Arrha confirmatoria and Arrha poenitentialis are common covenants in Colombian Law contracts, especially when it comes to sales, or sales promises. However, several practical problems often arise ...from ignorance of the might of the figure and its true scope. The objective of this paper is describe the basic elements necessary to understand this concept, as well as some practical issues that should be considered to avoid a few inaccuracies when incorporated into a contract.
Remembering John Arras Dallas Ducar
Voices in bioethics,
03/2015, Letnik:
1
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John Arras, a down-to-earth, outspoken, and kind-hearted philosopher, died after having a stroke on Monday March 9th, in Galveston, Texas at the age of 69. Professor Arras lived in Charlottesville, ...Virginia where he taught courses in bioethics such as research ethics, reproductive ethics, and a newly minted neuroethics course. He was a founding member of the ethics advisory board of the Centers for Disease Control and served on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. His research interests included prenatal screening for newborns, rationing medical care, assisted reproductive technology, physician assisted suicide, and more. He authored and edited numerous articles and books including The Routledge Companion to Bioethics, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Human Subjects Research, Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine (in its eighth edition) and Bringing the Hospital Home. He also has two books in press, Emergency Ethics: Public Health Preparedness and Response, and The Ways We Reason Now: Skeptical Reflections on Method in Bioethics, which Arras has described as “long-gestating.” John Arras was born on August 25th, 1945 in San Mateo, California. He graduated from the University of San Francisco after majoring in French and philosophy, and earned his doctorate in philosophy from Northwestern University. He married Liz Emrey and served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone. He returned stateside and taught at Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center and Barnard College. Following this, he moved to the University of Virginia in 1995 where he directed the undergraduate bioethics major. While at the University of Virginia, he impacted and molded many with his wry wit and genuine compassion. He was a vibrant, deeply moral, profane professor with a sidesplitting sense of humor. According to Tom Murray, president emeritus of The Hastings Center, “He had a sense of humor unsurpassed in bioethics. He was fall-of-your-chair funny.” Yet Professor Arras also had his serious moments. Never afraid to stand his ground, he was always ready for a well-tuned argument. If one had a persuasive point, he would bite back, with no time for bullshit. Without being harsh he would engage, perseverance and wit would win the day, and if you held your own, remuneration would come in the form of a loyal, sharp, and creative friend, who would always take your words seriously. Professor Arras had a genuine commitment to justice in his writings, as well as in his actions. He was deeply entrenched in the University’s moral and academic ethos. Whether he was counseling a student during his office hours, helping to promote a bioethics event, or attending a rally, he was sincerely and wholly involved. Moreover, he was always willing to pull out the stops for any student. Being a teacher was one aspect of his life that mattered most to him. As Arras said in the Spring 2014 University of Virginia Magazine: “I see myself as being in the business of helping students become who they are going to become. I love being around young people, prodding them, arguing with them. There is a Socratic element to it, an intense connection between the teacher and student. It’s a kind of secular blessedness, to love what you do over a very long stretch of time. That’s as good as it gets.” First and foremost, John Arras was a teacher. He was never afraid to ask the difficult questions and inspired many to reflect on life and the choices each of us make each and every day. Perhaps most importantly, he always reminded everyone around him never to take things too seriously. A true mensch--he will truly be missed.
La carta de arras de Leonor Plantagenet otorgada por su esposo Alfonso VIII de Castilla en 1170 constituye uno de los documentos más interesantes y menos estudiados del periodo en cuanto al análisis ...de la reginalidad y el ejercicio del poder femenino en la realeza. Este documento no solo enumera las propiedades y derechos nupciales concedidos bajo las mismas condiciones, sino que una lectura más contextualizada y apoyada por los textos legales de la época permite hacer una significativa distinción entre lo que el rey castellano entregaba con plena disposición o lo que podría identificarse como la sponsalicia largitas, y aquella propiedad que concedía con derechos limitados o donatio propter nupcias. El primer tipo de propiedad confería a la consorte una autonomía económica, mientras que el segundo la autorizaba ante la comunidad política del reino.
Presentado en la I Conferencia Anual de la Asociación Española de Derecho y Economía, celebrada el 1 y 2 de julio en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Estas páginas recogen algunas observaciones ...formuladas a la ponencia «Aciertos y desaciertos de la reforma de la cláusula penal en la Propuesta de Modernización del Código Civil», presentada por el profesor Ignacio Marín García en la I Conferencia Anual de la Asociación Española de Derecho y Economía. Las cuestiones abordadas se refieren a algunos de los aspectos más relevantes de la citada Propuesta en relación con el régimen jurídico de la cláusula penal, en especial, a la diferencia entre indemnización convenida y pena convenida, a la introducción de la facultad judicial de moderación de la pena por razones de equidad (artículo 1150) y a la posibilidad o no del acreedor de exigir, junto con la pena, el cumplimiento específico de la obligación principal o la resolución del contrato (artículo 1149).
The jeu parti - a debate in song weighing questions of love, sex, wealth, ethical behaviour - enjoyed popular acclaim across social classes in thirteenth-century France. Despite the appeal of these ...texts as historical sources, suggestive of the mentalité of a medieval community through frank discussion of taboo subjects, jeux partis have received sporadic scholarly attention. A rare scroll, copied by an Anglo-Norman scribe (London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1681) supplies new evidence of the genre's transmission outside the pages of a codex and outside northern France. The only known document of its kind to contain jeux partis, it has been overlooked by scholars for a century, yet it suggests that the transmission of music and culture could be achieved textually, borne along the performance circuits of medieval Europe. This study investigates how jeux partis were composed, transmitted and refashioned for new audiences with the aid of text and improvisation.
John Arras Snyder, Alison
The Lancet,
05/2015, Letnik:
385, Številka:
9980
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Arras was Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy and Public Health Science at the University of Virginia for 20 years, and during his career took on many wider roles, ...including board member of the Hastings Center, consulting for the National Institutes of Health, and as a founding member of the ethics advisory board of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Iron Age chariot burials in the UK are rare and restricted in their distribution. Historically it has been suggested that their Arras culture affinities with Continental Europe, particularly with the ...Paris basin in France, may be indicative of migration. The majority of them are found on chalk and the putative source region is also chalk. This has meant that a study using only strontium isotopes to identify mobile individuals is problematic. Here we present a range of isotope ratio data (strontium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and sulphur) for seven chariot burials from Wetwang, Garton Station and Kirkburn. The majority of them are of men and women who were born and lived locally, although the individual from Kirkburn is likely to have spent his childhood elsewhere. They do, however, differ quite subtly from others in the local population, probably in their relationship to a local land-use pattern operating between two distinct biospheres.
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