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  • Common Security and Defence Policy

    Hierarchical Display of Common security and defence policy European Union > European construction > European Union > Common foreign and security policyInternational Relations > Defence > Defence policy > European defence policyLaw > International law > Public international law > Mutual […]

  • Central American Common Market

    Summary of Central American Common Market A free trade area among the nations of Central America, established in 1960 by a treaty between El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The common market began operations in 1961, and Costa Rica joined the group in 1962. Honduras dropped […]

  • Central American Common Market

    Summary of Central American Common Market A free trade area among the nations of Central America, established in 1960 by a treaty between El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The common market began operations in 1961, and Costa Rica joined the group in 1962. Honduras dropped […]

  • Common Topics

    Common Topics Arbitration Arms Control Bill of Exchange Cemeteries Church Church Properties Common Law Competition law Contracts Conventions Courts Criminal Procedure Customs Law Cybercrime Definitions Dictionaries Disarmament Elections Europe European Union Export Controls Export Law Exports Featured Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy France GATT History Human Development Human rights Immunities Import Law Information Retrieval…

  • Glossary of technical Terms : Phrases and Maxims of the Common Law

    Glossary of technical Terms : Phrases and Maxims of the Common Law Author: Frederic Jesup Stimpson Published: Boston; Little, Brown & Company, 1881. Date of Publication: Boston, February 21, 1881. Jurisdiction: England Introduction The legal terms compiled in this glossary include those relating to civil and canon law, and provide precise definitions based on the…

  • A Common Law of International Adjudication

    A Common law of International Adjudication Chester Brown (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, liii + 303 pp) The rise of international courts and tribunals in the past few decades has led to a wealth of scholarly studies, the establishment of academic institutions, seminars and publication series. Debates continue over the possibilities, threats and implications thrown…

  • The Genius of the Common Law

    The Genius of the Common law [1912], Sir Frederick Pollock The Genius of the Common law (New York: Columbia University Press, 1912). Chapters of the book in this Encyclopedia: Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2 Common law. The Giants and the Gods Common law. The Giants…

  • Common law. The Giants and the Gods 2

    Common law. The Giants and the Gods 2 See Common law. The Giants and the Gods From Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] Such were the strange guardians among whom our lady the Common law was born and cradled. For they were true guardians in their day. Caprice, even well meant…

  • Common law. The Giants and the Gods

    Common law . The Giants and the Gods See Common law. The Giants and the Gods 2 From Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] At this day there is no need to explain that formality is an essential feature of archaic law. It has long ceased to be plausible, if it…

  • Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2

    Common law . Our Lady and Her Knights 2 Continue from Common law . Our Lady and Her Knights 2 From the book of Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] We must begin, however, at the beginning. It is easy to say that the law of our modern courts, for most…

  • Common Law: Our lady and her Knights

    Common law : Our lady and her Knights From: Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] See Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2 More than seven years have passed since I was invited to speak here in the name of our Common law . The renewal of such an invitation…

  • Case Law

    Case Law in Legal Issue Identification Step 1: General Question There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia. Step 2: Look to the Holding There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the […]

  • Case Law

    Case Law in Legal Issue Identification Step 1: General Question There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia. Step 2: Look to the Holding There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the […]

  • World Organisation

    Hierarchical Display of World organisation International Organisations > World organisationsInternational Relations > International affairs > International organisation World organisation Concept of World organisation See the dictionary definition of World organisation. Characteristics of […]

  • Judicial Review

    Introduction The U.S. case Marbury v. Madison (1803) held that the power of a court to decide what is the meaning of the American Constitution was implicit in an independent judiciary. This power of judicial review in the U.S. was a unique feature of the U.S. constitutionalism well into the […]