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.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and was ordered to be detained in a secure hospital.
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In the English law of negligence, causation proves a direct link between the defendant’s negligence and the claimant’s loss and damage.
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For these purposes, liability in negligence is established when there is a breach of the duty of care owed by the defendant to the claimant that causes loss and damage, and it is reasonable that the defendant should compensate the claimant for that loss and damage.
In English law, a corporation is a juristic person and is capable of committing, and being convicted of and sentenced for, a criminal offence.
He played as a goalkeeper for a number of clubs in Scotland and England before retiring to pursue a career in English law.
Edwards v. National Coal Board was an important case in English case law.
The first schedule of the Interpretation Act 1978, defines the following terms: "British Islands", "England", and "United Kingdom".
It is the earliest English or British legislation by which Crown servants, including diplomats and governors, could be punished under English law for offences committed abroad.
The British saw this system as unfair, due to the ambiguity of laws in different regions and lack of a common law.
So far as English law was concerned, both marriage ceremonies were in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and were soon annulled.
With the advent of British and downfall of Mughal Empire, the Muslims were deprived of their political authority and their law was replaced by English law.
English law has retained the common law distinction between real property and personal property, whereas the civil law distinguishes between "movable" and "immovable" property.
As the law will not remove them quickly, they decide to share the house.
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In English law, s58 Children Act 2004, limits the availability of the lawful correction defense to common assault under s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988.
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.
The collateral fact doctrine is a doctrine in English law asserted by LJ Diplock in Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission.
La Novelle Natura Brevium (1534) was a treatise on English law by Anthony Fitzherbert.
In English law and the canon law of the Church of England, a monition, contraction of admonition, is an order to a member of the clergy to do or refrain from doing a specified act.
However, the post has been held by a number of distinguished lawyers, for example Bernard O'Dowd in Australia, John Ferguson McLennan specialising in Scottish law (which though enacted entirely in the UK parliament from 1707 until 1999, is distinct from English law), and William Philip Schreiner in South Africa.