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    Hardin’s article, “Tragedy of the Commons”, discusses the idea of the exploitation of public resources, or the “commons”. This results in the resources becoming unusable, due to the overuse by the public (Hardin). The 1972 TV Movie, The Lorax, tells the story of a fictional forest being being exploited, resulting in the loss of the public resource due to waste, pollution, and deforestation (Seuss). While the literal story of The Lorax is fictional, Tragedy of the Commons is constantly occurring to public

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    Common Law And Civil Law

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    and the legal systems such as common law, civil law, customary law, and theocratic law exist in different countries across the world. There are about 196 sovereign states in the United Nations Organization and each of the states follows a legal system created by them or by an agreement in the form of regional treaties and other accords. Common law: A common law system according to Samii (2011, p. 112) is based on tradition, judge made precedent and usage. In common law, the past ruling, legal legislation

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    Common Law And Equity Law

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    COMMON LAW AND EQUITY Introduction During the 12th and 13th century, a survey was conducted on tradition, custom and law under the common law system of England. This survey originally developed as court decisions. In England, the equity laws are developed after the creation of the common law. The analysis based on development of justice and is now used in the royal courts. This gives us the story of the 1066 when the England was attacked and concluded that there is no common law system, but the

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    is based on the similarities of the Common Law foundation. Reynolds and Esparraga equally focus on the history of common law and how the United States lawmaker was the encouraged by other counties. The law of the country is primarily based on English commons law, other legal systems, such Spanish and French civil law, also influenced it. The law of United States and been in place for years, since the founding of this country and the adoption of the English common law,

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    Over the decades, researchers from many disciplines have been known to analyse an assortment of academic writings including academic journals. The article, The Tragedy of the Commons, written by Garrett Hardin is a critique that modestly describes the magnitude of overpopulation. Hardin based the Tragedy of the Commons on a pamphlet entitled, Two Lectures on the Checks to Population, written in 1833 by English mathematician William Forster Lloyd. The author Garrett Hardin was an influential ecologist

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    A common resource refers to a natural or man-made property that is characterized by high rivalry in consumption, meaning an increase in the amount of resource consumed by one person reduces that for others to consume, and non-excludability, meaning the resource is freely accessible to a large group of people. These factors make a common resource susceptible to its overuse and damage in the long run, especially without a controlled management and protection of the resource. In his writing, Hardin

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    of change”. (Atherton and Atherton, 2010) 2. COMMON LAW Common law is custom law which is expected to be followed by the society. Australia’s legal system is based on the English common law model. Australia has inherited some of the legal institutions, working of government and even some laws. Previously in England, common law emerged as custom and then with the development of king’s court led to the birth of a more sophisticated legal system. Common laws cannot be found in acts of Parliament. (Class

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    Common Law and Equity Introduction During the 12th and 13th century, under the common law system of England survey undertaken on tradition, custom and law in the area was originally developed as court decisions. England, the common law and equity laws are developed after the creation of the common law; the analysis based on justice launched and is now used in the royal courts. This gives us the story of the day capital in 1066 as the winner attacked in England and concluded that there is no common

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    of us have also caught the flu, or the influenza virus. Some of the symptoms are identical to the common cold - runny or stuffy nose, cough, sore throat, but the flu often generates more severe symptoms, such as headaches, fever, tiredness, vomiting, and diarrhea. Both of these illnesses deplete energy and leave people feeling lousy. So, recovering from these sicknesses as soon as possible is a common goal. Some people believe in the adage, "feed a cold and starve a fever." So, should you in fact

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    states but with a shrinking amount of limited sovereignty. Some claim this is the federal common law interpretation’s failure and that a constitutional approach is necessary to solve the problems with tribal jurisdiction. These arguments hope that clarity and defined parameters of jurisdiction will establish a new concrete definition of tribal jurisdiction. Other sources just propose to continue to follow the common law understanding of tribal jurisdiction with an understanding that tribes have inherent

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