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Environmental law - or "environmental and natural resources law" - is a collective term describing the network of treaties, statutes, regulations, common and customary laws addressing the effects of human activity on the natural environment.

The core environmental law regimes address environmental pollution.

A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the management of specific natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries.

Other areas, such as environmental impact assessment, may not fit neatly into either category, but are nonetheless important components of environmental law..

A property tax (or millage tax) is a levy on the value of a property.

The tax is levied by the governing authority of the jurisdiction in which the property is located.

This can be a national government, a federated state, a county or geographical region or a municipality.

Multiple jurisdictions may tax the same property.

This is in contrast to a rent and mortgage tax, which is based on a percentage of the rent or mortgage value.

Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law.

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are the protections granted to the creators of IP, and include trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial design rights, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets.

Artistic works including music and literature, as well as discoveries, inventions, words, phrases, symbols, and designs can all be protected as intellectual property.

Labour law (also known as labor law or employment law) mediates the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions and the government.

Collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union.

Individual labour law concerns employees' rights at work and through the contract for work.

are social norms (in some cases also technical standards) for the minimum socially acceptable conditions under which employees or contractors are allowed to work.

Government agencies (such as the former US Employment Standards Administration) enforce labour law (legislative, regulatory, or judicial).

Trusts & Estates is a wealth management journal published by Penton Media which covers trust law and estates.

It was first published in 1904 (as a periodical called Trust Companies) under the direction of Christian A. Luhnow, who was the editor, publisher and owner of the magazine at the time.