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THE MILITARY TESTAMENT IN ROMAN, FRENCH AND SERBIAN LAW
The military testament represents a special form of wills composed in emergency cases. Wills are made by servicemen mostly in situations when they are not enabled to make a regular testamentary disposition of their property. Taking into consideration the
Vladimir Ilić
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA
Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja +4 more
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Tearing Down the Wall: How Transfer-on-Death Real-Estate Deeds Challenge the Inter Vivos/Testamentary Divide [PDF]
This Article will examine one of the most recent will substitutes, the transfer-on-death (“TOD”) real-estate deed. Nearly half of the states have recognized, through common-law forms or legislation, a mechanism to allow for the transfer of real property
Emrick, Stephanie L., Wright, Danaya C.
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Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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The European Commission has presented a proposal of a new European legal institution – the European Foundation (abbreviation: FE), whose aim is to ensure the promotion of public benefit activities within the European Union.
Małgorzata W. Greßler
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Testamentary capacity assessment in dementia using artificial intelligence: prospects and challenges. [PDF]
Economou A, Kontos J.
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Solicitors' will-making duties [PDF]
Since the recognition that, in will-making practice, solicitors owe duties to beneficiaries as well as to clients, the courts have stated solicitors' will-making duties with some precision. However the law of tort still fails to offer an agreed rationale
Mortensen, Reid
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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Property in body parts and products of the human body [PDF]
An intriguing question, which until recently had not been directly explored by the courts, is the extent to which English law recognises body parts and products of the human body as property capable of ownership.
Pawlowski, Mark
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Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson +5 more
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