Legal Status
An Individual's status is a legal position held in regards to the rest of the community and not by an act of law or by the consensual acts of the parties, and it is in rem, i.e. these conditions must be recognised by the world. It is the qualities of universality and permanence that distinguish status from consensual relationships such as employment and agency. Hence, a person's status and its attributes are set by the law of the domicile if born in a common law state, or by the law of nationality if born in a civil law state and this status and its attendant capacities should be recognised wherever the person may later travel.
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... the Secretary of State for the Home Office "what plans he has to review the legal status of the hallucinogen Salvia divinorum", Bob Ainsworth, a ... October 2008, urging her to take action with regard to salvia's legal status ... be developing that I am sure you agree - regardless of its legal status - needs nipping in the bud." Home Office minister, Phil Woolas, confirmed to parliament that the market in "legal highs" was now ...
... into under the laws of any country, which changes the status of a person from "independent", "single" or "unmarried" to "a married person", will be recognized as such by all other ... That status goes with the people no matter where in the world the spouses may find themselves (except where local public policy is invoked) ... circumstances, marriage exists until either one of the parties dies or until it is ended by legal process through nullity or divorce ...
... After World War II, determination of legal status was relevant, for instance, to resolve the issue of whether the West German Federal Republic would be the successor state of the German Reich—wit ... respect to the former eastern territories, was dependent upon this determination of legal status ... also significant from a constitutional legal perspective while in the case of the downfall of the German Reich, the Federal Republic would need to have reconstituted ...
... See also Scientology and the legal system While there have been calls for Scientology to be banned, the Church of Scientology remains legal in Germany and is allowed to operate there ... Its precise legal status however is unresolved ... Status as a "religious or worldview community" also affects a broad range of other issues in Germany, such as taxation and freedom of association ...
... The Church's application for charity status in England and Wales was rejected in 1999, on the grounds that there is no "public benefit arising out of the practice of Scientology" ... Although the Church of Scientology itself does not have charitable status, several of its related organisations do, including Greenfields School and Narconon ...
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—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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—Terri Apter (20th century)
“Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)