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    Courts and Law

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    On November 16‚ 2012‚ I observed a court hearing of 14 cases. Some of these cases dealt with people who committed crimes such as aggravated assault‚ Acc involving Death/ Injury‚ Terroristic threats‚ Retail theft‚ conspiracy theft‚ Resist Arrest/Other Law Enforce and Knowing/ in Mftr/Dist of Design Drug. For the case of Comm. V. Helen Cole was a Retail Theft crime. The defendant Helen Cole was at Sears and stole items such as clothes at the store. She was ordered not to go to the Sears again and

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    Past Consideration (Law)

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    1.0 Introduction 1.1 Consideration Consideration is also known as element of exchange. To be a contract‚ the transaction must be supported by consideration. According to general rule‚ s. 26 of CA state that an agreement made without consideration is void. We can define consideration as the price paid for benefit received or is an exchange of promises. It means that something with monetary value‚ voluntarily exchanged for an act‚ benefit‚ forbearance‚ interest‚ promise‚ right‚ or goods or services

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    prices during a certain period of time and it is evident that as the years progressed‚ the cost for food‚ fuel and lighting decreased significantly but the cost of living of also decreased but not to the degree of the above mentioned. Trusts were a common way to

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    In English law if other than the promisee provide consideration‚ then the promise could not be enforce by the law. This problem usually may arise when third party involve. For example in the case of Price v Easton (1833)‚ In this case X are doing work for Easton and Easton make a contract with X. In return for X services Easton would pay a price of $19 to Price. The work was done by X but Easton didn’t make any payment to Price and Price sue Easton. Court held that Price claim failed as he didn’t

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    Marbury v. Madison (1803‚ Marshall). The court established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws‚ the principle is known as judicial review Fletcher v. Peck (1810‚ Marshall). The decision stems from the Yazoo land cases‚ 1803‚ and upholds the sanctity of contracts. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819‚ Marshall). The Court ruled that states cannot tax the federal government‚ i.e. the Bank of the United States; the phrase "the power to tax is the power to destroy"; confirmed the

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    Common Law

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    Common Law Assignment Answer 1: There is no enforceable contract between Joanna and Rita because under Contract Law it is stated that the first requirement for any valid contract to become existent is an agreement that contains the elements of “offer” and an “acceptance”. In the case provided‚ Joanna did put forth an offer for Rita who then laid a condition of accepting the offer‚ therefore a counter-offer; also Rita had not yet accepted the offer completely. She stated in her response‚ that

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    effectiveness. LJB entered into conflict with Vietnam for more threatening reasons. Unlike JFK—there was direct confrontation; there was an apparent attack on US ships by the North Vietnamese Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin in July 1964. LBJ pushed for a US military response against the North. On August 7‚ Congress authorized the President to commit US aircraft and ground troops to the war‚ which still consisted mainly of the guerrilla war in the South. 2. The upheaval and dissent on American college

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    Chapter 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War‚ 1933-1941 Use the following to answer questions 1-9: Identify and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Cordell Hull 2. Joseph Stalin 3. Benito Mussolini 4. Adolf Hitler 5. Josef Goebbels 6. Francisco Franco 7. Winston Churchill 8. Charles Lindbergh 9. Wendell Willkie Use the following to answer questions 10-13: Define and state the historical significance of the following: 10. totalitarianism 11. fascism

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    Contract Law Consideration

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    2011-2012 Assessment 1 Nick would be suing Angela claiming the full arrears and the return of the car. Nick can only succeed if he can prove there is no consideration. Consideration can be defined by Sir Frederick Pollock‚ approved by Lord Dunedin in Dunlop v Selfridge Ltd [1915] AC 847 where each party must give something in return from what is gained from the other party; ‘An act or forbearance of one party‚ or the promise thereof‚ is the price for which the promise of the other is bought

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    Civil Law vs Common Law

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    nations in the world nowadays‚ and each has a different set of laws that govern its people and its relations with the rest of the world. Whereas‚ international law governs relations between states‚ institutions‚ and individuals across national boundaries‚ municipal law governs this same person within the boundaries of a particular state. The comparative law‚ which is the study‚ analysis‚ and comparison of the different municipal law systems‚ classifies countries into legal families. The two widely

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