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The Perjurious Defendant: A Proposed Solution to the Defense Lawyer\u27s Conflicting Ethical Obligations to the Court and to His Client
Disabled Litigants’ Standing Issue: Ensuring Rhode Island’s Standing Doctrine is Accessible to ADA Tester Litigants
What Constitutes an Assault
Assault, as it has been judicially defined, finds its basis in the protection against the apprehension of receiving harmful or offensive contact. It is the threshold for the more serious tort of battery, the actual contact with the person of the plaintiff. The law of assault has been developing over hundreds of years and will continue to do so. Of key importance to the tort, and the one factor more than any other which differentiates the tort of assault from other forms of intentional wrongdoing, is the element of apprehension in the mind of the victim. Without the awareness by the victim of the offered but uncompleted harmful or offensive contact, there is no basis for a cause of action sounding in assault. It is the mental tranquillity of the victim that the law of assault protects
Will Colorado\u27s Effort to Improve the Administration of Justice Help Montana?
Will Colorado\u27s Effort to Improve the Administration of Justice Help Montana
Research Notes : United States : Soybean floral ecology and insect pollination
The cultivated soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) is an herbaceous annual, unknown in the wild, with uncertain ancestry. Most believe that its origin was in Eastern Asia, probably Northeastern China, where it was first cultivated about the 11th century B.C. (Probst and Judd, 1973). Like corn, the soybean may have been selected and bred by ancient man from a more primi-tive form that was different in growth habit and floral development
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