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The law and consumers.

Anyone who buys goods or services is a consumer. Consumer law has grown of an unprecedented rate. A lot of consumer law is based on contract law. The consumer must show that he had a contact with the supplier that the supplier is in breach of this agreement. When buying from a private seller the buyer may have to rely on express terms about quality. A difficult problem in consumer law is deciding who is responsible when goods are lost or delivered late. Another difficult problem is that of exemption clauses. These are warnings to the consumer that no responsibility will be accepted in the case of loss, damage or injury. One of the areas of consumer law is product liability - responsibility for damage or injury caused by faulty goods. Consumers complain that it is extremely difficult for them to win cases. One of the difficulties for governments when making legislation is to balance the interests of consumer and manufacturer.

 

 

Land law

There is a distinction between land and other kinds of property. Sometimes it’s called real estate or immovable assets. Land is the most important form of property. It can be used as commodity which can be sold, rented out or used as security. There are 2 estates in land. An estate is a right

to possess land. The first estate is “fee simple absolute in possession”, the second is “term of years absolute”. The first means owning the land throughout whole life, the second - for a fixed period. There are 4 legal interests over land. Easement is the right of neighbor’s to use footpath over your land. Rent - charge is a right to charge a landholder a periodical sum of money. Legal mortgage is a form of security. And a right of entry is the right of freeholder to enter a lessee’s property if he fails to pay rent. There are title deeds – documents recording transfers of the property.

Short term possession is called license. When a person pays money to a landlord every week for permission to live there. There is also a large area of law concerned with publically owned land - for example, highways, pavements, parks.

 

 

Family Law.

The law in most countries places more emphasis upon marriages legally registered than social arrangements whereby people live together. The birth and residence documentation of children born to such marriages is different from that of other children and sometimes leads to discrimination.

In English law, some marriages may be readily dissolved or nullified – f.e. 1) if the couple never consummated the marriage; 2) are blood relatives; 3) are both women. In other cases, a couple may seek divorce.

The person seeking or petitioning for divorce, must prove one of several things: 1) that the other party committed adultery; 2) that the respondent’s behavior has been unreasonable; 3) that the couple have lived apart for 5 years and others.

Another concern of family law is the welfare of children. Parents have a duty to make decisions on behalf of their children. When parents dead or absent a legal guardian is appointed to make these decisions.

 


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