Legal System
Promissory notes are written statements that a person owes money to another person at a certain interest rate. They are often lending documents made on demand and called demand promissory notes. Lawyers use them in estate planning or when there are loans among family...
Legal System
There are two main forums for resolving a legal dispute: a court of law and an administrative board or tribunal. A court of law is an ancient adjudicative forum with inherent jurisdiction in legal matters independent of any statute which may affect it. Its rules of...
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The doctrine of stare decisis is the guardian of the development of stable general principles of law. The phrase “stare decisis” is the abbreviation of a longer Latin phrase which means “to stand by decisions and not to disturb settled matters.” The doctrine is a...
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From time to time, you will have read in the newspaper about strikers defying a court order not to strike or about demonstrators protesting too vigorously and disobeying a court order. Courts take the orders they make very seriously and, if you do not abide by an...
Legal System
The Ontario Human Rights Code is one of the earliest human rights codes in Canada. It goes back a few decades now but in June 2008 major changes were made to it to more effectively provide a human rights system in Ontario. The system now contains three essential...
Legal System
The people of Ontario are governed by two kinds of law: the common law and statutory law. The common law is the law as pronounced by judges on a case by case basis, “judge-made law.” The origins of the common law lie in the thousand year evolution of it in England....
