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  2. Restatements of the Law - Wikipedia

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    they are based on the illusion that the common law is more rational than it actually is or can be; they lag behind the "real world" concerns of practicing lawyers; and; the Restatements are too progressive. [6] Adams then defended the Restatement project by arguing that all these critiques were actually critiques of the common law itself. [6]

  3. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  4. Black-letter law - Wikipedia

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    Canadian law is based on British law and black-letter law is the principles of law accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories. [ citation needed ] Sometimes it is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative , competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian ...

  5. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are most often categorized according to what units of language a system's graphemes correspond to. [30] At the most basic level, writing systems can be either phonographic ( lit. ' sound writing ' ) when graphemes represent units of sound in a language, or morphographic ('form writing') when graphemes represent units of meaning ...

  6. United States contract law - Wikipedia

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    At common law, only the essential terms were required in the signed writing. Under the UCC, the only term that must be present in the writing is the quantity. The writing also does not need to be one document, but if there are multiple documents, they must all obviously refer to the same transaction, and they all must be signed.

  7. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]

  8. Restatement - Wikipedia

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    Restatement (finance), the amendment and republication of a company's financial statement to correct an error, or change in accounting standard Repetition (music) Topics referred to by the same term

  9. Restatement (Second) of Contracts - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, the UCC has replaced the Restatement (Second) of Contracts in regard to the sale of goods. The Restatement (Second) of Contracts remains the unofficial authority for aspects of contract law which find their genesis in the common law principles of the United States and, previously, England. [citation needed]