unless specifically provided in the various professional regulatory or other laws‚ the following terms shall be understood to mean: a) Accredited Professional Organization (APO) refers to a professional organization which may now or hereafter be accredited by the Commission. b) Board refers to a Professional Regulatory Board (PRB) created by law‚ decree‚ or other issuance pursuant to law to regulate a specific profession
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The European civil law system is all about finding the truth‚ even if a lawyer has to lose the case for their client while doing so. The American adversarial system is about winning‚ even if it means avoiding and stretching the truth to do so. Civil law has the laws made by the government and the courts apply them‚ while common law has the judges making the majority of the laws through precedents. The adversarial system uses specific laws‚ precedents‚ and legal rules to determine who wins. It
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Explain the difference between rules of the common law and principles of equity. Law is to be seen as definite and also flexible and fair. It specifically needs unambiguous rules on one hand but flexibility on the other to provide exceptions to cases that may lead to apparently unjust conclusions where rules are applied rigidly. Common law‚ as define by Wikipedia‚ refers to law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals‚ rather than through legislative statutes or executive
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16/01/2015 STUDY OF FIRST PRINCIPLE OF CIVIL LAW STUDY OF FIRST PRINCIPLE OF CIVIL LAW Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………….. .5 Chapter 2 Study of First Principle of Civil Law Analysis ……………... ………………..10 Chapter 3 Comparative study with other thinkers ………………………………………..15 Chapter 4 Criticism…………………………………………………………………………… 17 Chapter 5 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………… 20 Bibliography …………………………………………………………………………………...22 http://lawprojects.blogspot.in/2013/04/studyoffirstprincipleofcivillaw
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Miller v. Alabama By Melissa Nester Criminal Law This assignment will show how in the case of Miller v. Alabama cruel and unusual punishment has been applied to the juvenile offenders who commit criminal acts but do not have the mental capacity of an adult who knows what they are doing. Juvenile offenders were being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole until Miller fought to have this sentenced changed. Evan Miller‚ 14 years old was convicted of aggravated
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The article is entitled “Teen charged with bullying boyfriend via text message to kill himself”. It is a Massachusetts criminal law case that is about a 17-year-old girl named Michelle Carter essentially pressuring her boyfriend into committing suicide .These pressuring text messages with her late 18- year-old boyfriend Conrad Roy III ultimately resulted in the teen being charged with involuntary manslaughter. The article displays both the prosecution and defence for this case with defense stating
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At first there seems to be no distinction between law and morality. There are passages in ancient Greek writers‚ for example‚ which seem to suggest that the good person is the one who will do what is lawful. It is the lawgivers‚ in these early societies‚ who determine what is right and wrong. But it is not long before thoughtful people recognize the difference between what is actually legal‚ or legally right according to the political authorities and what should be legal. What should be legal
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Contract Creation and Management LAW/531 October 17‚ 2011 Contract Cron and Management The objective for the contract creation and management assignment was to review The Nature of Agency video. After watching the video‚ the assignment asks for an analysis of the issues presented in The Nature of Agency video. The video elaborates on how someone signature can cause the company a lawsuit. In the video‚ the company Quick Takes Video is facing a collection claims from Non-Linear Pro because of a
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The Role of Law LAW/421 August 6‚ 2012 Michael S. Green The Role of Law Laws are “the body of rules or principles‚ prescribed by authority or established by custom‚ that a state‚ community‚ society‚ or other group recognizes as binding on its members” (Ferguson Publishing‚ 1999‚ p. 105). The purposes of laws are to maintain peace and order‚ to define the rights of citizens‚ to secure justice‚ to harmonize conflicting interests‚ and to provide means for punishing wrongdoers. Laws are applied
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LAWS AND MORALS DO THEY INTERTWINE? Before going ahead to give my opinion on what Bidemi asserted Bisi about what laws and morals are‚ what are laws and morals? L.B Curzon explained laws as generally regarded as a body of rules and regulations to order human behavior and relationships which are enforced by an authorized system and which are accepted by the political society which it affects. Morals on the other hand as defined in the Encarta dictionary are principles on the standard of human
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