Legalism
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(noun)
A Chinese philosophy claiming that a strong state is necessary to curtail human self-interest.
Examples of Legalism in the following topics:
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Rational-Legal Authority
- Rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which authority is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
- In rational-legal authority, power is passed on according to a set of rules.
- Rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
- Unlike charismatic authority and traditional authority, rational-legal authority derives its powers from the system of bureaucracy and legality.
- According to Weber, rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
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Legal Advice and Protection
- Corporations, for-profit or nonprofit, are almost the only entities that ever pay attention to complex legal issues in free software.
- Individual developers often understand the nuances of various open source licenses, but they generally do not have the time or resources to competently handle legal issues themselves.
- If your company has a legal department, it can help a project by assisting with trademark issues, copyright license ownership and compatibility questions, defense against patent trolls, etc.
- If the project decides to organize formally, or to join an existing umbrella organization, your legal department can help with issues of corporate law, asset transfer, reviewing agreements, and other due diligence matters.
- Some more concrete ideas of what sorts of legal help might be useful are discussed in Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents.
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What is legal risk?
- Legal risk is the risk arising from failure to comply with statutory or regulatory obligations (http://www.ffiec.gov).
- This can be helpful in the initial phases of considering the legal ramifications of direct investment in a given country.
- Many countries limit foreign ownership of assets and legally force foreign companies into a joint venture with a local partner in order to do business there.
- In order to minimize exposure to legal risks arising from confusion and excess cost, a company should seek legal advice if possible.
- Shahira and her small business of running a sewing company faces different political and legal risk than those of a larger company, she is still liable and must understand the laws and regulations that she may face in any country.
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Franchise Agreements
- A Franchise Agreement is a legal, binding contract between a franchisor and franchisee, enforced in the United States at the State level.
- A Franchise Agreement is a legal, binding contract between a franchisor and franchisee, enforced in the United States at the State level.
- Franchisee Obligations, such as: Use of Trademarks, Financial Information, Insurance, Financial and Legal responsibility
- Franchising agreements contain many legal documents that must be understood and filled out.
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Divorce and Its Legal Ramifications
- Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage between the parties.
- For same-sex couples, divorce law is in its infancy and is less than clear on how such unions may be legally dissolved.
- Between 1971 and 2011, several countries legalized divorce, the last one being Malta in 2011.
- Although marriage was previously defined as a legal union between one man and one woman in the United States, over the past decades several states have begun to consider adopting, or have adopted, legislation which legalizes same-sex marriage.
- For same-sex couples, divorce law is in its infancy and is less than clear on how such unions may be legally dissolved.
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Legal Definition of Race
- Many governments provide legal definitions of race for purposes of census-taking and calculating budgets for governmental programs.
- Many governments provide legal definitions of race for purposes of census-taking and calculating budgets for governmental programs such as those that promote equal opportunity employment.
- In many countries, such as France, the state is legally banned from maintaining data based on race, so the police issue wanted notices to the public that include labels like "dark skin complexion. "
- Paraphrase the legal definition of race and how it is used in government and law enforcement in the U.S., the U.K., and France
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Weber's Model for Bureaucracy
- Weber identified in bureaucracies a rational-legal authority in which legitimacy is seen as coming from a legal order.
- Weber identified in bureaucracies a rational-legal authority in which legitimacy is seen as coming from a legal order.
- According to Weber, the shift from old forms of mobility, like kinship, to new forms, like strict, legal rules, was a direct result of the growth of bureaucracy and capitalism.
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Tax Accounting
- Tax accounting couples legal obligations with financial accounting to ensure adherence to current tax laws.
- Tax accounting is therefore a combination of legal and financial knowledge.
- Tax accountants should be aware of these opportunities in the legal environment.
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Characteristics of a Corporation
- However, a corporation can be dissolved by a government authority, putting an end to its existence as a legal entity.
- In the United States a Separate Legal Entity or SLE refers to a type of legal entity with detached accountability.
- A business can be set up as an SLE to legally separate it from the individual or owner, such as a limited liability company or a corporation.
- If a business is a separate legal entity, it means it has some of the same rights in law as a person.
- Some traders and partnerships are not separate legal, entities from the owners.
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Citizenship Rights
- Citizenship carries both rights and responsibilities, as it describes a person with legal rights within a given political order.
- Legally, citizenship denotes a link between an individual and a state.
- This policy is called by jus soli (Latin legal term), meaning "right of soil. " These first two factors are usually lumped together under the term birthright citizenship .
- In general, basic requirements for nationalization are that the applicant hold a legal status as a full-time resident for a minimum period of time, and that the applicant promises to obey and uphold that country's laws, to which an oath or pledge of allegiance is sometimes added.
- It generally describes a person with legal rights within a given political order.