He lost at trial and appealed. Held, on appeal, the only obligation owed by the wife during her lifetime was to her husband. He had expended his funds for her benefit, the estate was modest and the moral claims of the testator's children, who had not contributed to the estate, were ...
M: I think their graduates must be able to shift from one profession to another, because they are trained in a very independent way. If you can do that, you raise the level of the flexibility of the mind. Today's rapid changes in technology demand this adaptability. And you see the be...
I think of how malleable groups of people can be, and why, and reflect on the institutions they affiliate with, and why. Institutions are groups of people under the spell of a moral authority. Government. Media. Academic. Religious. Corporate. Institutions are allergic to original thought. The...
That’s why, in case you had been wondering, I have devoted so many months to Queryfest: my aim has been not to help you construct a generic letter that will work for every agent to whom you might conceivably decide to send it, but to assist you in ferreting...
Less charitably, they were devices that appealed to the (very) early adopter. (Does it surprise you that I had both of these devices, and even the Compaq’s spiritual predecessor, the Osborne 1. I once got out of jury duty because I had one of these with me in the jury box when ...
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The Chinn-Chapman juggernaut did make an RAK star of Suzi Quatro when “Can The Can” topped the UK chart in 1973. Suzi’s early work had been firmly in the rock genre, including a spell with progressive act Cradle, and it’s interesting how easily these rock-oriented acts sprinkled thei...
Abstracting away from the details of Gauthier’s view, we might be tempted to spell this out as: Gauthier: Something provides normative reasons for action if, and only if, it would be rational to choose for it to provide motivating reasons for action. We can now argue for Entailment. ...
Prices started to gallop with the '74s, which were face-lifted at each end to accommodate required five-mph impact bumpers. A wraparound rear window marked the '75s, which began Camaro's sales revival after a four-year dry spell. Capitalizing on renewed interest in ponycars, Chevy re...
In the second section, we spell out our argument based on an endogenous conception of litigant configuration and legal uncertainty, which provides an innovative explanation to the relationship between complex litigants' configuration and judicial success. In a third section, we identify an additional ...