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RIPA. The bank of a river, or the place beyond which the waters do not in their natural course overflow.
2. An extraordinary overflow does not change the banks of the river. Poth. Pand. lib. 50, h.t. See Banks of rivers; Riparian proprietors; Rivers.

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In order to be transparent, Birmingham City Council has placed its Ripa code of practice on the council website.

Council snooped on own staff with anti-terror powers

Cardiff used RIPA 64 times, less than twice for every 10,000 people.

ANTI-TERROR IN COMBATING LAWS USED FLY-TIPPERS; 'Councils should be transparent about use of surveillance powers for relatively trivial matters'

But Kirklees Council leader Mehboob Khan said local authorities were using RIPA "sparingly and responsibly" to combat crimes of public concern.

Khan defends 'spy' tactics by councils

In North Wales, Wrexham used RIPA 47 times, including 28 in 2008-09, with 13 operations targeted at drugs offences relating to tenancy enforcement.

Terror law used to catch dog foulers and noisy tenants; Concerns voiced over employment of RIPA surveillance powers on low-level offences

But in the first six months of this year, the council enacted RIPA just 13 times.

Councils cut back on snooping

Rome's Colosseum and, inset, a chic room at the Ripa Hotel

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There have been cases were RIPA has been abused for trivial offences.

Council's trail of pooper scoopers; SURVEILLANCE: Techniques devised for fighting serious crimeused to 'spy' on fly-tippers, litterbugs and bunking off staff

Patients with these bleeding disorders have similar phenotypic parameters and clinical features, ie functional VWF discordance, increased response to low concentration Ristocetin in RIPA testing and in most cases although not ours thrombocytopenia and loss of HMWM.

Accurate diagnosis of high-affinity vWF-platelet disorders: a case study of pseudo von Willebrand disease

You came to New York in 1983, and I started 'All My Children' in 1990, and it was the biggest thrill of my career, when I really felt like I made it, when I did 'Live With Regis and Kathy Lee,' " Ripa told Philbin.

'LIVE' (ON TAPE) FROM L.A. ... IT'S REGIS AND KELLY!

In restricting the power of the authorities, the new RIPA III Code of Practice states that no person can seek permission to serve a disclosure notice without the NTAC's approval and describes the body as the 'guardian and gatekeeper'.

RIPA Part III goes before British parliament

Simonutti's illustration of philosophy includes many different images, the relation to each other remaining unclear: allegorical personifications of philosophy, of which she provide a survey from Pietro Lorenzetti (mid-fourteenth century) to Cesare Ripa (1603) via Raphael (1508), all in two pages; portraits of philosophers, particularly ancient ones, whose facial features were invented according to the themes of their philosophy; and frontispieces of philosophical works from Erasmus to Vico.

Fabrizio Meroi and Claudio Pagliano, eds. Immagini per conoscere: Dal Rinascimento alla Rivoluzione scientifica

According to Davis, UK businesses are still ignorant of the potential impact of RIPA, almost two years after it received Royal Assent.