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Wallersteiner v Moir [1974] 1 WLR 991 is a UK company law case concerning piercing the corporate veil. This case was followed by a connected decision, Wallersteiner v Moir (No 2), [1] that concerned the principles behind a derivative claim.
Book of business is common parlance in the United States legal services sector and refers to the collection of clients that a lawyer (usually a partner) has assembled throughout their career. Since most U.S. law firms are organized as limited liability partnerships or professional corporations , each partner is usually responsible for acquiring ...
Commercial law (or business law), [1] which is also known by other names such as mercantile law or trade law depending on jurisdiction; is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and organizations engaged in commercial and business activities. [2] [3] [4] It is often considered to be a branch of civil law ...
Federal Law—Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1 [19] Federal Law—Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 2 [20] Federal Law—Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 3 [21] As part of the first Harmonization Act, the Federal Law and Civil Law of the Province of Quebec Act was passed, which came into effect on 1 June 2001, [22] which:
This distinction is "useful". [2] A law book is "a work of legal doctrine". [1] It consists of "law talk", that is to say, propositions of law. [2] "The first duty of a law book is to state the law as it is, truly and accurately, and then the reason or principle for it as far as it is known". [3] The "first requisite in a law-book is perfect ...
The first edition was published in 1891 by West Publishing, with the full title A Dictionary of Law: containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern, including the principal terms of international constitutional and commercial law, with a collection of legal maxims and numerous select titles from the civil law and other foreign systems.
An orange that has been sliced into two halves. In mathematics, division by two or halving has also been called mediation or dimidiation. [1] The treatment of this as a different operation from multiplication and division by other numbers goes back to the ancient Egyptians, whose multiplication algorithm used division by two as one of its fundamental steps. [2]
The official 2007 edition of the UCC. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been established as law with the goal of harmonizing the laws of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States.