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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"English law"”.
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The Exceptions in Documentary Credits in English Law
… is the exceptions in documentary credits in English law. The exceptions were established during the development of the documentary credits system to solve drawbacks of the payment means caused by its distinctive feature of autonomy. A rationale of the research is the current decline of the …
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Scandinavian Influence on English Law, c. 870-1215
… by their legal practices and termed the Danelaw, with legal differences visible in English texts such as the c. 997 ‘Wantage Code’. Past historiography has primarily searched for English legal origins within Anglo-Saxon traditions or Norman innovations, while inadequate attention has been …
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The Legal Ramifications of the Importation of English Law
… essential for every society or country to have laws that reflect the aspirations of the people it seeks to govern. For this reason this dissertation looks at the ramifications of the application of English Law in Zambia without making the necessary changes to it in order to suit the social, …
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Perjury and Memory in the English Law Courts, 1660–1688
… and witness perjury, or lying under oath, in the law courts of later seventeenth-century England. Although there has been excellent work on perjury in early modern England, this work is limited for the later seventeenth century, and does not interrogate questions of memory. Memory is a fertile but …
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Arbitration in English law and society before the Act of 1698
… during this period, previous historians of law and social relations have focused their interests elsewhere. For this reason, little has been done to account for the passing of the Arbitration Act of 1698, the first statute on arbitration to be enacted in England. The statute authorised the …
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Security interests with rights of use: an English law and comparative analysis
… of rights of use in intermediated securities in English private law. The term ‘right of use’ refers to the right of a creditor, usually a financial institution, to dispose of a customer’s securities outright, prior to any default, in exchange for a promise to deliver ‘equivalent’ securities to …
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Intersex, discrimination and the healthcare environment : a critical investigation of current English law
… main purposes are to harmonise discrimination law and enhance legal mechanisms to allow equality for everyone. However, the category of 'intersex' is not included in the Act. This thesis aims to build on existing literature, and to investigate and analyse whether current English law prevents or …
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Intoxication and self-defence : a comparative study of principles of English law and Shari'ah
… the general principles of criminal liability in English law and Shari 'ah. It is hoped that it may provide a valid basis for discussion of the future development of criminal law. The relationship between law and society is an organic one and this relationship in Shari'ah is based on revelatory …
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The crime of international maritime fraud: a comparartive study between Iraqi and English law
… Fraud a comparative study between the Iraqi and English law. The scheme of the thesis is as follows. Introduction and four parts, part one is an overview of Maritime Fraud and outlines the definition, reasons and features and classification of Maritime Fraud. Part two deals with the types of …
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Law’s Technicality and Rich Evaluative Significances: Why (English) Law Is Not a Deontic System
The more abstract, theoretical reaches of private law scholarship are perennially afflicted by controversies over whether particular legal categorisations such as contractual obligation and duty of care genuinely ‘legally obligate’ (or whether breaches of such standards are ‘wrongs’). General …
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The evolution, utility and effectiveness of the Mareva Jurisdiction in English Law : a critical appraisal
… as an exceptionally effective device in common law jurisdictions across the globe. This body of work critically appraises the development, evolution and effectiveness of the Mareva injunction. It is primarily established that the Mareva injunction is an equitable remedy. A corollary …
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Protection, Feud and Royal Power: Violence and its Regulation in English Law, c. 850 – c. 1250.
… change in the way that violence was addressed in English law between the late ninth and early thirteenth centuries. It attempts to explain how a system largely based on feud, in which violence was a matter primarily for the parties involved, became one in which all serious violence was punished by …
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Formalised cohabitation: a critical and comparative study of an element of English law in a normative regime
… potential for establishing a normative regime in English law for cohabitants, who now form a substantial constituency as an established alternative family unit, headed by apparently committed cohabiting couples, who are neither married nor in registered civil partnerships. The thesis critically …
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Learning in the videoconferencing context: examining L2 learner engagement in speaking tasks during private English-law lessons
… speaking component of private Skype-based law lessons (in English) delivered to three pairs of English language learners. The first pair were two Korean middle school students located in South Korea, the second pair were two Korean lawyers in South Korea and the third consisted of one …
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Dissolution of companies and partnerships : a comparative study between Saudi law and English law in the light of Islamic law
… dissolution of companies and partnerships in the law of Saudi Arabia, in Islamic Law (with which Saudi law must comply), and in English law, one of the oldest and most important legal systems in existence. This aim will be achieved through the exploration and analysis of these causes. Critique …
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Judicial analysis of the contractual role of bills of lading as it stands in Greek, United States and English law
… the bill of lading in Greek, United States and English law. First of all, the principles of law which have created the bill of lading either as the contract or as evidence will be investigated. Moreover, the axis of the development of the thesis will be the analysis of how and why the issued and …
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The development and reform of the rules regulating authority to contract on behalf of companies in South African and English Law
… for over a century. Even today this area of law is recognised as one of complexity, with the principles of agency, court-made company law doctrines and legislative provisions sitting side by side, with no sure guide as to their interaction. In South Africa, this sense of uncertainty is …
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