This obsolete provision was designed to protect the slave trade from congressional restriction for a period of time.

A purely recodified text would have included a considerable number of repetitions, inconsistencies and obsolete provisions.

This virtually obsolete provision was in response to anger over the British military practice of quartering soldiers in colonists' homes.

And one of its obsolete provisions is that treason charges must be tried by the parliament at a regular session, which isn't due for two hundred days.

The simplification of the current regulation's structure, the deletion of obsolete provisions and extending the obligation to file reports to cover new substances are reforms that were sorely needed.

A number of obsolete provisions are to be abolished, and a readable, consolidated text of the Treaty is to be issued as soon as possible after the IGC.

The Council is not aware, even from these references, that the activities of the Turkish Communist Party are being hindered nor that there is any threat to ban it on the basis of an obsolete provision of the former law on political parties.