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(As the quotation above indicates, the 1102 Canons were in Latin, thus not valid citation fodder for the OED .)
Analyzed in light of these canons of interpretation, the Corporation's appropriations act requires that an alien must be "present in the United States" in order to be eligible for legal assistance.
David also founded the Abbey of Holyrood and created several royal burghs (towns with special trading privileges), including Edinburgh and Canongate; the latter was under the jurisdiction of the monks, or “canons,” of Holyrood.
This difference, of course, is required by the same ethical canons that the Court elsewhere does not wish to distort.
Dodson, 454 U. S. 312, 321-322 (1981) (holding that a public defender does not act "under color of state law" because he "works under canons of professional responsibility that mandate his exercise of independent judgment on behalf of the client" and because there is an "assumption that counsel will be free of state control").