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Common Law Systems
Common Law Systems Common law systems can be found in many nations that were former colonies or territories of England. The common law originated with the unification of England and the institutional stability provided by William the Conqueror (c. 1027-1087) after 1066. In 1215 King John (1167-1216) elevated the importance of the common law at…
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Corporate Governance Law
Corporate Governance Law…
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Accounting Principles
Accounting Principles Accounting as it exists today may be viewed as a system of assumptions, doctrines, tenets, and conventions, all encompassed by the phrase “generally accepted accounting principles.”Many of these principles developed gradually, as did much of common law; only the accounting developments of recent decades are prescribed in statutory law. Following are several fundamental…
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Economic Analysis of Law
Economic Analysis of Law Introduction: Critical legal studies The Critical legal studies is a theory that challenges and overturns accepted norms and standards in legal theory and practice which fully emerged in the late 1970s. “Critical legal studies was a left-wing political/academic movement that now exists only as a school of thought in legal academia.…
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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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Linked Data Principles to Legal Information
Linked Data and Law (Legal Information) Note: see the Encyclopedia’ Linked Data project at Lawi Metadata Bob DuCharme discussed the value of linked data in United States law. DuCharme notes, “At a recent W3C Government Linked Data Working Group working group meeting, I started thinking more about the role in linked data of laws that…
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Access to the Law
It is a fundamental precept of any legal system that the law must be accessible to the public. Ignorance of the law is no excuse because everyone is presumed to know the law. that presumption would be insupportable if the law were not available and accessible to all. the state also has an interest in…
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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…
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List of International Business Law Selected Cases, by Subject
Hello List of International Business Law Selected Court Decisions, by Topic Legal Status of Eastern Greenland: Treaties and Conventions (Sources of International Law) The Asylum Case : Custom (Sources of International Law) D.THE SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN ACTUAL PRACTICE The Practice in International Tribunals The Practice in Municipal Courts Case 1-3. Sei Fjujii…
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List of International Law Selected Cases, by Subject
List of International Law Selected Court Decisions, by Subject Case Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic: The Law of Nations Contemporary International Law Case The Case of Parking Privileges for Diplomats: when is International law really law? Case North Sea Continental Shelf Cases: The Positivist School of International Law Case Raulin v. Fischer: The Romano-Germanic…
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, 1914
Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia (3d revision), 8th ed., West Publishing Company, 1914, 3 volumes; reprinted in 1984 by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Acording to Morris L. Cohen et Al. (“How to Find the Law”, 412, 9th ed. 1989), “For almost a hundred years, the numerous…
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law
The American and English Encyclopedia of Law The “Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common law , in Equity and in Criminal Cases”was a Companion work of this Encyclopedia of Law. Edition of 1887 The edtors of the American and English encyclopedia of law, 1887 Edition, were: John Houston…
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law
The American and English Encyclopedia of Law The “Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common law , in Equity and in Criminal Cases”was a Companion work of this Encyclopedia of Law. Edition of 1887 The edtors of the American and English encyclopedia of law, 1887 Edition, were: John Houston…
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European Union law Part 26
European Union law Part 26 352 M.R. Joelson, An International Antitrust Primer: A Guide to the Operation of the United States, European Union and Other Key Competition Laws in the Global Economy, 2nd edn., Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2001, xix + 496 pp., €180/US$165/UK£114. ISBN 90-411-9854-7. R.A. Abdullah Khan Netherlands International Law Review…