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unusual facts about Common Law



1727 in literature

Publisher Edmund Curll is convicted under English law for the publication of an English translation of Venus in the Cloister (in 1724) under the common law offence of disturbing the peace, setting a legal precedent for prosecutions for obscenity.

Confrontation Clause

The Confrontation Clause has its roots in both English common law, protecting the right of cross-examination, and Roman law, which guaranteed persons accused of a crime the right to look their accusers in the eye.

Convict Lake

A posse, from Benton, led by Deputy Sheriff George Hightower, encountered the convicts near the head of what is now Convict Creek.

Courts of Northern Ireland

The courts of Northern Ireland are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in Northern Ireland: they are constituted and governed by Northern Ireland law.

Delaware Court of Common Pleas

In civil matters, Court of Common Pleas tries lawsuits in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $50,000 (small claims), petitions for name change, habitual offender hearings on the privilege of operating a motor vehicle, and administrative appeals from the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Edward Rafeedie

During his tenure on the Superior Court, Rafeedie presided over several high-profile civil cases, including the contested conservatorship of Groucho Marx, the Britt Ekland and Rod Stewart palimony trial and part of the Bob Dylan divorce case.

Freda Steel

From 1978 to 1982, she was an Assistant Professor of Law with the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa.

Glendo, Wyoming

It was in a cabin near the town that William L. Carlisle, one of America's last train robbers, was captured in December 1919 after a shoot-out with the posse pursuing him.

Government of Pakistan

The basic civil and criminal laws governing the citizens of Pakistan are set down in major parliamentary legislation (a term inherited from the United Kingdom), such as the Exit Control List, the Pakistan Penal Code, and the Frontier Crimes Regulations.

History of Anglo-Hindu law

The British saw this system as unfair, due to the ambiguity of laws in different regions and lack of a common law.

History of Wyoming

It was fought between small settling ranchers against larger established ranchers in the Powder River Country and culminated in a lengthy shootout between local ranchers, a band of hired killers, and a sheriff's posse, eventually requiring the intervention of the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison.

House concurrent resolution 108

HCR-108 was passed concurrently with Public Law 280, which granted state jurisdiction over civil and criminal offenses committed by or upon Native Americans in Indian Territory in the states of California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Nebraska, all of which have large Indigenous populations.

Hyang'yak

During the rule of Chungjong (1506–1544), this contract was enforced by the local level officials; specific details were circulated in text and operated as an informal common law.

Insanity defense

In Ford v. Wainwright 477 U.S. 399 (1986), the US Supreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed.

Johan Munck

He has authored several books and articles related to criminal and civil law.

Land surveying in Kentucky

Most of the state utilizes the Metes and bounds land system, which is based on English Common Law and reflects the Commonwealth's original status as a part of Virginia until statehood in 1792.

Lathrop Brown

He was elected to the sheriff's posse of Monterey County in 1947 and was a member of committee to supervise the Graduate School of Public Administration of Harvard University in 1954 and 1955.

Laws of Burgos

The laws were created to avoid the legal problem that had arisen from the conquest and Spanish colonization of the Americas in the West Indies, where the common law of Castile was not applied.

Louie L. Wainwright

He is most famous for being the named respondent in two U.S. Supreme Court cases: Gideon v. Wainwright in which indigents are guaranteed an attorney, and Ford v. Wainwright, in which the Court approved the common law rule prohibiting the execution of the insane.

Police accountability

The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to reign in abuses and hold them accountable.

Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

This amendment codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases, and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.

Shootout at Wilson Ranch

Ainsworth did just that and after deputizing Moore the two-man posse headed to the Halderman Ranch, which was located a short distance away, along Turkey Creek Canyon.

Southport Courthouse

It houses courtrooms and chambers for part of the District Court of Queensland, which has jurisdiction to hear petty crimes and civil matters up to A$750,000.

Specialist Firearms Officer

The usage of firearms by the police is covered by statute (such as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and Human Rights Act 1998), policy (such as the Home Office Code of Practice on Police use of Firearms and Less Lethal Weapons and the ACPO Manual of Guidance on Police Use of Firearms) and common law.

