If the property in the goods has not passed to the buyer then his right to sue for any damages to the goods is not completed. ... In addition, because section 18 of the Sale of Goods Ordinance states that goods must be ascertained before property can pass, in the case of individual shares of goods carried in bulk, it would seem that the property passes when the goods are discharged and in some way appropriate to the contract. ... The right for passing of property and risk will be discussed in more details below. ... On the other hand, the buyer bears every risk of damages to the goods fr...

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After which time, Guam became a cooling and watering station for U.S. naval vessels and is treated as mere property , with no distinction between the island of Guam and its inhabitants. ... Constitution that U.S. states defines territory (as is Guam) as property: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. When acquiring the island of Guam as ...

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They recognized the existence of public and private property. The mountainsides and less arable lands were the property of the barangay or public property, which meant that they were open to everyone who wanted to till them. ... They owned property and did not work for the maharlikas. ... Like any other property, they were owned by their masters. ... A man would wear a bahag, a strip of cloth around his waist which passes down between his legs. ...

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Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law and copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, pursuant to Constitutional grant of legislative authority. In order for the government to prosecute the unauthorized copying of computerized information as theft, it must first rely on other theories of information-as-property. ... The commission also felt copyright was the best alternative among existing intellectual property protective mechanisms, and CONTU rejected trade secret and patents as viable protective mechanisms. ... With that in mind then a cop...

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In it, a new relationship between church and state was established, all Catholic Church property became the property of the state or national property and it made the clergy sign an allegiance to the nation. ... He was unusually bright and earned an appointment to the artillery section of the national military academy in Paris and passed the examination in a single year. ...

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Total devastation is estimated at $550 million in property damage and the loss of over 2,000 lives. As magnificent and horrific as this sounds, what is more astonishing is that 61 of those resulting deaths (and subsequent property damage) occur in far-off Hawaii and 122 more on the even further coast of Japan. ... It will explore in some detail, the origin, magnitude and risks of tsunamis and ways to detect them, and if possible, prepare our property and our selves for their impending destruction. ... Accordingly, the inhabitants and the property closest to these oceans would, of course ...

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"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation; where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~James Madison. This quote from our 4th President (James Madison) illustrates there has been a struggle for gun owners throughout our countries history. Many of our founding fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Webster) and others spoke constantly about the importance of our citizenship, maintaining the right to liberty and to bear arms. In numerous speeches and writings, Thomas J...

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Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly an hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to it. ... They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass you life." ... Since money is so important, Wickham tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy only because of her fortune of 10,000 since the property of a woman automatically becomes the property of the husband in the marriage. ... A blunt rest...

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On September 15, 1830, at Little Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Chiefs of tribes and representatives of the United States met to discuss a bill recently passed by the Congress. ... Many then saw their land and property sold before their own eyes. ... George hicks complained Our property has been stolen and robbed from us by the white men. ... On September 15, 1830, at Little Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Chiefs of tribes and representatives of the United States met to discuss a bill recently passed by the Congress. ...

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So, testator can ensure that property is distributed according to his desires. ... Hart shows three properties that are central to our concept of law that Austin cannot explain: a. ... This is so because he neglects power conferring rules and thus fails to recognize that power passes from one hand to another. 9. ...

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The English noticed that it was growing very quickly and passed the Navigation Act of 1651, in order to smother it. ... The settlers got to keep their land and property, however, the English were not accepted with open arms. ... In 1764 and 1765, the parliament passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act, respectively. ... The second act was a tax on documents, newspapers, and anything printed and was loathed by businesses, but the tax was eventually passed on to the people in the end. ... Therefore, a number of acts were passed that taxed the colonists and/or restricted trade to help Great Bri...

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We as humans can hear vibrations over a broad range of frequencies that have the ability to pass through many different media, whether it is a solid, liquid, or a gas (Henderson par 42). ... After the auricl e collects a sound wave, it passes through to the outer auditory canal, which in turn causes the eardrum to vibrate. ... par The next physical property of sound is its amplitude. ... The amplitude of a sound wave can be determined by measuring the actual length that the air molecules have displaced and the change in pressure as the wave passes. ...

