As a result, the scope of the common-law system of judicial review has been significantly broadened.
India, after all, has a common-law legal tradition and a stockmarket that is 130 years old.
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They divide these countries into two groups according to whether they have civil-law or common-law systems.
It could violate any number of common-law and statutory anti-fraud provisions, including criminal mail and wire-fraud provisions.
India, with its English-language skills and common-law tradition is well-placed to secure a big share of the business.
All of these factors lead us to conclude that Mainstay was a common-law employer of its leased employees.
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It protects documents that would normally be protected by the common-law attorney-client privilege, except in corporate tax-shelter cases and criminal cases.
And inter-circuit competition is essential for our common-law system to work well.
Common-law principles are regularly being modified by legislation in all common-law jurisdictions.
State courts can consider matters of federal law in addition to claims based on common-law concepts such as negligence, which is what St.
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Price filed to enforce the codicil by arguing that they were still married, even though they had been divorced, as common-law husband and wife.
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The experience of the British courts, being the fountainhead of the common-law tradition, shows that they have adapted well to the new constitutional paradigm.
It is natural for those familiar with the common-law system to object to a non-judicial body overturning an interpretation given by a final appellate court.
And squabbles over inheritance are more frequent in common-law countries, where wills are more casually drawn up, says Leon Verstappen of the University of Groningen.
Some economists point to a difference between common-law and civil-law economies.
Typical of his ability to see patterns, he notes that, today, his rabbi's name is Harry, and the name of his ex-common-law wife rhymes with Beary.
Within a year of the diagnosis, Sheppard's relationship with his common-law wife underwent a steep decline, and they ended it a year and a half later.
Sato says he is not coping well with her loss and the only way he can find peace is to learn exactly what happened to his common-law wife.
Therefore, some aspects of the common-law system have been modified.
She has one child with her common-law husband, Anusorn Amornchat.
In some countries, such as Turkey and Mexico, the law is based on the French Napoleonic model where secured creditors may not collect as much as in common-law countries.
In many criminal cases, the common-law requirement that a defendant must have a mens rea (ie, he must or should know that he is doing wrong) has been weakened or erased.
This is a fundamental break from the way legal research has been performed since the mid-1700s, when Sir William Blackstone revolutionized the practice of law by putting English common-law cases into categories.
The principle that courts must be seen to be independent was a common-law export, its ascendancy owing much to the glowing portrayal of Britain's separation of powers by the 18th-century political philosopher, Montesquieu.
To enable these trusts, most of the states allowing them had to get rid of an old common-law principle called the "rule against perpetuities, " which allowed trusts to exist only for about 90 years.
Stalwarts of the industrial revolution such as Thomas Newcomen, a West Country engineer, rub shoulders with John Locke, a political philosopher, and Edward Coke, a lawyer and jurist who did much to shape the common-law traditions of intellectual property.
While the definition of marriage is still left to the states, they say, the federal government has stepped in before to enforce order, as when it declared uniform national policy on death taxes regardless of whether states had community-property laws or common-law marriage.
Parisi's common-law wife, Susanna Massimi, once broke out in hives when she touched its leaves. (She, for her part, is not allowed to wear perfume or put cream on her hands when entering the basement sanctorum.) Dark, resinous and furry like sage, the Pelo de Oro plant is prone to disease and easily infects other crops.
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