Search results for: “instrumentality”
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Foreign Trade Organization
A former instrumentality of the Soviet government charged with controlling the importation or exportation of specified products, or with providing trade-related functions such as shipping and insurance. Most of the sixty-plus FTOs in existence in the 1980s were subject to control of the Ministry of …
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De Sanchez v. Banco Central de Nicaragua
JOSEFINA NAJARRO de SANCHEZ v. BANCO CENTRAL de NICARAGUA United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 770 F.2d 1385 Decided September 19, 1985 GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge: Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that litigation is war carried on by other means. The plaintiff’s…
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The Path of the Law
The Path of the Law O.W. Holmes When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them out of court. The reason why it is…
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Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities
Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities Chapter I: General Provisions Article 1 Definitions For the purposes of this Convention: 1 “Antarctic Treaty” means The Antarctic Treaty done at Washington on 1 December 1959. 2 “Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties”means the Contracting Parties to the Antarctic Treaty entitled to appoint representatives to participate in…
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Less and less popular law topics at Schools
Electronic Surveillance Child Pornography Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 Bankruptcy Act of 1841 Toll Hutto v. Finney Ex Post Facto Laws Federal Blackmail Statute (1994) Disciplinary Rules Customs Duties XYY Chromosomal Abnormality Defense Modus Operandi Democratic-Republican Party Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia Abzug, Bella Savitsky Evers-Williams, Myrlie Rosenblatt v. Baer Mail Fraud and…
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JOSEFINA NAJARRO de SANCHEZ v. BANCO CENTRAL de NICARAGUA
JOSEFINA NAJARRO De Sanchez v. Banco Central de Nicaragua United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 770 F.2d 1385 Decided September 19, 1985 GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge: Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that litigation is war carried on by other means. The plaintiff’s…