21.   The law recognizes similar privileges concerning doctors, clergy and spouses.

22.   The trial court dismissed the suit, saying that California law recognized a privilege for publishing truthful information.

23.   Working on precedents set hundreds of years ago, the law recognizes animals as property.

24.   A leader of abortion opponents dismissed the notion that the administration move would have much impact, saying federal law already recognizes rights of unborn fetuses.

25.   But Swiss law does not recognize such an offense, making it possible the Swiss authorities will turn down the request, the sources said.

26.   But the Vermont law does not recognize marriages between same-sex couples.

27.   Canadian law does not recognize an unborn fetus as a person with legal rights, and abortion is legal nationwide.

28.   Hungarian law recognizes only individual responsibility, not collective guilt.

29.   State law currently recognizes only marriage between a man and a woman.

30.   Taiwan law recognizes men as heads of families, and a foreign woman gains the right to reside in Taiwan after she is married to a Taiwanese man.