Thesis--Toulouse. / "Bibliographie": p. [153]-155.

Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-119).

The development of the law in Scotland in respect of the co-ownership of property has been undermined by an early philosophical prejudice against the idea of co-ownership, coupled with the indiscriminate and imprecise use of language in the judgments of the courts, particularly in the Nineteenth Century. But nevertheless, co-ownership – an essential concept in the property law of any developed legal system - is a common, popular, and economically useful form of ownership, which may arise by accident or by design; and the law has accordingly been subject to periodic legal ‘correction' by way of judicial fiat. Such corrections may have resolved particular questions in law, but they have left other questions unanswered and have also had the effect of posing new questions. In particular, the modern orthodoxy, which posits a binary structure of co-ownership in Scotland, is questionable and unhelpful. The law in respect of co-ownership has undeniably advanced in recent years, but there have also been missed opportunities. This thesis seeks to clarify the development of the understanding and articulation of the concept of co-ownership and its role in Scotland as a contribution to a better understanding of an important aspect of property law with continuing utility in legal development.

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The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptions of superintendents, RIFfed teachers, and teacher union officials concerning the criteria used in reducing force in school corporations having reduction-in-force contract language. The population consisted of forty-six superintendents, ninety-one RIFfed teachers, and thirty-two union officials. The school corporations were randomly selected from 144 corporations listed in the document entitled 1984-85 Indiana State Teachers Association Bargaining Priorities.The three groups were asked to complete a questionnaire either by mail, on-site, or by telephone. The questionnaire was designed to determine the perceptions of each group regarding criteria used in reducing staff. Major problems were found in a number of current reduction-in-force policies due to incorporating the sole criterion of seniority. Seniority was found to be regressive,and many young competent teachers were often unfairly and arbitrarily laid off or terminated.Solutions to the problems included the adoption of broader reduction-in-force policies to include such criteria as evaluation, past performance, and extracurricular participation. Other recommendations were to lobby for a state law to set forth uniform guidelines for reducing force, and for superintendents, school boards, and union officials to realize that school corporations cannot follow a typical industrial model for reducing force. Comprehensive, progressive school corporations must rely on competent, dedicated teachers who are willing to meet the total needs of students. Regressive, restrictive policies are not conducive to quality education.

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This thesis considers the archaeological remains of field systems and cairnfields as evidence for changes in the relations between land and society during the second millennium BC. The theoretical argument aims to demonstrate that the relations between land and society were complex historical processes constituted through the mediation and transformation of structural conditions by social agents. The argument considers ideas, prevalent in critiques of modernity, that break down distinctions between modem and nonmodem, and between culture and nature. These ideas are applied to a theory of practice, which, it is argued, can best be served by allowing for the existence of nonhuman agency as a folk conc.ept within nonmodem ontologies. Based on this theoretical framework and using ethnographic examples, it is argued that the concept of 'land tenure' is a sociological term that equates closely with agency. The changing forms of land tenure that characterise the Bronze Age can be shown to have distinctive and regionalised historical trajectories. This is demonstrated in two case studies. (1) A study of the structural sequences of excavated cairnfields in northern England reveals that a clear distinction cannot be made between burial cairns and clearance cairns. There are many examples of formalised structural and depositional elements in the latter. This is interpreted as evidence that tenure was negotiated within wider collectives made up of a community and their ancestors. (2) Three studies, at varying chronological and geographical scales of analysis, were made of the coaxial boundaries on Dartmoor. In contrast to northern England, the ontological ties between small social groups and places emerged during the earlier Bronze Age. Therefore, the tradition of formalised boundaries, or 'reaves', developed in a landscape characterised by a fragmented and localised sense of place, which was integrated within wider social networks rather than displacing them.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Geomatics, 2003. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 276-286).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1923. / Without thesis statement. Bibliography: p. 301-339.