convicted. Before you go any further please listen to audio presentation 2 which you can access from the criminal law page of the VLE. It is important that you do so as it will give you an overview of the topic and guidance on the terms considered in this chapter (i.e. actus reus and mens rea). You will now be aware that every offence is defined somewhere – either in a statute or at common law – and will be composed of a number of elements with which you should be familiar. Note that you should be equally
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QUESTIONS What is Law? 1. The law in the United States has been influenced by English‚ but not by French or Spanish law. F [moderate p. 3] Law is intended to protect persons‚ but not their property‚ from unwanted interference from others. F [easy p. 3] Businesses that are organized in the United States are subject to its laws‚ but not to the laws of other countries in which they do business. T [moderate p. 3] Promoting social justice is a function of the law. T [moderate p. 4] Law serves the functions
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purposes and may be created inter vivos or on death by will[1]. This implies that a trust is formed when a person transfers a property or rights to another person who holds it for a third party. There are many reasons why trusts are created. The most common reason is where the intended beneficiary of a right is not capable of holding it at a given point in time. An example of this is where the beneficiary is a minor. Trusts create three legal persons: the settlor or grantor who is the legal owner of
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There ought to be‚ and many times is‚ a close nexus between manmade law and justice – law should aim at justice. Laws should be the objective expressions of the nature of reality rather than merely the subjective prejudices or whims of some person‚ group of people‚ or society as a whole. Natural law is objective since it is inherent in the nature of the entity to which it relates. The content of natural law is accessible to human reason. For example‚ it is easily understood that since each man has
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Sexual Assault Over the past decade‚ the issue of sexual assault is one that has needed significant law reform. Sexual assault refers to the criminal offences involving unwanted sexual contact or acts‚ including unwanted touching‚ groping‚ indecent acts of other kinds‚ and rape. Law reform is the process of reviewing existing laws and introducing changes to them with the aim of improving justice or efficiency. In the issue of sexual assault‚ justice is particularly important. The state needs to
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Aviation Law and Space Law Aviation Law -Air space – customary law since First W.W. That aircraft from one state have right to fly over the high seas‚ but never over territorial sea of another state -Art.1 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation: “every state has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the space above its territory” -It is a serious breach of international law for a state to order to violate the air space of another state (for e.g. USA military aircraft attacked
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discovered that relationships between pressure‚ volume‚ and temperature were constant across types of gas. These early laws gave rise to the combined gas laws and the ideal gas laws. Charles’s Law Charles’ Law shows a direct relationship between the volume of a gas and the temperature of the gas. As with most things‚ as the temperature of a gas increases so does the volume. This law is shown as: Keep in mind that this scientific relationship only works for the same gas at two diverse temperatures
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ANIMAL LAW I. DEFINING ANIMAL II. PROPERTY III. CRIMINAL LAW IV. TORTS V. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW VI. ANIMAL WELFARE ACT VII. ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT VIII. MISC. I) DEFINING ANIMAL: Arbitrary delineation. Answer often crucial to outcome of cases. Holdings are unpredictable and often counterintuitive. Animals = property. The cuter the animal the more protection they get. 1) Roosters (and Cockfighting: States all over the place) a) NM:
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The fairness of the law It is very important for a legal system to ensure that there is fairness across the board for those involved in the legal system‚ whether defendants‚ plaintiffs‚ or others. There are two ways in which the legal system ensures fairness. On one hand‚ there are the general presumptions and procedures to ensure a fair trial or court hearing. On the other‚ there is the system of law which is intended to ensure fairness in society; this is known as the Law of Equity. Justice
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new property rights takes place in response to . . . new benefit-cost possibilities” as resource values change;3 in other words‚ property rights develop in a society when the benefits of having † Earl Warren DeLano Professor‚ University of Michigan Law School. I am grateful to Greg York‚ Ph.D. (Biology)‚ M.I.T. 1998‚ J.D.‚ University of Michigan 2008‚ for exemplary research assistance and constructive criticism‚ especially on matters of evolutionary biology. Thanks also to the following for discussions
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