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  • Police Power

    Real Estate meaning of Police PowerIn the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Police Power: The power of promoting the interests of society as a whole by limiting the freedom of an individual to act or use his property at will. In particular, the constitutional power available […]

  • Police Powers

    Police Powers Expropriation Jurisprudence under NAFTA: The test for the application of the police powers Note: there is more information about the Expropriation Jurisprudence under NAFTA tests here. See also the entry about international regulatory expropriation. By Dr. Howard Mann and Dr. Julie A. Soloway (March 31, 2002) The establishment of the test for expropriation…

  • Separation of Powers

    Separation of Powers in other Countries (other than in the U.S.) Introduction to Separation of Powers All democracies separate governmental powers to some degree, in practice if not in their constitutions. Italy, for example, has a separate constitutional court to review cases that raise […]

  • Separation of Powers

    Separation of Powers in other Countries (other than in the U.S.) Introduction to Separation of Powers All democracies separate governmental powers to some degree, in practice if not in their constitutions. Italy, for example, has a separate constitutional court to review cases that raise […]

  • Government Surveillance Powers

    Government Surveillance Powers Government Surveillance Powers: the Threat of Terrorism Of 15 European Union member states, eleven have mandatory national identification card systems. These are long-standing normative differences that would likely bring public outcry if implemented in North America. Other monitoring programs and database (e.g. NSEERS in the EU or US-VISIT in the US) have…

  • Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

    A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Full Title A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis. Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by Which Public and Private Property and Security Are, at Present, Injured and Endangered, and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention. Details of the Book Author: Patrick Colquhoun Publisher:…

  • Secret Police

    Introduction to Secret PoliceSecret Police, special police force organized by autocratic or totalitarian regimes in defense against their enemies.Secret police were known in ancient Greece and Rome, in the Muslim caliphates, and in premodern monarchies, and they continue to function…

  • International Police Cooperation

    International Police Cooperation “International cooperation among police takes on the form of limited collaboration surrounding specific cases, such as the international rendition of fugitives from justice, but has also been organized on a permanent basis in formally structured international police organizations.”(1) “Law enforcement institutions around the world “will prefer to engage in unilaterally enacted transnational…

  • Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others

    Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others (Ex Parte Pinochet) England, House of Lords. Lord Browne-Wilkinson: My Lords, As is well known, this case concerns an attempt by the Government of Spain to extradite Senator Pinochet from this country to stand trial in Spain for crimes committed (primarily in…

  • Bumper Development Corp., Ltd. v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Others

    Hello Hello Bumper Development Corp., Ltd. v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Others (Union of India and Others, Claimants) England, Court of Appeal, Civil Division, 1991. In 1976, an Indian laborer named Ramamoorthi, who lived near the site of a ruined Hindu temple at Pathur in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was…

  • Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land

    Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land   CHAPTER I The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers Article 1. The territory of neutral Powers is inviolable. Art. 2. Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across…

  • Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land

    Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land   CHAPTER I The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers Article 1. The territory of neutral Powers is inviolable. Art. 2. Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across…

  • Easement

    Introduction to EasementEasement, in law, a privilege of advantage without profit that the owner of a parcel of land may have in the lands of another. Among the various forms of easement are the right of access, the right to maintain a line of telephone poles, rights of light and air, and d…

  • Easement

    Introduction to EasementEasement, in law, a privilege of advantage without profit that the owner of a parcel of land may have in the lands of another. Among the various forms of easement are the right of access, the right to maintain a line of telephone poles, rights of light and air, and d…

  • 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…