The law of estoppel by representation concerns those critical circumstances when the law will not allow a person to go back on what he has previously said. This book explores, explains, and criticizes the law of estoppel. Cooke presents a logical structure for it and analyzes the concept of unconscionability, which is now seen as a basis for the law.
The law of estoppel by representation concerns those critical circumstances when the law will not allow a person to go back on what he has previously ...
This lively, moving narrative provides the first comprehensive account of the emigration of nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews to the United States between 1967 and 1997. By weaving a wide variety of immigrant voices and photographs together with historical, journalistic, social service, and psychological studies of Soviet Jewish immigration, this book offers a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the history, politics, and culture of this important new American population. Topics covered include the varied reasons for their exodus from the Soviet Union, what they found in the United...
This lively, moving narrative provides the first comprehensive account of the emigration of nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews to the United States between...
This book comprises a collection of papers given at the third biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in March 2000, and is the first in the series -Modern Studies in Property Law-. The Reading conference is becoming well-known as a unique opportunity for property lawyers to meet and confer both formally and informally; this volume marks a new development, being a refereed and revised selection of the papers given there. Speakers from around the world focus on issues of immediate importance ranging from human rights to electronic conveyancing, as...
This book comprises a collection of papers given at the third biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in ...
This book is an examination of the law of land registration in England and Wales, in the light of the Land Registration Act 2002, and in particular at the way land registration is influenced by, and in turn influences, the evolution of land law as a whole. It examines the legal problems that have arisen in connection with land registration and considers the effect of the 2002 statute, drawing extensively upon the law in other jurisdictions and considering possibilities for future development. This is a book which will be essential reading for students, their teachers, and practitioners who...
This book is an examination of the law of land registration in England and Wales, in the light of the Land Registration Act 2002, and in particular at...
This book comprises a collection of papers given at the fifth biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in March 2004, and is the third in the series Modern Studies in Property Law. The Reading conference has become well-known as a unique opportunity for property lawyers to meet and confer both formally and informally. This volume includes a refereed and revised selection of the papers given there. The papers thus cover a broad range of topics of immediate importance including: land registration, leasehold and commonhold, prescription and law and...
This book comprises a collection of papers given at the fifth biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in ...
The philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is very important at every stage of the history of modern American thought. It informs William James's evolutionary metaphysics, John Dewey's theory of logic, W.V.O. Quine's naturalism, and Richard Rorty's notion of the Linguistic Turn. Similarly, many Continental philosophers, like Jurgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, Jacques Derrida, and Umberto Eco, have developed Peirce's semiotic logic as central to their own philosophical views. Yet until now there has been a yawning gap in the literature on what is arguably the most essential idea in...
The philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is very important at every stage of the history of modern American thought. It informs William...
Snow had fallen in the night, and now the great house, standing at the head of the valley, seemed like a five-hundred-year old ship sailing in a white ocean... For the Cavendish family, Rutherford Park is much more than a place to call home. It is a way of life marked by rigid rules and lavish rewards, governed by unspoken desires... Lady of the house Octavia Cavendish lives like a bird in a gilded cage. With her family's fortune, her husband, William, has made significant additions to the estate, but he too feels bound--by the obligations of his title as well as his...
Snow had fallen in the night, and now the great house, standing at the head of the valley, seemed like a five-hundred-year old ship sailing...
Eye of the Beholder views six individual acclaimed artists in terms of the women they loved. That love is revealed through their work, and the arc of the relationships can be seen through their various paintings and sculptures.
Eye of the Beholder views six individual acclaimed artists in terms of the women they loved. That love is revealed through their work, and the arc ...
"There's a Small Hotel" is a novel set in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
The narrator, an attractive American woman in her 60s, can see over the treetops from her balcony, a row of apartments, that when lighted from within at night, reveal vignettes of French domesticity, involving love affairs, violent dinner parties, fisticuffs, and the police.
She becomes involved with the personalities within the hotel and across the street, and thrills to an unusual and exciting Paris sojourn.
"There's a Small Hotel" is a novel set in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
The narrator, an attractive American woman in her 60s...
"There's a Small Hotel" is a novel set in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
The narrator, an attractive American woman in her 60s, can see over the treetops from her balcony, a row of apartments, that when lighted from within at night, reveal vignettes of French domesticity, involving love affairs, violent dinner parties, fisticuffs, and the police.
She becomes involved with the personalities within the hotel and across the street, and thrills to an unusual and exciting Paris sojourn.
"There's a Small Hotel" is a novel set in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
The narrator, an attractive American woman in her 60s...
