Law of May 20

(noun)

A law passed in 1802 that revoked the Law of February 4, 1794, which had abolished slavery in all the French colonies. It explicitly concerned the territories, where the 1794 law had not been applied and was linked to the 1802 Treaty of Amiens, which restored Martinique to France. The 1802 law thus did not apply to Guadeloupe and Guyane and had little effect in Saint-Domingue except to re-inflame rebellion and accelerate its march towards independence in 1804.

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  • The Law of Cosines

    • The law of cosines can be used to solve for angles and sides of a triangle in cases where other laws do not apply.
    • In some cases, we may not have enough information to apply the Law of Sines to find unknown angles and sides in a triangle.
    • Three formulas make up the Law of Cosines.
    • At first glance, the formulas may appear complicated because they include many variables.
    • This is not enough information to solve the problem using the Law of Sines, but we have the information needed to apply the Law of Cosines.

  • It's not just good business, it's the law

    • As you read this, local, state and federal governments around the world are passing more laws making it mandatory to return products and their packaging to their point of origin after use.
    • Indeed, the day may soon come when products – and their packaging – will be tagged with a toll-free telephone number or a bar code so that they can be identified and picked up at the end of their useful life for reuse, remanufacturing or recycling purposes.
    • The bottom line: Reusing packaging materials is among the easiest of sustainability targets.
    • Stay ahead of the curve.

  • Civil Law and Criminal Law

    • Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.
    • Civil law is the branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals or organizations, in which compensation may be awarded to the victim.
    • The objectives of civil law are different from other types of law.
    • An action in criminal law does not necessarily preclude an action in civil law in common law countries, and may provide a mechanism for compensation to the victims of crime.
    • These may result in fines and sometimes the loss of one's driver's license, but no jail time.

  • Objective, constraints and alternatives

    • The objective is a function of the values and preferences of the individual agent.
    • The CEO may want to maximize profits while the Vice president of engineering may want to minimize the cost per unit and the person in charge of marketing may want to maximize the growth in sales or market share.
    • The achievement of any objective is subject to a set of constraints.
    • Constraints may be technology, quantity of factors of production, quality of factors, profits, utility, sales, market share, income, growth, social institutions, values, law or a myriad of other possibilities.
    • Alternatively, a firm might try to maximize the rate of return on capital subject to the constraint that they maintain a 20% market share.

  • Boyle's Law: Volume and Pressure

    • Boyle's Law describes the inverse relationship between the pressure and volume of a fixed amount of gas at a constant temperature.
    • Boyle's Law (sometimes referred to as the Boyle-Mariotte Law) states that the absolute pressure and volume of a given mass of confined gas are inversely proportional, provided the temperature remains unchanged within a closed system.
    • The law was named after chemist and physicist Robert Boyle, who published the original law in 1662.
    • In an industrial process, a gas confined to a volume of 1 L at a pressure of 20 atm is allowed to flow into a 12-L container by opening the valve that connects the two containers.
    • An animation of Boyle's Law, showing the relationship between volume and pressure when mass and temperature are held constant.

  • Direct Techniques

    • During the direct lobbying process, the lobbyist introduces statistics that will inform the legislator of any recent information that might otherwise be missed, and may make political threats or promises, and/or grant favors.
    • During the 2008 elections, oil companies spent a total of $132.2 million into lobbying for law reform.
    • The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 was signed into law by President Bill Clinton .
    • Organizations must elect to use the Public Charity Law, and so increase the allowable spending on lobbying to increase to 20% for the first $500,000 of their annual expenditures.
    • Another aspect to the law is the spending restrictions between direct lobbying and grassroots lobbying—no more than 20% can be spent on grassroots lobbying at any given time, while 100% of the lobbying expenditures can be on direct lobbying.

  • Continuous Probability Functions

    • Intermediate algebra may have been your first formal introduction to functions.
    • In the study of probability, the functions we study are special.
    • The graph of f (x) = 1 20 is a horizontal line.
    • The graph of f (x) = 1 20 is a horizontal line segment when 0≤ x ≤20.
    • The area between f (x) = 1 20 where 0 ≤ x ≤ 20 and the x-axis is the area of a rectangle with base = 20 and height = 1 20.

  • The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

    • On March 20, 2009, during the financial crisis of 2007–2010, the NCUA took over the two largest corporate credit unions with combined assets of $57 billion, because of the losses on their investments in mortgage-backed securities.
    • The federal law sought to make credit available and promote thrift through a national system of nonprofit, cooperative credit unions.
    • On March 20, 2009, during the financial crisis of 2007–2010, the NCUA took over the two largest corporate credit unions with combined assets of $57 billion because of the losses on their investments in mortgage-backed securities.
    • On July 22, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law and included permanently establishing the NCUA's standard maximum share insurance amount at $250,000.
    • Credit unions may also offer an array of additional financial services which are not covered by federal insurance.

  • Primary Sources of American Law

    • The primary sources of American Law are: constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations, and the common law.
    • At both the federal and state levels, the law of the United States was originally largely derived from the common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary War.
    • However, U.S. law has diverged greatly from its English ancestor both in terms of substance and procedure, and has incorporated a number of civil law innovations.
    • Thus, most U.S. law consists primarily of state law, which can and does vary greatly from one state to the next.
    • Where Congress enacts a statute that conflicts with the Constitution , the Supreme Court may find that law unconstitutional and declare it invalid.

  • The Ideal Gas Equation

    • A 20 L box contains a fixed amount of gas at a temperature of 300 K and 101 kPa of pressure.
    • Calculate the number of moles of gas contained within a bouncy house with a volume of 20.63 cubic meters, a temperature of 300 Kelvin, and a pressure of 101 kPa.
    • $\displaystyle{\frac{PV}{RT}=n \cdot n=\frac{101\text{ kPa} \cdot (20.63\text{ cubic meters})}{(8.3143\text{ J/mol}) \cdot K(300K)} \cdot n=835.34\text{ mols}}$
    • This means that if the gas' temperature remains constant, pressure or volume can increase as long as the complementary variable decreases; this also means that if the gas' temperature changes, it may be due in part to a change in the variable of pressure or volume.
    • Discusses the ideal gas law PV = nRT, and how you use the different values for R: 0.0821, 8.31, and 62.4.