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New York's Adverse Possession Law: An Abdication Of Personal Responsibility

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Treaties, Time Limits And Treasure Trove: The Legal Protection Of Cultural Objects In Singapore, Jack Lee

Jack Tsen-Ta LEE

Prostitution Policy: Legalization, Decriminalization And The Nordic Model

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Charting A New Course In Cuba? Why The Time Is Now To Settle Outstanding American Property Claims

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

The recent warming of relations between the United States and Cuba offered generations of Cubans; Americans; and Cuban Americans renewed hope for normalized relations. One obstacle—satisfactory resolution of property claims—stands in the way; which dates back to the Cuban government’s nationalization of all U.S. assets on the island. The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (the “Helms-Burton Act”) predicates resolution of these decades-old property claims by the Cuban government as an essential condition for the full resumption of economic and diplomatic relations between the two neighbors. Separated by only ninety miles of Caribbean Sea; but more than a …

Present And Future Interests: A Graphic Explanation

Seattle University Law Review

Few topics bedevil more law students than the law of present and future interests. With the goal of eliminating some of the confusion, this Article highlights the basic doctrine with a new set of diagrams to represent graphically how various interests behave. This Article opens with a question many students ask and then proceeds to the core concepts in the law of present and future interests.

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study, Second Edition. Volume One. Introduction: Family Law, Ernst Rabel, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

This volume, the first in Ernst Rabel's monumental comparative treatise on the conflict of laws, was initially published in 1945. Since then three additional volumes have been added, completing the survey of the systems of conflicts law as originally contemplated. Meanwhile, the first edition of the first two volumes has been exhausted for some time, and the literature of conflicts law has substantially increased, reflecting the new developments that have taken place since 1945. Accordingly, plans for a new edition of the first two volumes were discussed with the author before his death on September 7, I955, and were approved …

Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances Of 1910-1913

Maryland Law Review

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Delays, Disruptions, And Diminished Margins: Reassessing Loss Claims In Indian Construction Law, Gautam Mohanty, Gaurav Rai

National Law School of India Review

Loss of Profit claims by a contractor are premised on the assertion that the contractor has incurred financial losses due to the act of illegal and premature termination of the contract by the employer. Loss of profitability, on the other hand, is a claim made by the contractor of a decrease in the profit percentage in a contract on account of delays and disruptions in the work due to the actions attributable to the employer. Due to the homonymic nature of the terms, several judgments in India confuse one with the other and misunderstand the underlying principles of law applicable …

The Original Understanding Of The Takings Clause, William Treanor, William Treanor

Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute Papers & Reports

The champions of the property rights movement claim that they are fighting to restore the original understanding of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. They invoke James Madison and other founding fathers as support for proposed statutes that require the federal government to pay property owners when it prevents them from harming the environment or jeopardizing the survival of endangered species. Wetlands regulation, it is often said, "takes" property by diminishing its value, and the founders adopted the Takings Clause to ensure that, when government regulations diminished the value of property, the owner would receive compensation. Increasing numbers of …

"The Loss In My Bones": Protecting African American Heirs' Property With The Public Use Doctrine

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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