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Like the Roman Catholic Church, the acquisition and disposal of property in the Church of England is governed by both internal and state-made law. However, many rules created by the Church of England...

This chapter focuses on the law of corporeal property in Scotland and South Africa. Corporeal property is divided into movable and immovable categories. Scots law, in applying the label ‘heritable’...

The legal organisation of finance in the Church of England, like that of the Roman Catholic Church, serves four basic functions. First, the law requires the existence of prescribed funds for...

This chapter focuses on the administration of justice in Japan. It begins with a discussion of the history of Japan's system of courts. It then discusses justice system reform, the court system, lay...

Consistently, the Japanese government wins in court. Crucially, it does not win by manipulating the career judiciary to produce biased courts. Japanese judges do not enjoy better careers if...

The French make it clear in the titles of their texts on administrative law that administrative law is first and foremost about enabling the proper functioning of the administration in its principal...

Outside the processes of legislation and adjudication, the general activities of the Church of England's structures of synodical government might be classified as administrative. The administrative...

Procedural reform, as well as litigation and controversy about the English distinction between public and private law, continued after this book's main text was first published. This Afterword...

Now, as then, one development that often follows modern scandal is the enactment of rules to combat the evil that is assumed to have caused to it. Take corporate scandals. Sokaiya scandals...