A common law concept of privacy is increasingly being recognised by the courts.
The term usufruct never found its way into the English common law, although certain general similarities can be found in the common-law concept of estate.
A common-law concept, the trust plays a big role in Britain's offshore satellites, especially Jersey, a small island with 4,500 trust professionals.
The London-based Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners says the amended directive "seems to be based on a complete misconception of how trusts are used by most families in the UK" (where trusts, a common-law concept, are particularly popular).
In the European Union a long history of conflict between the common law copyright system and the civil law concept of "authors' rights" once gave real teeth to the debate about the values served by the grant of legal rights in this area.
Its legal significance is traced back to the English common-law concept known as seisin, a possession of land by one who owns the property at least for the period of his life, having a complete right to possession of the property as against all others.
The English common law concept of coverture, the legal subordination of a married woman to her husband, prevailed in the United States until the middle of the 19th century, when the economic realities of life in the New World demanded greater flexibility for women.
In any event, the government petition notes, agency regulations are always subject to being set aside as "arbitrary and capricious," a well-known administrative law concept that serves adequately as a judicial brake on agency behavior without calling the entire regulatory structure into question.
Recently, a new Logarithmic QIM is developed by introducing the μ-Law concept in [4].
This common law concept relieves a party from fulfilling a contract if unforeseen circumstances make it impossible to do so.
