A Partnership Gone Bad: Business Relationships and the Evolving Law of the Cairo Geniza Period

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Contract Enforcement ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Reciprocal Exchange ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Cairo Geniza ◽  
The Law ◽  
Business Collaboration ◽  
Religious Courts

Abstract Economic historians, beginning with Avner Greif, have looked to business letters from the Cairo Geniza to understand how medieval merchants in the Islamic Mediterranean organized business collaboration. They have noticed the prevalence of agency relations, which followed “informal” arrangements, unlike formal partnerships, which employed written contracts. This “method” was called ṣuḥba (“companionship”) in Arabic, and it entailed reciprocal exchange of favors between business “friends.” Much attention has been given to what Greif calls “private order” enforcement of agency contracts, whereby merchants belonging to a “closed” consortium reported instances of cheating or opportunism by a fellow merchant, in place of enforcement by religious courts. However, economic historians relying on the Geniza documents have paid inadequate attention to evolving Jewish law in the Islamic milieu. The present article, focusing on a mercantile dispute, brings evidence to show that Jewish legal scholars adopted a feature of Islamic judicial practice to strengthen their role in enforcement of informal agency contracts. In his Code, the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides put the final touches on this accommodation by incorporating agency into the law pertaining to contract enforcement among partners.

scholarly journals Relevant Issues of the Judicial Practice in Intellectual Property Protection

CIVIL LAW ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Konstantin A. Kirsanov ◽  
◽  
Olga N. Barmina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Main Current ◽  
A Company

Intellectual property is currently one of the key areas of modern civil law relations. In the present article, the authors reviewed and summarized the main current areas of judicial practice in the field of violations related to the exclusive rights to a company name, characters and trademarks.

scholarly journals POLÍTICA NACIONAL SOBRE DROGAS: UM ESTUDO DISCURSIVO SOBRE PROIBIÇÃO, PREVENÇÃO E CONSCIENTIZAÇÃO NA LEI 11.343

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erisvania Gomes Da Silva ◽  
Ana Maria Di Renzo
Keyword(s):  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The Law

No presente artigo abordamos os embates Discursivos, Históricos, Ideológicos e Constitutivos entre a Prevenção e Conscientização na Lei 11.343. Assim, propomos analisar política instaurada de “Redução de Danos” no país e se ela tem produzido os seus efeitos de sentido fora da legislação, ou seja, em sua prática.Abstract:In the present article we address the Discourse clashes, Historical, Ideological and Incorporation of Prevention and Awareness in Law 11.343. Therefore, we propose to analyze established policy of "harm reduction" in the country and it has produced its effects of meaning outside the law, that is, in their practice.

scholarly journals MENGGALI ‘ILLAT HUKUM PERBEDAAN AGAMA SEBAGAI HALANGAN WARIS

EMPIRISMA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Isna Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Legal Reason ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Law ◽  
Religious Courts

Kompilasi Hukum Islam does not regulate interfaith inheritance distinctly. It only requires the testator and the heirs have the same religion. At court, judges of religious courts employ obligatory bequest (waṣiat wājibah) to divide inheritance to non-Muslim heirs, based on jurisprudence of the Supreme Court Number 368 K/AG/1995. As the result, different faith still become hindrance for Muslim and non-Muslim to inherit each other due to law enforcement without considering the legal reasoning (ratio legis) of the law. In this case, it is important to investigate the legal reason (ratio legis) of the hadith that prohibits the interfaith inheritance as this article tries to do. To do the investigation, the author employs Islamic legal theories (uṣūl fikih) and hermeneutics approach. As the result, the author comes to the conclusion that the ratio legis of the hadith that prohibits the interfaith inheritance is due to hostility and crime element and not due to different faith. Keywords: Interfaith Inheritance, Ratio Legis, Equality

scholarly journals ARBITRASE SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF PENYELESAIAN SENGKETA EKONOMI SYARIAH MENURUT UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 30 TAHUN 1999

