The legal character of ancillary customary marriages

The Distinctive Character of the Quebec Legal System

Quebec is unique in Canada not only for its language and culture but also for its legal system. Unlike the other Canadian provinces which are based on the British common law tradition, the roots of Quebec’s private law are based on the civil law and Napoleonic Code1 from France. The common law influence has penetrated into the Quebec legal system, making it distinctive, influenced both by the c...

The Formation of Customary Law

The Fiduciary Relationship: Its Economic Character and Legal Consequences

Despite the centrality of fiduciary relationships to Anglo-American law, the scope of fiduciary rights and duties has eluded definition. Using the analytical tools provided by law and economics, in particular the principal-agent model, this Article provides a more precise definition offiduciary rights and duties in Anglo-American law and the economic consequences that such rights and duties gen...

Comparison of the frequency of dentoalveolar deformities in consanguineous ‎marriages and non-consanguineous marriages in Kerman, Iran

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Consanguineous marriage is one of the causes of congenital deformities and genetic diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of consanguineous marriage in dentoalveolar deformities in 16-18 years old adolescents with parental consanguineous marriages in Kerman, Iran. METHODS: A total of 388 female and male adolescents participated in this study. The subjects w...

Character Attacks as Complex Strategies of Legal Argumentation

In this paper we analyze leading criminal cases taken from the Supreme Court of the United States, in which ad hominem arguments played a crucial role. We show that although such character attack arguments can be used for legitimate purposes in legal argumentation, in many cases they are weak arguments, but so persuasive that they can effectively prejudice the judgment of a jury. Their dangerou...