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3 unusual facts about Statute


Australian Classification Board

The Classification Board (CB) is an Australian statutory classification body formed by the Australian Government which classifies films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia since its establishment in 1995.

Mandaluyong High School

On 28 March 2000 a Government Act was passed that decreed that the Mauway Annex be separated and converted into an independent high school initially known as Mandaluyong East High School.

St Mary's Music School

Scottish Government funding, up to 100%, is available through the statutory Aided Places scheme to assist with the cost of tuition and boarding fees.


3590

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), a United States federal statute signed into law on March 23, 2010

Abortion in Australia

However, in 2002, it became the first jurisdiction in Australia to legalise abortion in full, when the Stanhope ALP government, with the assistance of Green and independent members, passed the Crimes (Abolition of Offence of Abortion) Act 2002, removing abortion from the criminal statute books altogether.

Alexandru Ioan Cuza

He consequently governed the country under the provisions of Statutul dezvoltător al Convenţiei de la Paris ("Statute expanding the Paris Convention"), an organic law adopted on 15 July 1864.

Amelioration

Amelioration Act 1798, a statute enacted in the Leeward Islands regarding the treatment of slaves

An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State

In August 2007, three justices of the Quebec Court of Appeal unanimously held that Keith Henderson, former Leader of the English-language rights group, the Equality Party, has standing to challenge the legality of the statute, which Quebec Superior Court has dubbed "Bill 99" in the absence of a short title for this particular statute.

Butler Act

By the terms of the statute, it could be argued, it was not illegal to teach that apes descended from protozoa, to teach the mechanisms of variation and natural selection, or to teach the prevailing scientific theories of geology or the age of the Earth.

Colvin R. de Silva

His tasks included drafting the new republican constitution of Sri Lanka, which is seen by Kumari Jayawardena as the first constitutional enshrinement of Sinhala chauvanism which had previously been limited to statute law.

Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko

"The Implementation of the ICC Statute within the Southern African Community (SADC)", in Claus Kress & Flavia Lattanzi (eds.), The Rome Statute and Domestic Legal Orders, Volume I: General Aspects and Constitutional Issues (il Sirente, Fagnano Alto/Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2000. ISBN 88-8784-00-2).

Demurrer

Then the judge can sustain (rule in favor of) a demurrer on the basis that the complaint's date-related allegations indicate it was filed too late ("the statute of limitations has run"), unless the plaintiff can show a typographical error (a so-called "scrivener's error") occurred in the drafting of the complaint.

Dozen

The oldest known source for the expression "baker's dozen" dates to the 13th century in one of the earliest English statutes, instituted during the reign of Henry III (1216–72), called the Assize of Bread and Ale.

ESEA

Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a 1965 United States federal statute considered the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by Congress

Exhaustion of remedies

Many cases are handled first by independent agencies of the United States government which have primary responsibility for cases involving the statutes or regulations which the agency administers.

Flash of genius

The flash of genius test was eventually rejected by Congress in its 1952 revision of the patent statute, now codified in Title 35 of the United States Code.

Formalities in English law

The main kinds of formality that a statute can require are to put the transaction in writing, to make a deed, or to register it at a government registrar (such as HM Land Registry or Companies House).

Giorgio Treves de'Bonfili

On January 29, 1910, along with 50 members founded the Associazione Calcio Padova after the approval of the statute shall appoint the first chairman of the Biancoscudati just 25 years old.

Greater Poland

(This division of Crown Poland into two entities called Greater and Lesser Poland had its roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346–1362, where the laws of "Greater Poland" – the northern part of the country – were codified in the Piotrków statute, with those of "Lesser Poland" in the separate Wiślica statute.)

Grounds for Sculpture

In July 2013 it was announced that The Sculpture Foundation, owners of Johnson's Forever Marilyn, would be moving the statute from Palm Springs, California (where it had stood since June 2012) to the Grounds for Sculpture for a 2014 exhibit honoring him.

History of the United States National Security Council 1993–present

The President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense were members of the NSC as prescribed by statute.

John Naish

Naish is credited with having suggested that magistrates in their ongoing struggle with the Irish National Land League, should rely on an obscure medieval statute, 34 Edward III c.1, to imprison those who could not find sureties for their good behaviour.

Karcher v. May

Karcher and Orechio appealed, although by the time of filing their terms as Speaker and President had expired; their successors, Chuck Hardwick and John F. Russo, joined the executive officers in refusing to defend the constitutionality of the statute.

Karen L. Henderson

In 2008, Henderson, ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all "persons" did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo.

Marine Nature Reserve

MNRs are by statute (under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981) and are designed to conserve marine life and geological or physiographical features of special interest.

Minnesota Attorney General

In addition, the Office issues formal opinions interpreting statutes for the agencies and political subdivisions of the state.

Molwyn Joseph

Within Parliament, Joseph campaigned for the Business Licensing Bill, a statute which aimed to impose licensing fees, ranging from 40 to 20,000 East Caribbean dollars, on those seeking to start businesses in certain fields.

