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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 […]

  • History of Yugoslavia

    Introduction This is the first part of the history of Yugoslavia, which has had hugue implications in international law, specially European law. The Country Also called Jugoslavia. The official name was the “Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” (Kraljevina Srba Hnata i Slovcnaca). […]

  • Abandonment and Total Loss in Marine Insurance, Historical

    Abandonment and Total Loss in Marine Insurance, Historical in Europe Definition Abandonment, in the law of marine insurance, is the act of cession, by which, in cases where the loss or destruction of the property, though not absolute, is highly imminent, or its recovery is too expensive to […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Agencies

    Agencies in Europe History of the Agencies of the European Union There is nothing new about the creation of decentralised Community bodies, since the first agencies (the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working […]

  • Local Authority

    Local Authority in Europe Based in the Local authority competences in Europe. Study of the European Committee on Local and Regional Democracy (2007) Introduction In Europe, some countries have experienced territorial reform (for example, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom […]