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Charitable trusts and discrimination: Two themes [PDF]
, 2016 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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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Advancement in the medicolegal requirement for testamentary capacity assessment in older adults: the dilemmas in Hong Kong. [PDF]
Psychiatr Psychol Law, 2022 Lam CL, Siu BWM, Yau VCK.
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
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Trusts testamentarios transfronterizos y conflicto de leyes [PDF]
, 2016 The trust is a creation of equity and the English Common Law which has not passed to civil jurisdictions. Among the different types, the testamentary trusts are created by the testator in the will to provide the benefits of property after his or her ...
Lafuente Sánchez, Raúl
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Civil responsibility in Geriatric Psychiatry. [PDF]
Indian J Psychol Med, 2021 Vajawat B +5 more
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Disinheritance of Minor Children: A Proposal to Amend the Uniform Probate Code [PDF]
, 2011 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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