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  • Positive Concept Of Valuation

    An approach to the application of ad valorem duties that holds that duties should be applied upon the actual value of the transaction, as defined by buyer and seller. This view has been substantially fulfilled by the recent adoption of the transaction value basis of valuation in the Customs Valuatio…

  • Natural Law Theories

    Natural Law Theories In General This entry considers natural law theories only as theories of law. That is not to say that legal theory can be adequately identified and pursued independently of moral and political theory. Nor is it to deny that there are worthwhile natural law theories much more concerned with foundational issues in…

  • Classification of Law

    Classifying Law Note: see also Law Classification in this Encyclopedia In many countries, laws originate from three main sources: previous judicial decisions (common law), parliament/s (acts, statutes or legislation), and the Constitution (constitutional law). Legal Systems Legal Systems Civil Law Legal System Common Law Legal System Customary Law System Mixed Legal System Muslim Law System…

  • Classification for Law Libraries

    Classification for Law Libraries Moys Classification Introduction to the First Edition Part 1: Principles of Library Classification for Law books In compiling a library classification for any special subject, whether it be law, engineering or literature, the general rules of classification, such as the exclusiveness of categories and the comprehensiveness of the sum total of…

  • Stimson’s Law Dictionary

    Stimson’s Law Dictionary “A concise law dictionary of words, phrases, and maxims : with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in Law books “(1911). The Authors were Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943 and Voorhees, Harvey Cortlandt, b. 1867. FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON was PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD and HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES was lawyer in the…

  • Dahl’s Law Dictionary

    Dahl’s Law bilingual Dictionaries Author: Dahl, H.S. Type of Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish, and French to English/English to French Edition: third (Spanish) and second (French) edition Published: Both in Buffalo, New York. The Spanish-English/English-Spanish in 1999; the French to English/English to French in 2001. Pages: XLI+913 p and XXV+675 p ISBN: 1575884968 and 2247043178 Description In both…

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 3

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 3 It would appear, therefore, from the authorities which I have cited that in the two great English-speaking people of the world, one descended from the other, there prevail two, and possibly three, opinions as to the obligatory force of International Law on individual states. The lawyers…

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical In the latter portion of the last lecture I endeavoured to establish three propositions, which I hold to be extremely important to the intelligent study of International Law. The first of them was that the process by which International Law obtained authority in a great part of…

  • About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical

    About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical The eminent man who founded the Whewell Professorship of International Law laid an earnest and express injunction on the occupant of this chair that he should make it his aim, in all parts of his treatment of the subject, to lay down such rules and suggest…

  • 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…

  • Briefs in Law

    Introduction Briefs are, in the United States, legal documents written by attorneys, used in various legal adversarial systems that is presented to a court arguing why the party to the case should prevail. A brief is, then, in the U.S., a legal document prepared by a party to the Court. It contains information on the…

  • Basic concepts to studying law

    Basic concepts to studying law This is a list of indispensable precursor concepts for anyone interested in studying law. They are items that, if discussed in first year, will make the Learning experience more fruitful. Of course, students need not master the intricacies of these enormously broad and significant topics right at the outset, but…

  • Illustrated Bible Dictionary and the Law

    Illustrated Bible Dictionary and the Law Illustrated Bible Dictionary, by Matthew George Easton, 3rd Edition (1897). Because of its age, this is now in the public domain. It contains an extensive set of brief articles on Bible people, places, and topics. As it reflects a 19th century Christian viewpoint, many of the articles are considerably…

  • International human rights law Part 33

    International human rights law Part 33   448 International human rights law Perspective on Grutter and Gratz David Weissbrodt Constitutional Commentary Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2004 p.275 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 449 The Judicial Application of Human Rights Law: National, Regional and International Jurisprudence Jayawickrama John P. Beal Jurist: Studies in Church Law…

  • International human rights law Part 13

    International human rights law Part 13   158 PRACTICAL CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING THE COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW-DEMONSTRATED BY THE PROCEDURAL REGULATION OF INTERNMENT IN NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT Laura M. Olson Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law Volume 40, Number 3, 2009 p.437 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 159 The relationship…