Drug Abuse
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Use of illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroine and overuse of prescription drugs has been responsible for creating serious medical complications, destroying many family lives and creating problems for schools and communities. Teenagers and young people are particularly prone to excessive drug use and once they succumbed to the lure of drugs, they involve themselves in crime and accidents leading to poor performance in schools and society. It is needless to remind that the law punishes reckless drug users heavily.
Read More..>>How Do You File A Patent
Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
You got a great invention, and you don’t want others to create or use the same invention (or at least nobody can claim they invented it). That’s the kind of protection a patent offers. It gives you exclusivity to create, reproduce and sell the product or process to the public for a particular length of time (most patents nowadays offer protection for a minimum of 17 years). If you want to protect your product, device or process under a patent, then read on.
Read More..>>Personal Injury Litigation - Negligence Cases
Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Personal injury litigation can be classified into 2 different categories. These are as follows:
Negligence cases - These arise when the person causing the harm does not actually intend to do so.
Intentional acts/’torts’ - These are the wrongful acts of another person which entitles the injured party to seek damages through the court.
This article is about the first category, that is, the negligence cases.
When the person causing the harm shows carelessness towards the safety of other people and end up causing injury to the other person unintentionally, the cause of such an action is termed as “negligence”.
Read More..>>How To Create A Partnership
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Partnership refers to an artificial being brought about by the expedient act of collaborating or pooling of interests, industry or capital of at least two or more persons intended primarily to serve or perform a particular business undertaking or enterprise. In a partnership set up, partners act as agents of each other and of the partnership. Each partner is bound by the acts and representations made by their co-partners in dealing and transacting with third persons.
Read More..>>What Is Criminal Law?
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Crime is an inexcusable offence that may take different forms. For example, sedition, treason and espionage are crimes against the state where as murder, rape, kidnapping and assault are crimes against a person. Under criminal law, the government always files the suit where as in case of civil law a private party always files the suit.
Criminal law explains criminal offences and its elements and the punishment for the convicted offenders as an effective means of social control. The most important feature of the U.S. criminal law is its provision for common punishment. Certain criminal laws prescribe rules and regulations to observe and maintain higher standards of conduct. For example, helping the police in investigation when asked to do so and reporting to authorities immediately after a culprit is identified are examples of moral or ethical criminal laws.
Read More..>>Types Of Personal Injury Lawyers
Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
If you are willing to claim personal injury compensation and are in search of a personal injury lawyer, you should avoid doing the mistake of choosing “just any” personal injury lawyer.
Every personal injury lawyer is specialized in a particular area. For instance, personal injury lawyers who have been practicing the medical malpractice law for years might not have any experience of handling workers’ compensation cases.
In the field of medicine, there are super specialized doctors to provide a special type of medical care. Similarly, every personal injury lawyer is specialized in a particular personal injury law.
Read More..>>Trade Secrets - Revealed
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
What are trade secrets?
A trade secret is any vital business information that is not widely identified by other companies. The companies utilize this confidential information in order to gain edge from their other competitors in the business. Thus, the companies give their efforts in order to preserve its confidentiality from former employees who might violate the code of secrecy or from other business entities that might gain access through illegal means. Product designs and patterns, customer lists, instruments, formulas, pricing information, practices and programs, methods, techniques and compilations are just some of the things that can be considered as trade secrets.
Read More..>>Major Advantages Of Establishing A Corporation
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Do you want to establish your own business but you want other persons to join you in your business venture? If this is what you perceive to do, then we advice you to form a corporation. A corporation is an artificial being created by operation of law having the right of succession and whose powers, attributes and properties expressly authorized by law or incident to its existence. It is composed of at least 5 persons who will be known as the incorporators.
Read More..>>The Corporation And Its Guts - The By Laws
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Automotive, Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
If you are an aspiring businessperson or a newbie in any sort of business then you have to know abut the corporation and its By Laws, which is said to be the guts of the corporation.
In simple terms, a corporation is one of the various forms of a business entity. If you are already deep into the study of business and business law, then you probably know all about this.
However, there may be several particulars, which you are not yet too knowledgeable about. This article aims to delve a little deeper into these certain particulars.
Read More..>>The Legal Aspect Of Spam
Posted on February 3, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Spam is flooding of the Internet with unsolicited bulk messages. It is illegal and unauthorized. It is abuse of the electronic messaging system. The most widely discussed spam is e-mail spam. Other forms of spam have also been reported like the spam in blogs and spam in mobile phone messaging. Stealing Internet mailing list and searching the web for addresses and using that information for spamming is also very common.
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