Iraqi assets held in U.S. banks vulnerable to lawsuits.
As the April 1 budget deadline passed, Paterson turned
an obscure provision of state budget law into a weapon of will.
The Obama administration, relying on
an obscure provision of the law, created a process in 2011 to grant waivers to states that demonstrated they could set up their own accountability program.
It may be that there's
an obscure provision invalidating this deduction, living in California myself - I wouldn't be surprised.
An obscure provision in federal tax code has become a key part of a go - to strategy used by buyers of high - end art who want to defer taxes when they sell works from their collection, according to the New York Times» Graham Bowley.
Could
an obscure provision of the Fourteenth Amendment ride to the rescue of President Obama?
The embattled EPA chief used
an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.
An obscure provision tucked into a U.S. defense spending bill could act as a springboard for blockchain adoption across government agencies.
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An obscure provision tucked into a U.S. defense spending bill could act as a springboard for blockchain adoption across government agencies.