Rules that govern how one should dress, typically provided by an employer and required of an employee at the workplace. … [Read more...]

Rights claimed by the government over the property of an enemy. In England, it has been usual, in maritime wars, for the government to seize and condemn, as droits of admiralty, the property of an enemy found in her ports at the breaking out of hostilities. … [Read more...]

A woman entitled to dower. 2. In order to entitle a woman to the rights of a dowress at common law, she must have been lawfully married, her husband must be dead, he must have been seised, during the coverture, of an estate subject to dower. Although the marriage may be void able, if it is not absolutely void at his death, it is sufficient to support the rights of the dowress. … [Read more...]

Law that makes a business establishment that sells alcohol to an obviously intoxicated and harms third parties liable to those third parties. … [Read more...]

The property which a woman brings to her husband In marriage; now more commonly called a "portion." By dowry is meant the effects which the wife brings to the husband to support the expenses of marriage. Civil Code La. art. 2337. This word expresses the proper meaning of the "dos" of the Roman, the "dot" of the French, and the "dote" of the Spanish, law, but is a very different … [Read more...]