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Restitution For Haiti, Reparations For All: Haiti’S Place In The Global Reparations Movement, Brian Concannon Jr., Kristina Fried, Alexandra V. Filippova

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

Haiti’s claim for restitution of the debt coerced by France in exchange for Haiti’s 1804 independence has unique legal advantages that can open the door to broader reparations for the descendants of all people harmed by slavery. But in order to assert the claim, Haiti first needs help reclaiming its democracy from a corrupt, repressive regime propped up by the powerful countries that prospered through slavery and overthrew the Haitian President who dared to assert his country’s legal claim. This article explores Haiti’s Independence Debt, and the fight for restitution of it, in the context of two centuries of continued …

Haiti: Confronting An Immense Challenge, Irwin Stotzky

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

This article analyzes the history of Haiti, from its origins as a slave colony of France, which was the richest colony in the Americas, to its war of independence leading to the first Black independent nation in the Americas, to its economic re-enslavement under the power of France and then the United States. The article discusses the great harm the French caused the Haitian people by imposing through force a ransom of billions of dollars that has led Haiti to its present position of being on the brink of becoming a failed state, with all of the disastrous consequences for …

Haiti’S Legal Claim For Restitution: The Political Context For The Recovery Of The Double-Debt, Ira J. Kurzban

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

This article discusses Haiti’s efforts to seek restitution from France for the “Double-Debt” imposed in 1825. After Haiti gained independence in 1804 following a slave revolt, France threatened to invade and re-enslave the Haitian people if they did not pay compensation to French slave owners for their lost “property.” This became known as the Double-Debt, as French and American banks profited by converting the debt into high-interest loans. In 2003, on the 200th anniversary of Haitian hero Toussaint Louverture’s death, Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide announced his intention to demand repayment from France. This sparked retaliation from France and Haiti’s elite, …

Redress For Historical Injustices: Haiti’S Claim For The Restitution Of Post-Independence Payments To France, Günther Handl

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Haiti And The Indemnity Question, Alex Dupuy

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

1) Haiti did not agree to pay an indemnity to France in 1825 because it feared a war with its former colonial power. In 1814, France sent envoys to Haiti to demand that King Henry Christophe, who controlled the north of Haiti, and President Alexandre Pétion, who controlled the south and west, resubmit to French sovereignty. Christophe had that envoy arrested and jailed. Pétion, on the other hand, offered to pay an indemnity to France to compensate the former colonial property owners in return for France’s official recognition of Haiti’s independence.

2) Jean-Pierre Boyer succeeded Pétion as president of the …

Haiti And The Burden Of History, Frédérique Beauvois

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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The Lost Haitian Generation And The 1826 “French Debt”: The Case For Restitution To Haiti, Charlot Lucien

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Removing The Risk From Risk Allocation: Reforming Louisiana’Soilfield Anti-Indemnity Act, Katherine Fruge Corry

Louisiana Law Review

The article discusses the risks faced by oil and gas firms in their operational contracts like master service agreements (MSA) and why the Louisiana legislature should copy the Texas Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Act (TOIA) to amend the Louisiana OIA (LOIA) to protect contractors and service firms.

Lewis V. Clarke, Summer L. Carmack

Public Land & Resources Law Review

One manner in which Indian tribes exercise their inherent sovereignty is by asserting sovereign immunity. In Lewis v. Clarke, the Court decided that the sovereign immunity extended to instrumentalities of tribes did not further extend to tribal employees acting within the scope of their employment. The Court acknowledged the concerns of the lower court, namely, the possibility of setting a precedent allowing future plaintiffs to sidestep a tribe’s sovereign immunity by suing a tribal employee in his individual capacity. However, the Supreme Court ultimately felt that the immunity of tribal employees should not exceed the immunity extended to state …

Pulte Home Corporation Order On Fourth Party Defendant Construction Materials, Inc's Consolidated Motion To Dismiss Southern Watershapes, Inc.'S Fourth Party Complaint, John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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An Ind. Run Around The U.C.C.: The Use (Or Abuse?) Of Indemnity, Paul J. Wilkinson

Pepperdine Law Review

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Accordi Economici Collettivi E Quantificazione Dell'indennità Spettante All'agente, Valerio Sangiovanni

Valerio Sangiovanni

No abstract provided.

Imdeminification And Insurance: Who Is To Blame?—Engineering & Construction Innovations, Inc. V. L.H. Bolduc Co., 803 N.W.2d 916 (Minn. Ct. App. 2011), Eric M. Carpenter

Journal of Law and Practice

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Indemnity A Mouth-Piece Of Company In Forged Or Fraudulent Transfer Of Share(S), Anurag Tripathi, Abhishek Chanda

Anurag Tripathi

The very essence of investments made in securities is its free transferability. The process of registration of share(s) imposes a duty upon the company to scrutinize the transfer and in case of forge makes the company eligible to claim indemnity against the requester. The paper discusses the request principle prevalent in English law at length and tries to analyse the validity of granting indemnity to companies even in cases of innocent misrepresentation without ascertaining the requester for transfer of share(s). The paper further analyses the contrast between estoppel by representation and indemnity wherein it looks into the issue as to …

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Is Indemnification Clause In Service Contracts Contrary To Public Policy?, Felix Ayanruoh

