Sentences with phrase «change ancient laws»

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Like many other land titles laws, the Ontario Land Titles Act is basically good, but ancient and overlaid with changes, many of which were less well considered.

Her recent publications include Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2016); «How to Regulate Legal Services to Promote Access, Innovation and the Quality of Lawyering» (with Deborah Rhode)(Hastings Law Journal 2016); «The Microfoundations of the Rule of Law» (with Barry Weingast)(Annual Review of Political Science 2015); «Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens» (with Federica Carugati and Barry Weingast)(Journal of Legal Analysis 2015); «Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets» (Daedalus 2014).

In summary, if a territory is acquired through occupation of uninhabited land then, so long as it is applicable to the colony, English law is in force, while in the case of acquisition through treaty or conquest, the «ancient» laws remain until they are changed.