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Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) 1 Ves Sen 444 was a judicial decision of Lord Hardwicke LC in relation to the long-running Penn–Calvert boundary dispute. [1]The case is important both as a legal precedent under English law (in relation to the extent to which the English courts may act in relation to matters involving title to foreign land), [2] [3] [4] but also as an event in its own right ...
It is nominally a circle with a variable radius of approximately 12 miles (19 km) centered in the town of New Castle, Delaware. [3] In 1750, the center of the circle was fixed at the cupola of the courthouse in New Castle. The Twelve-Mile Circle continues into the Delaware River.
Critical speed is a function of curve radius r, superelevation or banking e, and friction coefficient μ; [124] the constant g again is the acceleration of gravity. However, most motorists will not tolerate a lateral acceleration exceeding 0.3g ( μ = 0.3) above which many will panic. [ 148 ]
Zero Milestone face. Washington DC. Zero Milestone, facing the stone's northwest corner (2010) The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D.C., intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be measured when it was built.
[15] Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murder of a woman's three children by her estranged husband.
Judges at the United Nations-linked World Court, or International Court of Justice, found that Nicaragua's offshore rights to 200 nautical miles (370 km) had previously been established, and ...
Search incident to a lawful arrest, commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule (from Chimel v.California), is a U.S. legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person, and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control, in the interest of officer safety, the prevention of escape, and the preservation of evidence.
A column of flames nearly 100 meters high raised into the sky. It was visible 15 kilometers away. A section of pipe measuring 11 meters and weighing multiple tons was sent flying 200 meters away. Due to the effects of the heat, electrical systems melted in nearby buildings hundreds of meters away. Heat was felt in a two-kilometer radius.