Felix Ayanruoh

The recent Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the most dominant hydrocarbon development disaster in recent history that will be remembered for a long time to come. Events in the past indicated that investigations and legal actions will go on for a long time. This case will be a seminal focus for government, academics, economics, and energy attorneys regarding liabilities and indemnification issues among others, just as some of the most important cases of the past years continue to be analyzed to this day. One of the most interesting and challenging aspects negotiating and drafting international …

Torts, Frederick J. Moreau

Cal Law Trends and Developments

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L'Indennità Di Cessazione Del Rapporto Dell'agente, Valerio Sangiovanni

Valerio Sangiovanni

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Private Production Of Public Goods: Liability For Unrequested Benefits, Ariel Porat

Michigan Law Review

This Article explores why the law treats negative externalities (harms) and positive externalities (benefits) differently. Ideally, from an economic perspective, both negative and positive externalities should be internalized by those who produce them, for with full internalization, injurers and benefactors alike would behave efficiently. In actuality, however, whereas the law requires that injurers bear the harms they create (or wrongfully create), benefactors are seldom entitled to recover for benefits they voluntarily confer on recipients without the latter's consent ( "unrequested benefits"). One aim of this Article is to explore the puzzle of the law's differing treatment of negative and positive …

Issues Of Indemnity In Issuing Performance Bond:, Aziz Abdul Hussin

Aziz Abdul Hussin

The exixtence of peformance bond in the construction contact is a must. But, before issuing the said bond, the issuing party (the bank or insurance company) need to be indemnified. There are several issues on this type of indemnity that needs to be highlighted, clarified and resolved. This article discusses the said matters in Malaysian legal perspective and practises.

Construction Law, D. Stan Barnhill

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Esclusione Dell'indennità Di Fine Rapporto Dell'agente Nel Diritto Comunitario, Italiano E Tedesco, Valerio Sangiovanni

Valerio Sangiovanni

No abstract provided.

Foreclosure Trustees And Fiduciary Duties Heritage Oaks Partners V First Am. Title Ins. Co. (2007), Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case holding that the trustee under a deed of trust merely acts as a common agent for the parties and owes no fiduciary obligation to third parties. Later purchasers are expected to discover the trustee’s lack of authority to sell from their own search of the records.

Agreements To Indemnify & The Antideficiency Laws: Trust One V Invest Am,. 2005, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a case which held that a mortgage broker’s agreement to indemnify its mortgage banker for any loss following a foreclosure sales was not protected by California’s antideficiency laws.

The Indemnity Principle: From A Financial To A Function Paradigm, Brad Wilson, Jeffrey E. Thomas

Faculty Works

Although the indemnity principle is well-accepted, its customary meaning has not kept up with insurance practice. This paper explores the evolution of the indemnity principle in the context of property insurance in the United States. When property insurance was standardized in the 19th century, "indemnity" had a strict, financial meaning. An insured was only entitled to receive actual cash value for a loss, less depreciation. This ensured that insureds received a financial recovery equal to the value of their property prior to the loss. This approach to indemnity was developed in the context of concerns about the morality of insurance, …

Tax Law Uncertainty And The Role Of Tax Insurance, Kyle D. Logue

Articles

In the broadest sense, this is an article about legal or regulatory uncertainty and the role that private and public insurance can play in managing it. More narrowly, the article is about tax law enforcement and the familiar if ill-defined distinctions between tax evasion, tax avoidance, and abusive tax avoidance. Most specifically, the article is about a new type of tax risk insurance policy, sometimes called tax indemnity insurance or transactional tax risk insurance that provides coverage against the risk that the Internal Revenue Service (Service) will disallow a taxpayer-insured's tax treatment of a particular transaction. The question is whether …

Indemnity, Liability, Insolvency, David G. Carlson

Articles

Suppose A has a claim against B. B has a claim over against C. B, however, is insolvent and has not actually paid A. B's only asset is, in fact, B v C. To what extent can C claim that B v C is valueless - that B was not damaged because B was too broke to pay A?

This paper argues that the fundamental legal distinction between indemnity and liability is beginning to dissolve, because B can always pay A (and thereby give value to B v C) by borrowing the amount B owes and using B v C …

Erisa: A Co-Fiduciary Has No Right To Contribution And Indemnity, George Lee Flint Jr, Philip W. Moore Jr

Faculty Articles

Because retirement plans involve large amounts of money, large numbers of people, and fiduciaries with conflicts of interests, Congress designed ERISA to differ from traditional trust law to meet these specific needs and important policy concerns. Before ERISA, fiduciaries and employers often manipulated lack of oversight and conflict of interests to the detriment of the beneficiaries. ERISA raised the standards owed by fiduciaries and established a policing system that required professional fiduciaries to monitor non-professional fiduciaries, thereby forcing non-professional fiduciaries to leave the field or seek expert advice. These provisions created co-fiduciary liability by imputing the liability of the co-fiduciary …

Classic Insurance Law In A Postmodern World, Leo P. Martinez

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Chapter Iv (Claims Related To The Law Of The Sea (Los))

International Law Studies

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Recent Case Developments, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

Recent case developments in Insurance Law in the years 1999 and 2000.