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19 Feb 2011, 11:44 pm
I feel myself in the position of a disabled French veteran who watches as Napoleon, just returned from Elba, whips his countrymen into a frenzy to go on the warpath once more -- the warpath that will end in disgrace and defeat at Waterloo. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 3:30 pm by Tim Hewson
When Canada was officially created in 1867 all Provinces adopted the British “Common law” of English origin while Québec retained their “Civil Law” derived from the Napoleonic code. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 9:55 am by Ruth Levush
”  Behind the Mexican court’s decision lies the centuries-old French doctrine of “Le Contrat administratif” (administrative contract) that applied in Latin America during the nineteenth century based on the Napoleonic Civil Code. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 4:00 am by Eric Appleby
Government: “According to the military historian Quincy Wright, Europe had five thousand independent political units (mainly baronies and principalities) in the 15th century, five hundred at the time of the Thirty Years’ War in the early 17th, two hundred at the time of Napoleon in the early 19th, and fewer than thirty in 1953”. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 1:31 am by Steve Baird
, a case illustrating what can happen when a trademark plaintiff wants to pull the plug and end the lawsuit it started in a walkaway (or as martial arts instructor Rex in Napoleon Dynamite might say, “break the wrist, walk away“). [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 2:02 am by war
Unfortunately, this didn’t meet with such a good press (at least in those parts of the (western) world that Napoleon didn’t conquer). [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 7:00 am by Jenny Gesley
” Legislative History and the Normalization of Concubinage During the drafting of the French Civil Code, Napoleon stated: “As concubines are not interested in the law, the law shall not have to take interest in them. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 8:08 pm by Juggalo Law
Sure, Napoleon Dynamite did a good job of highlighting that state’s peculiar relationship with llamas and quesadillas. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 7:11 am by Matt Ritter
Here are some tips for document reviewers facing this situation and some for Napoleonic project managers who might want to avoid being hated by everyone in the document review community. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 11:07 am
It bears remembering that, in cases where two oppositional forces battle themselves to death or stalemate, invariably a third force will sweep them both to the side--a lesson that both Napoleon and Lenin learned well. [read post]
15 Oct 2023, 4:00 pm by gA
Velez lo cita mucho en las notas a su Código Civil, fue el gran explicador del Code Napoleon.7 citas. [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”[8]The tone is at once Napoleonic and Jacksonian—both the General Jackson of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, and the bellicose President Jackson who later excoriated South Carolina in his Nullification Proclamation of 1832. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 7:00 am by Sandy Levinson
  Trafalgar accompanies Austerlitz in understanding the dynamics of the Napoleonic wars. [read post]
12 Aug 2024, 6:07 am by Payton Knopf
After 16 months of war, the scale of Sudan’s devastation, the human toll, and the geopolitical fallout are staggering. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 2:07 am
Written by Adam Quigley Behind every outstanding Hollywood blockbuster, there’s a film director who had to work their ass off to helm that project. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 12:38 pm by Gordon Firemark
    Napoleon Dynamite Profits Win For Fox THResq: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/napoleon-dynamite-lawsuit-fox-wins-397923 Fox Searchlight, the studio which distributed the hit indie film “Napoleon Dynamite”, was sued by the production company behind the film for underreported royalties and improper revenue deductions to the tune of $10 million. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 9:32 am by Nathan Dorn
The focus of his reading began with the reign of Napoleon and its world-changing results in Europe, but soon his interest in European history deepened to include the institutional history of the European governments before the French Revolution, and finally the legal institutions of the Middle Ages. [read post]