English law is the common law legal system governing England and Wales, comprising criminal law and civil law.

English law has no formal codification: the essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts applying statute, and legal precedent ("stare decisis") from previous cases. A decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest civil appeal court of the United Kingdom, is binding on every other court.

Some rulings are derived from legislation; others, known as common law, are based on rulings of previous courts. For example, murder is a common law crime rather than one established by an Act of Parliament. Common law can be amended or repealed by Parliament; murder, for example, now carries a mandatory life sentence rather than the death penalty.

The first schedule of the Interpretation Act 1978, defines the following terms: "British Islands", "England", and "United Kingdom". The use of the term "British Isles" is virtually obsolete in statutes and, when it does appear, it is taken to be synonymous with "British Islands". For interpretation purposes, England includes a number of specified elements:

"Great Britain" means England, Wales, Scotland, their adjacent territorial waters and the islands of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides and, by virtue of the Island of Rockall Act 1972, Rockall. "United Kingdom" means Great Britain and Northern Ireland and their adjacent territorial waters, but not the Isle of Man, nor the Channel Islands, whose independent status was discussed in "Rover International Ltd. v Canon Film Sales Ltd." (1987) 1 WLR 1597 and "Chloride Industrial Batteries Ltd. v F. & W. Freight Ltd." (1989) 1 WLR 823. "British Islands"but not "British Isles"means the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Does English law have a formal codification?
2. Who makes it?
3. What is stare decisis?
4. Where does it come from?
5. Where else are ruling derived from?
6. What is the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom?
7. What act was passed in 1978
8. What is the punishment for murder?
9. What does the Interpretation Act 19787 define?
10. What does "Great Britain" mean
11. Are islands a part of that?
12. Which ones?
13. What act made Rockall a part of this?
14. What does United Kingdom mean?
15. Does that include Isle of Man?
Answer: 1. no
2. judges
3. legal precedent
4. from previous cases
5. from legislation
6. its highest civil appeal court of the United Kingdom
7. the Interpretation Act 1978
8. a mandatory life sentence
9. it defines the following terms: "British Islands", "England", and "United Kingdom"
10. "Great Britain" means England, Wales, Scotland
11. yes
12. the islands of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides and, by virtue of the Island of Rockall
13. Rockall Act 1972,
14. "United Kingdom" means Great Britain and Northern Ireland and their adjacent territorial waters
15. no

Nana had a bunch of money. She had saved money her whole life. But Nana was afraid of people stealing her money. She planned to hide it. First she moved it around in her house and hid it behind a wall. Then she put her money in the attic. But she still didn't feel safe about her money. She was sure someone would find it. Finally she took it outside and started digging in the ground. She buried it in the ground so no one would find it. "It is going be safe here," said Nana. She was very pleased that she had hidden her money so well. The next day after breakfast, she went outside to make sure her money was still there. She stopped at the spot she thought she had buried it and began digging. After some time she hadn't found it. She climbed out of the hole and looked around. She had used a tree as a way to mark the spot. But she couldn't tell which tree. The wind was blowing and the trees all looked the same! She had used a brown spot on the ground to mark the spot. But she couldn't tell which brown spot it was! She knew she wasn't lost. Nana had hidden her money so well that no one could find it, and that included her! What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did granny have a bunch of?
2. How long had she been saving?
3. and what did she plan to do with it?
4. and where did she hide it?
5. and where next?
6. did she think it was hid well?
7. where did she hide it next?
8. when did she go make sure it was still there?
9. what kind of mark on the ground did she use to know where it was?
10. did she find it?
Answer: 1. money
2. her whole life
3. hide it
4. behind a wall
5. in the attic
6. no
7. in the ground
8. The next day
9. a brown spot
10. no

Time:2017-01-24 From:kekenet.com Editor: clover

The head of China's largest online seller Alibaba does not think China and the United States will have a trade war despite comments from the Trump administration.

Jack Ma is the chairman of the Alibaba Group. At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, he said, "China and (the) U.S. will never have a trade war. Give Trump some time. He's open-minded, he's listening."

_ said he would do all he could to prevent trade relations between the countries from getting worse.

Last week, Ma met with Trump at the Trump Tower in New York City. The Chinese billionaire is said to have discussed a plan to permit one million small U.S. businesses to sell goods on Alibaba's online shopping platform.

During the campaign and after winning the presidential election, Trump strongly criticized the Chinese government's support for its businesses. He blamed unfair trade policies for taking away U.S. jobs. And he said that China unfairly controls the exchange value of its currency, the yuan.

Trump also has threatened to place import taxes on goods from China and other countries in response to their trade policies.

According to theSouth China Morning Post, Ma said, "American international companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization." He added that the U.S. should not blame the loss of jobs and companies on globalization.

However, a new study by an American business group says many U.S. businesses feel unwelcome in China. The companies say the cost of doing business in China is increasing. They add that rules and regulations are unclear or not enforced in a consistent way.

The American Chamber of Commerce in China led the study, which looked at responses from 462 companies.

William Zarit is chairman of the chamber. He says trade policies in China make it difficult for American companies. He says, "we feel that over the last few years that we've been taken advantage of to some extent, with our open market and the lack of open areas in the Chinese market."

Another major concern for U.S. companies in China is fake products. Fake products are copies of the originals that cost businesses with the legal right to sell them millions of dollars each year.

Ma defended Alibaba's efforts to fight fake products on its shopping platform. He said his company is doing all it can to fight the problem.

"Fighting against fake products is a war against human greediness," Ma said.

I'm Mario Ritter. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How does Jack Ma describe Trump?
2. What company does he work for?
3. What is notable about them in China?
4. Where did he meet with Trump?
5. In which city?
6. Where was the World Economic Forum held?
7. In what country?
8. What did Trump criticize China for?
9. Do American businesses want to work with China?
10. Is China known for fake products?
11. Is Alibaba making effort to remove fake products from its site?
Answer:
1. open-minded
2. Alibaba Group
3. largest online seller
4. World Economic Forum
5. Davos
6. Davos
7. Switzerland
8. unfair trade policies
9. yes
10. yes
11. yes