National Volunteers

Following the outbreak of World War I in August, and the successful placement of the Home Rule Act on the statute books (albeit with its implementation formally postponed), Redmond made a speech in Woodenbridge, County Wicklow on 20 September, in which he called for members of the Volunteers to enlist in an intended Irish Army Corps of Kitchener's New British Army.

Organic Statute of the Kingdom of Poland

The Statute, signed by Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, replaced the personal union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire with the "eternal incorporation" of Poland into Russia.

Prenuptial agreement

In states that have adopted the UPAA (Uniform Premarital Agreement Act), no sunset provision is provided by statute, but one could be privately contracted for.

Pub games

Henry VII's statute of 1495 restricted "the indoor games which were distracting Tudor pubmen from archery".

Purposive approach

As the Court's leading purposivist Justice Stephen Breyer considers determining and interpreting the purpose of a statute paramount.

Runaway Officials of 1851

Congress passed a statute depriving any territorial officials of pay if they were absent from their assignments without due cause, and Daniel Webster advised Judge Perry E. Brocchus to either resign his position or return to the territory.

Seal of Colorado

By statute, the seal of the state is two and one-half inches in diameter with the following devices inscribed thereon: At the top is the Eye of Providence or 'All Seeing Eye' within a triangle, from which golden rays radiate on two sides.

Sedition Act

Sedition Act 1661, an English statute that largely relates to treason

Specialist Firearms Officer

The usage of firearms by the police is covered by statute (such as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and Human Rights Act 1998), policy (such as the Home Office Code of Practice on Police use of Firearms and Less Lethal Weapons and the ACPO Manual of Guidance on Police Use of Firearms) and common law.

Stacked Up

The political background in Britain, and the impending passing of the Criminal Justice Act into statute paved the way for a series of politically influenced artists such as The Levellers, The Prodigy, Dreadzone, and Pop Will Eat Itself, and Senser fit into that group with a blend of aggressive hip-hop, thrash metal and psychedelic ambience.

States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Former Senator Kraisak Choonhavan called in November 2006 for Thailand to ratify the Rome Statute and to accept retrospective jurisdiction, so that former premier Thaksin Shinawatra could be investigated for crimes against humanity connected to 2,500 alleged extrajudicial killings carried out in 2003 against suspected drug dealers.

Statute law revision

Halsbury's Laws said that the first Act for statute law revision (in the sense of repealing enactments which are obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded, or which no longer serve a useful purpose) was the 19 & 20 Vict c 64 (1856).

Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia

In response, four of the six political parties in the Catalan parliament—Convergence and Union, the Catalan Socialists, Republican Left of Catalonia, and Catalan green party—and that represented 88% of the popular vote reached an agreement to fight together at the Spanish Senate to reform the Constitutional Court of Spain, and hopefully nullify the possibility of an overturn of the Catalan Statute of Autonomy.

Tallahassee Police Department

On April 30, 2010, Judge Richard Smoak ruled in favor of Brayshaw, striking down the 1972 Florida law, finding that the statute was "unconstitutional on its face".

Timothy Tymkovich

On appeal, he contended that the felon-in-possession statute was unconstitutional in light of District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 (2008).

Uniform law

Uniform Act, a model statute designed to be adopted by many jurisdictions

United States congressional conference committee

The late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist once observed that the joint conference report of both Houses of Congress is considered highly reliable legislative history when interpreting a statute.

Universal Licensing System

In the United States, The FCC or Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created by congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154), and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President.

University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was established on September 1, 1999, in accordance with the new Statute of Sejm signed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, as well as the Minister of National Education, Mirosław Handke, in August of the same year.

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

The statute disestablished the Church of England in Virginia and guaranteed freedom of religion to people of all religious faiths, including Catholics and Jews as well as members of all Protestant denominations.

Wheaton v. Peters

The judge, Joseph Hopkinson, ruled that copyright is purely the creation of statute and one must comply with the requirements of registering a copyright, putting a notice in the work covered, etc., in order to receive protection.

Wild river

Canada's river conservation program was not established by statute, but is instead a cooperative arrangement between Canada's ten provinces and three territories establishing a fifteen member (appointed) Canadian Heritage Rivers board, to which participating members nominate rivers to be designated as heritage rivers, for which river management plans building on existing statutory powers are prepared, agreed, and endorsed.

Woodford v. Ngo

In that dissent, joined by Justices Ginsburg and Souter, Stevens writes that "The plain text of the PLRA simply requires that such administrative remedies as are available be exhausted before the prisoner can take the serious step of filing a federal lawsuit against the officials who hold him in custody." He interprets this to mean any exhaustion, not just "proper exhaustion," and says that the Court has read its own interpretation into the statute.

Wudinna, South Australia

This granite was employed in the construction of The Australian Farmer, an 8 metre (26 ft) high statute that was carved in the town as a community project to commemorate the early settlers.


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