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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"German law"”.
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Liability for animals a comparative study: south African and German law
… caused by animals. Indeed, in many countries the law of animals forms special subject. With respect to English law for instance Lord Simonds, using the metaphor of a train, remarked that the Common Law of torts has developed historically in separate compartments and that beasts have travelled in a …
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Legal Malpractice and the Disappointed Beneficiary under English and German Law
… due to legal malpractice of the will-preparing lawyer. There are several difficult problems contained in these cases. The problems shall be examined by comparing the solutions for these cases under English and under German law. - As will be seen below, policy-considerations form the core of the …
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Liability for animals a comparative study: South African and German law
… caused by animals. Indeed in many countries the law of animals forms a special subject. With respect to English law for instance Lord Simonds, using the metaphor of a train, remarked that the Common Law of torts has developed historically in separate compartments and that beasts have travelled in …
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Good faith in contract law : a comparative analysis of English and German law.
… an important role to play in English contract law, where the elements necessary for its recognition already exist. Nevertheless, the issue has divided the contract community. Although there is strong support for the recognition of such a concept, it is more often rejected on the basis that it …
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The Regulations Governing Employee Inventions: a comparative study between the Jordanian and German law
… will compare the Jordanian legislation to the German legislation which is considered one of the most comprehensive and detailed regulations on the matter of employee inventions, which also had faced criticism as well. It will cover different topics relating to the matter such as: the governing …
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The modern German law of obligations and the legal concept of breach of contract
For decades, the (former) German law of obligations has been subject to severe, but justified criticism
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Aspects of multi-party unjustified enrichment in South African law : a comparison with German law
In this thesis, aspects of the South African law of multi-party enrichment are compared with the equivalent rules of German law. Against the background of a general comparison of the German and South African law of unjustified enrichment, the following sets of factual circumstances are examined in …
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The role of the compliance officer – a comparison of US, UK and German law and practice.
… corporate compliance officer under US, UK and German law and practice. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the compliance function within private sector companies in the three selected jurisdictions in order to establish a model of the German compliance officer. My research is intended to …
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Negligently inflicted pure economic loss in the case of defective buildings: a comparison of South African, English and German Law
The problem of liability for negligently inflicted pure economic loss appears in many fields of civil liability. Of course this debate does not stop in case of defective buildings after the negligent conduct of a builder or an inspector. The ultimate purchaser of a building or a third party may …
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A comparison of the remedies under the CISG and German law and the effect of the directive 1999/44/EC on German sales law
… and universal form of international mercantile law which is based upon common sense and common legal principles led to the development of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). 1 The CISG was adopted by a diplomatic conference on 11 April 19802 , …
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The assessment of damages for delict in South African and German Law, with special regard to loss of use and fraudulent misrepresentation inducing a contract
This thesis deals with the question of how the existence and extent of damage, as well as well the proper amount of damages, · are to be determined in the case of delict. To answer this question most legal systems have developed different rules and principles which do work satisfactorily in most …
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Fairness, trust and motivation in Profit Sharing Systems within German law firms. A qualitative analysis of law firm partner needs in a peer-to-peer context
… interviews with senior partners from large German law firms, this study evaluates their understanding of trust, fairness and motivation, and how that links to their respective PSS’s. It adds the otherwise missing peer-to-peer perspective to existing organisational research on fairness, trust …
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Policing Standard Form Contracts in Germany and South Africa: A Comparison
… of this dissertation is to compare South African law on standard form contracts against the corresponding German law. Thus, the responses of both legal systems to the special situation occurring in cases of standard form contracts will be compared and evaluated. Thereby, the focus of this …
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The fraud exception in international documentary credit transactions seen from an English and German perspective
… be taken from the perspective of English and German law, with the main focus on that very important English case, United City Merchants v Royal Bank of Canada1. The legal • position of German law will be compared whether the German solution differs from that found by the House of Lords in …
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The relation between intellectual property law and competition law using the example of standard essential patents
… between patent rights and competition law. The focus will be set on European and German law. The reason for it is that the European courts already started to deal with the relation between intellectual property and competition law decades ago and have assumed a leading role in handling …
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The powers, duties and control of persons participating in a compulsory winding-up of companies: some comparative aspects between the liquidation of a private company in South Africa and the "Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung" (Company with limited liability) in Germany
… (Private company with limited liability) in Germany. At the outset it is therefore necessary to give a short description of the private company and to outline the different grounds for a winding-up in both countries, thereafter only the winding-up _grounds relating to insolvency will be …
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The law of defamation - a comparison between the South African, the Canadian and the German legal systems
"The law of defamation aims at the protection of a person's reputation." This definition was found in the Canadian, the South African as well as in the German law. However, the question that arises is whether the law of defamation only protects the reputation and the good name of a person. …
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