Asy-Syari ah ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhibuthabary Muhibuthabary
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Arbitration Process ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Law ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
Religious Courts

This paper describes the arbitration as an alternative dispute resolution in Shariah economy. Dispute resolution in general civil religion has resolved through litigation in the religious courts that refer to Article 49 of Law Number 7 of 1989 Jo. Law Number 3 of 2006 Jo. Law Number 50 of 2009 on the Religious Courts. However, there are some interesting cases, one of which is the Islamic economic disputes could be resolved through non-litigation or arbitration process, which refers to the Law No. 30 Year 1999. Now, the Shari'ah economic dispute resolution becomes the object of this study which interesting to study both theoretically and practically, not only because the case is to be part of the absolute authority of religious courts, but also becomes a new knowledge in the field of Islamic Jurisprudence

scholarly journals PENEMUAN HUKUM OLEH HAKIM DALAM PRAKTEK HUKUM ACARA DI PERADILAN AGAMA

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Abdul Manan
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Judicial Power ◽  
Legal Argument ◽  
Court Judge ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Article 5 ◽  
Religious Courts

The court essentially banned refused to examine, decide a case filed with no legal argument or less clear, but obliged to examine and judge ". Provisions of this chapter gives the sense that as major organs Court judge and as executor of judicial power is obligatory for the Judge to find the law in a case despite legal provisions do not exist or are less clear. Law No. 48 of 2009 Article 5 (1) explains that "Judges shall multiply, follow and understand the values of law and justice that lives within the community. the judges in the religious court in making decisions on matters that should be examined and judged using the technique of taking decisions which include Analytical Techniques, Technical equatable, and techniques syllogism. Keywords: Rechtsvinding, Justice, Law Events, Religious Courts.

The Right to Return: The Biblical Law of Theft

2010 ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliakim Katz ◽  
Jacob Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Biblical Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

This article focuses on the law surrounding the biblical law of theft. According to Jewish Law, a thief who is caught and found guilty must return the stolen article and, in addition, pay the owner a fine equal to the value of the article. The thief can avoid this fine by admitting to the theft on his own initiative in a court and returning the stolen article to its owner. This article refers to such canceling of a fine as a pardon. The pardon is explained in the Talmud by the legal dictum “Mode BeKnass Patur,” that is “he who confesses in a fine is exempt”. This article carefully explains economic model with the help of various graphs. This article also explains two issues which require consideration in assessing whether Eliezer acted properly as an agent according to Jewish law. A detailed analysis of concepts of duty in Judaism concludes this article.

Renewal of the Land Lease Agreement: Problems of Theory and Judicial Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Vitalii Urkevych
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Important Object ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Lease Agreement

Land is the most important object of the environment. It is an indispensable means of production in agriculture, the territorial basis for the location of various objects. It is argued that the proper functioning of land lease relations is a guarantee of sustainable economic circulation, a guarantee of the exercise of rights and performance of duties by both the lessor and the lessee of the land. The issue of renewal of the land lease agreement after its expiration is debatable. The purpose of the study is to outline the existing theoretical and law enforcement problems regarding the renewal of the land lease agreement, to make proposals to eliminate the latter. To achieve this purpose, a system-structural method of scientific knowledge was used, which helped analyse the prescriptions of the legislation on renewal of the land lease agreement, their relations and interaction were highlighted. The study proves that the lessee's pre-emptive right exists to renew the land lease agreement only for the same period and on the same terms and in the absence of objections to such renewal by the lessor. If the lessee tries to change the essential terms of the land lease agreement and in the absence of the lessor's consent to such changes, the lessee's pre-emptive right to enter into a land lease agreement for a new term is terminated. It is emphasised that in each dispute it is necessary to establish the good faith of the lessor’s actions to refuse to renew the land lease agreement with one person (lessee) and the subsequent conclusion of the agreement with the new lessee. The use of the category of "less protected" party in land lease legal relations appears debatable, because depending on the subject composition of the parties to these legal relations, such a party can be both a lessee and a lessor. It is concluded that the Supreme Court should unify the practice of applying the provisions of the law on the renewal of the land lease agreement (only in combination with other regulations or autonomously, with the use of the principle of "tacit consent"). The possibility of autonomous application of such instructions is indicated by the provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning Counteraction to Raiding”. The revealed shortcomings of the legal regulation of the renewal of the land lease agreement after its expiration indicate the directions of improvement of the legislation in land lease, which has practical significance

