Water Rights Acquisition and Recognition in Chile
School of Law Course: UDP Water Rights First Half 2010
Second Summary
I: Distinction Between Given Rights and Rights Recognized
When we talked about the budgets of water use rights, we said there were three:
- The public domain on the water (an inherent part of national property for public use).
- The allocation, this is the act of the relevant concession State organ (DGA), which will give a title.
- The title of the act resulting concessions.
We said that this title could take various forms and, paradoxically,
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- Movable by determination of the law (Art. 83 CC): The energies of economic value (electric, wind, etc.), any right in rem in movable property (pledge),
Limited Liability Company (LLC): Formation, Structure, and Operation
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1. Board Members
- General Meeting: The Competition Board holds significant importance, as outlined in paragraph 2 of this article. The General Meeting has the authority to instruct the management body on operational matters.
- Similar to a Public Limited Company (PLC), the Board must communicate with members, potentially through newspapers or the Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry (BORME).
- Alternatives to traditional meeting calls include using a local newspaper directory or individual
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Law plays a crucial role in the development of legal concepts. There is a pre-law idea of law, where law precedes the establishment of offenses. Offenses are defined when a law determines that certain actions are considered crimes. Rights do not
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1. What is the role of journalism throughout the text “The Imagination of Punishment” regarding the relationship between society and the prison world? Explain its variants and its development between the late nineteenth century and the 1930s.
Journalism’s function in “The Imagination of Punishment” is to reveal what was happening inside prisons to a society that was interested in goings-on behind the walls. Journalism evolved
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Family law regulates marriage and other family relationships, such as those of unmarried partners and affiliated individuals. Kinship, a term referring to family relationships, can be of three types:
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- Consanguineous Kinship: Based on blood ties.
- Affinal Kinship: Arising from marriage, such as in-laws.
To assess relationships, we must create a diagram between relatives. A straight-line relationship exists when individuals are direct descendants
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