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Seeing the profit potential of such an investment the county passed a half-cent sales tax on Sept 3, 1996 in order to generate venture capital. (3) Between this tax increase and the money invested by Tampa Sports Authority from their other holdings, the Palace Arena and Legends Field, enough revenue was able to be generated to get the construction of Raymond James underway. ... Since they own the stadium they are responsible for the property taxes, not the Buccaneers. ... This is what the Tampa Sports Authority received when Hillsborough County passed an increase in...

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STRUCTURE AND BONDING In my essay on the structure and bonding in different substances, I am going to focus on electronic arrangement and their effects on the properties of the substance. ... The physical properties of metals This strong bonding and the fact that the particles present in metals are tightly packed in the lattice results in dense, strong materials with high melting and boiling points. ... Non-metallic solids conduct heat energy by hotter more strongly vibrating atoms, knocking against cooler less strongly vibrating atoms to pass the particle kinetic energy on. ... They do, h...

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Minor offences regarding property for example vandalism & petty theft and the right to life offences e.g. euthanasia & abortion. ... When this happens we usually clear the streets of our children apart from the people who stop to cheer on the crooks and throw missiles in the road as the police pass. ... These promote the values of freedom, self-interest, competition and the right of private property. ... The solution they say is target handling for example, property marking, security devices and more surveillance in the inner city areas. ...

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This essay will hopefully give you the knowledge and understanding of the concepts, properties, and processes involved with the space phenomenon of the black hole. ... Though gravitational waves pass straight through matter, their strength weakens as the distance from the original source increases. ... When the star is passed on into the event horizon the light that the star endures is bent within the current and therefore cannot be seen in space. ...

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Would You Wear Your Dog? "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."(Mahatma Gandhi) Being asked if they would wear dog or cat fur, most people would ...

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Forty thousand pamphlets were printed and passed out among the members of the black community. ... For an African American to be able to register to vote they needed to pass a registration test to prove that they were able to comprehend how to vote. ...

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A key property of a conductive polymer is the presence of conjugated double bonds along the backbone of the polymer. ... Today conductive plastics are being developed for many uses, such as in corrosion inhibitors, compact capacitors, antistatic coating, electromagnetic shielding of computers, and in "smart- windows that can vary the amount of light they allow to pass, etc. ... In many materials, such as crystals, stretched polymers or liquid crystals, macroscopic properties such as strength and optical and electrical properties generally depend on direction. ... Diamond, which contains on...

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The Fugitive Slave Law passed in 1850 stating any person who makes attempt to harbor or conceal any fugitive from service or labor, escaping from one state into another, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after knowledge that he was such as fugitive, would be subjected to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars. ... She enjoyed a relatively normal, happy family life up until she was six years old when her mother passed, and her father followed soon after in 1826. ... Harriet Ann Jacobs passed away after a long life at the age of 84 on March 7, 1897, and is put to rest next to her brother i...

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During the Zhou dynasty (1100-770 BC) women were stripped of their right to own personal property. ... Women could not claim family property. The property went to the older brother of the wife or her oldest son. ...

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He was the man that was going to influence his people to keep fighting, giving his speech "No Easy Walk to Freedom, " stating, "You can see that there is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountaintops of our desires. ...

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In the beginning of the novel with he sees that she is sunburned from swimming, he looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage."" ... (Chopin 197) "One day, Edna Pontellier, whose husband has vaguely held her dear as a bit of decorative furniture, a valuable piece of property, suddenly became aware that she was a human being."" ... "She slowly passed her hand through his hair. ...

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Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. Within a country so far from the modern world, people live strictly by religion and tradition, by following their castes. It is that, that keeps them strong and has helped them survived for hundreds of years. Originally, there were four castes. ...

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Such is his determination to rekindle this relationship that he becomes oblivious to the reality that five years have passed. ... In the first verse, clouds assume properties of fantasy and the playful way a child sees them: "Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way" Through the use of metaphorical comparisons to 'angel hair' 'ice cream castles' and 'feather canyons', Mitchell creates a utopian illusion that emphasizes the delicacy and bliss of clouds. ... In this...

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