suspensive or resolutory condition) 2092. A promise to create PM, gives rise only to personal right or personal action bet parties and no real right in property. PLEDGE pledgor-debtor pledgee-creditor 2093. Requisites 1. 2085 2. Thing must be placed in possession of creditor. (actual & continuous possession.) Properties that may be pledged 2094. Movables within commerce of man & susceptible of possession
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Natural Law Theory & Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, & Recent Theories of Rights: Rawls & Nozick. Natural Law Theory: Natural Law theory in ethics is not to be confused with the laws of nature as put forward by physicists or other natural scientists, but they are related and do overlap. In moral domains, we are not concerned to give a mathematical, experimentally based theory of ethics or justice, but we are concerned with the general order of nature and how human life is nestled in and depends
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the same time. Theoretical physicists have arrived at these conclusions after powerful observations of experiments, and these will be discussed in due course. Before doing so, it is imperative to understand that this quantum strangeness does not transfer to the macroscopic world, and so some claims in this article will seem absurd. In order to demonstrate this, Erwin Schrodinger published a paper in 1935, containing a thought experiment, now popularly known as Schrodinger’s cat. A cat is put in
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Islamic Economic System All other economic systems,except Islamic Economic system, have been designed by human thoughts while Islamic Economic System has been bestowed upon human society by Allah through Holy Quran and the Sunnah (acts) of Muhammad (P.B.U.H). This is the reason that Islamic Economic System is quite different then the other systems. Distinguished characteristics:- Capitalist says "Economic Freedom" to producers and consumers. Socialism
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Power by which the sovereign raises revenue to defray the necessary expenses of the government from among those who in some measure are privileged to enjoy its benefits and must bear its burden. 2. Taxes: Enforced proportional contribution from properties and persons levied by the State by virtue of its sovereignty for the support of government and for public needs. ( Characteristics of Taxes: 1. forced charge; 2. generally payable in money; 3. levied by the legislature; 4. assessed with some reasonable
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Board of directors b) Audit committee c) Shareholders d) Management 7. CII stands for _________________ Examination Paper of Certified Corporate Governance Professional 2 IIBM Institute of Business Management 8. The managers are expected to act in the interest of: a) Audit committee b) Stakeholders c) Employees d) Customers 9. To endorse the organization strategy, develop directional policy, appoint, supervise and remunerate senior executives and to ensure accountability of the organization
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Is the Fraud Act a Useful Tool in E-Crime Prosecution? Executive summary This paper sought to examine whether the Fraud Act 2006 could be a useful tool in the prosecution of e-Crimes. It turns out that crimes on the computer net works and other electronic forms have been prevalent for more than two decades without being successfully prosecuted in majority of cases. The Thefts Acts 1968 and 1978 had inadequacies to deal with the kind of offences possible on the electronic forms. Hence, to avoid
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sg/lawnet/group/lawnet/legal-research/advanced-se... UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS ACT (CHAPTER 396) (Original Enactment: U.K. 1977, c. 50) REVISED EDITION 1994 (20th May 1994) An Act to impose further limits on the extent to which civil liability for breach of contract, or for negligence or other breach of duty, can be avoided by means of contract terms and otherwise. [12th November 1993 *] * Date when this Act was made applicable by the Application of English Law Act (Cap. 7A). PART I Introductory Scope of this
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governed by the Hire Purchase Act, Cap 507, (the Act), which is mainly based on English Hire Purchase Acts A Hire Purchase agreement may be defined as an agreement whereby the owner of the goods hires them out to the hirer and gives him the option to purchase the goods. This option may or may not be exercised and there is no contract unless the option is exercised. Hire Purchase agreements in Kenya are governed either by the common law or the Hire Purchase Act. Although not all Hire Purchase
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Name: Bradley Johnson Course Title: Business Ethics Course Time: Mondays; 420pm - 7pm Titles of Articles: “Chesapeake council to vote on whether condemnation can be used to take land for Elbow Road” and “Chesapeake council Oks plan to use eminent domain for road widening” Theories: Kantian Ethics and Libertarian Justice ODU Honor Pledge: "I pledge to support the Honor System of Old Dominion University. I will refrain from any form of academic dishonesty or deception, such as cheating or plagiarism
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