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    The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c.27) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was passed to implement the Brussels Convention...
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    the Brussels Convention over which the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 gave the UK courts jurisdiction, the contracting states to the Lugano...
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  • foreign judgments is the recognition and enforcement in one jurisdiction of judgments rendered in another ("foreign") jurisdiction. Foreign judgments may...
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    Brussels Regime (category Judicial cooperation in civil matters in the European Union)
    UK law: Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 – Act transposing 1968 Brussels Convention Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 – Act transposing...
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    immovable". Under section 30(1) of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 "the jurisdiction of any court in England and Wales or Northern Ireland to entertain...
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    and Wales is clearly the most appropriate. "Domiciled in the United Kingdom" is defined by Sections 41 and 42 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments...
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    B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections...
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  • Minute of Agreement (category Civil procedure)
    Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (Gibraltar) Order 1997 No. 2602. Enforcement is carried out under the civil procedures of that jurisdiction...
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    less-comprehensible jargon". Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 Lord Woolf Practice Direction "Civil Procedure Act 1997". "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998"...
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  • freezing and disclosure relief denied in aid of a Belgian claim, in an application under section 25 Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982". The Injunctions...
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  • Forum non conveniens (category Legal doctrines and principles)
    Convention. The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 as amended by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 states: Nothing in this Act shall prevent...
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  • the state's boundaries. A right in rem or a judgment in rem binds the world as opposed to rights and judgments inter partes which only bind those involved...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor...
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  • Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to claim criminal jurisdiction over an accused person regardless...
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    Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act provides for the enforcement of judgments issued by other U.S. states and territories. The Hague Judgments Convention of 2019...
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    applying statute, precedent and case-by-case reasoning to give explanatory judgments of the relevant legal principles. These judgments are binding in future...
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  • Tort (redirect from Civil tort)
    In civil law jurisdictions based on civil codes, both contractual and tortious or delictual liability is typically outlined in a civil code based on...
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    Agreements) Act 2020 (c. 24) puts gives primary legislative effect to the 1996, 2005 and 2007 Hauge Conventions as signed at The Hague. Section 2 of the act allows...
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    act by section 37 of, and the schedule to, the Commons Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 56). Schedule 14 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c...
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    the declaratory judgment. Different jurisdictions have different legal standards for obtaining such declaration and in some jurisdictions a presumption...
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    United States Court of Federal Claims (category Courts and tribunals established in 1855)
    appropriation for judgments of $100,000 or less. Finally, in 1977, Congress created a permanent, indefinite appropriation for all judgments awarded by the...
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    Rules of the Supreme Court (category Codes of civil procedure)
    Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Second Interim Report in 1951 (Cmd. 8176, para. 117) Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 Civil Procedure Rules...
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    International Court of Justice (category Courts and tribunals established in 1945)
    chamber acceptable to the parties. Judgments of chambers may have either less authority than full Court judgments or diminish the proper interpretation...
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    Reserved. By the Church Discipline Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 86) and the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 all archbishops and bishops of the Church of England...
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  • prisoner is that the detainee might be held incommunicado. Most civil law jurisdictions provide a similar remedy for those unlawfully detained, but this...
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  • law, jurisdiction-stripping (also called court-stripping or curtailment-of-jurisdiction) is the limiting or reducing of a court's jurisdiction by Congress...
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    freedom that is not as evident in the judgments of the majority of the other judges who delivered concurring judgments. His Lordship had a clear-eyed view...
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  • under Canada's Divorce Act, domicile has been replaced as the basis for which a provincial court has jurisdiction to hear and determine a divorce proceeding...
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    Law Dictionary, 10th ed, contrasts "common law" jurisdictions from "civil law" or "code" jurisdictions. This connotation of common law is "the body of...
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    established five Civil War battlefield parks under the jurisdiction of the War Department, beginning with the creation of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National...
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