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  • Minimum Holdings for Law Libraries

    Minimum Holdings for Law Libraries Standards for law libraries may help to stop the damage caused by continual cancelling of highly valued serial and monograph holdings, damage which has been going on, in several countries, such as Australia, since the seventies. There is a limit to what a law school needs in its library to…

  • European Capitals

    European Capitals A national capital or, in general, a capital (of Latin “caput,” “capitis,” which means “head”) is the city or locality where the central government, and all the main supreme organs of the State, reside. Capitals in Europe are generally recognized as a city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the…

  • Divorce in Classical Muslim Jurisprudence

    Divorce in classical Muslim jurisprudence Muslim laws do not create ‘chained women’, and therefore the solution to the problems currently facing British Muslim women in divorce is not the same as for women from the Jewish community. The Divorce (Religious Marriages) Act 2002 amended the main law on marriage in England & Wales, the Matrimonial…

  • Classification of Nationalism

    Classification of Nationalism Some Views Nationalism is an enormous subject. […] Below are listed the varieties of nationalism now flourishing among English intellectuals, with such comments as seem to be needed. It is convenient to use three headings, Positive, Transferred, and Negative, though some varieties will fit into more than one category: Positive Nationalism Neo-toryism…

  • Private Ethics

    Private Ethics Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation Text of the Chapter XIX, § 1, titled “Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation” in the classical book “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, by Jeremy Bentham: I. So much for the division of offences in general. Now…

  • All Countries

    All Countries covered by the Legal Encyclopedia Western Europe Legal Systems Andorra Legal System Austria Legal System Belgium Legal System Denmark Legal System England and Wales Legal System Finland Legal System French Legal System German Legal System Greece Legal System Holy See Legal System Iceland Legal System Ireland Legal System Isle of Man Legal System…

  • Commission

    Real Estate meaning of Commission In the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Commission: Remuneration paid to an agent or broker for his services in conducting a specific duty, such as introducing a purchaser of a property, effecting a sale of a property to a third party, or […]

  • Bill of Rights

    As interpreted by the US Supreme Court, the Bill of Rights is the most extensive charter of liberties in the world today. Many other nations observe most of the same rights, but not necessarily in the same way or to the same degree. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, for example, […]

  • Forms of Government

    Summary Overview Governments are organized in a variety of forms. This entry covers the different ways of classifying these forms: according to the geographic distribution of power, the relationship between legislative and executive branches, and the number of persons who can participate in […]

  • Forms of Government

    Summary Overview Governments are organized in a variety of forms. This entry covers the different ways of classifying these forms: according to the geographic distribution of power, the relationship between legislative and executive branches, and the number of persons who can participate in […]

  • Magna Carta

    Legal Materials Pictures and translations of the Magna Carta are posted on the Internet by the National Archives and Records Administration and the British Library. You'll find a print copy in the American Jurisprudence 2d Deskbook. Abstract The Magna Carta (literally, the […]

  • Withholding Performance

    Withholding Performance Buyer’s Right to Withhold Performance of Contract under the UN Sales Convention Introduction Concept of the Right to Withhold Performance Withholding performance under the Convention, as in English law, means that the buyer is entitled to refuse to perform his obligation without being required or even being entitled to terminate [avoid] the contract.…

  • Withholding Performance

    Withholding Performance Buyer’s Right to Withhold Performance of Contract under the UN Sales Convention Introduction Concept of the Right to Withhold Performance Withholding performance under the Convention, as in English law, means that the buyer is entitled to refuse to perform his obligation without being required or even being entitled to terminate [avoid] the contract.…

  • Seaworthiness

    Seaworthiness Some of the sources imposing this duty Civil law (art. 2008, 2015, 2022, and 2063 C.C.Q. (C.B. at p. 60) Common law Harter Act, 1893, 46 U.S. Code Appendix 190-196 Steel v. State Line (1877-78) 3 App. Cas. 72 …..(H.L.) (C.B. at p. 56) Canadian Pacific Forest Products v. Belships [1999] 4 F.C. 330,…

  • Seaworthiness

    Seaworthiness Some of the sources imposing this duty Civil law (art. 2008, 2015, 2022, and 2063 C.C.Q. (C.B. at p. 60) Common law Harter Act, 1893, 46 U.S. Code Appendix 190-196 Steel v. State Line (1877-78) 3 App. Cas. 72 …..(H.L.) (C.B. at p. 56) Canadian Pacific Forest Products v. Belships [1999] 4 F.C. 330,…