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Intellectual property (2023): Abandonware (Part One)
Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available.
Within an intell…
2 years, 10 months ago
Judicial remedies (2023): Reliance damages + Statutory damages + Treble damages
Reliance damages is the measure of compensation given to a person who suffered an economic harm for acting in reliance on a party who failed to fulfi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability
In a civil proceeding or criminal prosecution under the common law or under statute, a defendant may raise a defense in an effort to avert civil liab…
2 years, 10 months ago
Wills (2023): Insane delusion + No-contest clause
Insane delusion is the legal term of art in the common law tradition used to describe a false conception of reality that a testator of a will adheres…
2 years, 10 months ago
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Cohabitation (Part One)
Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually in…
2 years, 10 months ago
Intellectual property (2023): Trademark (Part Four)
Domain names.
The advent of the domain name system has led to attempts by trademark holders to enforce their rights over domain names that are simila…
2 years, 10 months ago
Judicial remedies (2023): Incidental damage + Consequential damages + Liquidated damages
Incidental damages.
Incidental damages refers to the type of legal damages that are reasonably associated with, or related to, actual damages.
In Ame…
2 years, 10 months ago
Criminal law (2022): Crimes against the state: Subversion (Part Two)
Economics.
Economics can be both a tool of the internal and external subversive. For the external subversive, simply cutting off credit can cause sev…
2 years, 10 months ago
Wills (2023): Fraud
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (for e…
2 years, 10 months ago
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Types of marriages
The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil ma…
2 years, 10 months ago