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1. Traverse City. Best for Foodies. Gary Ennis/Getty Images. Madonna, Michael Moore and Eminiem are just a few of the famous folks who frequently vacation in Traverse City, Michigan—and, having ...
1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
The term statute of frauds comes from the Statute of Frauds, an act of the Parliament of England (29 Chas. 2 c. 3) passed in 1677 (authored by Lord Nottingham assisted by Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Francis North and Sir Leoline Jenkins [2] and passed by the Cavalier Parliament), the long title of which is: An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries.
Property law. The vast majority of states in the United States employ a system of recording legal instruments (otherwise known as deeds registration) that affect the title of real estate as the exclusive means for publicly documenting land titles and interests. The record title system differs significantly from land registration systems, such ...
Clearwater, Florida. Median Home Cost: $338,400. Overall CoL Index: 99.1. John Csiszar contributed to the reporting for this article. To find the cheapest beach towns you can afford to live in ...
January 29, 2015. ( 2015-01-29) N/A. In case 1, Rodney Hailey scams millions from major corporations with a fake green energy business, but his collection of luxury cars draw attention from the authorities. In case 2, cat burglar Blane David Nordahl steals antique Sterling silver from rich neighborhoods.
June 24, 2024 at 7:47 PM. NEWBERN, Ala. (AP) — The first Black mayor of a small Alabama town, who said white officials locked him out of town hall, will return to the role under the terms of a ...
Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the US Supreme Court, which ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk even though the sidewalk was part of a privately-owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First ...