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Category: Civil law

  • Charities

    Charities in Europe England: Re Campden Charities ((1881), L. R. 18 Ch. D. 310). The cy-pres doctrine is applied to charitable gifts when it is no longer beneficial or desirable to carry out exactly the intention of the donor. The Court will not interfere with a scheme settled by the Charity […]

  • Abandon, Historical 3

    Abandon and Abandonment, Historic 3 Personal Property – Sunken Vessels See also Lost Property. Property sunk in a steamboat and unclaimed for twenty years was held to be abandoned. Creevy v. Breedlove, 12 La. Ann. 745. See Eads v. Brazelton, 22 Ark. 499; Wyman v. Hurlburt, 12 Ohio […]

  • Briefs in Law

    Introduction Briefs are, in the United States, legal documents written by attorneys, used in various legal adversarial systems that is presented to a court arguing why the party to the case should prevail. A brief is, then, in the U.S., a legal document prepared by a party to the Court. It […]