This article, prepared by the counsel fo r the New York State Depar tment of Civil Service gives the complete up-to-date picture of rights of veterans under the State Military Law. It covers both the man or woman who lef t a Civil Service job and the veteran who wants to enter civil service for his post-war career. While prepared specially for State employees, almost all of the facts given here...

This Essay does not focus on the feasibility of an European Community (”EC”) civil code, but rather addresses questions of substance relating to the law of obligations, that is, the law of contract and tort, leaving aside the law of property and family law. Nevertheless, I must state that I do not believe in the feasibility of a uniform Civil Code for the European Community. Rather than employi...

This Article argues that recent developments in economic theory provide a new rationale for the dichotomous approach of land use arrangements in the law of servitudes that is almost universal in the modern Western legal tradition. The treatment of certain land−related promises as enforceable contracts between parties, rather than real rights that run with the land in perpetuity, can be explaine...

1 In understanding claims about the rights of people with disabilities, it is important to distinguish between civil rights and entitlements to benefits. The relationship(s) between these two sorts of claims is a matter of important philosophical disagreement. Among nations with an English law system, US law most clearly distinguishes civil rights from welfare system benefits. For this reason, ...

Until recently few jurisdictions have allowed arbitration of family law disputes, considering such arbitration to be contrary to public policy. But policies favouring private ordering, combined with pressures on family courts have encouraged reconsideration of the policy issues. This is notably true in common law jurisdictions. Similar developments in civil law jurisdictions are inhibited by th...

The article is devoted to the topical issues of analysis and systematization sources Sports Civil Law. role sports in development modern society constantly growing. civil legal relations requires Law, which should harmonize entire complex normative acts field physical culture sports. This would make it possible develop educational programmes for training future specialists this field, raise res...

In France, Justice Jackson’s question about where to look for the meaning of a statute would be phrased in broader terms and would not be limited to the question of whether to look only at the words of a statute or also at the legislative intent. French law starts from the premise that statutes and codes are the foundations of the legal system in the same way that cases are the foundation of th...

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