Insurance contracts have a long history, dating back to ancient civilizations. Over 2000 years ago, people would pool their resources to protect against financial loss. The loss could have been caused by unforeseen events such as fire, theft, or death. While it’s unlike the modern contracts o...
English law generally does not require mutuality where the franchise agreement seeks to impose a good faith obligation on only one of the parties. Nor does English law generally regard such asymmetrical good faith obligations as objectionable from an enforcement point of view. Nevertheless, enforcement...
meaning an exclusive licence (and assignment) made by the author of a work will not vest any rights 25 years following the author’s death, unless covered by the author’s will. Any agreement entered into by the author related to disposition of the reversionary interest...
The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks' Law, in particular, the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable. This is a central theme of the book 'The Mythical Man Month'. See also: Death March Reading List:...
The first of these, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which sought to restrict habeas corpus petitions, is judged to have virtually no impact. The second piece of legislation, the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act, which sought to curtail lawsuits against correctional officials, ...
Wiener wanted to change the law to include all types of sex, and that’s when the death threats started pouring in. “You’re dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. I’ll publicly execute you. I’m gonna embarrass you. Pedophile,” one Instagram user wrote. ...
I had no choice but to suck it up for Tuesday, since I was due in court, but by Tuesday afternoon, when I still felt like death, I returned to the doc to see what was up. Apparently, I still had the infection as the meds had not worked. On to antibiotic #2: the Z-pac. ...
part of them, neither temporarily on the way to somewhere else nor in any other manner,under pain that if they do not perform and comply with this command and should be found in our said kingdom and lordships and should in any manner live in them,they incur the penalty of death and th...
Copyright protection will have a different duration depending on the type of work and whether the creator is known, but in most cases, protection lasts 70 years from the death of the author. This term is applicable, among others, to “literary works”, a category that would include both an...
about stellar influence. The relatively great intellectual freedom possible at Rudolf’s court was now augmented by Kepler’s unexpected inheritance of a critical resource: Tycho’s observations. In his lifetime Tycho had been stingy in sharing his observations. After his death, although there was ...