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  • Torts

    Rights, Contracts, Torts, Crimes From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Rights, Contracts, Torts, Crimes (1): Vested property rights, contracts, torts, and crimes, are usually subject to the laws of the State and the control and judgment of a church tribunal is seldom final. […]

  • Comparative Law

    Comparative law may be defined as the study of the similarities and differences between the laws or legal rules of two or more countries, or between two or more legal systems (i.e. the study of legal systems and laws in different countries). It is not a body of rules and principle. It is a […]

  • Jonathan Wild

    Jonathan Wild Director of a Corporation of Thieves, and a most famous Receiver. Executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725 Jonathan Wild was born at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire, about the year 1682. At about fifteen years of age Jonathan, having made some progress at school in writing and arithmetic, was bound apprentice to a buckle-…

  • Civil Law System

    Overview Civil law may be defined as that legal tradition which has its origin in Roman law, as codified in the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian,[1] and as subsequently developed in Continental Europe and around the world. Civil law eventually divided into two streams: the codified Roman […]

  • Substantive Law

    Substantive Law Legal definition of Substantive Law Substantive law defines the rights and remedies of particular laws within a case. The part of the law that creates, defines, and regulates rights, including, for example, the law of contracts, torts, wills, and real property. In the definition of Substantive Law by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is…

  • Substantive Law

    Substantive Law Legal definition of Substantive Law Substantive law defines the rights and remedies of particular laws within a case. The part of the law that creates, defines, and regulates rights, including, for example, the law of contracts, torts, wills, and real property. In the definition of Substantive Law by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is…

  • Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: a Compendium of the Views of the Major Schools

    Encyclopedia of Islamic Law : a Compendium of the Views of the Major Schools Bibliographic Details Title: Encyclopedia of Islamic Law : a Compendium of the Views of the Major Schools Author: adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar; introduction by Kevin Reinhart. Publisher: ABC International Group; Chicago, Illinois: Distributed by Kazi Publications Copyright: 1996. Pages: 624 ISBN:…

  • List of Authors to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    List of Authors to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Main Entries: List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Listing of entries to the Encyclopedia by Author: Benjamin Aaron Professor of Law, Emeritus University of California, Los Angeles LABOR AND THE ANTITRUST LAWS Henry J.…

  • List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    List of Articles and Contributors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Main Entry: the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. List of Authors by Entry (A-Z): ADEQUATE STATE GROUNDS Kenneth L. Karst ADKINS V. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Leonard W. Levy ADLER V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF NEW YORK Martin Shapiro ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES Joseph Vining…

  • Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States

    Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States Book Details ISBN:9780028661247 Author:Tanenhaus, David Spinoza Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library, distributed by Sage. LC Call Number: Reference Collection: KF8742.A35 E525 2008 Publication Date: 2008-10-24 Subject: Government – Judicial Branch, Encyclopedias, United states, Supreme court, Courts – Supreme Court Language: English Reviews This legal Encyclopedia contains about…

  • KIA-KIK North America LC Classification

    KIA-KIK North America — Continued KIE-KIK United States US Diagram Cf. KF8201+ Indians (Law of the United States) Cf. E78-99.Z9 Indians of North America KIE (5000 no) Regional comparative American Indian law Bibliography General bibliography 2.A-Z Guides to law collections. Tribal law gateways (Portals). Web directories, A-Z Including national and regional tribal directories 2.A46 American…

  • Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Western Edition

    Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: Western Edition Contents of the First Edition: Volume 1 Copyright Canada 1919 by Burroughs and Company Limited Abduction by W. J. Tremeear (1917) Abortion Offences by W. J. Tremeear (1917) Accession by S.E. Bolton (1918) Action by W. J. Tremeear (1917) Admiralty by W. J. Tremeear (1917) Agency by W. J. Tremeear…

  • Outline of Trust and Estates

    Outline of Trust and Estates Note: this is based in United States law I. POLICY AND INTRODUCTION A. Dead Hand Control 1. Controlling consideration in determining meaning of a donative document is donor’s intention 2. Courts cannot consider wisdom, fairness, or reasonableness of donation 3. Courts can only bar donations if they are prohibited or…

  • Legal subjects

    Legal subjects List of legal subjects proposed by the Encyclopedia: Academic list: Administrative law Administrative law Admiralty & Maritime Advanced Legal concepts Advanced Legal Research (Year) Advocacy Agency law Agriculture Law Alternative Dispute Resolution Analysis of the Law (Federal) Analysis of the Law (State) Animal law Animal law and Policy in U.S. Law Antitrust &…

  • 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…