Search results for: “Justice.”
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Common Law
Definition of Common Law That part of the law of England formulated, developed and administered by the old Common Law Courts, based on the common custom of the country, and originally unwritten. It is opposed to equity, the body of rules administered by the Court of Chancery ; to statute law, […]
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Case Stated
Definition of Case Stated The statement of the relevant facts in a case for the opinion or judgment of another Court. After the hearing and decision of a case by justices or magistrates a party may require a case to be stated for the opinion of the Divisional Court of the High Court of […]
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Bar
Definition of Bar A partition across a Court of Justice. Only King’s Counsel, solicitors (as officers of the Court) and parties are allowed within the bar.At Bar means in Court. A trial at Bar is a trial by a jury before a full Court (three or four Judges) instead of before a single Judge as…
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European Caselaw Databases
JURE, a database created by the European Commission, contains case law on jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters and on the recognition and enforcement of judgments in a State other than the one where the judgment was passed. This includes case law on relevant international […]
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Glossaries
Glossaries At European level, the following glossaries exist: IATE IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) is a multilingual term database used for translations within the European institutions. It consists of a search engine for expressions and phrases used in all areas of European Union activity. It requires rather professional knowledge of the target language in order…
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida in Europe Jacques Derrida was born to a Sephardic Jewish family near Algiers in 1930 (and died on October 9, 2004), in what was then French Algeria. After World War II, Dorrida moved to France, where in 1950 he failed the entrance examination at the Ecole normale supérieure. […]
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Rights and the Law Classification, Historical
Rights and the Law Classification, Historical in Europe The word, rights, as used in municipal law and in the classification of law given (in Law Classification, Historical), denotes two groups of attributes attached to persons. I. It usually means a power in one person, called the […]
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De Sanchez v. Banco Central de Nicaragua
Josefina Najarro de Sanchez v. Banco Central de Nicaragua in Europe United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 770 F.2d 1385 Decided September 19, 1985 GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge: Clausewitz once described war as politics carried on by other means. Here it could be said that […]
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Sei Fujii v. the State of California
Sei Fujii v. the State of California in Europe Supreme Court of California 38 Cal. 2d 718; 242 P.2d 617 Decided: April 17, 1952 Justice GIBSON Plaintiff, an alien Japanese who is ineligible to citizenship under our naturalization laws, appeals from a judgment declaring that certain land […]
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Prosecutor v. Kupreskic
Prosecutor v. Kupreskic in Europe Introduction to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia In May 1993, because of serious violations of international humanitarian law being committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution […]