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The Secured Transactions Article of the Commercial Code and Section 60 of the Bankruptcy Act
The secured creditor enjoys several advantages over his unsecured brethren. If
the debtor defaults on his obligation, the secured creditor is sometimes empowered
to take matters in his own hands, sell the property covered by his security, and reimburse
himself out of the proceeds without the time and expense of the lawsuit to
which the unsecured creditor must resort. If the debtor disposes of all of his property,
the secured creditor\u27s claim, if properly perfected, follows the property into the hands
of the transferee and may be satisfied therefrom without the necessity of litigation to
establish that the transfer was a fraudulent conveyance. If unsecured creditors go
after property of the debtor to satisfy their claims, the secured creditor\u27s interest in
the property covered by his security, if properly perfected, is immune from their levies.
And if the debtor goes into bankruptcy, the secured creditor has first claim on the
proceeds of the property covered by his security, after which he shares pro rata on
any unpaid balance with the full claims of unsecured creditors in the remainder of
the debtor\u27s assets
Mark As Story
Title: Mark as story: an introduction to the narrative of a gospel Author: David M Rhoads; Joanna Dewey; Donald Michie Publisher: Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1999 ISBN: 978080063160
Differences in representation of male and female roles in television advertising
Includes bibliographical references
Syndetic Sets and Amenability
We prove that if an infinite, discrete semigroup has the property that every
right syndetic set is left syndetic, then the semigroup has a left invariant
mean. We prove that the weak*-closed convex hull of the two-sided translates of
every bounded function on an infinite discrete semigroup contains a constant
function. Our proofs use the algebraic properties of the Stone-Cech
compactification
A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Kadison-Singer Problem
In these notes we develop a link between the Kadison-Singer problem and
questions about certain dynamical systems. We conjecture that whether or not a
given state has a unique extension is related to certain dynamical properties
of the state. We prove that if any state corresponding to a minimal idempotent
point extends uniquely to the von Neumann algebra of the group, then every
state extends uniquely to the von Neumann algebra of the group. We prove that
if any state arising in the Kadsion-Singer problem has a unique extension, then
the injective envelope of a C*-crossed product algebra associated with the
state necessarily contains the full von Neumann algebra of the group. We prove
that this latter property holds for states arising from rare ultrafilters and
-stable ultrafilters, independent, of the group action and also for
states corresponding to non-recurrent points in the corona of the group.Comment: Typos corrected, comments and references adde
Equivariant Maps and Bimodule Projections
We construct a contractive, idempotent, MASA bimodule map on B(H), whose
range is not a ternary subalgebra of B(H). Our method uses a crossed-product to
reduce the existence of such an idempotent map to an analogous problem about
the ranges of idempotent maps that are equivariant with respect to a group
action and Hamana's theory of G-injective envelopes.Comment: 15 page
Risk Regulation and the Faces of Uncertainty
Dr. Walker addresses the difficulty of regulators\u27 working with potentially inaccurate information and clarifies related aspects of decision making by presenting a taxonomy for the kinds of uncertainty inherent in necessarily incomplete data
The Ethos of the International Court of Justice Is Dependent Upon the Statutory Authority Attributed to Its Rhetoric: A Metadiscourse
This Comment argues that the Court\u27s practice of unofficially applying precedent, contrary to actual statutory authority, negatively impacts the Court\u27s authority. Specifically, the absence of an official doctrine of stare decisis diminishes the Court\u27s ethos and the rhetorical clout imputed to the Court\u27s decisions. 28 Part I discusses the Court\u27s character in providing states with a consistent, statutorily authorized rhetoric to refer to in their compromissory interactions, the Court\u27s acknowledgment of the written rules, and its subsequent use of precedent. Part I also examines the past under-utilization of the ICJ to settle treaty disputes, and the recent increasing trend in states\u27 reliance on the ICJ as the potential interpreter of treaties. Part II analyzes the ICJ\u27s statutory authority, and their interpretations and practices regarding that authority. Part III argues that without binding the Court statutorily the effect of precedent on later decisions of the ICJ undermines the rhetoric of the Court, thereby undermining the ethos, or authoritativeness, of the Court to decide conflicts between disputing states. Part III also argues that if the authoritativeness of the Court\u27s rhetoric is questionable, the increased reliance on the ICJ as the adjudicator of potential treaty disputes could be reversed, causing a return to under-utilization of the Court. Part III further argues that in order to prevent a return to under-utilization of the Court, the written statute that defines the Court should reflect the Court\u27s practices. This Comment concludes that binding the Court to its past decisions by amending the ICJ statute would increase the ICJ\u27s rhetorical ethos, thus adding more precedential weight to the Court\u27s decisions and authoritative use of its service
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