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  • Amici Curiae in NAFTA Cases

    Public attention to cases brought under NAFTA Chapter Eleven has grown commensurately with the increased numbers of those cases. While media coverage has increased, most of that attention stems from particular interest groups. Many of these groups are not satisfied with newspaper reports or government-supplied information available on the internet, but wish to participate more…

  • Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses

    Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On October 18, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's denial of a motion to […]

  • Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses

    Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On October 18, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's denial of a motion to […]

  • Cemeteries

    In relation to religious matters, find out about Cemeteries and the following issues in this world legal Encyclopedia: Statutes, Land United States, Jurisdiction Tombstones, Soldiers Indigent Soldiers, Tombstones State Authority Maryland, Two Acres Consent, Application

  • Moody Classification system

    Moody Classification System History: Foreign and comparative law librarianship Margaret M. Moody and her sister, Murtle, both started work as assistant librarians at Harvard Law School Library. The two sisters later created the famous Moody Classification system – a way of cataloging foreign law literature with country codes featuring the Moody’s own numbering system. Margaret…

  • Moody Classification system

    Moody Classification System History: Foreign and comparative law librarianship Margaret M. Moody and her sister, Murtle, both started work as assistant librarians at Harvard Law School Library. The two sisters later created the famous Moody Classification system – a way of cataloging foreign law literature with country codes featuring the Moody’s own numbering system. Margaret…

  • Common Law Definition

    Common Law Definition The term “common law” is used in a number of different senses. In medieval English law it denoted that law which was administered by the king’s courts and which was, in principle at least, common to the whole realm. The common law, in this sense, was to be distinguished from the law…

  • World Court Digest

    World Court Digest Introduction This Digest, produced by the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, is a systematic arrangement of the views on questions of international law as expressed in the judgments, advisory opinions, and orders of the International Court of Justice, including separate opinions of individual judges. Volumes 1 and 2…

  • Church Property

    In relation to religious matters, find out about Church Property and the following issues in this world legal Encyclopedia: Unincorporated, Trustee Charter, By-Laws Suits, Corporation, Members Deed, Court, Title Subscription, Lots Misnomer, Identity Adverse Possession, Color of Title

  • 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…

  • Disturbances

    Injunction, Closing Church, Paying Money, Disturbances From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Injunction, Closing Church, Paying Money, Disturbances (1): A court of equity will issue an injunction against the trustees of a church from wrongfully closing it or keeping it […]

  • Maxims of Law

    Maxims of Law or Legal Maxims According to the Bouvier’s Dictionary, a Maxim is an established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant with reason. Maxims in law are somewhat like axioms in geometry. See 1 Commentaries on the Laws of England (by Sir Wllliam Blackstone). 68. They…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Licence By Estoppel

    Note: this term is used mainly in the United Kingdom, but may be used in other jurisdictions Real Estate meaning of Licence by EstoppelIn the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Licence by Estoppel: A licence or, strictly, a form of proprietary estoppel that comes into […]