CURRENT ISSUES IN SUCCESSION LAW

A Natural Law of Succession

Consider the following problem. You are given an alphabet of k distinct symbols and are told that the i symbol occurred exactly ni times in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the conditional probability that the next symbol will be i. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperf...

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law

A Natural Law of Succession 1

Consider the problem of multinomial estimation. You are given an alphabet of distinct symbols and are told the frequency with which each symbol occurred in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the symbol probabilities. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperforms standard appr...

A Review on "Civil Law in Current Legal System"

بحث تنقیح قوانین و مقررات، از مباحثی است که درحال حاضر محافل علمی را بیش از پیش به خود مشغول کرده؛ و یکی از مباحث مهم تنقیح قوانین و مقررات، بررسی و تشخیص«نسخ ضمنی» مصوبات است. در این مقاله به گوشه‌هایی از مبحث نسخ (آن هم نه نسخ و تغییرات ضمنی، بلکه نسخ و تغییرات صریح)، اکتفا می‌شود. شاید تصور شود که نسخ، اصلاح و الحاق صریح معلوم است و نیازی به بیان آن نیست، اتفاقاً در این تحقیق، دایرة بحث، بیش...

Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Law