(Law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right.
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Examples for "instrument"
Examples for "instrument"
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They used the law as an instrument of change to better society.
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For each instrument, a new set of questions needs to be asked.
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Unfortunately, neither instrument found any evidence of a planet-wide subsurface water system.
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That leaves interest rates as the main instrument for helping the economy.
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Objectives: To develop a mechanical syringe procedure for identification of instrument problems.
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They are not a legal document inscribed on a paper, it said.
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Possessing a legal document that acknowledges what actually went on might help.
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Fox and Greene are barristers with considerable experience in legal document review.
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The following extract is from a legal document of the year 832.
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Nathaniel Adams Sawyer sat in his library reading a ponderous legal document.
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During the dinner came an immense letter with a seal-anofficial document.
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And Johnny handed to Sir Raffle an official document of large dimensions.
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This is no official document, but a most significant letter of instructions.
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Once she signed the official document, the wedding was legally valid.
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The procession halted, while the older policeman gazed fascinated at the official document.
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The exact course of the battle at Chowmodo is not described in any authentic document.
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From this authentic document we take the following extract:
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This valuable and authentic document the Minister sent by an extra courier to the Emperor, who showed it to his stepdaughter.
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I have seen the latter, which is kept in the Sinai convent at Cairo, but I do not believe it to be an authentic document.
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This original agreement was brought to España with the other authentic documents.
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It can become a legal instrument by Topcliffe's act; and it would pass muster-
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Underneath this fictitious legal instrument was discreetly appended:
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A ward is under age till the time specified in the legal instrument that appoints the guardian.
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The legal instrument may exonerate Rose and others, but it does not serve to better clarify consent.
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Sir, -The Constitution is the highest legal instrument in the land to which the law must defer.
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Thus, the hope and optimism experienced by the ordinary man was formalised in the country's primary legal instrument.
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Maurice unhesitatingly expressed his willingness to comply with this request, and the legal instrument was drawn up without delay.
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He added that the new legal instrument would allow hundreds of thousands of people to "enforce their rights".
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Our view is that the strongest part of a legal instrument is what we each commit to in our countries.
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Taken together as a package, the joint EU-UK legal instrument and the UK's unilateral declaration shift the legal position for the UK.
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The end of the interview was a visit to the public-house, and the transferring of another legal instrument from Algernon to Anthony.
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One would cover parties already under the Kyoto Protocol, while the other would be a legal instrument covering the remaining parties, Runge-Metzger said.
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During the remaining years of the Roosevelt Administrations, this legal instrument was used with aggressive force for the purpose for which it was intended.
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It is a declaratory model action, a new form of German legal instrument similar to US class actions or group litigation orders in the UK.
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The only state of things which can justify the guiding of a hand executing a legal instrument is the feebleness or illness of its owner.
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The stamps were upon blue paper, and were to be attached to every piece of paper or parchment, on which a legal instrument was written.
