comity

How To Use comity In A Sentence

• That at the heart of it is an international comity, reinforced perhaps by international law, that we respect each other's right to govern the internal economy of their ships.
• The principle of comity is that when one court exercising proper jurisdiction renders an opinion concerning a specific case, then that opinion is binding on other courts to which this same case (same parties, same facts, same issues) is re-presented to a different court under some pretext, except where the second court is exercising appellate review over the first decision. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
• Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argument The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
• This is the cruel reality of what passes for an " international community " and the comity of nations…
• Moneyrunner: Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argumentArthur then makes the case for partisan posturing rather than principle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
• In the name of comity, the White House went along with the headstrong senator. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
• France was made to disgorge the enormous gains she had made under Napoleon, but there was no attempt to reduce her to a second-rate power and she was speedily welcomed back into the comity of nations.
• Always my a pair comity is constant.
• The issue is fundamentally one of the fitness of things - of the comity of my learned friends appearing on both sides of the table, as it were, in respect of what is fundamentally the same factual matrix.
• Then Ansari, a member of the parliament took the floor and talked about the "fact finding" committee and the fact that everyone in that comity is an Ahmadinejad supporter and therefore questioned the legitimacy of the committee. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18)