Note that we do not need to assume the same about cash, as cash is a legal tender and no seller can refuse cash unless it is prohibited by law.
But the State Supreme Court Justice, Laura E. Drager, disagreed, saying that New York honors marriages performed out of state unless they are specifically prohibited by law, which gay marriage is not, or "abhorrent to public policy," as in cases of incest or polygamy.
In Germany, restrictions are even tougher: Any research on or with human embryos is prohibited by law unless the embryo is the immediate beneficiary.
But Smith said the legal presumption is that unless something has been specifically prohibited by law, it is permitted.
The inquiry, by the Physicians for Human Rights, based in Boston, documents what it said was a pattern of the Israeli Army's using live bullets to wound and disperse unarmed rioters, a practice prohibited by army guidelines unless Israeli lives are at risk.
Under the Fugitive Offenders (United States of America) Order, both Hong Kong and the US have agreed to extradite someone who has committed "an offence which is punishable under the laws of both Parties by imprisonment or other form of detention for more than one year... unless surrender for such offence is prohibited by the laws of the requested Party".
Denis was arrested after a fatality, and the procedure of transfusing the blood of other animals into humans was prohibited, by an act of the Chamber of Deputies in 1668, unless sanctioned by the Faculty of Medicine of Paris.
Compulsory redundancies are prohibited by government order.
In another instance, he said, a congregation could not be prohibited by local zoning or historic preservation laws from building or expanding a church or synagogue, unless it created an unsafe traffic condition.
Such payments are prohibited by New York law.
