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Intellectual property (2023): Brand protection + Copyright troll
Brand protection is the process and set of actions that a right holder undertakes to prevent third parties from using its intellectual property witho…
2 years, 10 months ago
Judicial remedies (2023): Constructive trust
A constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to either a per…
2 years, 10 months ago
Criminal law (2022): Defenses to liability: Automatism (law) (Part Two)
Sleep.
The Australian Model Criminal Code Committee states the law as follows:
At the minimum there needs to be some operation of the will before a p…
2 years, 10 months ago
Wills (2023): Property disposition (Part Two)
An elective share is a term used in American law relating to inheritance, which describes a proportion of an estate which the surviving spouse of the…
2 years, 10 months ago
Family law (2023): Marriage and other unions and status: Common-law marriage
Common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, sui iuris marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, or marriage by habit and repute…
2 years, 10 months ago
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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago