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Showing 1 to 20 of 503 for “"precedent"”.
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Judicial Precedent in Zambia
… essay is centred on the doctrines of judicial precedent as well as stare decisis, which is a subject tackled in both Legal Process and Jurisprudence. However, even after covering this topic in the two aforementioned courses, these doctrines were still vague in my mind. This was further …
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Judicial Precedent in Zambia
… essay is centred on the doctrines of judicial precedent as well as stare decisis, which is a subject tackled in both Legal Process and Jurisprudence. However, even after covering this topic in the two aforementioned courses, these doctrines were still vague in my mind. This was further …
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Limitations on the Precedent Autonomy
… Over the course of the next two decades an unprecedented number of Americans will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In order that their consent to or rejection of medical treatment is truly informed, they need accurate and relevant information, including, but not limited to, the …
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The tower : transformation of a precedent
… design process--the process of transforming a precedent for use in a new design.
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The Use of American Precedent in Australian Constitutional Jurisprudence
… and deeper form of engagement with American precedent by the High Court of Australia (HCA) could beneficially contribute to the ongoing doctrinal development of Australian constitutional jurisprudence. Useful concepts derived from United States (US) Supreme Court (USSC) case law have been …
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The Role of Precedent in Computational Models of Law
In common law countries, due to the doctrine of precedent, lawyers need to consider a body of case law which grows with each court decision. As a result, the complexity and number of documents a lawyer should be familiar with for each new decision increases rapidly over time. Robust models of …
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Integrating a Shifting Coast: Setting a precedent for Interspecific Interaction
This thesis envisions a shift in coastal design by advocating for infrastructure that integrates nonhuman and human needs particularly to foster interspecific interactions that without design intervention may or may not have been realized. Similar to the common practice of nonhumans such as birds …
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Agroforestry in the Temperate Landscape: Precedent, Practice, and Design Proposal
Temperate agroforestry systems are an important area of research and practice in Eastern North America with the goal of creating more diverse, productive, and environmentally sound agricultural landscapes by using trees as key crops. There is extensive published research on contemporary temperate …
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Exploring innovative designs by relaxing criteria and reasoning from precedent knowledge
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988.
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Timber frame construction in North East Scotland: a century of precedent 1830s - 1930s.
This study was prompted by a natural inquisitiveness about the concentration of timber buildings in both Braemar on Deeside and Fochabers on Speyside, and the assumed association with the history of timber extraction in the respective river systems. Reinforced by childhood memories of timber …
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Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
Children with Down syndrome are largely excluded from the foreign language classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a foreign language. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of children with Down syndrome to learn a foreign language so that they might be …
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Foreign Language Acquisition Among Children With Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
Children with Down syndrome (DS) are largely excluded from the foreign language (FL) classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a FL. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of children with DS to learn a FL so that they might be included in the FL classroom …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
… Further, I argue for the thesis that James set a precedent for the use of mind-altering substances for religio-mystical insight that was later expanded upon and entrusted to the masses in the form of Leary’s psychedelic projects. Evidence suggests that these theorists used psychedelics for …
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The Communication of Law in the Digital Environment: Stability and Change Within the Concept of Precedent
… have expanded since. Placing unpublished precedent online in databases such as Westlaw and LEXIS, and placing other published precedent online creates an environment in which more law is available and available at an earlier date to researchers than would otherwise be available in …
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Competition law : the legal precedent of the Wal-Mart case on competition law development in Namibia
This dissertation paper is based on the decision of the Wal-Mart cases in respect to competition law, mergers and acquisition in Namibia. Owing to the fact that Namibian law is mostly derived from South African law, the exploration and analysis will be based on both Wal-Mart cases in Namibia and …
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Dialogues with Nature: A Study on Nature as a Precedent for Form and Meaning in Architecture
… research project examines the use of nature as a precedent for form and order in architecture. Includes a critical history of different beliefs and philosophies evident in Western thought. These principles are explored through the design of a complex of buildings and site interventions designed to …
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The history of the cape Supreme Court and its role in the development of judicial precedent for the period 1827-1910
In commenting on the effect of the Royal Charter of Justice of 1827, Hahlo and Kahn state that 'within a lustrum the legal institutions of the Cape had been transmogrified’. However a number of important changes had already been made to these institutions in the period preceding the 'lustrum'. It …
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The history of the Cape supreme court and its role in the development of judicial precedent for the period 1827-1910
… been made to analyse the ingredient of judicial precedent, and to serve it up in the form of 'icing'. A survey of the traditional source materials utilized by lawyers, revealed a paucity of publications on the history of the Cape Supreme Court and on the early stages in the development of …
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