In English law there is currently only one full defence to murder - self defence.
But they will not see one of the more esoteric features of English law.
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If the union sunders, such men then escape their obligations under both English law and Pakistani custom.
Those who had Greek bonds issued under English law (there were a few) got their money back in full.
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Although English law permits suicide, it punishes those who aid and abet it.
Under English law ISPs are not held to have been the publishers of defamatory material providing they satisfy two criteria.
He gained first place in English law exams and built up a law practice in the north of the country.
But for those used to the defence of free speech entrenched in America's First Amendment, English law seems anything but fair.
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In the mid-17th century, English law ruled that any European wines shipped to the colonies had to go via British ports.
Under English law, an attempt to exclude the courts from their effort to interpret the law is considered to be against public policy.
However, the one thing, under English law, that divorce does not do is undo the presumption that the natural inheritor is the spouse.
The Iraqis' lawyers argue that southern Iraq is controlled by the British and precedent suggests that control, not sovereignty, determines whether English law rules.
Because English law does not distinguish between different degrees of murder, the clause is being used to secure convictions in cases involving gang attacks.
This competition is governed by English law and any dispute or claim in relation hereto is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
In fact Pakistan's bonds are under English law and have trustees.
G10 group of rich countries has come up with model collective-action clauses that are, in many ways, weaker than those that already exist under English law.
Under English law, both partners are required to give consent before embryos are created and again when they are implanted to try to produce a baby.
In April, John Taylor, top international man in the Treasury, proposed a souped-up version of the collective-action clauses that are common in bonds issued under English law.
The judge said Alvaro's use of power of attorney to purchase Maria Leonor's shares would have undoubtedly raised "interesting questions" about his role as a fiduciary under English law.
Greece has paid out, in full and at 100%, on an English law bond just after the agreed default and 70% haircuts on all of their Greek law bonds.
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That could get tricky in fact: for there has long been a move for large contracts to be drawn up under English law rather than any of the various continental forms.
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If Greece wants to give anything of real value to its bondholders, then it has to offer bonds issued under English law, because no one will believe its promises to pay, otherwise.
Both outfits believe English law offers insufficient protections.
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But he warned that there could be "huge technical difficulties in identifying what counted as an English law" and the Commons Speaker, whose job it would be to decide, could be drawn into political controversy.
This practice seems to have been brought to England by the Normans, and remained part of English law for centuries, although in practice it was gradually replaced by the slower but slightly less violent jury system.
According to Mr. Picard, the lawsuit, which has not been made public under English law, accuses directors and officers of violating their duties to the company by making fraudulent payments, including some that benefited Mr. Madoff and his family.
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If a legal Russian business uses a criminally owned company to bribe an official in order to land its revenues legally (by Russian standards) in a western bank, how guilty is the banker under, say, English law, for taking the deposit?
The legal system of the Maldives, an Islamic archipelago with a population of some 400, 000, has elements of Islamic law (Sharia) as well as English common law.
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