good offices Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... offices A technique of peaceful settlement of an international dispute, in which a third party, acting with the consent of the disputing states, serves as a friendly intermediary in an effort to persuade them to negotiate between themselves without necessarily offering the disputing states substantive suggestions towards achieving a settlement. A good example occurred during the 1979–80 Iranian hostage crisis, when Iran and the USA resolved the crisis by means of the good offices of the Algerian government. Iran released the US and Canadian hostages to...
good offices Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
... offices A technique of peaceful settlement of an international dispute, in which a third party, acting with the consent of the disputing states, serves as a friendly intermediary in an effort to persuade them to negotiate between themselves without necessarily offering the disputing states substantive suggestions towards achieving a settlement. A good example occurred during the 1979–80 Iranian hostage crisis, when Iran and the USA resolved the crisis by means of the good offices of the Algerian government. Iran released the US and Canadian hostages to...
good offices Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
...to have recourse so far as circumstances allow ‘to the good offices or mediation’ of one or more friendly States and (art. 3) that, independently of this recourse, the parties to the Convention deem it expedient that States strangers to a dispute should on their own initiative offer good offices or mediation, and that such States have the right to do so. It is also stipulated (art. 6) that good offices and mediation have exclusively the character of advice and never have binding force. While good offices are not mentioned in art. 33(1) of the U.N. Charter as a...
good offices
Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...information as well as asking for it. From the start, write everything down in a notebook (and perhaps transfer this information to a computer file), recording your source of information and the date that you received it. You will quickly learn that this is good practice when you start to visit record offices. It can be frustrating months or years later not to know where you found information that needs checking or which you only half‐noted at the time because you did not then realize its significance. When visiting other members of your family, or old friends...
27 The History of the Book in the Iberian Peninsula Reference library
María Luisa López-Vidriero
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Paul Hurus, Mathaeus Flander, Peter Brun, Nicolaus Spindeler, and Johannes de Salsburga, as printers. Before coming to Spain, European *journeymen printers (principally Germans) passed through Italy and France; as a result, they stocked the *type cases of their new Spanish offices with *founts collected on their travels, their work reflecting their native customs and preferences. Parix’s Spanish output illustrates other printing tendencies. His second series of printed books—e.g. Escobar’s Modus Confitendi ( 1471–2 ), and Pontanus’ Singularia Iuris ...
The Twentieth Century Quick reference
Brian M. Short
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...service performed for the employing local authority with the twin aims of cost‐saving efficiency and the selection of good archives. Again, the Freedom of Information Act has changed the situation somewhat, since the authorities creating the records are now obliged to release information upon request, subject to the Data Protection Act or to exemptions laid down in the Act, even before it has reached The National Archives or other record offices . Twentieth‐century records can thus be thought of as falling into three categories: current, pre‐archival, and...
Japanese Family Names Reference library
Frederick Brady
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...are quite rare in Japan have flourished and become more numerous in America. Finally, people who do not know the kanji for their surname may have trouble guessing what they might have been. A researcher can get off to a good start if he or she knows their immigrant ancestor’s full name and the village they came from. Most Japanese city offices still preserve the old family registers and can provide photocopies for a fee. It should be emphasized that many kanji have been simplified since 1945, and a kanji dictionary such as Andrew Nelson’s Japanese-English...
Family History Quick reference
Anthony Camp
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...by other record offices. As most county record offices do not charge for access to the records in their custody, and as parish registers are often available there up to quite recent dates, family historians tend when possible to use them (despite their increasingly incomplete coverage) in preference to the records of civil registration, information from the latter being available only on payment of fees for certified copies. These lengthy, and where marriages are concerned frequently abortive, searches (marriages in Register Offices being permitted from...
African‐Caribbean Genealogy Quick reference
Guy Grannum
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...families in Britain: the British took their social, legal, and ecclesiastical systems with them to the Caribbean. Britain does not hold the locally created records of her dependencies and former colonies. Most surviving records are to be found in the archives and registration offices in the relevant country. The types of record created by these colonies will be familiar to those who have undertaken genealogical research in Britain. Differences will be experienced in those colonies which had previously been held by another European power, for example Guyana...
South Asian Genealogy Quick reference
Abi Husainy
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Block, Area Block N, Pakistan Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan. The record office of the province of Sindh, based at Karachi, holds private collections, maps, and material relating to the pre‐partition period. The record offices of the province of Punjab, North West Frontier, Baluchistan, and various district record offices may hold local government records from which family history information may be found. Registering births, marriages, and deaths is not mandatory in Bangladesh. No such registers exist in some rural areas. In towns they may be held...