The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers

The Elusive Avengers, a posse of young Red Partisans, including Valerka, a former schoolboy, Yashka, a devil-may-care gypsy, and two orphan siblings, Danka and his sister Ksanka, become Cheka agents after successfully stealing the map in The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers.

Theft Act 1968

The Larceny Act 1916 had codified the common law, including larceny itself, but it remained a complex web of offences.

Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

The High Court is a court of first instance with general original jurisdiction, hearing the most important cases in civil law and criminal law (in the latter case sitting as the Central Criminal Court).

Transsystemic

For example, at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Quebec, Quebec civil law and Canadian common law are taught at the same time in the same courses in a non-comparative manner.

Trespasser

:This article is about the common law concept of a trespasser; for the computer game, see Jurassic Park: Trespasser

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.

Workers Compensation Act 1987

The Act consists of 10 parts (2 of which have been repealed) which cover the issues of compensation liability and benefits, uninsured liabilities, common law remedies, insurance and protection of injured workers from dismissal.


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Alfa Corp. v. OAO Alfa Bank

The plaintiff alleged that the defendants' conduct constituted trademark infringement and unfair competition under federal law, under §§ 1114(1), 1125(a)(1)(A) of Title 15 of the United States Code, and trademark infringement, unfair competition, and dilution under the common law.

Arizona Pioneers' Home

Kate, once the common-law wife of Doc Holliday and later the wife of blacksmith George M. Cummings for only a year, had first gained notoriety as the madam of a brothel.

Australia–Hong Kong relations

Sir Anthony Mason, Murray Gleeson, James Spigelman, William Gummow are appointed to the Court of Final Appeal as non-permanent justices from other common law jurisdictions.

Bachelor of Civil Law

In Oxford, the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) is a taught postgraduate degree in English law, occupying a similar position as the Master of Laws (LLM) programmes of other British universities, but specifically for common law degree holders.

Benefit fraud

Prosecution may typically occur in England & Wales using the Social Security Administration Act 1992, or under the Theft Act 1978, or the Fraud Act 2006; in Northern Ireland under corresponding legislation; or in Scotland under Common Law Fraud.

Bodily Harm

Bodily harm, legal jargon used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences

Common law copyright

When Donaldson v Beckett reached the House of Lords in 1774 only one Lord, Thomas Lyttelton, spoke in favour of common law copyright.

Common law offence

Common law offences are crimes under English criminal law and the related criminal law of Commonwealth of Nations countries.

Common-law marriage in the United States

The following states never permitted common-law marriages: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State

The Second Circuit held that the Oneida's had both a federal common law cause of action and an implied cause of action under the Nonintercourse Act of 1793 (the version that governed the 1795 transaction).

Criminal law of Australia

Criminal offences under New South Wales law are based on the common law and the statutory provisions in the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).

Demise

Similarly the common law doctrine that all offices held under the Crown determined at its demise has been reversed by the Demise of the Crown Act 1901.

Doctors' Commons

The Court of Probate Act 1857 abolished the testamentary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and gave common lawyers the right to practise in areas which before had been the exclusive domain of civilians, while offering the token compensation that the civilians could practise in the common law courts.

Dollar Sweets dispute

By December 1985, it was decided to seek an injunction under common law against the union in the Supreme Court of Victoria, with solicitor Michael Kroger engaging junior barrister and future federal Treasurer Peter Costello hired to represent the company.

Donaldson v Beckett

Seven months previously, in the case of Hinton v. Donaldson, the Scots Court of Session had ruled that copyright did not exist in the common law of Scotland, so that Alexander Donaldson (an appellant in Donaldson v. Beckett with his older brother, John) could lawfully publish Thomas Stackhouse's New History of the Holy Bible.

Edward Drummond

The M'Naghten Rules developed by the House of Lords after his trial were to establish the basis for the insanity defence in all common law countries.

