Search results for: “Law for the ordinary man”
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Osborn´s Concise Law Dictionary
Osborn´s Concise Law Dictionary in Europe Since 1927, the Osborn´s Concise Law Dictionary has provided English students and practitioners a succint guide to the special language of the law, which serves as well as a source of reference. His strenght has been traditionally the concise way (the […]
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Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law
Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law in Europe A communi observantia non est recedendum. There should be no departure from common observance or usage. Co. Litt. 186. A l’impossible nul n’est tenu. No one is bound to do what is impossible. 1 Bouvier´s Institutes of […]
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Prisoners of War Law
Prisoners of War Law in Europe Introduction Prisoners of War Law is mainly covered under the Geneva Convention which defines POWs as a person, civilian or combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Prisioners of Law (POW) is […]
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law
The American and English Encyclopedia of Law in Europe The Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common Law, in Equity and in Criminal Cases was a Companion work of this Encyclopedia of Law. Edition of 1887 The edtors of the American and English […]
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OAK Law Project
The Open Access to Knowledge Law Project in Europe The Open Access to Knowledge Law (OAK Law) Project (the OAK Project) was funded by the Australian Government at the Queensland University of Technology with the aim of facilitating open access to a range of publicly funded materials. It ran […]
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Primacy of European Law
Primacy of Union Law Over National LawContent about Primacy Of European Law from the publication The ABC of European Union law (2010, European Union) by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt. The direct applicability of a provision of Union law leads to a second, equally fundamental question: what happens if […]
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Inquisition
Inquisition in Europe The Inquisition was a tribunal or system of tribunals instituted by the Roman Catholic Church for the discovery, examination and conviction of heretics and their punishment by the secular arm. Under the successors of Constantine in the Roman Empire the repression of […]
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Dueling
Dueling in Europe Dueling or Duel (from duellum, derived from duo) is a combat between two, at a time and place appointed in consequence of a challenge, and so is distinguished from an encounter taking place without any previous arrangement. The custom of dueling was derived from the […]
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Year
Definition of Year A year consists of twelve calendar months ; that is, 365 days in ordinary years, and 366 days in leap-year. (1) The historical year has for a very long period begun on January 1. (2) THe civil, ecclesiastical and legal year, used by the Church and in all public instruments, […]
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Will
Definition of Will A disposition or declaration by which the person making it (the testator) provides for the distribution or administration of property after his death. It is always revocable by him.Formerly will signified a testamentary disposition of land, aa opposed to a testament (q.v.). […]