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Equity Law Flexibility

in law means fairness. The law of equity had developed in parallel to common and statute law but is very different. The rules have...

Case Study on Family Law

no mention of joint property or the family home so we will assume there are no assets of this nature in this case. We will also as...

New Jersey Laws Regarding DWI and DUI

or she is guilty no matter what their disposition had been at the time (Marootian, 2005). Between .08% and .10% is considered to b...

Contract Law Case Study of Bodgeit and Scarper

be consideration and the intention to create legal relations (Barker and Padfield, 1994, Ivamy, 2000). However, there is not the n...

Rule of Law and Morality

as the support of civilised and social community. He stated he did not believe that law should be based on any moral codes, in thi...

Government and the UK Rule of Law

be backed up by the relevant authority to make that decision based in the law (Thompson and Allen, 2005). This may be seen as a ve...

Precontact Law and Government in Native America

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

Overview of Issues in Business Law

could decide which court to file suit in: the Florida state Court, a Georgia court of a Federal court. In deciding which court t...

Comity, Common, Civil, Islamic and International Laws

In five pages this paper examines the relationship that exists between comity, Islamic, civil, and common laws and international l...

Homicide Deterrence and the Ineffectiveness of Gun Control

In eight pages this paper argues that gun control ineffectiveness is responsible for the rates of homicides in the United States a...

Secondary Sources and Legal Research

In five pages this research paper provides answers to legal questions regarding an export case governed by foreign law and using a...

English Law, Common Law Concept, and the Binding Precedent Doctrine

may occur where there different facts or where there has been a change n the law applying to similar cases. The way that the decis...

Contract Law Application

of Goods by Sea Act 1992, this repealed the former Bills of Lading Act 1855 and was seen to bring English law onto the same level ...

English Law and the Legal System of England

new law since the seventh century (Barker and Padfield, 1996). These are seen as the more modern laws. This took the place of prim...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

The 1965 Immigration Act and Asian Americans

In five pages the effects of this law's passage in terms of the skyrocketing number of Asian immigrants that moved to the United S...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Politics, Morality, Law, and Saint Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this report considers how Aquinas differentiated between eternal law and natural law in a discussion that also inclu...

Canada's Struggle With Child Pornography

p.PG). Courts in the West have been struggling with the definition for quite awhile as they try to keep a balance for the right ...

Maintaining Order Through Law

role to play, on its own it does not give a moral framework, only a legal framework. However, in the opinion of Devlin it was more...

Different English Law Areas and Court Jurisdiction

laid down by legislation only. Land law appears complex in the way it is put together and the number of different courts or tribun...

Foreseeability in British and Australian Tort Law

can be prosecuted under criminal law and imprisonment can be handed down by the court, which may be the case with negligence on so...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

Social Change and the Law

as law ... as ... writing some statute into a code book, having a court interpret a law, does not make anything happen. Law only i...

UK Law and Sea Carriage of Dangerous Goods

terms of damage is a confusing aspect of law. For any individual or company seeking to transport dangerous goods there is a clear ...

Australian Case Study on Employment Law

of the employee or worker having and injury for which compensation is payable. Mary has suffered a laceration her hand. However, ...

The Legal Use of Violence and Adversial Process

at the film "12 Angry Men." There are two versions of this film, each dating from different time periods but essentially remaining...

Labor Law Issues

("U.S. Department of Labor," 2006). Workers covered under FLSA must get a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour ("U.S. Department of Labo...

Equal Pay

treaty at Article 3 (2) (ex 3 ), which specifies similar sentiments in a more general statement (Weatherill and Beaumont, 2000). I...

Plato: Law, War, Peace and Virtue in the "Laws"

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...