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Is it true that at one stage a husband could not rape his wife?
Is it really true that up until relatively recently in the US a man could not rape his wife, because apparently at one point in time a married couple was considered one legal entity and a person ...
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Am I classed as an employee if I'm an officer and founder of a company, but I invoice my work? [closed]
Suppose that Bob is an officer and co-founder of a company with His business partner, Alice. Alice and Bob both have signed a CIIAA (Confidential Information and Inventions Assignment Agreement) which ...
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How can one search for matrimonial cases in the New Jersey court system?
Can anyone help me in my quest for finding updated listings of matrimonial cases in New Jersey?
I have looked at the "Find a Case" page of the New Jersey Courts website but I cannot find any ...
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Would it be theoretically possible to design a 100% legal ransomware where the user voluntarily chooses to encrypt their files and pay to decrypt them
Would it be theoretically possible to design a 100% legal ransomware where the user voluntarily chooses to encrypt their files and pay to decrypt them? (Seriously, I always wondered if it was possible!...
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Is there any modern theory of functional law which emphasizes the purpose of a law over the implementation?
I was thinking about loopholes and how there can reasonably often be unintended side effects of certain laws - the specific terms of the law serve a higher-level telos, a rationale, but the law ...
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Can a bank sue someone that disseminates information that starts a bank run that destroys the bank?
Specifically, could Silicon Valley Bank sue the Founders Fund and other VCs that had companies they invested in withdraw their funds?
Has any bank ever successfully done this?
To clarify, I'm not ...
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Conflict Between Third Circuit and NJ Appellate Division Regarding Stay Pending Appeal? [duplicate]
NJ Rule 2:9:1 states:
When an appeal is taken from an order compelling or denying
arbitration, the trial court shall retain jurisdiction to address
issues relating to claims and parties that remain ...
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What specific laws govern ownership of food in restaurants, and any terms or obligations under which a person can have, take, or eat it? [closed]
This question partially builds off of some of the ideas in here: What terms surround a restaurant order?
But my question is more specifically:
is food in a restaurant considered “property”, owned by ...
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(Germany) Does a follow-up lease contract completely supersede the old one?
In the last three years or so I had to sign a new lease contract for the same place three times:
At the very beginning of the lease
When my girlfriend moved in
When I had to get an extension for 3 ...
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Is it legal for a company to require you to delete your account to unsubscribe from marketing emails?
I'm subscribed to "Visual Studio Dev Essentials" (so that I can download older versions of Visual Studio from the Microsoft website), but they are sending me unwanted marketing emails ...
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broker cancelled life insurance policy without authorization [closed]
Back in 2018 we had a life insurance policy that was set up in 2007, we were selling our house and buying another, our broker wanted to make sure we were covered as we were taking on a bigger debt. ...
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Can a corrupt sherriff cause all cases from a department to be dismissed?
A video detailing the incident
Victor Hill, the former sheriff of Clayton County, Georgia, was charged with seven counts of willfully depriving detainees at the Clayton County Jail of their ...
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UK - What if only one tenant can prove right-to-rent?
I'm doing right-to-rent checks on prospective tenants. They are a couple, one of them can give me a share code, the other one cannot (yet). Can I let the house to just the one person, and allow the ...
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What happens with seized money?
Daniel the drug dealer was caught with 20.000€ of illegaly earned money while crossing the border into Switzerland. The money was covered in traces of all kinds of drugs, so the court did not believe ...
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Can I screenshot a world map from Microsoft Bing and use it for Youtube videos?
I have this nice screenshot of Microsoft Bing's map, along with the copyright mark at the bottom right corner. For the OpenStreetMap they said it clearly that I must acknowledge/credit them (https://...
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Are there any opportunities to Socratically question an opposing counsel on their legal arguments in a civil trial?
According to this answer,
https://law.stackexchange.com/a/90414/48046
Opposing counsel was called as a witness for examination in the American scopes trial.
