North, a Nobel Prize-winning economic historian, asserts in his book Structure and Change in Economic History that when most of mankind stopped being hunter-gatherers 10, 000 years ago and settled down to farm, there was a basic shift from common property rights to exclusive ones.
We are bound by common values, the rights and the freedoms that we cherish.
Under its reorganization plan, LyondellBasell issued common stock through a rights offering and in exchange for allowed creditor claims.
Downgrade rights are common in Microsoft licensing terms and conditions and customers who buy large volumes of Windows operating systems have always been able to roll back to previous versions.
The companies he controls--Hollinger Inc. and closely held Ravelston -- have just an 18% economic interest in Hollinger International through Class B shares that have ten times the voting rights of common stock.
The sale of freehold land rights is more common in contexts where the land is already under private ownership, which is the case in many Latin American countries.
Standard economic models predict that in the absence of clearly defined property rights, such common resources will be overexploited, with individuals acting without regard for the effects of their actions on the overall pool.
UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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When men and women peacefully claim their human rights, our own common humanity is enhanced.
And while rights offerings are fairly common, she says, they are "very unusual" among managed-distribution funds.
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"It's scandalous that out-of-office politicians should keep official bungalows as their private property, " says Hari Dev Shourie, director of Common Cause, a consumer-rights organization.
The UN World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005- ongoing), currently in its first phase, seeks to promote a common understanding of the basic principles and methodologies of human rights education, to provide a concrete framework for action and to strengthen partnerships and cooperation from the international level down to the grass roots level.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for all men and women to be relentless in standing for our common values, for peace and human rights.
"He has made clear that he believes we ought to take common sense, and enact common sense measures that protect Second Amendment rights but prevent people who should not have weapons from obtaining them, " he said.
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And we also need to take some common-sense steps that protect our rights, protect our children, protect officers in the line of duty by making it harder for dangerous criminals to get their hands on lethal weapons.
Sure, there is a familiar list of gripes: the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, employment law and immigration rights.
Preferred stock compensates investors for diminished voting rights by giving them priority over common shareholders for dividends and typically by paying higher comparative yields.
But with the availability of the pill and the IUD in the 1960s, combined with youth counterculture and gay rights movements, it became more common for women to engage in premarital sex, she said.
Currently, four states recognize publicity rights under both explicit state law and common law legal theories.
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They may receive payment under federal or state civil rights and compensation statutes or under the common law of false imprisonment.
While the urban elite find use for it (not the least for the bragging rights), for most of the common populace, the apps are not a hot thing at all.
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But I do know and have talked to him generally about his approach to this, which is that he believes we ought to take action on common-sense measures that protect the Second Amendment rights of the American people while making it harder for criminals and others who should not have weapons under existing law -- harder for them to obtain them.
For me, we find those common values and shared principles in the United Nations Charter, as well as the body of international agreements that are the foundation of our common quest for development, peace and security and human rights.
Economists (including Mr Coase) have tended to emphasise property rights as a solution to the problem of managing common resources.
His holding company, Access Industries, started by purchasing common stock in LyondellBasell during the restructuring, issued through a rights offering and on the Pink Sheets.
But unlike common stock, the shares usually don't have voting rights.
It was founded on 5 May 1949 by 10 countries and seeks to develop Europe-wide common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts.
But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common set of values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.
But a revitalized NATO will continue to hew to that original vision of its founders, allowing us to rally collective action for the defense of our people, while building upon the broader belief of Roosevelt and Churchill that all nations have both rights and responsibilities, and all nations share a common interest in an international architecture that maintains the peace.
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Resident Lisa Robinson said "a common sense approach" is needed to balance business and residents' rights.
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