One plan is to extend the practice usual under English-style (as opposed to New York) law of allowing a majority of bondholders to agree to a rescheduling, rather than insisting on unanimity.
In a stroke of a pen, a law allowing foreign ownership of Chinese banks made the oldest foreign-owned bank unholdable by its foreign owners.
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After decades of literally throwing money at the problem of global poverty, the emphasis has switched to securing property rights, buttressing the rule of law and allowing the world's workers to profit from their labor and retain its rewards.
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He notes in particular the lack of a law allowing a systematic witness-protection programme.
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Two days later, after cursory debate, the lower house of parliament passed a new law allowing Japan's ailing life insurers to cut the rates of return they guaranteed to policyholders, and thus to break unprofitable contracts.
The federal law allowing arbitration instead of litigation is riddled with exceptions Congress even exempted car dealers and active-duty military personnel from parts of it and most retail transactions would be untouched.
Julius Caesar, in one of the edicts changing Roman law after his takeover, gives the first example of allowing bankers to confiscate land in lieu of loan payments.
The Kremlin shows no sign of real reform, such as simplifying the tax code, establishing the rule of law in commercial transactions and allowing a genuinely open market for buying and selling land.
In 1996 Congress--without the State Department's blessing--passed a law allowing lawsuits against state sponsors of terrorism.
Advocates credit stricter requirements for teenage drivers in place since 2009, including a law allowing drivers under the age of 21 to carry only one passenger.
They also complained that the new law would strengthen supporters of the king by allowing members of the security forces to vote for the first time, and allocating three more seats for women from Bedouin districts.
On Wednesday, Serbia's justice minister told war crimes prosecutors in The Hague that a new law would be passed allowing the extradition of Yugoslav citizens -- a move that could allow Milosevic to be tried in The Hague.
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.
Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal reported a change in the politics surrounding this issue. (See "Tax Break Nears End for Online Shoppers, " July 16.) Hungry for a share of the lost dollars, some governors have dropped opposition to a federal law allowing collections, and now bills with broad bipartisan support are pending in both houses of Congress.
Her government did recently pass a law allowing business to lease modest plots of public land.
Russia's law gives an extremely vague definition of extremism, allowing officials much leeway in choosing their targets.
The Iraqi Parliament passed a law allowing former low-level members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to hold government jobs.
The US state of South Dakota has enacted a law allowing school districts to arm teachers and other school staff.
The five-year-old law allowing in duty free many categories of imports from Ecuador is set to expire in February, and might well not be renewed.
Mr Rajoy passed a law allowing the centre to intervene in the finances of poorly performing regions.
In Seattle, the revelry over the Washington law followed voter approval of a ballot measure in November, allowing adults 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of pot.
On Jan. 1, 2005 a largely forgotten provision of a 1998 tax law will finally kick in, allowing certain affluent retirees a chance to convert their traditional IRA accounts into Roth IRAs.
Among them -- the authority to conduct roving wiretaps, the use of wiretap information from other governments and allowing law enforcement to seize suspected terrorists' voice mail and e-mail with a search warrant.
He warned of the risks of allowing non-lawyers to own legal practices, and said private capital could jeopardise the independence of law firms.
He has backed a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights.
Not allowing them to over rule the rule of law in fact.
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Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, although six other states have allowed civil unions that are marriages in all but name, and a law allowing full marriage rights passed through the lower house of New York's state legislature on June 19th.
Opponents said ministers had vowed to continue allowing legal aid for appeals on a point of law against a decision by a tribunal, but had not done so.
But critics could argue, for example, that allowing the president to interpret international law is itself a violation of international law.
The new law is supposed to ease South Africa's chronic shortage of skills by allowing educated foreigners to work in the country.
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