Civil law has made it clear that bartenders are liable when they continue to serve inebriated customers.
CBOs perpetuate the ASBO trick of creating under civil law a criminal offence applicable to one person.
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Any change to the trust requires agreement from a Danish government commission that is charged with overseeing civil law.
Lord Lloyd argued, however, that T-Pims should be imposed according to "the balance of probabilities", which is used in civil law.
The land dispute itself is a matter of civil law, and many of the decisions may have been taken by junior officials.
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"As I began to think about it further I realized no one reads these things, " said Mr. Wilson, who practices civil law.
At issue, the article says, is that DCMA requirements under criminal law are different from the tests that apply under civil law.
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Nepalese civil law allows a woman to inherit property from her father only if she remains unmarried to the age of 35.
The question of product liability would be best left to civil law.
But Thailand's legal system is based on civil law, so the case may not be treated as a precedent by other bankruptcy judges.
Trusts are not used in many civil law jurisdictions, such as the emerging markets in continental Europe, South America and the Far East.
Foundations are similar to trusts, but are based on civil law.
Similarly, negligence claims are usually brought in the jurisdiction in which the treatment was provided and are therefore subject to the civil law procedures in that country.
The Californian constitution guarantees criminal defendants a right to speedy trial, but it does not technically require courts to administer civil law at all, Ms Feinstein says.
Senior officials from the Pentagon and State Department said they've warned contractors that, starting January 1, 2009, they will be subject to Iraqi criminal and civil law.
And probably a civil law suit waiting to happen.
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The civil law governing these claims is rapidly changing, and that change is being driven by cases of historic sexual abuse and a growing awareness of the psychology of abusers and victims.
Zimbabwe observes both civil law and traditional law, and the vast majority of women (except for white women and the few African women who marry under civil law) come under traditional law.
If you come from a country that practises civil law (where a written legal code holds sway), then you must first spend a year getting a Master of Laws at an American university.
However, he reiterated Mr Brown's previous comment that "British laws must be based on British values and that religious law, while respecting other cultures, should be subservient to British criminal and civil law".
For example, in both criminal and civil law we allow the occupants of a residence to stand their ground against an intruder and defend the home up to and including the use of deadly force.
The decision goes to the heart of a big controversy in civil law: To what extent can the government be held liable for failing to protect citizens against risks that are conceivable, but expensive and burdensome to protect against?
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The bill is set to specifically exclude the Church of England and Church in Wales to avoid a clash between Canon Law - which defines marriage as that between a man and a woman - and UK civil law.
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Although cleared by one court - held under sharia or Islamic law - in the nearby emirate of Ras-al-Khaimah, she has been tried for a second time, under civil law, on charges of possessing 50g cocaine found hidden in the roof space of her flat.
After the first post-dictatorship democratic elections in 1999, 12 of the northern Muslim states adopted sharia law, putting an enormous strain on the unity of a Nigerian state that had previously been run only under the secular, civil law bequeathed to it by British colonial rulers.
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Williams, who now goes by the name Shyteek Johnson, completed a 12-year prison sentence in April 2010 but has remained in custody as the state seeks to have him committed indefinitely under a civil law that allows extended confinement for sex offenders with mental abnormalities that make them likely to offend again.
Some economists point to a difference between common-law and civil-law economies.
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