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Buying Stock In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Stock Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway
Buying Stock In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Stock Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway
Scholarly Works
The coauthors have constructed a model stock purchase agreement, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to be used as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by 'Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law' beginning in 2003.
"No Provincial Or Transient Notion": The Need For A Mistake Of Age Defense In Child Rape Prosecutions, Jarrod F. Reich
"No Provincial Or Transient Notion": The Need For A Mistake Of Age Defense In Child Rape Prosecutions, Jarrod F. Reich
Faculty Scholarship
Suppose a state legislature enacted a law making any theft a crime punishable by twenty years' imprisonment. Within this law was a provision precluding an accused from introducing evidence that he unwittingly took property to which he was not entitled. Suppose further that after this law was enacted, an elderly woman hung her black coat in a restaurant's lobby and, upon leaving, mistakenly retrieved another's black coat.1 Under the hypothetical statute, her mistake could neither hinder the prosecution's case against her nor be asserted by her as a defense. By inadvertently taking another's coat from a crowded restaurant, the woman …