Minding Culture
Minding Culture

Author: Terri Janke

Publisher: WIPO

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9280511890

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"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published on Monday, March 15, 2004, a collection of practical case studies on the use of the intellectual property sytsem by indigenous communities of Australia. It was written for WIPO by Terri Janke, an Australian lawyer, and a descendant of the Meriam people of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia."--

Thinking Like a Lawyer
Thinking Like a Lawyer

Author: Frederick F. Schauer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0674032705

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This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory interpretation, legal realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden of proof. In addressing the question whether legal reasoning is distinctive, Frederick Schauer emphasizes the formality and rule-dependence of law. When taking the words of a statute seriously, when following a rule even when it does not produce the best result, when treating the fact of a past decision as a reason for making the same decision again, or when relying on authoritative sources, the law embodies values other than simply that of making the best decision for the particular occasion or dispute. In thus pursuing goals of stability, predictability, and constraint on the idiosyncrasies of individual decision-makers, the law employs forms of reasoning that may not be unique to it but are far more dominant in legal decision-making than elsewhere. Schauer’s analysis of what makes legal reasoning special will be a valuable guide for students while also presenting a challenge to a wide range of current academic theories.

The Encyclopaedia of Pleading and Practice; Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common Law, in Equity and in Criminal Cases Volume 7
The Encyclopaedia of Pleading and Practice; Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common Law, in Equity and in Criminal Cases Volume 7

Author: William Mark McKinney

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9781230168463

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... ferry across the Delaware, one of whom held a New Jersey charter for his end of the ferry, and the other a Pennsylvania charter for his end, could not properly join in an action lor damages to the ferry caused by a bridge; but that, their chartered interests not being joint, separate actions must be brought. An Objection that Parties are Improperly Joined as plaintiffs should be made when the petition for the appointment of viewers is presented or, at the very latest, when the issue is framed by the court. Ehret v. Schuylkill River East Side R. Co., 151 Pa. St. 158. 6. Alabama.--To authorize one to be made a party in highway and ferry cases, he must have a private right, as an individual proprietor, which he can vindicate by suit, and the record must show his interest. Creswell r. Greene County, 24 Ala. 282. California.--A person through whose lands a proposed road will pass is beneficially interested, and is a proper party to contest the legality of the proceedings for the establishment of the road. Damrell z. San Joaquin County, 40 Cal. 154. Connecticut.--A cemetery association instituted a proceeding under the statute for enlarging its territory by taking adjoining lands owned in severalty by different persons. It was held that all the owners, though having no joint interest, were properly made defendants together. Evergreen Cemetery Assoc, v. Beecher, 53 Conn. 551. Indiana.--One through whose lands a drain will run must be a party to the proceedings by notice or otherwise, and, unless this appear on the trial, the whole proceeding must fail. Wright v. Wilson, 95 Ind. 408. Where the proceedings are instituted by the party seeking the condemnation, it goes without saying that the owner of the land sought to be taken must be made a...