But, is this contract law principle enough to cancel the terms of a divorce settlement?
Prison guard (later Inspector) Javert is the voice of the rule-of-law principle run amuck.
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But many critics and peers believe the change would compromise the common law principle of open justice.
He said the law needed changing, as it currently revolved around a common law principle and should be put into statute, and also needed clarifying.
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To enable these trusts, most of the states allowing them had to get rid of an old common-law principle called the "rule against perpetuities, " which allowed trusts to exist only for about 90 years.
However, the States of Guernsey's Policy Council said it would look at introducing a law in principle, but added that it was a low priority.
But on Friday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sent a letter to Mr Orban warning that the changes in Hungary - called the Fourth Amendment - could be incompatible with EU law and the principle of the rule of law.
In books including "Taking Rights Seriously" and "Law's Empire, " Mr. Dworkin set out a vision of law epitomized by the principle of "law as integrity, " meaning in part that it shouldn't produce results that aren't in accordance with ordinary morality.
"It guarantees the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law, " Ms Fernandez said.
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On Monday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the agreement to set up a judicial commission "historic", saying it guaranteed "the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law".
"This law enshrines the principle that American exceptionalism is not just about large profits and small elites but a workplace that is safe, fair and respectful of the lives of workers, " Ms. Brewer said.
"While legal issues involving copyright law are always complex, we believe the project is wholly consistent with the core principle of copyright law, " says James Hilton, the head librarian at the University of Michigan.
He did not state the principle of law on which he based this conclusion.
The law has developed one principle for determining whether a transaction is a loan for tax purposes.
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But, under the present law, the new principle of management responsibility will have to be adapted to fit the rulebooks of each of the seven existing regulators.
That is to embed in law the common sense principle that any new proposals or new tax cuts need to be offset so that they don't cause a deterioration in the budget deficit.
One reason perhaps is that although the Russians seem to be keen on such a regime, the US has not elicited enough concessions in principle on law enforcement to make this worthwhile from their perspective (notwithstanding the probable lack of practical effect of such an agreement also).
In law, he established the principle of judicial review, giving the courts authority over the political branch.
The real problem, though, is the underlying principle of the law.
Mr Heaton told BBC News it was a basic principle of EU law that there should be no discrimination between migrant workers and those who work in their home country.
The court "dismissed all claims against the parent companies... since pursuant to Nigerian law a parent company in principle is not obliged to prevent its subsidiaries from harming third parties abroad, " Judge Henk Wien told the court.
"If there is one principle of planning law more firmly settled than any other, it is that matters of planning judgment are within the exclusive province of the local planning authority or the Secretary of State, " the judge added.
This basic principle is already the law in 28 states across the country.
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The Law of One Price: This principle is the beginning of currency valuation and it goes back over half a millennium.
We need to believe that people have a sense of duty born of moral and ethical principle rather than the law.
The Act effectively jettisons that long-cherished principle of civilized criminal law and American jurisprudence: that one is presumed innocent until (and unless) proven guilty.
The ATTP then goes on in Paragraphs 1-5 through 1-11 to explain the requirements of the law of armed conflict, the principle of military necessity, the principle of distinction, the principle of proportionality, and the principle of humanity.
They are rooted in the principle of equality before the law, whereby the least of us can be protected from the most powerful.
However, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the amendments raised "concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards".
And we're in the process of implementing and expanding charitable choice, the principle already established in federal law that faith- based organizations should not suffer discrimination when they compete for contracts to provide social services.
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