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Legal status describes the legal rights, duties and obligations of a person or entity, or a subset of those rights and obligations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term may be used to describe a person's legal condition with respect to personal rights, but excluding proprietary relations, such as their having the status of a spouse.
s.c. (spółka cywilna): "civil law partnership", itself neither a proper legal entity nor a juridical person, as it is the partners (natural persons) who retain their separate statuses as entrepreneurs and legal entities, albeit bound by an agreement on the sharing of profits, losses and ownership of a business (common pool of assets).
This category gathers organizations based on their particular legal status -- e.g., registered as a particular corporate structure, a nonprofit charity under the applicable laws, a cooperative, or some other structure. Not all organizations need to be categorized according to legal status.
The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks by becoming the common name of the relevant product or service, as used both by the consuming public and commercial competitors. These marks were determined in court to have become generic.
List of people pardoned by Bill Clinton; List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama; List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump; People detained by the International Criminal Court; List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States; List of people declared personae non gratae in ...
An example is law prohibiting genocide. jus gentium: law of nations Customary law followed by all nations. Nations being at peace with one another, without having to have an actual peace treaty in force, would be an example of this concept. jus in bello: law in war Laws governing the conduct of parties in war. jus inter gentes: law between the ...
The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four major legal traditions: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and so incorporates individual variations. [ 1 ]
For examples the federal law lists: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered. [2]