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  2. Phillips v Eyre - Wikipedia

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    Phillips v Eyre (1870) LR 6 QB 1 is an English decision on the conflict of laws in tort. The Court developed a two limbed test for determining whether a tort occurring outside of the court's jurisdiction can be actionable. [1] In time this came to be referred to as the "dual-actionability test" (or "double actionability test").

  3. Defeasible reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Defeasibility had always been closely related to argument, rhetoric, and law, except in epistemology, where the chains of reasons, and the origin of reasons, were not often discussed. Nicholas Rescher 's Dialectics is an example of how difficult it was for philosophers to contemplate more complex systems of defeasible reasoning.

  4. Regress argument (epistemology) - Wikipedia

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    Infinite regress. In epistemology, the regress argument is the argument that any proposition requires a justification.However, any justification itself requires support. This means that any proposition whatsoever can be endlessly (infinitely) questioned, resulting in infinite re

  5. Justiciability - Wikipedia

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    Justiciability concerns the limits upon legal issues over which a court can exercise its judicial authority. [1] It includes, but is not limited to, the legal concept of standing , which is used to determine if the party bringing the suit is a party appropriate to establishing whether an actual adversarial issue exists. [ 2 ]

  6. A Few Words on Non-Intervention - Wikipedia

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    John Stuart Mill (1859) A Few Words on Non-Intervention at the Online Library of Liberty "A Few Words on Non-Intervention Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine" from Foreign Policy Perspectives No. 8 ISSN 0267-6761 ISBN 0-948317-96-5 (An occasional publication of the Libertarian Alliance, 25 Chapter Chambers, Esterbrooke Street, London SW1P 4NN.)

  7. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    Hispanic community. These policies include programs to improve English language skills, scholarships for students, mentoring activities, and policies to encourage enrollment in early childhood education programs, among others. On the other hand, there are the policies that do not focus on Hispanics per se, but that form part of

  8. Necessity in English criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Necessity would not usually be allowed as a defence to murder, but Brooke LJ. distinguished Dudley & Stephens on the basis that the doctors were not selecting the victim unlike the cabin boy in Dudley. The decision is restricted to cases of medical necessity and a conflict of duty owed both by doctors to different patients and by parents to ...

  9. Justifiable homicide - Wikipedia

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    Justifiable homicide applies to the blameless killing of a person, such as in self-defense. [1]The term "legal intervention" is a classification incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, and does not denote the lawfulness or legality of the circumstances surrounding a death caused by law enforcement. [2]