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Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor Sep 2005

Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor

ExpressO

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Código Civil De 1936 Y Doctrina Peruana: Recepción De La Teoría Negocial Del Negocio Jurídico, Rómulo Morales Jan 2005

Código Civil De 1936 Y Doctrina Peruana: Recepción De La Teoría Negocial Del Negocio Jurídico, Rómulo Morales

Rómulo Morales Hervias

El Código Civil peruano de 1936 -la precedente normativa al vigente de 1984- tuvo una gran influencia de las doctrinas francesa y alemana a través de las categorías jurídicas del acto jurídico en la terminología francesa (acte juridique) y del negocio jurídico (Rechtsgeschäft) en la terminología alemana. Tales categorías son aparentemente idénticas pero en realidad son muy diferentes


Whiten V. Pilot Ins. Co.: The Unofficial Death Of The Independent Wrong Requirement And Official Birth Of Punitive Damages In Contract, Dr. Yehuda Adar Jan 2005

Whiten V. Pilot Ins. Co.: The Unofficial Death Of The Independent Wrong Requirement And Official Birth Of Punitive Damages In Contract, Dr. Yehuda Adar

Yehuda Adar Dr.

Three years have passed since the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its controversial decision in Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co. In that case, the Court affirmed an almost unprecedented punitive damage award by a jury of one million dollars against an insurance company. More importantly, the Whiten decision appears to be the first attempt by the Supreme Court to construct a comprehensive set of rules and principles in light of which punitive damages cases should be decided in the future. While the extraordinary monetary sanction upheld by the Court has attracted much attention in legal and commercial circles, it seems …


Civil Codes And Consumers, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 11 (2005), Jason Kilborn Jan 2005

Civil Codes And Consumers, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 11 (2005), Jason Kilborn

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Defective Products And Product Warranty Claims In Minnesota, J. David Prince Jan 2005

Defective Products And Product Warranty Claims In Minnesota, J. David Prince

William Mitchell Law Review

Warranty law is an important supplement to tort law principles governing liability for defective products. Warranties arise from promises or assertions associated with either the sale of a product or some other transfer of a product for value. Such promises or assertions about a product may be express, made in the form of the seller’s statements about the qualities or attributes of the product, or they may simply be implied as a matter of policy. Although warranty law is generally regarded today as part of the body of contract law, the origins of warranty lie in tort. Important developments in …


The Applicability Of Constructive Eviction, Implied Warranty Of Habitability, Common-Law Fraud, And The Consumer Fraud Act To Ommissions Of Material Facts In A Commercial Lease, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1289 (2005), Robert W. Gray Jan 2005

The Applicability Of Constructive Eviction, Implied Warranty Of Habitability, Common-Law Fraud, And The Consumer Fraud Act To Ommissions Of Material Facts In A Commercial Lease, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1289 (2005), Robert W. Gray

UIC Law Review

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