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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Personal Property"”.
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Understanding theft from the person and robbery of personal property victimisation trends in England and Wales, 1994-2010/11
… nature of theft from the person and robbery of personal property over a 17-year period (1994-2010/11) in England and Wales. Between 1995 and 2010/11, all crime recorded by the British Crime Survey (BCS) fell 50 per cent, with a 27 and 17 per cent fall in robbery and theft from the person …
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The Inclusion of Land Within a Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) Framework in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana
… thesis considers the inclusion of land within a Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) framework of modern secured transactions in Ghana, as an example in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. This consideration is in the broader context of the main intellectual debates about secured transactions law …
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Estimation of tax rate elasticities of durable assets: utility maximizing approach using the AIDS model
… with respect to the following tax bases: real property (commercial, agricultural, and residential), personal property, and machinery and tools. The analytical model was based on demand theory, and a modified linear approximate Almost Ideal Demand System was used to estimate the elasticities. …
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Regulating the use of Crypto-assets as collateral in secured transactions: U.S and Canadian Perspectives
… Canada has led to speculation on how the current personal property security law in Canada applies to crypto-assets. An examination of the current personal property security law in Canada reveals that, under existing law, it is difficult to acquire a reliable and effective security interest in …
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A discussion of the law of warranty in the sale of chattels, with the decisions of the courts of Illinois
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Automatic speaker verification and diarization on VoxCeleb data collection
… Because of the importance of cyber-security and personal property security, ASV can be used in many fields in the future in addition to fingerprint and face information. In ASV research, a variety of datasets are needed to train good models. Current datasets include NIST SRE, VoxCeleb, etc. In …
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Women Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts
… on the evolution of women's legal rights - property, inheritance, and divorce- in colonial Massachusetts between 1630 and 1690. The project explores how and to what extent the legal doctrine of coverture- which severely limited married women’s legal rights- functioned in the Massachusetts …
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"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
… rebels alike defined their letters as a form of personal property and regarded unauthorized access to their letters not simply as theft but as violations of their person. The safeguards they sought to impose on their mail reveal how these soldiers tried to defend the boundaries of privacy in the …
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Patrick County, Virginia and the Civil War, 1860-1880
… and freedmen owned scarcely any land nor personal property; neither group by 1880 had achieved literacy. In Patrick County the rich stayed rich and the planters remained the most influential.
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Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
… books, receipts, invoices, census records, personal correspondence, and personal property tax assessments. Scholars of early America and the southern backcountry have often narrated German cultural identity transformations along the lines of language and marriages. This work diverts from …
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The Feasibility of Annexation: A Cost-Revenue Approach for Bowling Green, Kentucky
… four major sources -- fines and forfeitures, and personal, property, and occupational taxes. The two components, costs and revenues, were compared. This resulted in a net surplus or deficit for the provision of services to each sector after annexation. Among the conclusions reached in this study …
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The Effect of Construction Operations on Interests in Land
… existing building, they lose their identity as personal property and become part of the land itself. This basic proposition threatens to elevate the interest of the ultimate owner of the land, the freeholder, above the proprietors of temporally shorter estates in land, as the freeholder will …
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Immunocontraceptive vaccines against brucellosis and population growth in feral swine
… each year in agricultural, environmental, and personal property damages. In the last ten years the population of feral swine is estimated to have quadrupled and novel population control methods are needed. Furthermore, feral swine are known carriers of zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis, …
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Enhancing the customer service experience in call centers using preemptive solutions and queuing theory
… and businesses to help monitor and enhance personal property protection. Customer satisfaction via wait time reduction, first call resolution, and cost minimization are key drivers of success to players in this market. Most companies invest heavily in customer service systems including call …
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The Goals of Property Law: The Acquisition of Proprietary Interests in Chattels through Possession, Mixtures, Reproduction and Manufacture
… texts, and are discussed in modern textbooks on personal property law. Nonetheless, there remains a great deal of uncertainty in relation to these events, both as a matter of the substantive rules of English law which govern them, and as a matter of the underlying justifications of those rules. …
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A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE CORE IDEAS OF SECURITY OVER TANGIBLE MOVABLES IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY
… over a shifting fund of present and future property. It explores how the different forms of security which came to be recognized in the three selected jurisdictions were (are) capable of accomodating these core ideas.
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… production practices, an obsession with owning personal property, the inclusion of women in farming and land ownership, and the practice of performing identity through the use of material objects. Next, I describe a rural identity with English origins, one that other scholars have named …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… Victorian writing's preoccupation with money and personal wealth, and its frequent depiction of financial crises, can be seen as an effort to understand the underlying principles of the confusing yet vital financial world that was taking shape. One flourishing financial institution which received …