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War Memorial. The (English) War Memorials (Local Authorities Powers) Act, 1923, enables local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain and repair memorials vested in them (English)...
Memorial Day
A day originally May 30 appointed for commemorating by decorating their graves with flowers by patriotic exercises etc the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War 1861 65 in the United States Also called Decoration Day It is a legal holiday in most of the States In the Southern States the Confederate Memorial Day is May 30 in Virginia April 26 in Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina the second Friday in May in Tennessee June 3 in Louisiana...
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial to present a memorial to as to memorialize the legislature...
war crime
war crime : an act committed usually during an international war for which individual criminal liability will be imposed by a domestic or international tribunal ;specif : a violation of the laws or customs of war as embodied or recognized by international treaty, court decisions, or established practice usually used in pl. NOTE: Following World War II, the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg first codified war crimes including crimes against humanity. Also encompassed in the legal concept of war crimes is the crime of planning or waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties. ...
Declaration of war
Declaration of war. The formal announcement by one nation of an intention to treat another nation as an enemy and to commence hostilities, agreed to be necessary by the Hague Convention, 1907. In modern times the future belligerents, generally, are in a state of war before any declaration of war is made. Before this Convention was signed, in the war between Russia and Japan, the Japanese ambassador, on the 6th February, 1904, notified to Russia the rupture of negotiations and the cessation of diplomatic relations, hostile operations were commenced by Japan on the 8th February, and formal declarations of war were not made until the 10th of February by Japan, and 11th February by Russia. The British Declaration of War on Germany was made on the 4th August, 1914, after an ultimatum.The force of a declaration of war is equal to that of an Act of Parliament prohibiting intercourse with the enemy except by the king's license. As an act of State done by virtue of the prerogative it carries wi...
main memory
The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid access storage in a computer also called RAM random access memory It is contrasted to ROM disk data storage cache registers and other forms of data storage...
Memorials or petitions
Memorials or petitions, according to the strict construction of the words of article 320(3)(c), an application for review would be covered by the words 'memorials or petitions', State of Uttar Pradesh v. Manbhodan Lal Srivastava, AIR 1957 SC 912 (916): 1958 SCR 533. [Constitution of India, Art. 320(3)(c)]...
Memory, Time of legal
Memory, Time of legal. By Statute Westminster the First, 3 Edw. 1, A.D. 1276, the time of memory was limited to the beginning of the reign of Richard I., July 6, 1189: 2 Inst. 238, 239. But see the (English) Prescription Act, 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71...
Sane memory
Sane memory, perfect and sound mind and memory to do any lawful act, etc....
Waging war
Waging war, means and can only mean 'waging war in the manner usual in war'. In order to support a conviction on such charge, it is not enough to show that the persons charged have continued to obtain possession of an armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammuni-tion so obtained against the King's troops, Mir Hasan Khan v. State, AIR 1951 Pat 60.The expression 'waging war' means and can only mean waging war in the manner usual in war. In other words, in order to support a conviction on such a charge it is not enough to show that the persons charged have contrived to obtain posses-sion of armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammunition so obtained against the government troops. It must also be shown that the seizure of the armoury was part and parcel of a planned operation and that their intention in resisting the troops of the Government was to overwhelm and defeat these troops and then to go on and crush any further ...
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