As a result, today, the main systematic divisions of the law into property, contract, and tort ( and to some extent unjust enrichment ) can be found in the civil law as well as in the common law.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

In 1971, Papa Doc entered into 99-year contract with Don Pierson representing Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas for a free port project on the old buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga island located some off the north coast of the main Haitian island of Hispaniola.

This was quoted as one of the main reasons that The Coca-Cola Company broke away from their contract with the local brewer Pripps and started Coca-Cola Drycker Sverige AB instead.

These precede the main flash with a series of short, low-power flashes, or a continuous piercing bright light triggering the pupil to contract.

BT is still the main provider of fixed telephones lines, both POTS and ISDN, and it has a universal service obligation, although companies can now contract Openreach to install a phoneline on their behalf, rather than telling the customer to get BT to install it, then transfer over.

Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng — but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney — under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.

The main exception is in insurance bad faith cases in the United States, where the insurer's breach of contract is alleged to be so egregious as to amount to a breach of the " implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing ," and is therefore considered to be a tort cause of action eligible for punitive damages ( in excess of the value of the insurance policy ).

On February 4, 2010, at his war crimes trial in the Hague, Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U. S., and that he had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U. S. administration officials in exchange for concessions to Robertson's Freedom Gold, Ltd., to which Taylor gave a contract to mine gold in southeast Liberia.

Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the Faber contract, Hughes and Heaney decided the The Rattle Bags main purpose was to offer enjoyment to the reader: " Arbitrary riches ".

The main difference between auction bridge and contract bridge is that in auction bridge a game is scored whenever the required number of tricks ( 9 in No Trump, 10 in Hearts or Spades, 11 in Clubs or Diamonds ) is scored, and in contract bridge the number of points from tricks taken past the bid do not count towards making a game.

The Spurs were eager to bring Slovenian big man Erazem Lorbek to the team due to the lack of size, which was the main concern for the team with the aging Tim Duncan, but were unable to bring in after his previous club, Barcelona FC offered him the largest contract in team history.

Producing three wheel mailsters for the United States Postal Service was their main contract, worth multi-millions.

November 9, 1909 Council voted to enter into contract with West Penn Electric Company for placing and maintaining four arc lights on the main street of town.

The word " collateral " comes from medieval Latin collateralis, from col -, " together with " + lateralis ( from latus, later -, " side " ) and is otherwise mainly used as a synonym for " parallel " or " additional " in certain expressions (" collateral veins " run parallel to each other and " collateral security " means additional security to the main obligation in a contract ).

Later editing can then expand or contract the " dummy " field to keep the total size of the file header constant: an intelligently written piece of software can then overwrite just the file header when tagging data is changed, without modifying or moving the main body of the file.

One occasional exception is the television program Law & Order, which sometimes shows the main characters researching at a computer late into the night ( always using Westlaw, due to a contract between Westlaw and the show's producers ).

This makes extension towards the main line unlikely ; Hanson has renewed a contract to supply roadstone at the site.

The main contract is between the public sector authority and the Topco.

A contract to run a nationwide system, with six multiplexes from main sites, and four from relay sites was awarded in 2001 to ITS Digital Limited, led by former RTÉ executive, Mr Peter Branagan and trading as " It's TV ", who intended to launch a pay TV and broadband service.

Instead, they are powered by gravitational energy released as the stars contract, while moving towards the main sequence, which they reach after about 100 million years.

A prenuptial agreement, antenuptial agreement, or premarital agreement, commonly abbreviated to prenup or prenupt, is a contract entered into prior to marriage, civil union or any other agreement prior to the main agreement by the people intending to marry or contract with each other.

In years past, the main economic driving force in Saipan was garment manufacturing, driven largely by foreign contract workers ( mainly from China ).

The actions of executive agencies and independent agencies are the main focus of American administrative law.

The administrative law in Germany can be divided into three main parts, which are constitutional law,

The term common law has three main connotations and several historical meanings worth mentioning:

The main alternative to the common law system is the civil law system, which is used in Continental Europe, and most of the rest of the world.

The Corpus Juris Secundum is an encyclopedia whose main content is a compendium of the common law and its variations throughout the various state jurisdictions.

In 1949 during the French colonial rule, the law required the main ethnic groups, the Afar and the Somali to participate as separate electorates.

Since then, the main characters ’ ages and career developments have tracked that of standard media portrayals of baby boomers, with jobs in advertising, law enforcement, and the dot-com boom.

Islamic law ( fiqh ) covers two main areas:

Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Trinitarian issue of the nature of The Son and his relationship to God the Father, the construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea, settling the calculation of the date of Easter, and promulgation of early canon law.

The main aim of the County Administrative Board is to fulfil the goals set in national politics by the Parliament and the Government, to coordinate the interests and promote the development of the county, to establish regional goals and safeguard the due process of law in the handling of each case.

This has two main benefits for law enforcement.

In the major codes of Jewish law, two other main categorization schemes are found.

The main purpose with IWAY is to make sure that the IKEA suppliers follows the law in each country where they are based.

The field of study combines two main branches: the law of nations ( jus gentium ) and international agreements and conventions ( jus inter gentes ), which have different foundations and should not be confused.

On 8 January 1817, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, William I published a constitutional law governing the organization of a Militia, the main provisions of which were to remain in force until the Militia was abolished in 1881.

The main purpose of this law is to protect the integrity of the Afghan financial system and to gain compliance with international treaties and conventions.

He was known as “ the law maker ”, and soon Babylon became one of the main cities in Mesopotamia.

Because of their position between the two main systems of law, these types of legal systems are sometimes referred to as " mixed " systems of law.

* Common law's main distinctive features and focus were not substantial law, which was customary law, but procedural.