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Oxford Companion to Law
There is also an Oxford Companion to American Law. This legal encyclopaedia is a concise overview of a subject in law – not confined to English law, since there are many entries devoted to European Union law. Original Oxford Companion to Law Review Review of A F Rodger, “Good companion?” […]
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Devolved Administrations
Devolved Administrations (Government) List of Devolved Administrations (Government) Northern Ireland Executive The Scottish Government Welsh Government Northern Ireland Executive The Northern Ireland Executive is the administrative branch of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the […]
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Halsburys Laws of England
Halsbury´s Laws of England Halsbury’s Laws of England (4th and 5th editions) is the classic English legal encyclopedia. Halsbury’s summarizes the law in essay form with citations to supporting statutes and cases in footnotes. It is a useful starting point for UK law. Halsbury’s Laws of […]
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Expressio Unius Est Exclusio Alterius
There are three rules of language applied by the courts to assist them in interpreting statutes. The rules of language are referred to as intrinsic aids or internal aids. The three rules of language are: the Ejusdem generis (of the same kind) rule, the Noscitur rule (Noscitur a […]
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Health and Safety Regulations
List of Health and Safety Regulations by date Miscellaneous Mines (General) Order 1956 (S.I. 1956/1778) ( 1956 ) Stratified Ironstone, Shale and Fireclay Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1956 (S.I. 1956/1943) ( 1956 ) Coal and Other Mines (Fire and Rescue) Order 1956 (S.I. […]
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Substantive Regulations
In line with the recommendation in the Löfstedt Report, it is advisable to distinguish between regulations that impose specific duties on businesses (substantive regulations) and those that define administrative requirements or revoke/amend earlier regulations (administrative regulations). […]
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Gilds
During the Absolutism of the Tudors, 1485-1603 James I summarized his idea of absolutism government in the famous Latin epigram, a deo rex, a rege lex, —the king is from God, and law from the king. All the Tudors asserted their supremacy in the sphere of industry and commerce. By a law […]
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Localism Act 2011
From the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms: This lengthy statute covers issues related to: a “list of asset of community value” (‘community assets’) that must be maintained by a local authority (such as local parks, village shops and public houses that are considered important to […]
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Scottish Property Legislation
List of Scottish Property Legislation Legislation about Abolition of Feudal Tenures etc. (Scotland) Act 2000: Abolition of Feudal Tenures etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 Legislation about Abolition of Feudal Tenures etc. (Scotland) Act 2000: Abolition of Feudal Tenures etc. (Scotland) Act […]
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Non-fatal Offences
Non-fatal Offences against the person Wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm: Actus reus In Golding [2014] EWCA Crim 889, where the context was that one person had infected another person with genital herpes, the Court of Appeal held that this person’s evidence as to her painful […]
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High Profile Groups
High Profile Groups (Government) List of High Profile Groups (Government) Better Regulation Delivery Office Bona Vacantia Border Force British Cattle Movement Service Broadmoor Hospital investigation CESG Centre for Defence Enterprise Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser […]
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Mary I
Queen Mary I Mary I, queen of England (1516-1558), unpleasantly remembered as “the Bloody Mary” on account of the religious persecutions which prevailed during her reign, was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Catherine of Aragon, born in the earlier years of their married life, when as yet no […]
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Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar Sir Julius Caesar (1557-1558-1636), English judge, descended by the female line from the dukes de’ Cesarini in Italy, was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the university of Paris, where in the year 1581 […]
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Lent
In England a Lenten fast was first ordered to be observed by Earconberht, king of Kent (640-664). In the middle ages, meat, eggs and milk were forbidden in Lent not only by ecclesiastical but by statute law; and this rule was enforced until the reign of william III. The chief Lenten food […]