Prior to FIRRMA, CFIUS's jurisdiction was limited to transactions that could result in foreign control of any US business. As a result, the jurisdictional analysis was largely legal in nature: did the investor's ownership structure make it a "foreign person"; could the investor's g...
Sir William Blackstone and James Kent – respectively authors of the definitive Commentaries on English and American law – were among those who used it as an example of the "rigour of the old rule" governing marriage, in comparison to which their own affirmations of women's subordinate legal ...
Like the U.S.,Canadadoesn't regard cryptocurrencies as legal tender. However, its approach to virtual currencies is slightly more unified, with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) currently defining them as commodities — a definition which would appear to apply in general throughout most government ...