Law
In law, references are documents or people providing witness to character. This connotation is also used in employment.
In patent law, a reference is a document that can be used to show the state of knowledge at a given time and that therefore may make a claimed invention obvious or anticipated. Examples of references are patents of any country, magazine articles, Ph.D. theses that are indexed and thus accessible to those interested in finding information about the subject matter, and to some extent Internet material that is similarly accessible.
In Canadian law, a reference question is a procedure through which the government can submit legal questions to the Supreme Court of Canada and provincial governments to the provincial courts of appeal.
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Famous quotes containing the word law:
“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)