The Early Church Reference library
Henning Graf Reventlow
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...the concluding prayer in chapters 59–61 . Chapters 21–38 contain additional admonitions. Also in this passage many quotations from the Old Testament are interspersed. Chapters 40–44 explain (in contrast to Heb.) that the Old Testament orders and offices can be regarded as analogous to the orders and offices in the church. Thus, for instance, the distinction between bishops, presbyters (priests), and laymen is already prefigured in the Old Testament and the cult-orders in Jerusalem are a model for the Christian liturgy. Clement's first epistle mirrors a...
12 The Economics of Print Reference library
Alexis Weedon
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...of the printing industry and of publishing houses in the 19 th century. In 1637 , however, the book trade was still small. There were approximately 26 active *printing offices in London, and a printer might have two or three hand presses with a couple of *journeymen and an apprentice. Essentially, they were small-scale family businesses. By 1730 the size of typical printing offices had increased, while the biggest firms became very large indeed: *Tonson and Watts, for example, employed over 50 men. In the 1750s , Samuel *Richardson had three such...
47 The History of the Book in Canada Reference library
Patricia Lockhart Fleming
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...and English in 1840 . On the shelves of bookshops in town or general merchants in the country, modest local imprints were outnumbered by books imported from the US, Britain, and France. Newspaper publishers filled columns with lists of new books for sale at their printing offices. Leading figures such as Neilson and Mackenzie travelled abroad to deal directly with wholesalers, while from the 1830s *Fabre , a Montreal bookseller who had learned his trade in Paris, published catalogues of imported stock. Although lists of books on offer provide some...
The Political Competence of Women in Islamic Law Reference library
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...interests of the individual and her/his ability to perform the action, for no-one may be commissioned to perform an action which they are unable to perform and God requires of each person only what that person is capable of. When we study the question of woman's right to the offices of State, therefore, we ask: Which woman? What are her abilities? What is her degree of competence? We do not speak of “woman” in general and thus exclude her from the legal discourse describing a Muslim's duties. Women's Political Competence Although many Muslim writers love to...
Scottish Local and Family History Quick reference
David moody
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...from Ireland, which has generated another large literature, and related literature on sectarianism and football. All of which helps to explain why there is no equivalent of the Victoria Histories of English counties and, until the 1980s, weak provision of local record offices . Without a continuity of contentment to celebrate, Scots instead have looked to mythologies of bonding—the family, the clan . Conveniently, too, they have had the focus of lost nationality to compensate for fugitive local attachment; which raises the question ‘Is Scottish...
23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries Reference library
Paul Hoftijzer
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...in major cities such as Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, Louvain, and Antwerp, while in the north they worked in smaller towns such as Utrecht, Deventer, Zwolle, Gouda, Delft, Leiden, and Haarlem. They had as a rule learned their craft in Germany or northern Italy. Their *printing offices were small and often still combined the entire process of book production and distribution, from casting type to selling books. Although catering for a regional and supraregional market, they very much depended on local conditions for their survival. The economic depression and...
Domestic Buildings Quick reference
Malcolm Airs
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...rooms of the houses themselves, are now scattered in a wide variety of repositories. Some remain with the families who originally compiled them, others are held by the family solicitors. But, increasingly, the majority of them have been deposited in county and university record offices and the great national collections in the British Library and the Bodleian Library . A. Elton , B. Harrison , and K. Wark , Researching the Country House: A Guide for Local Historians ( 1992 ), contains a select list of country houses open to the public in England,...
Indian Family Names Reference library
Rocky Miranda and Urvashi Prasannanshu Jain
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...few names of this type are included in this work, for instance agarwal ‘from Agar or Agroha’, ahluwalia ‘from Ahlu’, bhatnagar ‘from Bhatnagar’, irani ‘from Iran’, lad ‘from southern Gujarat’, and mathur ‘from Mathura’. Many names can be traced back to occupations or offices held by the ancestors of the name bearers—for example bajaj ‘clothier’, banik ‘merchant’, bhandari ‘treasurer, keeper of a storehouse’, chokshi ‘assayer’, chowdhury ‘chief’, dalal ‘broker’, desai ‘district chief’, deshmukh ‘district chief’, deshpande ‘district...
