From Skinned Cats to Angels in Fur: Feline Traces and the Start of the Cat-Human Relationship in Victorian England by Hilda Kean

“…Although the introduction of initial animal welfare legislation improved the relative condition of some forms of cattle and horses, cats continued in the early decades to be skinned and tortured. …”
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Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2015 by Jesse H. Rhodes

“…Lingering liberal Democratic influence in Congress, coupled with conservatives’ fears of violating the norm of racial equality, obstructed Republican diminution of federal voting rights enforcement via legislation. Consequently, Republicans turned to lower-profile administrative and especially judicial venues, which offered conservative elected officials chances to circumscribe voting rights enforcement while simultaneously maintaining a public facade of support for the norm of racial equality. …”
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Historical-Romanistic Study of the Institution of the Ombudsman by Carmen Jimenez Salcedo

“…In this sense, and as Romanists, it is our duty to highlight the true origin of the institution in the defensor civitatis and, through its study, to provide keys to help build a more effective legislative framework that takes into account elements and parameters of utility that Roman Law has provided to the international legal experience throughout history and will continue to provide in the future. …”
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NATIONAL SECURITY: A RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH CONCEPTS, STRUCTURES, AND PLANS by Ochoga Edwin Ochoga, Binta Sidi

“…Legally, the Nigerian constitution puts security in the Exclusive List which gives the Federal Government the exclusive jurisdiction to legislate on national security matters. The sub-national governments do not have the legal-rational authority to decide on security matters, as the federal government controls the national security architecture. …”
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Corruption: how should Christians respond? by P. M. Theron, G. A. Lotter

“…It is evident that legislation is not an effective deterrent and it should therefore also be tackled at grass roots level by involving ordinary citizens, including Christians. …”
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Implementation Guide for Container-Grown Plant Interim Measure by Thomas H. Yeager

“…This waiver is facilitated by the 1994 legislation (Chapter 576.045, F.S.) that provided for interim measures. …”
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La justice pénale dans les Alpes-Maritimes et les avorteurs (1939-1944) by Riadh Ben Khalifa

“…The development of natalist propaganda, establishing a close link between abortion and the fall in the birthrate, led to stricter legislation concerning the repression of abortion practices in July 1939. …”
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De la morphinée à la junkie : les visages de la droguée by Jean-Jacques Yvorel

“…This immediately mediatized event, is going to activate a real moral panic which convinces the politicians of the necessity to legislate. So it's a girl who embodies, in France, the problem of the drug. …”
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Classification of fixed assets for accounting purposes in the public sphere by T. L. Leukhina

“…New classification features are proposed, the types of fixed assets are specified from the standpoint of the current accounting and budgetary legislation.The types of fixed assets that characterize the availability and condition, including those as of the inventory date, having a cost characteristic, signs of impairment, depending on the depreciation group and depreciation method, are determined. …”
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Regulating the international activities of Russian higher education institutions by V. V. Bondarenko, N. A. Nazarova, K. S. Taisheva, D. P. Penzina

“…The study of regulatory legal acts in Russia’s higher education led to the conclusion about the legislation elaboration level, to outline the prospects for development and the possibility of expanding the domestic universities international activities.…”
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Développer la culture du paysage chez les acteurs locaux : la démarche du Parc naturel régional de la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée à l’épreuve de la pression urbaine by Pierre Dérioz, Philippe Béringuier, Maud Loireau

“…Trying to overcome what appears to be a sort of consensus about the importance of the landscape dimension due to the European Landscape Convention and to the evolution of the French legislative framework, the paper tries to highlight the processes of emergence and diffusion of a collective “culture of landscape” applied to urban planning. …”
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Investir sous les cocotiers. Entrepreneuralisme immobilier et production de l’espace, le cas des Français de Las Terrenas by Laurine Chapon

“…Our goal is to understand their influence on the central urban space and how they participate in the modification of the area, by using legislation to their own benefit. This French presence participates to a strong urbanisation dynamic and land and property speculation processes, in the context of a construction and real estate boom. …”
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Digital economy: terminological discourse by U. Yu. Blinova, N. K. Rozhkova, D. Yu. Rozhkova

“…A significant terminological discrepancy in these concepts in legislative documents, research and practice was noted. …”
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Problems of the Activity of Lawyers in Protection in Criminal Cases in Respect of Victims of Domestic Violence by Z. M. Beryoza

“…The author compares legislative approaches and features of law enforcement practice that arise when using this strategy on domestic and foreign experience (using the example of the United States), dwelling separately on cases where self-defense took place outside an open conflict (in non-confrontational circumstances). …”
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L’espace marin entre un pluralisme juridique et la sauvegarde du patrimoine à Henua ‘Enana / Fenua ‘Enata (îles Marquises) by Giacomo Nerici

“…In the attempt to promote an environmentally sustainable development on a community scale, such “heritage-making initiatives concerning the sea” are part of a “legal pluralism” that articulates the international legislation with the “systems of tradition”.…”
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On the Question of the Imperative or Dispositivity of the Norm of Paragraph 1 of Article 782 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Which Establishes the Right of the Custome... by S. V. Markin

“…A possible option for improving domestic legislation regulating the termination of a contract for the provision of paid services is also proposed.…”
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The relationship between the number of statutes coming into force and the number of regulations coming into force: Findings from empirical studies by Patryk Ciurak

“… The aim of this paper is to empirically test the opinion, common in legislative practice, that there is a relationship between the number of statutes and the number of regulations, and to measure the strength and nature of this relationship, if it exists. …”
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The criminal policy of the state in the formation of the criminal pro-ceedings measures of protection of rights and interests of citizens by I. N. Kondrat

“…On the basis of the juridical content of the lawful politics the author is coming to the conclusion that one can judge about the content of the criminal proceedings policy of the state using the legislatively formulated principles of criminal proceedings. …”
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Resistências de povos e comunidades tradicionais ante o Estado e a colonialidade by Josiane Carine Wedig, João Daniel Dorneles Ramos

“…These collectives resist the overcoding processes of their territories by the State and by capital holders; and fight for access to rights and recognition of their modes of existence. In recent years, legislation and conventions, national and international, have been drawn up that deal with issues related to these peoples, however, they are not guaranteed that their lands will be demarcated. …”
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Denial of abortion rights as a form of ill-treatment or torture by Pau Pérez-Sales, Sara Lopez-Martin

“…Subsequently, an analysis is presented of the extant data on legislation by country, statistics on unsafe abortion and evidences on the relationship between abortion and mental health. …”
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