civil war/disturbance/unrest etc•Gandhi said the country was meaning a state ofcivil war.•We did it ourselves, without havingcivil wars.•Arisinginflationarytrendand apersistentfiscaldeficitduring 1990 wereexacerbatedby the continuingcivil warand risingpetrolprices.•The Merovingiancivil wars, at...
Civil Procedural Law Curriculum Code: Curriculum Type: Subject Description: This course mainly introduces the concept and purpose of Science of Civil Procedural Law; fundamental principle; fundamental system; appeal and jurisdiction; adversary system; testimony system; procedure system; retrial system. Thro...
noun A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority. noun The body of rules and principles governing the affairs of a community and enforced by a political authority; a legal system. noun The condition of social order and justice created by adherence to such a ...
When a court imposes or shifts the costs associated with legal compliance from one party to another. A good example of cost shifting occurs with electronic evidence and electronic discovery compliance. The general presumption under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is that the party responding to...
CIVIL procedureThe article focuses on commercial practice under the European Union (EU) law. In April 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union gave its judgment in a case. The judgment follows a series of judgments in the area of unfair commercial practices in which...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishˌRoman ˈlaw noun [uncountable] law civil lawExamples from the CorpusRoman law• Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory.• Formulary procedure was the classical procedure of Ro...
rule of law everyone acts under the law. A phrase as old as Aristotle, it has a special meaning in the constitutional law of theUKand in relation to discussions of law and politics everywhere. Perhaps the most practically useful sense in which the doctrine is applied is to demand that the...
(see table of delayed statutory retirement age) shall not exceed three years, meaning employees can choose to take early retirement within a range of 1 month and 36 months before reaching statutory retirement age. 4) The...
In this chapter I want to look at civil procedural law from a legal history perspective. My aim is to present one of the flagships of the post-2010 procedural reform, the Code of Civil Procedure, in a legal-historical context. In this context, I will describe the characteristics of pseudo...
: public law that deals with crimes and their prosecution compare civil law Note: Substantive criminal law defines crimes, and procedural criminal law sets down criminal procedure. Substantive criminal law was originally common law for the most part. It was later codified and is now found in fe...