ON THE PROBLEMS OF EXERCISING THE AUTHORITY OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CLAIMANT TO RECEIVE THE AWARDED FUNDS: ALL DOUBTS ARE NOT IN FAVOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 294-316
Author(s):  
E.V. ZAICHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Bank Account ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Special Power ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive

The author examines the problematic aspects of the implementation by the representative of the claimant under the enforcement document of a special power to receive funds both in the course of enforcement in the presence of enforcement proceedings initiated in the relevant division of bailiffs, and in the order of presenting the writ of execution directly to a Bank or other credit organization. It is stated that there is no uniformity of judicial practice on the issue of recognizing the right of a representative to demand the transfer of funds due to the recoverer to the account of the recoverer’s representative in the event of the exercise of this power during the initiated enforcement proceedings. The article substantiates the provision on the involuntary nature of the Bank’s actions carried out in accordance with Article 8 of the Law on Enforcement Proceedings, as well as on the unreasonableness of the ban on transferring funds to the personal Bank account of the representative in the case of applying with an enforcement document to the Bank for the purpose of collecting in a simplified manner. It is concluded that there are no significant grounds for differentiating the considered options for collecting funds in order to determine whether the representative of the recoverer has the right to receive the money awarded to the recoverer.

North Macedonia’s Language Law of 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-202
Author(s):  
Emma Lantschner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Law ◽  
Language Law ◽  
Language Issues

In 2019, a new law regulating the use of languages other than Macedonian entered into force in North Macedonia. Language issues have always been a hot topic in North Macedonia and one capable of stirring controversial debate, especially between the Albanian- and the Macedonian- speaking population. This is also the case for this most recent piece of legislation. The present article discusses initially the constitutional and political background to the adoption of the law. It then analyses some of the most disputed aspects of the law. Most of them relate to the broader issues of democracy and rule of law as well as the balance with other human rights.

The order of property realisation in bankruptcy (insolvency) procedure under the law of Ukraine and Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-222
Author(s):  
Oleksandr D. Sviatotskyi ◽  
Rodion B. Poliakov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Electronic Trading ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Legal Study ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
German Legislation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

The article represents a comparative legal study of the specifics of the order of debtor's property realisation in the bankruptcy procedure under the law of Ukraine and Germany through the application of hermeneutic (used in accessing the essence of the legal framework and judicial practice); axiological (in determining the evaluative base) along with phenomenological (and the nature of the phenomena); systematic (modeling of the functioning systems) methodological toolkit. The authors emphasise the importance of legal provisions governing the sale of the debtor's property, due to the natural proximity of this stage of the competitive process to the financial component, which, in turn, is inevitably associated with various abuses. An electronic trading system had been recently introduced in Ukraine, on which therefore many hopes and expectations were relied upon. However, the electronic trading system did not cope with tasks set, and many new problems were added to the old ones. The article states that the existence of problematic issues in the procedure of bankrupt property realisation is confirmed, in particular, by the court practice. However, judicial practice in itself often becomes a source of problems. The article pays special attention to the German legislation, which uses a radically opposite model of property sale in insolvency proceedings. The authors justifiably propose to make certain changes to the Ukrainian legislation, by using the positive experience of Germany. As a result of a comparative legal analysis of the legislation of Ukraine and Germany, the authors provide ways of solving the raised issues in the article. The implementation of the recommendations submitted within this comparative-legal study should improve the quality of bankruptcy proceedings, reduce the number of abuses by insolvency trustees, as well as protect the rights and property interests of competitive creditors and creditors with the right of separate satisfaction

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