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  • Island

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Island Meaning of Island A body of land surrounded by water. The title to islands in navigable waters is in the state (53 Am. Rep. 215) ; but an island in private waters belongs to the owners of the […]

  • Gold Exchange Standard

    A system of fixing exchange rates adopted in the Bretton Woods agreement. It involved the U.S. pegging the dollar to gold and other countries pegging their currencies to the dollar….

  • Common Market For Eastern And Southern Africa

    Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, common market for eastern and southern africa is: COMESA. The treaty establishing COMESA was signed at Kampala on 5 November 1993. The entries on trade policy are here. It is the successor to the […]

  • International Law

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of International Law Meaning of International Law The law or, more rightly, the customs and usages which govern the intercourse of nations. International law is of two kinds: (1) private international law , […]

  • Civil Law

    Civil law in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of civil law. Civil Law in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The following is a […]

  • Land

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Land Meaning of Land In broad and general sense, means every species of ground, soil or earth, and includes houses and other buildings attached to it by human agency or by nature such as trees, herbage and […]

  • Keynesian Economics

    Definition of Keynesian Economics The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Keynesian Economics: The economic theory of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) associated with a stress on the necessity of active government intervention in the direction and control […]

  • Common Land

    Common Land

    A more extended term for what Is sometimes more shortly called simply common; land, i. e. in which there is right of common (see Common), land which there is right to use in common, for pasturing, etc. The term is also used rather pop’ularly and loosely than legally to mean land owned […]

  • Foreign Currency

    Foreign money….

  • Inflation

    Financial Definition of Inflation Meaning of Inflation The rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising. Synonyms of Inflation (Decrease in value of currency), […]

  • Purchasing Power Parity

    The notion that the ratio between domestic and foreign price levels should equal the equilibrium exchange rate between domestic and foreign currencies….

  • Education

    Education

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Education Meaning of Education Synonyms of Education noun accomplishments acquirements acquisition of knowledge body of knowledge coaching […]

  • Communism

    Communism

    Definition of Communism The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Communism: A political theory that advocates collective ownership of the means of production (resources, land and capital), abolition of private property and equalisation of incomes. […]

  • Ratio

    An account , a rule of proportion , also, a cause , or giving judgment therein. Reason. Ground of a decision .

  • Territorial Waters

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Territorial Waters Meaning of Territorial Waters That part of the sea adjacent to the coast of a given country, which is by international law deemed to be within the sovereignty of that country, thereby […]