Acquiring Property: Legal Methods and Key Considerations

Abstract: Legal Ways to Acquire Property

A mode of acquiring property is a fact or juridical act to which the law grants the virtue of operating in the generation, transfer, and transmission of domain and other real rights.

Features

  1. It is a fact or juridical act.
  2. Its origin is in the law.
  3. It operates in the generation, transfer, and transmission of property.

Theories

Traditional Doctrine: It has its origins in Roman Law. It distinguishes between:

  • Title or remote cause of acquisition: The factual or legal
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Legal Measures for Victim Protection and Sentence Execution

Measures to Protect Victims: Purpose and Classes

The court can take measures such as the prohibition of residence, movement, and communication in proceedings for crimes of homicide, abortion, injuries, torture, crimes against freedom, against moral integrity, sexual freedom, against the right to privacy, to honor, heritage, and socio-economic benefits. These measures are based on a prima facie case (circumstantial complaint), not on the existence of a periculum in mora (risk of delay), but rather

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Commercial Partnership Contracts: Types and Legal Aspects

Partnership Contracts

7.1 External Collaboration with Business and Commercial Leases, Service, and Work: Distinctive Features

We distinguish several concepts:

  • Leasing of Service: A contract whereby one party, the lessor, undertakes to provide a particular service, and the other party, the tenant, agrees to pay the stipulated price. It is an activity contract because the landlord is entitled to develop its activities with due diligence.
  • Leasing of Work: A contract whereby one party, the lessor, undertakes
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Political Law: Athens, Sparta, Plato’s Republic, and Justice

Final Exam Questions: Political Law

Athens and Sparta: Forms of Government in 5th Century BC Greece

Athens and Sparta were the two main city-states in 5th century BC Greece. Here are their different forms of government and relevant institutions:

Athens

The Constitution of Athens polarized all democratic states of Greece.

  • The Boule or Council of 500 was composed of 500 citizens over 30 years of age, with 50 from each tribe. It executed Assembly resolutions, governed finances, received ambassadors, and

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Employment Contracts: Key Elements and Legal Aspects

Theme 5: The Contract of Work (I)

Definition

A contract of work is an agreement under which a person undertakes to provide their services as an employee within the organization and direction of another person or entity, known as the employer, in exchange for a fee.

1. Tasks of the Contract of Work

  • Constitutive Function: Creates a working relationship with recognition of effects. Even if the employment contract is void, because if it proves invalid, the worker could require, for the work they had already
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Labor Law and Employment Contracts: Rights and Duties

UNIT 1: Labor Law

1. Labor Law

2. Sources of Labor Law

3. Principles of Labor Law Application

4. Rights and Duties of Workers

5. The Employment Contract

6. Types of Employment Contracts

1. Labor Law

1.1 Origins

Labor law emerged in the nineteenth century as a response to economic and social problems arising from the Industrial Revolution (18-hour workdays, no weekly rest, holidays, etc.) and the desire to protect the weakest part of the employment relationship: the worker.

1.2 Definition

Labor law is a branch

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