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Published: 29 June 2006
... on unjust enrichment, with ignorance constituting the ground of restitution, or on the vindication of property rights, with the claimant's ignorance being used to explain why title did not pass to the defendant. Where, however, the claimant's property is transferred indirectly to the defendant without...
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Published: 29 June 2006
... founded on the reversal of unjust enrichment, restitutionary claims founded on wrongdoing such as tort and equitable wrongdoing, restitutionary claims founded on the vindication of property rights, mental incapacity, institutional incapacity, and whether a defence of incapacity should be recognised...
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Limitation Periods and Laches
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Graham Virgo
Published: 29 June 2006
..., restitutionary claims founded on equitable wrongs, vindication of proprietary rights, and function of the laches defence. The Law Commission has recommended the reform of the law on limitation periods 65 so that a core regime should regulate limitation periods...
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Published online: 01 January 2010
Published in print: 29 June 2006
... structure to the Law of Restitution, whereby restitutionary remedies are triggered by unjust enrichment, wrongdoing, and the vindication of property rights. Subsequent developments in the courts have, for the most part, vindicated this approach. Consequently, the basic structure of this book remains...
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Published: 25 April 2024
... The Principles of the Law of Restitution . Fourth Edition. Graham Virgo, Oxford University Press. © Graham Virgo 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198885320.003.0021 This chapter is concerned with restitutionary claims relating to the vindication of proprietary rights. It considers...
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Published: 25 April 2024
... The Principles of the Law of Restitution . Fourth Edition. Graham Virgo, Oxford University Press. © Graham Virgo 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198885320.003.0022 This chapter distinguishes between claims to vindicate property rights where the claim is proprietary and where the claim...
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Published: 19 April 2012
...Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminist philosopher, novelist, and historian who dreamed of establishing a utopian community for women in the Age of Revolutions. In 1790, Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men in support of the French Revolution. She followed this up...
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The Consequences of Possession: Eric Descheemaeker
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Descheemaeker Eric
Published: 01 June 2014
... nouvelleté saisine 14n German Civil Code BGB Pothier RJ ejectment Aubry C Pandectists Paul quasi possession Rau C South African law usufruct Austrian law Gaius Hommel KF utilities possession of rights titularity Interdicts rei vindication civil possession possessio civilis natural...
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Published: 24 July 1997
... the first extensive discussion of women’s emancipation, the central concern of modern feminism. Vindication Emile philosophe central concern modern feminism This content is only available as a PDF. ...
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Published: 24 July 1997
...This content is only available as a PDF. Punch demonstrations Vindication African Farm In the 1890s and more particularly the early twentieth century, the question of women’s rights finally became a matter of intense public and political debate. After decades of discussion of the ‘woman question...
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Published: 13 April 2021
...This chapter discusses the role of ridicule in the work of one of the century's foremost critics of men and women's subordination. In her Vindication of the Rights of Men , Mary Wollstonecraft, referencing Shaftesbury, accused Edmund Burke of using ridicule to humiliate his...
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The Essence of Restitution
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Graham Virgo
Published: 01 August 2015
..., including reversal of unjust enrichment, the deprivation of benefits from a wrongdoer, and the vindication of property rights with which the wrongdoer has interfered. It explains the justification for recognizing an independent law of restitution, and sets out the principal types of restitutionary remedy...
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Banknotes and their Vindication in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
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Kenneth G. C. Reid
Published: 28 January 2016
... of doctrine against policy, Roman law was used as a proxy, with both sides calling on Digest texts and on the account of vindication in Voet’s Commentarius ad Pandectas . Victory for the Royal Bank was obtained only by re-characterizing a rule of bona fide ...
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Published: 28 August 2008
... first book, the Vindication of Natural Society , received positive reviews, especially about the quality of the writing, but his most ambitious literary project was his Philosophical Enquiry , though it was not published until 1757. He married Jane Nugent on March 12...
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Published: 27 March 2025
...2025 This chapter introduces Mary Wollstonecraft, who is famously hailed as the founder of modern feminism. Her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is taught at universities in a variety of disciplines, such as women’s studies and gender studies. The chapter then provides...
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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Very Short Introduction
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9780192676849 and E. J. Clery
Published: 27 March 2025
...Mary Wollstonecraft: A Very Short Introduction discusses the life and legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft, who was widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. It highlights the significance of her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman . However, Wollstonecraft’s...
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The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and its Consequences
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Matthew H. Kramer
Published online: 19 January 2012
Published in print: 15 December 2011
... of partial vindication, the book presents a rationale for the death penalty that is free-standing rather than an aspect or offshoot of a general theory of punishment. Its purgative rationale has not heretofore been propounded in any contemporary philosophical and practical debates over the death penalty...
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Daniella Gandolfo
Published: 15 July 2009
... of abasement, of utter and unreserved self-degradation, but as an act of resistance and vindication. She cites the act's connection with José María Arguedas's last novel, El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo , which centers on life in one of the barriadas surrounding the port...
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Social Realism, Indigenismo, and the Vindication of the Other
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María Begoña Pulido Herráez
Published: 21 June 2022
... Fuentes López y Fuentes Gregorio Nahua Indians Bellido Pilar mestizos Los perros hambrientos The Hungry Dogs Alegría La serpiente de oro The Golden Serpent Alegría social realism indigenismo poetic heterogeneity referentiality vindication The heyday of the social realist novel spans...
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Published: 29 June 2006
... of the in pari delicto defence, vindication of proprietary rights despite illegality, and reform of the law. The Law Commission has published a Consultation Paper on the effect of illegality on contracts and trusts. 93 In this paper the Law...
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