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What is the maximum number of countries in which one can simultaneously be tax resident?

Sample answer: Be a US citizen - automatic US tax residency Own a UK property and live there for 91 days to gain UK tax residency Spend 60 days in India plus a total of 365 days over the previous 4 ...
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legality of stopping a foreign ship and seizing goods

The United Nations Security Council made Resolution 2216 on 14 April 2015, and reaffirmed the key provisions recently in Resolution 2675 of 15 February 2023 (see the reference in paragraph 1). ...
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Cancellation vs Avoidance of a contract

The term avoidance, as opposed to cancellation, is an implicit reference to Articles 81-84 of the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which uses the term "avoidance" rather ...
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States' rights and the 14th amendment

The 14th amendment guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizens of the US. It's my understanding that this means from the Federal Government, and doesn't exactly apply when it's a "...
3 votes

Overseas ERP consequences

This is unlikely to give rise to criminal charges in the U.S., if the bare bone facts of the question are all that is involved. It does not count as child pornography. But possible offenses might ...
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If a crime happens between two parties in different countries over the internet, what laws apply?

The UN has a copy of the extradition treaty between the US and Brazil, the short version of it is that the treaty lays out in Article II an exhaustive list of crimes that are extraditable, skimming ...
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"Be to verb" in contract

It gets much clearer if you cut the sentence to the actual operative sentence: 12.3 Avoidance of this contract does not affect any provision in this contract for the settlement of disputes or any ...
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What legal questions must be answered to determine the international copyright status of generated art?

Authorship Copyright can only be granted to a human author. The end user might have a copyright in the prompt, but as it is currently held, nobody can hold a copyright in the resulting images, as they ...
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resolution vs settlement

Can I use dispute resolution here to replace settlement? It depends on whether you as the draftsman of the contract intend settlement to be a preferred method of dispute resolution. The term ...
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Why did the contract writer use both provision and term?

Why did the contract writer use both provision and term? Generally speaking, the usage of either or both terms is inconsequential. It does not alter the meaning of the contract. I thought in ...
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Is "make available" often used in commercial sales of goods contract?

Why did the contract writer use "make available" instead of "prepare" Your description does not give specifics on what documents are required from the seller. Thus, the question ...
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Is "make available" often used in commercial sales of goods contract?

“Make available” means they’re here if you want them It means more than preparing (I have them but you can’t take them), but less than delivering (here they are).
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States' rights and the 14th amendment

Theft is against the law in all US states. However that does not create a US law under which you could seek prosecution in federal courts of a person in Peru or North Korea who steals your stuff in ...
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cross border contract

The question you have posed is called a "choice of law" question. All three of the possibilities that you suggest (and more) are the right answer in some circumstances. Choice of law by ...
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