... jurisdictions, including other GCC nations, such as Saudi Arabia, and England and Wales. The article concludes that reforms to guardianship in civil laws should align Kuwait’s law of majority with international standards. Financial guardianship Minors Kuwaiti civil law English common law Comparative law...

...This book provides a history of some of the main institutions of South African private law and in so doing explores the process through which integration of the English common law and the continental civil law came about in that jurisdiction. It provides an insight into the way the process...

...Johnson loved the law and counted many lawyers among his closest friends. This chapter argues that Johnson’s knowledge of English common law, European jurisprudence, and natural law was deep and broad. It establishes the formal and imaginative links Johnson makes between language and law...

... that the dates on which they were passed do not form part of the titles to the statutes. The legal system of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is the English common law system. The principles of English common law apply in the territory by virtue of the 1705 Common Law (Declaration of Application) Act and those...

... seisin Bible compurgation lexicography early English Common Law judges legal profession litigation Medieval Latin lexicography unjust distraint When legal historians talk about the early English Common Law they are generally talking about two different, but connected, phenomena. One...

... as a prefabricated syntactical unit and it is further notable as an instance of the popular rhetorical figure paroemia. Irenius invokes the saying to start an argument about the English common law being “inconvenient” for Ireland. agency Erasmus Desiderius persona proverbs prudence virtue...

...Anderson traces the proffered rationales for the marital rape exemption under English common law, which provided a normative structure of marriage in which permanent sexual access was a constitutive part. She then analyzes the changes in the marital rape exemption in the United States as a way...

... of “colonialism” to “Islamic law.” It argues that restrictions imposed by English common law concerning trusts on religious waqfs were exploited by both colonial officials and Arab Muslims who wanted to reap the profits from the sale of failed waqfs. Arab diaspora British Straits Settlements Maxwell Benson...

...This chapter discusses the legal traditions of China and ancient Greece, and looks at English common law. It shows that despite claims of embodying rationality and reason, the appeal of tradition is a recurrent theme, even within modern law, along with the invocation of an ancestral law-giver...

...Chapter 2 describes the development of the crime of seditious libel (criticism of government) in English common law, and the crown judges’ purposeful effort to support the government and prosecution of its critics by creating at least six unique features that deviated from ordinary criminal law...

... on some of the aforementioned issues. These four broad areas of research presuppose that the identification of Indian legal system with the English common law system uncritically accepted colonial practices of British India. It is historically acknowledged that colonialism and law share a reciprocal...

...This chapter explores the habeas remedy, as it originated and evolved in the English common law, and its subsequent development in the United States. The Great Writ of habeas corpus was a legal procedure. Habeas became part of the law of the newly independent American states. The crisis...

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... English common law tradition, was largely limited to the prevention of prior restraints, which are suppressions of expression before it is even made public. In Davis v. Massachusetts (1897), the Supreme Court upheld the prosecution of a man who preached in a public park without a license...

... or English common law courts of general jurisdiction, were first developed in Western liberal democracies. These have been influential exports beyond Europe, although susceptible to autochthonous adaptations informed by local culture and exigencies. This chapter examines the chief features of courts...

...This chapter examines the role of ambiguity in a hermeneutic setting that sees it only as doubt and never as plenty, namely, the English common law, where discussions about the nature of ambiguity serve as a proxy for a deeper controversy about what it means to interpret a text—a will, a contract...

...This chapter addresses policy-based implied bare licences. Unlike in the previous chapter, there is no contract in existence and no voluntariness on the part of the copyright owner, and indeed in some cases, no prior relationship between the parties. Historically, English common law has recognised...

... was transferred to a Virginia planter named John Mottram, who held Key as a slave after the period of indenture had ended. After Mottram’s death, Key sued Mottram’s estate for her freedom and her son’s, citing English common law dictating that a child assumed the legal status of the father. In the aftermath...

...This chapter explains the English common law and colonial legal antecedents to early national marriage law in the extant states. It argues that the common law marriage ages of twelve (for girls) and fourteen (for boys) are based on presumptions about puberty and intellectual capacity, and that when...