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Intellectual property (2023): Abandonware (Part Two)
Those who oppose these practices argue that distribution denies the copyright holder potential sales, in the form of re-released titles, official emu…
2 years, 11 months ago
Judicial remedies (2023):Equitable remedies + Specific performance
Equitable remedies are judicial remedies developed by courts of equity from about the time of Henry the 8th to provide more flexible responses to cha…
2 years, 11 months ago
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability: Automatism (law) (Part One)
In criminal law, automatism is a rarely used criminal defense. It is one of the mental condition defenses that relate to the mental state of the defe…
2 years, 11 months ago
Wills (2023): Property disposition (Part One)
Lapse and anti-lapse.
Lapse and anti-lapse are complementary concepts under the US law of wills, which address the disposition of property that is wi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Cohabitation (Part Two)
Abuse and infidelity.
University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite found that "16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their par…
2 years, 11 months ago
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, 11 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years ago