Search results for: “price fixed in advance”
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Sales Contract
The Contract of Sale Explained References See Also Property (in international or comparative law)
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Council on Mutual Economic Assistance
Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (CEMA, CMEA or COMECON) in relation with International Trade In the context of trade organizations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (CEMA, CMEA or COMECON): Formed in 1949, CEMA was a […]
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Tax Relief And Health Care Act of 2006
Tax Relief And Health Care Act of 2006 Summary (Source: BNA) The House, in December 8 approved, by a 367-45 vote, a $45 billion package (H.R. 6111) which includes an extension of certain expiring tax provisions, energy tax provisions, health savings account modifications, and other tax breaks. The Act also expands the jurisdiction of the…
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Legal History
Legal History “This abstraction called the Law,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once observed, is “a magic mirror, [wherein] we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!”1 Holmes believed that this “magic mirror” offered historians an opportunity to explore the social choices and moral imperatives of…
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…
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Rent
Real Estate meaning of RentIn the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Rent: Derived from the Latin reditus, or the Old French rente, 'to render', 'to yield'. A periodic payment or return that a tenant makes to an owner of land, as recompense for a right to use […]
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Grant of Permission
As provided in the Countervailing Duty Law (19 U.S.C. 1303), an economic inducement by a foreign government or association to a manufacturer in its country to encourage exports. These inducements include, but are not limited to loans and loan guarantees, at rates lower than those commercially availa…
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Business Model
A pattern of business activity in which, over time, the economy reaches a high, declines, enters a low point, and expands upward, reaching a high and repeating the cycle. Within the cycle, four phases can be identified: prosperity, recession, depression, and recovery.While economists gen…
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Code Law Systems
Code Law Systems The term “code-law systems” is usually employed, as a legal term of art, with two different, if related, meanings. First, “code” refers to the reduction of the laws customarily observed by a particular people to a more or less permanent, organized, and written form through a comprehensive piece of legislation or codification.…
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History of Citation Indexing
History of Citation Indexing Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports. The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI®…
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Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988
Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…
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Constitutional Text: Austria 1945, Amendments 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993
Constitutional Text: Amendments of 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993 to the Austria Constitution of 1945 1986 AMENDMENT TO AUSTRIA’S CONSTITUTION OF 1945 APRIL 24, 1986 212. Federal constitutional law of April 4, 1986, amending the federal constitutional law of 1929 (amendment to the federal constitutional law 1986) The National Assembly has decided: Article I. The federal…
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Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law
Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law A communi observantia non est recedendum. There should be no departure from common observance or usage. Co. Litt. 186. A l’impossible nul n’est tenu. No one is bound to do what is impossible. 1 Bouvier’s Institutes of American Law. n. 601. A verbis legis non est…
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Brazil – Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres
Brazil – Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres World Trade Organization – GATT Article XX(b) – Interpretation of necessity – arbitrary or unjustifable discrimination – disguised restriction Facts Brazil had imposed a prohibition on imports of retreaded tyres and on internal marketing of imported retreaded tyres. Brazil conceded that the measure was in violation…