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  2. Biological rules - Wikipedia

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    The pygmy mammoth is an example of insular dwarfism, a case of Foster's rule, its unusually small body size an adaptation to the limited resources of its island home.. A biological rule or biological law is a generalized law, principle, or rule of thumb formulated to describe patterns observed in living organisms.

  3. Article Four of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    White (1869), held that a state cannot unilaterally do so. [11] When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State.

  4. What Is the Third Estate? - Wikipedia

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    The first page of Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat?. Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État? (transl. What Is the Third Estate?) is an influential political pamphlet published in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French writer and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836). [1]

  5. Right to rest and leisure - Wikipedia

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    The obligation to protect requires States to take measures that prevent third parties from interfering with the right to leisure. Finally, the obligation to fulfil requires States to adopt appropriate legislative, administrative, budgetary, judicial, promotional and other measures towards the realisation and enjoyment of the right to leisure.

  6. Bioethics - Wikipedia

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    Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.

  7. Obligation - Wikipedia

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    A "secondary obligation" is a duty which arises in law as a consequence of another, primary, obligation. [11] A person may themselves incur an obligation to perform a secondary obligation, for example, as a result of them breaching their primary obligation, or by another party breaching an obligation which the secondary obligor has guaranteed.

  8. State obligation - Wikipedia

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  9. Third-party beneficiary - Wikipedia

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    A contract made in favor of a third party is known as a "third-party beneficiary contract." Under traditional common law , the ius quaesitum tertio principle was not recognized, instead relying on the doctrine of privity of contract , which restricts rights, obligations, and liabilities arising from a contract to the contracting parties (said ...