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    Law of Tort

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    Law of Tort Ian Yeats Paula Giliker Mary Luckham 2005 LLB BSc Accounting with Law / Law with Accounting BSc Management with Law / Law with Management 2660001 2770201 2770201 This subject guide was prepared for the University of London External Programme by: Ian Yeats‚ MA (Aberdeen)‚ BCL‚ MA (Oxford)‚ Barrister‚ Senior Lecturer in Law‚ Queen Mary College‚ University of London. Paula Giliker‚ MA (Oxon)‚ BCL‚ PhD (Cantab)‚ Barrister at Law‚ Fellow and Senior Law Tutor‚ St Hilda’s College

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    In addition‚ there were some major Civil War laws of the Western Expansion‚ such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort to conserve a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states‚ by the U.S Senate and the House of Reps. The slaveholding states feared of being outnumbered in the Congressional Representation. They feared because they would lack the power to protect their interest

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    Contract Law

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    Introduction Unlike other civil law legal systems‚ such as the German one and the American one‚ United Kingdom’s (UK) and Hong Kong’s (HK) do not recognize the approach of general principle of good faith in contract law‚ as illustrated in Walford v Miles1. Yet‚ good faith should be promoted in UK and HK because one should value fairness in the whole course of dealing‚ from the point of pre-contractual negotiations till the discharge of he contracts. This essay aims at showing the merits of a good

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    Native Law

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    Definition Generally a native system of personal law applies only to a native person or community forming a part of part any native race.According to judicial interpretation the term ‘native’ is identified to be a native by descent and way of life.The Federal Constitution defines a native in Article 161 A‚ Clause (6&7) thus : (a) In relation to Sarawak‚ a person who is a citizen and either belongs to one of the races specified in clause (7) as indigenous to the State or is

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    Is it considered okay to disobey some laws? Does committing civil disobedience actually do any good? Martin Luther King Jr. believed that it was moral to obey just laws and disobey unjust law. “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just law. Conversely‚ one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” (Jacobus 382). Henry David Thoreau also conveyed this same idea when he said “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government‚ let it

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    What Is Law?

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    WHAT IS LAW? 20 MAY 2013 What is Law? Three simple letters. A word which very short. But still the whole world failed to find a universally accpetable definition for this word. Through out my life I have heard this short word several times. Around 8 years ago our nation welcomed a system of government called “Democracy.” With this “DEMOCRACY” everyone started talking about the freedom‚ freedom of expression‚ right to inform‚ human rights and many more. I was a little boy at that time who

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    Law on Sales

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    1 CHAPTER 1 NATURE OF SALE DEFINITION OF SALE Article 1458 of the Civil Code defines “sale” as a contract whereby one of the contracting parties (Seller) obligates himself to transfer the ownership‚ and to deliver the possession‚ of a determinate thing; and the other party (Buyer) obligates himself to pay therefor a price certain in money or its equivalent.1 The Roman Law concept embodied in the old Civil Code2 that treated delivery of tangible property as the sole purpose of sale has been

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    Module: Common Law Assignment 2: Law of Torts Submission date: 25.4.2012 By Anna Permall Contents Verity Smith runs a small printing business in Whitstable‚ Kent. Verity’s business has been thriving and she is looking to expand her business into other parts of Kent. She would like some advice regarding the following incidents: 1. (i) Lesley‚ the Office Manager‚ suffered serious injuries to her Hands and face when her IPAD2 provided by Verity exploded at her desk. (ii)

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    (the law of the place of conclusion of the marriage). This rule is founded firmly in Roman-Dutch law and entrenched in South African case law. ( Exception: S 10 of the Marriage Act 25 of 1961 makes provision for South African diplomatic and consular officers to solemnise marriages between South Africans in the countries in which they are stationed. Such embassy marriages are deemed to have been concluded in South Africa and their formal validity is thus governed by South African law (as the

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    Civil right law 1964 It is a law made to protect the human rights. It is a law based on the individual rights like age‚ gender‚ color‚ religion discrimination. Social equality envelop the essential human rights that all Americans are ensured by the U.S. Constitution. Government and state established law‚ statutes‚ managerial directions‚ and legal elucidation have characterized and extended these social liberties after some time. Essential wellsprings of social equality law incorporate the initial

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