Sentences with phrase «on civil law»

Another of the Appendices contains a colour — coded map of Africa showing jurisdictions based on common law, on civil law, those on a mixture of common and civil law and those based on Roman - Dutch law.

Further, our competence reflects a deep understanding of the duality of the Cameroonian legal system which is based on civil law (Romano - Germanic system of law) on the one hand and the Common law system on the other hand.

French firms are still present and the Moroccan system of law remains extremely close with the French system, the two being based on civil law.»

The 17 OHADA states now share the same business laws, based on a civil law system, namely uniform acts regarding companies, commercial law, debt recovery, securities, insolvency, transport and arbitration.

I am deeply committed to the pursuit of Justice in the Northwest of British Columbia and travel from Prince George through to Queen Charlotte Island where I appear in the provincial and supreme courts on civil law suits, family law cases, and criminal defence cases.

Much of its theoretical analysis is based on civil law concepts.

Not exact matches

Back in 2005, Congress passed a law saying TSA gets to keep that unclaimed cash, and spend it on any sort of civil aviation security efforts it deems fit.

Early on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in a similar case in Maryland brought by refugee resettlement agencies represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

Cook wrote that the government should drop the legal request and instead «form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties, to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedom.»

A 2009 memo from then - Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department is to advise the White House on pending criminal or civil investigations «only when it is important for the performance of the president's duties and appropriate from a law enforcement perspective.»

The judicial system does not track civil cases filed in circuit court by the section of law cited, but he does not remember hearing of any lawsuit based on the disparagement law being filed in circuit court anywhere in South Dakota.

«He said we would agree on some things and disagree on others, and he was committed to enforcing civil rights law as he sees it,» said NAACP President Cornell William Brooks.

State securities regulators appreciate bipartisan interest in modernizing privacy protections relating to information stored on internet service providers, but urge Congress not to inadvertently or unjustifiably curtail crucial investigatory authorities used by state regulators and other civil law enforcement agencies.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

«Our own associates... are exceptionally well - qualified, hailing from the country's best law schools and having worked directly with the partners at our firm on complex, confidential government investigations, civil litigation, or both,» the Trump lawyers stated in a letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood.

On the corporate side our Baltimore litigation lawyers are experienced at administrative law matters, arbitration and mediation, business litigation, civil appeals, contract disputes, cyber-law, environmental law, federal investigations, insurance law, real estate, tax prosecutions and IRS matters.

Failure to pay civil judgements against you could result in garnishment of wages or bank accounts, eviction or a forced sale of property, depending on state laws.

Parental consent on many topics (NOT A LAW) 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America (didn't say it was a law) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a criLAW) 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America (didn't say it was a law) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a crilaw) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a criLAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a crime.

The four schools of law have clear rulings that on no account should an individual or group of Muslims attempt to change the government of an Islamic state through the use of arms and violence, because to allow such a possibility invites civil strife, private wars, and the abuse of Islam by factions who use theology to justify their self - interested rebellions and usurpations.

(btw: Adultery is not against any law and only pertains in a civil court, so your point on that is moot.)

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

I don't think that anyone's theology should be foisted on anyone else and that civil law needs to be decided by the general populace.

The primary function of civil law is to limit freedom when an act impinges on the right of another individual or on the rights of society.

Parental consent on many topics 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws

Are you equating someone offering a discount on an oil change for spouting off a Bible verse... vs. allowing people who happen to be of the same gender, who love and care for each other and want... and... are deserving of equal civil rights and equal treatment under the law... as = to being the «same thing»...?

5, in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, following the lead of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church, states that, «In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.»

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

Given this educative function of the law, even civil law, like the natural law on which it is based, is friendly to ourbeing.

[6] «There is no legal requirement for a ceremony to make a civil marriage legal, and the law on civil partnerships (available from 5th December this year) mirrors civil marriage.

Homebrew laws have failed to materialize for the past five years, with religion and morality arguments narrowly beating out the estimated 5,000 underground homebrewers in the state who say their civil liberties are on the line.

It was originally a term of Roman and Civil law to express the character of a contract which in a single matter involved several obligations on the part of the debtors, with corresponding rights to the creditors....

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Although further U.S. aid to El Salvador seems a foregone conclusion, some congress people hope to make it conditional on assurances of open access to provide help to civilian victims of the civil war — a right recognized by international law.

You may believe the Bible tells you gays should be able to marry or maybe even that blacks should not be able to marry whites (another thing people have used the Bible to protest against); however, that does not mean that US civil equal rights laws should be based on your personal religious beliefs.

They also have a hard time with not endorsing gay marriage and will lie and say that civil unions do nt provide them the same protection which is a lie and some states do in fact have these laws on the books.

H. Staffner has brought forward the proposal which the late E.D. Devadason mooted, namely that the Christian community should accept the recodified Hindu law as their own civil law in the place of the present quite outdated Indian Christian Law which, as already stated, was an imposition of an English law on Christian converts in Indlaw as their own civil law in the place of the present quite outdated Indian Christian Law which, as already stated, was an imposition of an English law on Christian converts in Indlaw in the place of the present quite outdated Indian Christian Law which, as already stated, was an imposition of an English law on Christian converts in IndLaw which, as already stated, was an imposition of an English law on Christian converts in Indlaw on Christian converts in India.

The mere fact that this law is applicable also to Jams, Buddhists and Sikhs clearly shows that from the beginning it should have been called Civil Code rather than Hindu Code» He adds, that it is not based on any Hindu Scriptures but on «modern concepts and progressive values and is applicable to all citizens irrespective of religion».

religions to preach spirituality and morals are dying down based on scriptures, but are maintained by civil law and orders.

The RCC is subject to every countries» civil laws and should come clean on priestly pedophilia and the criminals, most likely including every Pope - A-Dope sine the 1950s, covering up the blatant abuse of thousands of innocent children.

The doctrine of the necessary conformity of civil law to moral truth imposes on conscientious citizens of a regime that authorizes the killing of the unborn and infirm a clear obligation of resistance.

Stop trying to enforce your religious dogma on the rest of us through civil law.

On rare occasions, a Christian may even feel called upon to defy the civil law for the sake of the higher law of God.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

So it is that «growing numbers of people are abandoning religion in practice; on every side they influence literature, the arts, the interpretation of the humanities and of history and civil laws themselves.

Although several states had established churches, they were not theocracies but rather had Christianity as their foundation, and their laws and civil governments were based on biblical principles.

Santorum is condemned for when he told an Iowa crowd last November that, «our civil laws have to comport with a higher law: God's law,» while Gingrich is criticized for a remark he made at a CNN debate on October 18, 2011, in Las Vegas.