Search results for: “legal uncertainty”
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Legal Uncertainty
Legal Uncertainty By “legal uncertainty” Anthony D’Amato (in his article “Legal Uncertainty”, 71 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1983)) “means the situation that obtains when the rule that is relevant to a given act or transaction is said by informed attorneys to have an expected official outcome at or near the 0.5 level of predictability. A…
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Legal Uncertainty
Legal Uncertainty By “legal uncertainty” Anthony D’Amato (in his article “Legal Uncertainty”, 71 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1983)) “means the situation that obtains when the rule that is relevant to a given act or transaction is said by informed attorneys to have an expected official outcome at or near the 0.5 level of predictability. A…
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Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms
The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Details of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Author: Amy Hackney Blackwell Date of publishing: 2008 Publisher: Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410, United States Contents of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Abandon Abatable Nuisance Abate Abatement of a Legacy Abatement of Taxes Abdicate…
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Legal Abbreviations, Historical 3
Legal Abbreviations, Historical 3 Evidence Verbally (or in writing not under seal) evidence may be heard to show the meaning of an abbreviation or the particular word for which it stands in a written instrument ; but not to show the intention with which it was used. In an action upon a stock contract, the…
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Legal Abbreviations, Historical
Legal Abbreviations, Historical information Introduction A shortened form of words obtained by the omission of one or more syllables from the middle or end of the words, according to the Bouvier’s Law Dictionary. As almost every word in the language may be abbreviated, the number may be made very large. The broadest rule which has…
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Legal Education future
“THE FUTURE OF LEGAL Education “, by John Mayer(1) “All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilised life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made regularity in the economy…in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals…
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American Legal Institute General Bibliography
The American Law Institute is one of the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute was founded in 1923 following a study conducted by a group of prominent American judges, lawyers, and teachers. They reported that the two chief defects in American…
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Citation of legal blogs in law reviews
The importance (and credibility) of law blogs was confirmed when the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States cited its first blog in January, 2005. See United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, 775 n.4 (2005). An article in Slaw (“citing blogs in Law Journals ) points the idea that the “question still arises…
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Sales Contract
The Contract of Sale Explained References See Also Property (in international or comparative law)
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Sales Contract
The Contract of Sale Explained References See Also Property (in international or comparative law)
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Rules
Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]
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Rules
Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]
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Rule
Rule By “rule” Anthony D’Amato (in his article “Legal Uncertainty”, 71 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1983)) means “not only a particular rule of law, such as a subsection of the Internal Revenue Code or the Rule in Shelley’s Case, but also any principle, policy, theory, or other legal argument that can be cited by a…