LEGAL. That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust. Vide Powell on Mortg. Index, h.t. 2. The party who has the legal title, has alone the right to seek a remedy for...
Also found in: Dictionary, Encyclopedia. Civil Rights Personal liberties that belong to an individual, owing to his or her status as a citizen or resident of a particular country or community. The most common legal application of the term civil rights involves the rights guaranteed to U.S. ...
After the constitution, the primary source of specific tax law in the Philippines is the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC), the most recent version of which was enacted via the The Tax Reform Act of 1997. The NIRC establishes basic taxes the government may levy such as personal income ta...
In Malawi, the most restrictive legal environment for abortion, little progress appears to have been made towards UHC for adolescents. In Zambia, despite longstanding legal provision for safe abortion on a wide range of grounds, the limited services combined with low levels of knowledge of the ...
While abortion has certainly been one of the first and most significant issues debated by legal feminism, other issues arose in the following decades. The debate on abortion, which has been heightened and thought- ful inside and outside feminism, raised moral, religious, philosophical and legal ...
According to her description, someone else experienced the same thing in Xi'an at that time: she was pregnant too, and could not reach 120, so she could not seek medical treatment in time at the hospital, which finally led to abortion.1,2 At that time, Xi'an was under a city-wide ...
Legal Norm Injection Points in Indiana and Norwaying that the issue of “social” and “humanitarian” indications for the termination of a pregnancy was a matter of debate, Berner noted that a number of “ethical, esteemed people have suggested reforms along this line”, allowing abortion, and...
A survey on attitudes concerning opposition to the legalization of euthanasia, same sex marriage, abortion and the death Laws 2013, 2 46 penalty found that the majority of Mexicans oppose these issues based upon Catholic principles [8,60]. Finally, the death penalty for Mexico may also serve ...
Aunts of Erik and Lyle Menendez testified on their behalf Monday as the brothers seek to have their 1989 convictions reexamined in the shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home more than 30 years ago. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day],...
With its decision inDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization(2022), the Supreme Court overruled five decades of precedent guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion, on the basis that such right was not supported by “history and tradition.” The Court has utilized this same rationale ...