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  2. Reservation (law) - Wikipedia

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    A reservation in international law is a caveat to a state's acceptance of a treaty. A reservation is defined by the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) as: . a unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions ...

  3. Disallowance and reservation - Wikipedia

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    Unlike in Canada (see below), disallowance of state laws, and reservation by state Governors, were matters directly for the Imperial government – the Australian federal government was never given the power to block state laws. Use of disallowance and reservation in the states declined and eventually ceased, and both powers were formally ...

  4. Disallowance and reservation in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Macdonald's government changed its view on reservation, and in November 1882 created a new standard for reservation to prevent situations of reservation by lieutenant governors on the advice of provincial cabinet. [64] However, these standards do not appear to have been forwarded to lieutenant governors until 1887. [94]

  5. Reservation - Wikipedia

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    Reservation (law), a caveat to a treaty; Reservation in India, a government policy imposing caste quotas for affirmative action; Disallowance and reservation, a constitutional power in several Commonwealth nations

  6. OpenTable - Wikipedia

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    OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company founded by Sid Gorham, Eric Moe and Chuck Templeton [3] on July 2, 1998, and based in San Francisco, California. In 1998, operations began with a limited selection of restaurants in San Francisco.

  7. McGirt v. Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark [1] [2] United States Supreme Court case which held that the domain reserved for the Muscogee Nation by Congress in the 19th century has never been disestablished and constitutes Indian country for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, meaning that the State of Oklahoma has no right to prosecute American Indians for crimes allegedly ...

  8. Indian country jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Indian Country, as defined by Congress in 1948 (18 U.S.C.A. 1151) is: a) "all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of way running through the reservation, b) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of ...

  9. Table reservation - Wikipedia

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    A table reservation is an arrangement made in advance to have a table available at a restaurant. While most restaurants in the vast majority of the world do not ...