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CONFLICT (law) and Maugham, W(illiam) Somerset (sh)


CONFLICT (law)


CONFLICT. The opposition or difference between two judicial jurisdictions, when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare their incompetency. The first is called a positive conflict, and the, latter their incompetency. The first is called a positive conflict, and the, latter a negative conflict. a negative conflict.

Maugham, W(illiam) Somerset (sh)




born Jan. 25, 1874, Paris, France
died Dec. 16, 1965, Nice

English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.

He abandoned a short career in medicine when his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), had some Success. His plays, mainly Edwardian social comedies, brought him financial Security. His reputation rests primarily on the novels Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Cakes and Ale (1930), and The Razor's Edge (1944), all of which were adapted for Film and some for Television. His short stories often portray the confusion of Europeans in alien surroundings. His works, regarded less highly today than formerly, are characterized by a clear, unadorned style, cosmopolitan settings, and a shrewd understanding of human Nature.


W. Somerset Maugham.

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