Scots law blog/Weblog zu schottischem Recht
am 20.02.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
Edinburgh Law Schools’ Scots Law News is almost a blog. But it doesn’t give links.
Section 532 is a Review of the Year of our Lord 2005.
2005 was the year that introduced our readers, not only to natural disasters (Nos 423, 495), but also to neutral citation (No 417), ASBOs (No 426), FoI (Nos 437, 471, 505, 511), G8 (No 483), HBJ Gateley Wareing (No 506), the rights to roam (No 432) and to buy (Nos 432, 469), duck density as a measure of university quality (No 470), humanist weddings (No 477), civil partnerships (No 529), Creative Commons and “copyleft” (No 522), and Lord President Hamilton (No 518; note also No 516).
In section 529 (scroll down), we learn that common-law marriage has gone:
Slipped in during the Bill’s parliamentary progress was the abolition of …
Scots language archive goes online
Transblawg / The BBC reports: Canny Scots create muckle archive. It’s St. Andrew’s Day, of course. bq. The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) has been put together by the University of Glasgow and has taken three years to compile. Comprising.…
Wikipedia in Scots
Transblawg / There is a Wikipedia in Scots: Scots Law, quhiles nae bein unique, differs frae Inglis law quhairby it follaes Roman (Ceevil) Law in mony weys an sae is closer tae the ceevil codes o the Continent nor Inglis Law is. For example, Scots Law disna dist…
Half a league, half a league / Polizeisprache
Transblawg / A new police radio system called Airwave has been introduced in the UK, and in connection with this it was reported at the weekend that police are to be taught to use a set of expressions that are uniform throughout the country. Mark Garner of Aberd…
Books for translators / Englische Bücher für Übersetzer
Transblawg / Multilingual Matters publish books and journals for translators and interpreters. They have addresses in Britain and the USA, or you can order from their website at a 20% discount. I wasn’t aware of them before, but they have some authors I…
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal
Aktenvermerk / Being gay is not natural. People always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.Legalizing gay marriage w…
Podcast ist “Wort des Jahres 2005″
Handakte WebLAWg / Steve Rubel reports ‘podcast’ is the New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2005! Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted “geeks”. Now you can hear everyt…
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