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  • Elibank V. Men To Lieu

    Definition of Elibank V. Men To Lieu ((1801), 5 Ves. 737). Held, that a married woman may, by her next friend, maintain a suit in the Court of Chancery to assert her equity to a settlement on herself and children out of property to which she is entitled ; and here the settlement on marriage…

  • Elibank V. Men To Lieu

    Definition of Elibank V. Men To Lieu ((1801), 5 Ves. 737). Held, that a married woman may, by her next friend, maintain a suit in the Court of Chancery to assert her equity to a settlement on herself and children out of property to which she is entitled ; and here the settlement on marriage…

  • Ecclesiastical Law

    Definition of Ecclesiastical Commissioners Established by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1836, to administer Church property and revenue Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the Dictionaries, Ecclesiastical […]

  • Ecclesiastical Law

    Definition of Ecclesiastical Commissioners Established by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1836, to administer Church property and revenue Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the Dictionaries, Ecclesiastical […]

  • 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, […]

  • Canon Law

    Definition of Canon Law A body of Roman ecclesiastical law, compiled from the opinions of the ancient Latin fathers, the decrees of general councils, and the decretal epistles and bulls of the Holy See. It was codified in the 12th century by Gratianus, and added to by subsequent collections, […]

  • General Index

    This page is the overall index to the European Encyclopedia of Law; any page can ideally be reached directly or indirectly from this page. Note that the index is still somewhat incomplete. Europe: Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and…

  • 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. […]

  • Law Classification, Historical

    Law Classification, Historical in Europe A nation’s law, as it exists at any date in the nation’s history, whether expressed by a written constitution, by statutes, by case law, by customs, or, as is now usually the case in civilized countries, by all of these in combination, may be […]

  • 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 […]