In property law, a failure of issue is a situation in which a property-holder dies without leaving children who could have inherited their property. Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land as distinct from personal or movable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system. ...
Failure, to paraphrase Wordsworth, is too much with us; every day seems to add yet another tale of bankruptcy, romantic loss, or personal tragedy, suggesting that failure, as a concept, is a fundamental part of what used to be called the human experience.
And yet everybody—his wife, his children, his neighbor, his employer—knows that he's a failure, not because he went bankrupt in business or because he was too ambitious, but because he's stagnant and because there is a deficiency in his complete identity.
Failure is not merely a cataclysm that adds to the plot of your life story but is something that stops your life cold because you lose a sense of your future.
Issue 1, which allows state judges to deny bail to felons posing a risk to the public, passed with an unofficial count from the secretary of state's office of 2,142,237 to 796,063.
Issue 2, concerning worker's compensation reform, was defeated by a 1,709,890 to 1,285,162 vote statewide.
"The failure of Issue 2 is a victory for the working families across the state of Ohio," said David J. Leland, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party in a release.