Sentences with phrase «unlike common law states»

Unlike common law states, community property states consider debt taken on during the marriage community property (or property of the couple), regardless of whether both parties signed for the it.

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Unlike the state's truancy laws that do hold children and parents liable for failing to go to school, there is simply no mechanism for the state or school district to require students to take the Common Core SBAC test.

Unlike other areas of law, each member state of the EU keeps its own family law and can decide its own terms: While the EU provides a common set of rules for jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments and orders, Britain has three systems of substantive law in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with each system operating almost independently.

Restatements are written by committees led by a distinguished law professor in the particular field called a «reporter» and unlike the West Digest System sacrifice being fully and accurately descriptive, in favor of articulating a single coherent theory of an area of law that theoretically represents a majority position of the states on that body of the common law, something that is more art than science.

The United States and 49 of the states are Common Law jurisdictions, the exception is Louisiana which is a Civil Law jurisdiction (specifically the Napoleonic subset of Civil Law) as, unlike the rest of the country, it was initially a French posseStates and 49 of the states are Common Law jurisdictions, the exception is Louisiana which is a Civil Law jurisdiction (specifically the Napoleonic subset of Civil Law) as, unlike the rest of the country, it was initially a French possestates are Common Law jurisdictions, the exception is Louisiana which is a Civil Law jurisdiction (specifically the Napoleonic subset of Civil Law) as, unlike the rest of the country, it was initially a French possession.