UK Law

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  • USA: Putting Your Questions Into Legal Categories, Chapter 4

    This chapter shows how to organize your legal question into the conceptual categories used by publishers of law books and websites, a necessary and preliminary step to finding appropriate background resources (which are covered in the next chapter). Second, this chapter introduces you to some techniques for using legal indexes. legal indexes are most commonly…

  • USA: An Overview of the Law 2, Chapter 3

    USA: An Overview of the Law 2, Chapter 3 2 The Trial Most lawsuits never go to trial. the parties settle their dispute or simply drop the case. often, the outcome of a pretrial motion resolves the case or encourages one of the parties to settle. i f a case does go to trial, it’s…

  • USA: An Overview of Legal Research

    This chapter provides a basic approach to virtually any legal research task in the law library or on the internet. this is nothing we invented; rather, it is the almost universal method of experienced legal researchers. once you understand how this overall approach works, any research task will be greatly simplified. Although some of what…

  • Age of Glanvill

    The Age of Glanvill In the Legal History The work of Henry II The reign of Henry II is of supreme importance in the history of our law, and its importance is due to the action of the central power, to reforms ordained by the king.1 Still it was rather as an organizer and governor…

  • Outline of English Legal History

    Outline of English Legal History Law and Custom in Early Britain (1-10) People Types Celtic 1. General a. Arrived in early 5th Century B.C. b. “Britons” I. Some mixture of bronze age people and Celtics c. Were Indo-European speaking tribal peoples from Germany d. Militaristic culture spread over much of Europe- went from British Isles…

  • Outline of English Legal History

    Outline of English Legal History Law and Custom in Early Britain (1-10) People Types Celtic 1. General a. Arrived in early 5th Century B.C. b. “Britons” I. Some mixture of bronze age people and Celtics c. Were Indo-European speaking tribal peoples from Germany d. Militaristic culture spread over much of Europe- went from British Isles…

  • English Reports

    English Reports Historical List of English Reports Note: see also the entry on reports cases here. For historical purposes: Abstract of Reported Cases Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions (between the Years 1884 to…       , published in London: H. Sweet, 1887 Abstract of Reported Cases Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions, Bringing the Cases…

  • Hazardous Substance

    Hazardous Substances in the United Kingdom Hazardous Substances Consent and Land Planning in Scotland Hazardous substances consent is required for the presence of a hazardous substance on, over or under land (which includes presence in buildings and on structures) unless the aggregate quantity of the substance present is less than the controlled quantity for that…

  • Radioactive Material

    Radioactive Material Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste NORM Waste Regulation in the UK NORM waste is a specific term used in legislation and includes wastes from NORM industrial activities and NORM wastes from the remediation of land contaminated with NORM. Some of the industrial activities generate, or have the potential for generating, NORM wastes.…

  • Radioactive Material

    Radioactive Material Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste NORM Waste Regulation in the UK NORM waste is a specific term used in legislation and includes wastes from NORM industrial activities and NORM wastes from the remediation of land contaminated with NORM. Some of the industrial activities generate, or have the potential for generating, NORM wastes.…

  • Bureaucracy

      Bureaucracy Administration and central Bureaucracy and self-government must not be regarded as mutually exclusive systems of administration. In all civilised states they supplement one another, although their relative importance is hardly ever in two instances the same. It is a mistake to suppose that there is no self-government in Prussia, in France, or even…

  • Bureaucracy

      Bureaucracy Administration and central Bureaucracy and self-government must not be regarded as mutually exclusive systems of administration. In all civilised states they supplement one another, although their relative importance is hardly ever in two instances the same. It is a mistake to suppose that there is no self-government in Prussia, in France, or even…

  • Termination of Contract

    Buyer’s Right to Termination of Contract Note: see the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980. Statutes Sale of Goods Act 1979 as amended in 1994 and 1995. Judicial Decisions Afovos Shipping Co. v. Pagnan [1983] 1 W.L.R. 195. Agricultores […]

  • Calendars

    Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases Calendars and Medieval Law Calendars and Legal History Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases Calendars and Medieval Law Calendars and Legal History Calendars and Registers of Administrative Documents These are primarily the work of the Public […]

  • Bankruptcy

    Definition of Bankruptcy In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Bankruptcy : The state of a person who has been adjudged by a court to be insolvent (Compare winding-up). The court orders the compulsory administration of a bankrupt’s affairs so that his […]