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Sujeto y solemnidad del testamento en el entorno digital y las nuevas formas digitales
Information technology has been integrated into the field of law. Few countries have enabled its use with respect to wills and testaments. The formal requirementsinherent to this area continue to provide a greater degree of certainty regarding the ...
Marco Mauricio Córdoba
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Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
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Criticism of the testamentary undue influence doctrine in the United States: lessons for South Africa? [PDF]
This article analyzes undue influence in the South African law of wills in light of scholarly criticism of the testamentary undue influence doctrine in the United States.
du Toit, Francois
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Charitable trusts and discrimination: Two themes [PDF]
In this article, I consider two doctrinal themes available to judges in equity who must deal with what I call “discriminatory charitable trusts”. In Part II, I concentrate on the theme of public policy.
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The Past Requires Reconciliation
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Participation of Women in the Notarial Public Deed of the 16th Century. From the Constriction of the Marital Licence to the Fullness of Widowhood [PDF]
This study intends to analyse the participation of the married woman and the widow in the notarial public deed of the 16th century, in Spain, in light of the notarial forms and treatises of the time and the process itself of executing a notarial ...
Barco-Cebrian, Lorena Catalina +1 more
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Disinheritance of Minor Children: A Proposal to Amend the Uniform Probate Code [PDF]
With the single exception of Louisiana, the United States provides no legislative protection against the disinheritance of minor children by their parents. This position is distinct from most other countries in the world, which require parents to provide
Asadorian, Jacqueline
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