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    United States trust law is the body of law that regulates the legal instrument for holding wealth known as a trust. Most of the law regulating the creation...
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    In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses in order to promote...
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    sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement...
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    In law, a trust refers to a relationship in which the owner of property (or any other transferable right) gives it to a designated entity, usually described...
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    Commonwealth and the United States. Trusts developed when claimants in property disputes were dissatisfied with the common law courts and petitioned...
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    The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which...
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    "In God We Trust" (also rendered as "In God we trust") is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, along...
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  • The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture...
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  • Uniform Trust Code is a model law in the United States created by the Uniform Law Commission, which, although not binding, is influential in the states and...
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    modern motto of the United States of America, as established in a 1956 law signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is "In God we trust". The phrase first...
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    Voter ID laws in the United States are laws that require a person to provide some form of official identification before they are permitted to register...
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  • Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, 318 U.S. 363 (1943), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that federal negotiable instruments...
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    In the United States, bankruptcy is largely governed by federal law, commonly referred to as the "Bankruptcy Code" ("Code"). The United States Constitution...
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  • at the end of World War II, the United States' high top income tax rates spurred a burst of new foundations and trusts, many of which were simply tax shelters...
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  • in Civil law jurisdictions Trust law in England and Wales Trust Law of the People's Republic of China United States trust law Waqf Trust law FiducieĀ [fr]...
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    The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll,...
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    United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality. In the United States, nationality is typically...
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  • The origins of the United States' defamation laws pre-date the American Revolution; one influential case in 1734 involved John Peter Zenger and established...
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    United States corporate law regulates the governance, finance and power of corporations in US law. Every state and territory has its own basic corporate...
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    United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality...
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  • competition law has become global. The two largest and most influential systems of competition regulation are United States antitrust law and European...
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    Securities regulation in the United States is the field of U.S. law that covers transactions and other dealings with securities. The term is usually understood...
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    In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...
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    broader sense. In the United States, the use of corporate trusts died out in the early 20th century as U.S. states passed laws making it easier to create...
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    U.S. constitutional law, the 50 individual states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. The states are not administrative...
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    In trust law, a constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to...
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    The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...
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    The history of United States antitrust law is generally taken to begin with the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890, although some form of policy to regulate competition...
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  • Other issues found under the umbrella of elder law include such areas as: estate planning wills trusts guardianships protection against elder abuse, neglect...
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    The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia administered by the United States from 1947 to 1994...
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