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1First-sale doctrine — This article is about the first sale doctrine as applied to copyright. For the analogous first sale doctrine applicable to patents, see Exhaustion doctrine. The first sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by the Supreme… …
2First-sale doctrine (patent) — Under the first sale doctrine, the first unrestricted sale of a patented item exhausts the patentee s control over that particular item. It generally is asserted as an affirmative defense to charges of patent infringement, but less commonly is… …
3No first use — (NFU) refers to a pledge or a policy by a nuclear power not to use nuclear weapons as a means of warfare unless first attacked by an adversary using nuclear weapons. The concept can also be applied to chemical or biological warfare. As of October …
4Doctrine of necessity — The term Doctrine of Necessity is a term used to describe the basis on which extra legal actions by state actors, which are designed to restore order, are found to be constitutional. The maxim on which the doctrine is based originated in the… …
5First strike — In nuclear strategy, a first strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is a country s ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country… …
6Doctrine — For the PHP object relational mapping framework, see Doctrine (PHP). Doctrine (Latin: doctrina) is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge …
7First Amendment to the United States Constitution — First Amendment redirects here. For other uses, see First Amendment (disambiguation). United States of America This a …
8Doctrine of the Atonement — Doctrine of the Atonement † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Doctrine of the Atonement The word atonement, which is almost the only theological term of English origin, has a curious history. The verb atone , from the adverbial phrase at one (M …
9First Council of Nicaea — Date 325 AD Accepted by Anglicans Assyrian Church of the East Calvinists Eastern Orthodox Lutherans Old Catholics Oriental Orthodox Roman Catholics Previous council None Next coun …
10Use of Numbers in the Church — Use of Numbers in the Church † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Use of Numbers in the Church No attentive reader of the Old Testament can fail to notice that a certain sacredness seems to attach to particular numbers, for example, seven, forty …