Is such a practice allowed in English trial ...
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Is cross examination strictly confined to the subjects that the original examination pertained to, or can the opposing party make their own points?
Pretty straightforward question, really: what are the topical constraints of cross examination with reference to examination?
Suppose party A calls witness W to the stand to ask them questions about ...
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Overcoming a presumption of guilt
Give the legal adage "innocent until proven guilty", would a requirement by the state to overcome a presumption of guilt only by signing, under penalty of perjury, a "declaration of non-...
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How far can cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence agencies go?
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1164085/sidtoday-dea-the-other-warfighter.pdf
This is report explaining that DEA was aided by NSA's surveillance system at the time they were persecuting a ...
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Is a contract valid with totally wrong last name and wrong project address?
Is a contract valid with the wrong last name? I had a contractor come and do some work on a barn. He said that he would do good work use different products. In the end, he did not use the products and ...
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legal entity cross country relocation options [closed]
In a hypothetical scenario, Mr. Peter intends to relocate a financial group he owns 100% shares of, to a different country, say from country A to country B. What are the options to accomplish that?
My ...
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Fired (seemingly) for finding paycheck inconsistencies. What kind of legal recourse might exist?
Not me, but a friend.
They found some paycheck inconsistencies for them and a bunch of other employees, and asked about it. The response from management was "oh, oops. We'll fix it"
A few ...
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Are designs explained in academic publications considered to be in public domain if there isn't yet a patent application about it?
In academic journals, sometimes the new approach they describe seems so promising that companies may want to use those designs or designs made/inspired from the principles mentioned in the publication....
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What IP law would apply to trained weights of an AI model?
In simple terms, any AI system will consist of three elements:
Code, written by humans, that defines the mathematical model
The mathematical model itself, as it exists within the computer
The model ...
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Requiring incoming tenants to purchase furniture during a lease transfer? [closed]
I've been renting in Toronto, Canada for several years now. Over those years, rent prices have skyrocketed (my current rent is about half of my new neighbors' rent who has a nearly identical unit). I ...
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Is Uruguay violating humans rights by not conceding the right to nationality?
Myanmar and Uruguay are currently the only countries in the world that deny immigrants any path to naturalization. Uruguayan legal citizenship has special characteristics. A person who acquires it ...
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Why is the Declaration of Independence not held as legally binding, under Art VI, cl I, of the U.S. Constitution?
The Declaration of Independence was used as an instrument to approach foreign countries and interact on the world stage, prior to winning the Revolutionary War. Therefore, it was the ground on which ...
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If one is tried+convicted of a crime at a certain time, can one be tried+convicted of another crime that happened at the same time? [Yakuza Series]
100% inspired by Yakuza Lost Judgement.
Bob is accused of assaulting Alice at X o'clock, with video evidence. It goes to trial, and Bob is successfully convicted.
Later on, strong evidence comes up of ...
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What were the main factors prompting the abolition of heart balm torts?
What were the driving forces that led to it, what were the mechanisms that enacted it, and what were the stated rationales for it?
Adultery is still recognised as a fault factor in divorce that ...
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What sorts of “necessities” could married women enter contracts for?
A recent answer by @Ohwilleke on the historical status of married women lists the limited types of contracts they could enter into.
One of these of those for necessities. What is referred to by this?
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Are there any crimes or civil wrongs in disingenuously wasting another’s time?
Suppose that one phones you and states that they have a Nigerian princes inheritance which they would like to arrange to send to you.
Or that they would like to donate some money to your organisation ...
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Being Admitted to the hospital for nursing home evaluation
A mother is taken to the ER(emergency room) with a memory loss problem. The son, who has a POA for medical, asks the ER doctor for his mother to see a neurologist. The ER doctor agrees that the mother ...
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Under what circumstance is it a crime if a car owner allows someone other than themself to drive their car?
