Statutory law

person. This form of protection could only be given by what is referred to as tutela. However Roman law knew two kinds of guardianship distinguished as tutelar and curate ( sometimes also referred to as cura ). 2. Tutorship Tutelage is, as Sulpicius Servius consul and author of the first commentary of the Edict in 51 B.C defines Tutela as “the force and power granted and all owed by the civil law over a free person, for the protection of one who on account of this age, is unable to protect…

with it can result in a series of offenses and can even lead to millennial time in incarceration. As many crimes that are being done daily and are either overlooked or seen as less crucial than being caught with marijuana. It is amazing to me that the laws toward this subject haven’t been modified. In other states bit by bit, weed is becoming legalized and is being less frowned upon every else. Daughters are losing fathers and mothers are losing sons as a result of this petty crime. As far as…

therefore no dispute, between the parties. In support of this argument, Petitioner analogized to the Court’s precedent in the Double Jeopardy context. Petitioner noted that the “the plainness and even egregiousness of an error in adding an extra-statutory element is of no moment for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause where an acquittal was…

comprehensive parentage act in 1994 and based on a model act adopted by many other states, imposed clear requirements; functions to relieved the sperm donor of legal parent status if and only if the semen is provided to a licensed physician. The statutory requirements were not met in this case. The sperm donor could not avoid application of the paternity rule because he did not personally provide the semen to the…

the state hospital’s procedural approach in determining the child’s mental health and needs. The Court held that the Georgia statutory procedure for committing a minor to a mental health facility was unconstitutional because it violated the due process rights of the minor afforded by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also held that, absent of any abuse or neglect, the law provides parents a significant role in making decisions however it is not absolute. Since no statewide regulation exists…

experiments to answer questions in an academic area of interest. The Ra’s perform research to their dissertation. The proctors are the ones that perform different duties for the University. Since the three jobs meet the common law test that the union contends they are a statutory definition of an employee. The labor union would want to organize and represent the TAs, RAs, and proctors because of bargaining over benefits, working conditions, and wages. In order receive wages and good benefits…

The question presented to the Supreme Court in Raich v. Gonzales is whether or not the Commerce Clause affords Congress the power to ban the growth, use, and sale of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act and whether it can enforce that act against ill people whose doctors prescribed to them medical marijuana as a remedy. Writing for the majority in that case, Justice John Paul Stevens employed Justice Breyer’s strand of pragmatism. The premise of that approach is that the Constitution…

prominent approaches to Statutory and Constitutional interpretation are textualism and living Constitution. Justice Scalia makes a case for textualism. He explains in his essay “A Matter of Interpretation,” that textualism is the proper approach to interpreting the Constitution. Justice Scalia adheres to the principle of reading the letter of the law rather than the intent of the law (Scalia 23). For many years the Supreme Court of United States has practiced…

CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. TECHNICAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL EFFECT ON PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN SINGAPORE CONTEXT 3. ANALYSIS AND RESULTS 4. CONCLUSION 5. REFERENCES INTRODUCTION High-rise, high-density living has been embraced as a positive accommodation solution for many millions of people living in Singapore. This assignment outlines a defective of high-rese building in Singapore. Singapore, whose land area is around 660 km2, it is one of the most high-densely…

With the law being favoured in social work as a framework it is also contested as, although social workers need relevant and vast knowledge of policies and laws in place to guide their practice, they must recognise that in fact they are not lawyers. This creates an element of responsibility as the social worker involved must know legislation to recognise when a legal opinion is required to guide their decision making and also to inform their client to seek legal help or legal intervention when…