when the victim contributes to the damage, the apportionment of liability is necessary, and the amount of compensation awarded to the victim should be reduced. also, when more than one person injures someone, the liability must be divided between them. but the problem is that how to apportion liability? should the liability be apportioned equally or different? and if the latter is true, how the...

in the legal systems of rome - germanic, there is unique sources and unique elements for the obligations that talking of obligations commons isn’t useless. in spit of this there was confused reasoning in law of rome and french law that it has been effective on law of obligations of the other country end iran and nowadays in news books of obligations in french law before of the other topics and ...

It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively high degree of similarity between Germanic-speaking areas of northwest Europe and England. Opinions vary as to whether there was a substantial Germanic invasion or only a relatively small number arrived in Britain during this ...

This study examines the impact of nation’s legal system on corporate disclosures. However, this study breaks with prior research in two significant ways. First, this study extends prior research by analyzing differences in disclosure practices in Roman-Germanic Law nations of different origins within this legal family. Second, this study focuses on a single disclosure issue rather than general ...

The paper deals with a group of Old English lexemes the meaning ʻpowerʼ, namely: wald/weald, mund, rīki/rīce, dōm. use dōm in genre-variegated original texts gives grounds for referring them to semantic field «Law», i.e., very important cluster vocabulary ancient Angles and Saxons. Working words expressing concept «power», authors set goal analyzing nuances that differentiate OE wald, etc., whi...

Quebec is unique in Canada not only for its language and culture but also for its legal system. Unlike the other Canadian provinces which are based on the British common law tradition, the roots of Quebec’s private law are based on the civil law and Napoleonic Code1 from France. The common law influence has penetrated into the Quebec legal system, making it distinctive, influenced both by the c...

The Continental West Germanic Languages include the standard varieties of Dutch, Frisian, and High German, as well as a large number of non-standard varieties, the more familiar of which are the dialects spoken in Belgium and the South of the Netherlands (Flemish, Brabantish, Limburgian), Northern Germany (Low German), the Rhine Valley (Luxemburgish), South-Eastern Germany and Austria (e.g. Bav...