11.   Marriage was redefined as a voluntary contract that conferred rights upon the wife as well as the husband.

12.   Membership confers the right to work freely within the Union.

13.   No such concern would be implicated if the Second Amendment conferred a right to bear arms wholly unrelated to militia service.

14.   Since a patent confers exclusive rights to the thing patented, this meant that Weissman and his colleagues were the proud owners of a living human cell.

15.   The prospectuses are for the issuance of preference shares in the exchange that will confer the right to trade on it.

16.   They argue that the Second Amendment did not confer any right of an individual to carry a weapon.

17.   Membership is socially prestigious, conferring the right to attend many formal occasions when the queen is in Scotland.

18.   Muslim majority societies in countries such as Malaysia had conferred rights upon their minorities and protected their interests in accordance with Islamic principles, Ismail said.

19.   After the midnight deadline, no applications for BNOs -- which confer no right of abode but are useful for travel -- will be accepted.

20.   The only exception in in Luxembourg, where EU nationals must have resided in the Duchy for a minimum of five years before voting rights are conferred.