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A unique and comprehensive source of information, this book is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial development and performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth and related long term trends, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Statistics on employment patterns, wag

A unique and comprehensive source of information, this book is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial development and performance. It provides data which can be used to analyse patterns of growth and related long term trends, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Statistics on employment patterns, wag

Intro -- COVER -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Chapter 1: Legal system terminology -- 1.1 The civil law system and the common law system -- 1.2 The court structure -- 1.2.1 England -- 1.2.2 USA -- 1.2.3 Alternatives to the courts -- 1.3 The legal profession -- 1.3.1 England -- 1.3.2 USA -- 1.3.3 Judges in the common law system -- 1.4 The jury -- 1.5 Operation of a common law system -- 1.5.1 Legislation -- 1.5.2 Equity -- 1.5.3 The common law -- Legal system vocabulary -- Chapter 2: Civil procedure terminology -- 2.1 Characteristics of civil procedure in a common law system -- 2.2 Up-dated civil procedure terminology in England -- 2.3 Civil procedure in England -- 2.4 Starting a civil action -- 2.5 Defending an action -- 2.6 Statements of case -- 2.7 Summary judgment -- 2.8 Settlement -- 2.9 Other pre-trial activities -- 2.9.1 Case management conference -- 2.9.2 Disclosure of documents -- 2.9.3 Interim remedies -- 2.9.4 The collection of written evidence -- 2.10 Trial -- 2.10.1 The trial timetable -- 2.10.2 Evidence -- 2.10.3 The burden and standard of proof -- 2.11 Appeal -- 2.12 Costs -- 2.13 Enforcement of judgments -- Civil procedure vocabulary -- Chapter 3: Tort terminology -- 3.1 What is the law of tort? -- 3.2 Negligence -- 3.2.1 Requirements -- 3.2.2 The defence of contributory negligence -- 3.3 Intentional torts -- 3.4 Product liability -- 3.5 Occupier's liability -- 3.6 Nuisance -- 3.7 Defamation -- 3.8 Remedies in tort -- 3.8.1 Damages -- 3.8.2 Injunction -- Tort vocabulary -- Chapter 4: Contract law terminology -- 4.1 A culture clash: contract law in the common law system and the civil law system -- 4.2 Is there a contract? -- 4.2.1 Formation of a contract -- 4.2.2 Capacity -- 4.3 Breaking off contractual negotiations -- 4.4 Parties to the contract -- 4.5 The contract.

AbstractThe Permanent Court of International Justice was the first significant court of justice at the international level. Its active life spanned over two decades and yielded an international judiciary while exploring the merits of international adjudication and international law when put into practice. It was partly due to the legacy of the Permanent Court that the second half of the twentieth century witnessed several other successful projects of international justice. At the same time, the decisions of the Permanent Court indicated some of the pertinent problems of international adjudication, notably the omnipresent risk of judges being influenced by national tendencies and traditions with parochial views of international law in result.

Basic principles of American law -- The jury system -- The legal profession -- Constitutional law : individual rights -- Civil procedure and the federal courts -- Contracts -- Tort and product liability -- Property -- Intellectual property -- Criminal law and procedure -- Business law -- Marriage and the family -- Administrative law

In any work of classification, the selection of standards is, of course, of primary importance. In the budget of the League, absurd results appear at various points as a result of arranging the contents thereof now according to one type of standard (subject-matter, as "Mandates"), now according to another (kind of service, as "Liaison"). Without coördinate and mutually exclusive standards, no classification can be complete or satisfactory.One or two of the points made above might, it is obvious, be used as indices of classification if not used as grounds of exclusion. That is, if unofficial international organizations are not excluded entirely, as they logically should be, from this study, they might form one of the two classes of international organizations, along with official organizations. Similarly, organizations may be classified as bilateral and multilateral, in accord with the foregoing discussion, as resting upon mere practice or formal convention, as intended for the observance of some principle or for the taking of some overt action, and finally as relying upon national agencies for their operation or possessing agencies of their own.

My retrospective study, published in the twenty-fifth anniversary volume of this Yearbook, attempted a critical survey of post-war Soviet general theory of international law, and noted the signs of an intellectual changing of the guard and the emergence of a new generation of Soviet international legal theorists. Is it possible today to speak of a post-war U.S. general theory of international law, and, if so, can we speak of a generational change, in the late 1980's, similar to that in the Soviet Union?