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By Berachyahu Lifshitz

Quantity 17 of The Jewish legislation Annual provides to the starting to be checklist of articles on Jewish legislation which were released in volumes 1-16 of this sequence, delivering English-speaking readers with scholarly articles providing jurisprudential, historic, textual and comparative research of matters in Jewish legislation. the quantity comprises seven articles assorted of their scope and concentration. articles are dedicated to the halakhic considered Rabbi A. I Kook; deal with vintage criminal questions: breach of a promise to marry, and the felony capability of minors; study features of the judicial method, one exploring talmudic analyses of the biblical requirement that courts be demonstrated in each city, and the opposite, post-talmudic perspectives on judicial authority in circumstances suspected of fraudulent claims. one other article addresses the interesting query of the epistemic-pedagogic worldviews of the rival Tannaitic felony teachers, the home of Hillel and the home of Shammai. the quantity concludes with a piece on Israeli laws that adduces or is educated via Jewish legislations, and experiences of a much-discussed fresh e-book on a subject of substantial modern curiosity: the agunah challenge.

By Gilbe Kodilinye, Gilbert Kodilinye

This article is designed to offer legislation scholars within the Caribbean a simple textual content on torts, followed by way of extracts from West Indian situations and crucial statutory provisions. Emphasis is put on these issues most ordinarily litigated within the West Indies - negligence, nuisance, defamation, trespass to the individual, employers' legal responsibility and passing off. even if essentially conceived as a textual content for college students analyzing for the LLB measure within the West Indies, practitioners may still locate the e-book necessary within the means within which it brings to mild many hitherto unreported decisions.