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Aggressive Behaviour

The term aggressive behaviour is used in so many different ways that no single definition can possibly cover all of its meanings. Behaviour that serves to injure an opponent or a prey animal, or to cause an opponent to retreat, is usually considered aggressive. When considering human aggression, some psychiatrists consider any act that has destructive consequences (including suicide) to be ...

Liability of principal for acts of agents. Continental-European law classifies the undertaking of transactions in the place of another s "agency' only when they are legal. It excludes other acts, including unlawful acts, so that when dealing with the law of agency, the rules concerning the liability of a master for the torts of his servant do not come into consideration.

Disclosed and undisclosed agency. Continental European laws restrict the application of agency rules to cases where the agent acts openly in another's name. Thus , French jurists infer from article 1984 of their Code Civil, according to which agency is the act of the agent pour de mandate et en son nom ("for and on behalf of the principal"), the negative conclusion that in case an agent does not disclose that...

The variety of forms of Anglo-American agency. Various kinds of agency relationships are evident in Anglo-American commercial life. The factor and the poker are the most common mercantile agents dealing in transactions involving personal property. The factor is entrusted with possession of the chattels to be sold, or the documents of title thereto, and is empowered to conclude the sale at the best price obtainable.

Nineteenth-century features: the effects of Laband's doctrine in the civil law countries. While the first practical treaties on agency in England, by William Paley, and in the United States, by Samuel Livermore and Joseph Story, appeared shortly after the beginning of the 19th century, in continental Europe the doctrines of the theoretical jurists continued to play their traditional leading role in the ...

Agency, Law of

The law of agency governs the legal relationship in which one person (the agent) deals with another (third party) on behalf of still another (the principal). The competent agent is legally capable of acting for this principal vis-á-vis the third party. Thus, the process of concluding a contract through an agent involves a twofold relationship,. On the one hand, the law of agency is concerned with ...

Agassiz, Louis

A 19th-century naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes, Louis Agassiz achieved lasting fame through his innovative teaching methods, which were completely to alter the character of natural science eduction in the United States.
Agassiz was born on May 28, 1807, the son of the ...

Changes at the end of the Early Stone Age. The climate in sub-Saharan Africa during this transitional period between the ESA and MSA was relatively dry, but throughout most of the MSA it was wetter and cooler than it had been during much of Acheulean times. This climatic information is derived from traces of higher lake levels and from pollen analysis at such sites as Florisbad and Kalambo Falls at the southern...

Kanjera man. Four fragmentary skulls found in 1932 at Kanjera, near Kanam, are also something of an enigma. Uranium tests confirm that they are contemporary with Middle Pleistocene fauna from the area and hence presumably with the Acheulean hand axes accompanying them. The skulls probably date back to at least 55,000 BC, the termination date in Africa for the Acheulean culture, but there is no way off telling how...