In a New Hampshire "driving law test" that I have, there is a question "Under what circumstance is it a crime if a car owner allows someone other than themself to drive their car?" ...
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What are the typical stages / processes of a criminal trial?
In a criminal trial in the United States, there are stages or processes which are followed by every case heard by the courts. I understand some states may vary in procedure but what are the stages ...
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How do lower level (county or magistrates) courts in the City of London differ in their jurisdictions from those in the surrounding boroughs?
Because the City of London has certain aspects of municipal autonomy, are there restrictions on their equivalence with the rest of the county or magistrate court system? In general any county court ...
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In a civil trial, can a party “call” its opponent’s witnesses in making its case?
I mean, as opposed to merely cross-examining them in the course of the opposing side’s presentation of their case.
A closely related question asks of calling the defendant itself, though not its ...
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Does "OK" imply "Yes", in the eyes of the law in general?
Is "OK" legally binding as a "Yes"?
In some situations, I have been asked questions, and I said "ok", but they just repeat their question one more time.
So I think "...
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In a criminal trial, what is the sequence of proceedings? [closed]
Does the prosecution advance their own case first, calling their witnesses, examining them before the defense cross examines them, all before the defense then presents their case, calling each of ...
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The arrow shown on the bicycle lane sign [closed]
There is an arrow on the following bicycle lane sign. What does it mean? Thank you!
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Is one allowed to operate a live-feed drone on the streets in Japan? (Yakuza Judgement)
In Yakuza Judgement, a detective agency often uses a quad-copter drone with a camera providing a live feed in the bustling city in Japan. One use they have for it (which is obviously problematic) is ...
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Property developers buying shared freehold blocks of flats (UK)
If a block of flats is shared freehold, say 20 flats and a developer buys a load, if they buy more than a certain % can they force the sale of the remaining flats?
The block is located in England and ...
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What procedural guidance is existent pertaining to the combination of county court and DTT proceedings? [closed]
What rules govern this practice? Presumably it is done for gains of efficiency, but then are the entire combined proceedings heard according to the tribunal procedure rules? Or componently according ...
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What does it mean that the RPT tribunal member in this case was “also sitting as a district judge of the county court”?
In this case one of the tribunal judges is indicated as having been sitting as a judge of the county court, even though the claim had been brought in the first tier tribunal of residential property.
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Most people treat bank deposits as bailment. Why is this the case? Is this a problem?
Explanation:
99.999% of people treat bank deposits as bailment.
But under FDIC rules, only the first 0.25 million is bailment. Amounts above that are loans to the bank. If the bank goes bankrupt, that ...
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Are banks committing the crime of deceptive marketing?
As depositors of Silicon Valley Bank are painfully finding out, money in a checking account is not exactly the same as dollar bills in your wallet.
Money in a checking account are effectively ...
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I owe money to SVB and I have deposits with SVB. What happens now? [closed]
I have 10 million USD deposited with Silicon Valley Bank. Now that they are liquidated, let's say I get to recover FDIC insured 0.25 million plus 5.75 million, total 6 million.
At the same time, I owe ...
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what are the limits to judicial review in India?
the various articles of the constitution (chapter-The Union Judiciary) regarding the supreme court seem to give the impression that their conduct is heavily regulated by presidential consent and laws ...
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If a crime happens between two parties in different countries over the internet, what laws apply? [duplicate]
Lets say, for the sake of example, it's a severe crime (punishable by jail time) in the United States to say that someone stinks.
Person A is from Brazil where no such law exists
Person B is from the ...
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What are the legal restrictions on extracting audio from a virtual instrument plugin?
This question was inspired by https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/113826/is-there-a-way-to-decode-triton-m1-vst-pcm-samples
Suppose a user purchases a license for virtual instrument plugin to ...
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How does a body corporate get sentenced for criminal offences?
Some criminal offences specifically state that if they are committed by the officer of a body corporate then they along with the body corporate itself may be simultaneously processed against as well ...
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