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1. English law: English law typically refers to the historic, pre-British legal system and principles that existed in England. English law was based in strong protections for private property and hard punishments, such as the death penalty, for crimes that included polygamy. [100%] 2023-06-29 [British History] [Law]...
2. English law: The laws of England and Wales come from a variety of places, but have a number of important foundational ideas. The constitution is unwritten, which is an anomalous position when compared to other countries. [100%] 2023-06-18
3. English Law: In English jurisprudence “legal memory” is said to extend as far as, but no further than the coronation of Richard I. This is a technical doctrine concerning prescriptive rights, but is capable of expressing an important truth. For the last ... [100%] 2022-09-02
4. English Law: A very warm welcome to the English Law Learning Project, which covers a subject more correctly known as English and Welsh law, and is one of the three legal systems in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ... [100%] 2023-09-11 [United Kingdom Law]
5. Duress in English law: Duress in English law is a complete common law defence, operating in favour of those who commit crimes because they are forced or compelled to do so by the circumstances, or the threats of another. The doctrine arises not only ... (Common law defence) [92%] 2023-08-22 [English criminal law]
6. Costs in English law: In English civil litigation, costs are the lawyers' fees and disbursements of the parties. In the absence of any order or directive regarding costs, each party is liable to pay their own solicitors' costs and disbursements such as a barrister ... [92%] 2023-09-08 [English civil law] [Civil procedure]...
7. Certainty in English law: Certainty in English law sets out rules for how judges will interpret, sever or put contracts, trusts and other voluntary obligations into effect. If the terms of the contract are uncertain or incomplete, the parties cannot have reached an agreement ... [92%] 2023-12-20 [English contract law]
8. Adultery in English law: The history of adultery in English law is a complex topic, including changing understandings of what sexual acts constituted adultery (whereby they sometimes overlap with abduction and rape), unequal treatment of men and women under the law, and competing jurisdictions ... [92%] 2024-01-03 [Adultery in law] [Marriage law in the United Kingdom]...
9. Trespass in English law: Trespass in English law is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to goods, and trespass to land. Trespass to the person comes in three variants: assault, which is "to act in ... (none) [92%] 2024-01-10 [English tort law]
10. Causation in English law: Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. It is also relevant for English criminal law and English contract law. (Aspect of English law) [92%] 2023-09-09 [English tort law]
11. Provocation in English law: In English law, provocation was a mitigatory defence to murder which had taken many guises over generations many of which had been strongly disapproved and modified. In closing decades, in widely upheld form, it amounted to proving a reasonable total ... (Former mitigatory defence for murder in English law) [92%] 2024-01-10 [English criminal law]
12. Causation in English law: Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. It is also relevant for English criminal law and English contract law. (Philosophy) [92%] 2023-11-23
13. Unconscionability in English law: Unconscionability in English law is a field of contract law and the law of trusts, which precludes the enforcement of voluntary (or consensual) obligations unfairly exploiting the unequal power of the consenting parties. "Inequality of bargaining power" is another term ... (Social) [92%] 2023-11-10 [Legal doctrines and principles]
14. Agency in English law: Agency in English law is the component of UK commercial law that deals with the application of agency law in the United Kingdom, and forms a core set of rules necessary for the smooth functioning of business. In 1986, the ... (Organization) [92%] 2023-08-24 [Legal professions]
15. Mortgages in English law: Mortgages in English law are a method of raising capital through a loan contract. Typically with a bank, the lender/mortgagee gives money to the borrower/mortgagor, who uses their property/land/home as security (essentially a reassurance) that they ... [92%] 2023-09-08 [English property law] [Housing in England]...
16. Costs in English law: In English civil litigation, costs are the lawyers' fees and disbursements of the parties. In the absence of any order or directive regarding costs, each party is liable to pay their own solicitors' costs and disbursements such as a barrister ... (Social) [92%] 2023-09-12 [Civil procedure]
17. Intoxication in English law: Intoxication in English law is a circumstance which may alter the capacity of a defendant to form mens rea, where a charge is one of specific intent, or may entirely negate mens rea where the intoxication is involuntary. The fact ... [92%] 2023-12-19 [English criminal law] [Intoxication]...
18. Murder in English law: Murder is an offence under the common law legal system of England and Wales. It is considered the most serious form of homicide, in which one person kills another with the intention to unlawfully cause either death or serious injury. (Crime in England and Wales) [92%] 2024-05-17 [English criminal law] [Murder in England]...
19. Remoteness in English law: In English law, remoteness between a cause of action and the loss or damage sustained as a result is addressed through a set of rules in both tort and contract, which limit the amount of compensatory damages available for a ... (Social) [92%] 2024-06-13 [Legal doctrines and principles]
20. Privacy in English law: Privacy in English law is a rapidly developing area of English law that considers situations where individuals have a legal right to informational privacy - the protection of personal or private information from misuse or unauthorized disclosure. Privacy law is distinct ... (Protection of personal or private information) [92%] 2024-09-12 [English law] [English tort law]...