Eric Gibson

Gibson and his common law wife, Brigitte Neven, were in Florida at the time of Anna Nicole Smith's death.

Framing hammer

Norman Spaulding, a professor of civil law, has treated the framing hammer as a discursive metaphor for the Erie doctrine of United States law's reversal of the case Swift v. Tyson, which decided whether federal courts, when deciding matters not specifically addressed by the state legislature, had the authority to develop a federal common law.

Henry A. Peirce

Some time around 1828 he took a common-law wife (before marriages were legally required to be recorded) named Kahoa, or Virginia Rives, whose mother was a Hawaiian noble and father was Jean-Baptiste Rives, the French former Secretary of Kamehameha II.

Human rights in the United Kingdom

The Criminal Justice Act 1988 prohibits torture carried out by public officials in the performance of their duties and evidence obtained by torture is excluded by the common law.

Infield fly rule

William S. Stevens was a law student in 1975 when he anonymously published "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule" in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Law of Australia

This has been particularly evident with the growing influence on the English common law of the law of the European Union, in which modern common law developments in the United Kingdom are influenced by European law and conventions.

Lexi Love

Even though Love did not register her trademarked name until 2008, the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled that Love had established a common law trademark to her name.

Malice aforethought

In most common law jurisdictions, the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code, and in the various US state statutes which have codified homicide definitions, the term has been abandoned although the meaning remains the mens rea requirement for murder.

Masayoshi Toyoda

He wrote a book about serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga and his common-law wife Junko Ogata because their relationships seemed to be domestic violence.

Nicholas Sheran

In 1878, Sheran lived common-law with a Peigan woman named Mary Brown, and they had two sons together: Charles and William.

Oliver Samuels

Called Common Law, the show was written by Jamaica's leading playwright Aston Cooke.

Paul McHugh

He graduated LL.B.(Hons I) from Victoria University of Wellington, LLM (Saskatchewan), and obtained his PhD at Cambridge with his dissertation "The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law" (which was awarded a Yorke Prize in 1988).

Pauline Markham

The following year Markham’s company toured the West in H. M. S. Pinafore with a cast that included a young actress named Josephine Earp who later became the common-law wife of gambler and lawman Wyatt Earp.

Puisne

The judges and barons of the common law courts at Westminster, other than those having a distinct title, were called puisne.

Real property

English law has retained the common law distinction between real property and personal property, whereas the civil law distinguishes between "movable" and "immovable" property.

Robert Sharrock

Anthony Wood says of Sharrock that he was considered "learned in divinity, in the civil and common law, and very knowing in vegetables".

Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon

This view contradicted the dominant parliamentary supremacy theories of A. V. Dicey, which had guided common law courts since the late 19th century.

Société par actions simplifiée

The SAS is also similar to the limited company in the British law, and most other hybrids; though the hybrid in civil law countries is quite different because there is also a hybrid of common law principles applied.

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

Simultaneously, the Northern law reformer David Dudley Field II was independently working in the same ambitious direction of trying to codify all of the common law into a coherent civil code, but Field's proposed civil code was not actually enacted until 1866 in Dakota Territory, was belatedly enacted in 1872 in California, and was repeatedly rejected several times by his home state of New York and never enacted in that state.

Timothy Turner

In the contemporary debates between Sir Edward Coke and Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, Turner's notebooks reveal him to have felt a strong reaction against Ellesmere's claims for the royal prerogative as "transcendent to the common law".

Vinerian Professor of English Law

Upon Sir William Blackstone's appointment to the Vinerian Professorship, his lectures were the first to be given on the English Common Law in any university in the world.

Waterfield

R v Waterfield, a leading English case on common law police powers

Zorica Jevremović Munitić

As an advocate of a common Yugoslav cultural milieu she has undertaken research into the cultural history and theological common law in multinational and/or multiconfessional regions of Croatia, Slovenia and Kosovo within former Yugoslavia: Dubrovnik (1976-1980), Perast (1981), Dečani (1985-1989), Tacen (1982-1985), Povlja (1985), Poljica (1986-1990), Zjum (1990).