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abdication [1 record]

Record 1 2001-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Banking
  • Property Law (civil law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

surrender: the voluntary relinquishment of a right, or of a power or office, by one person (the surrenderor) to another (the surrenderee), either by written instrument or by delivery of the thing which is the object of the right.

OBS

surrender: A fundamental category of juridical acts in the common law.

OBS

Surrender is a generic term for all acts of the kind, [mentioned in the definition] but the following specific terms, including surrender itself, are normally used depending on what is surrender: surrender for an estate, lease, patent, insurance policy or physical object; disclaimer, renunciation, for an estate, succession, inheritance or office, especially if not yet vested or if unwanted or burdensome; resignation, reliquishment, for an office; waiver release, for a right of action; waiver renunciation, for a right to attend a meeting, right to receive notice, right to generally to the benefit of an obligation; release for a debt, usually on its satisfaction, e.g. for a mortgage; remission for an unsatisfied debt; discontinuance for the reliquishment and consequent termination of a judicial action by written notice given by a plaintiff, or for the termination of an abandoned action by court order. All the above should be clearly distinguished from abandonment, which is a unilateral and unwritten act of relinquishment, e.g. of a child, a ship, land, a building, goods, or of a judicial action where no notice of relinquishment is given by the plaintiff (in which connection abandonment does not terminate the action if the possibility subsists of it being revived); and from forfeiture, which is involuntary.

OBS

surrender: Term, definition and observations reproduced from Law Terminology with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Banque
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

En droit civil, surrender est désigné par le terme délaissement. Cette notion a une application plus restreinte : matière hypothécaire ou livraison d'une chose mobilière ou immobilière.

OBS

acte d'abdication, acte abdicatif, abandon et renonciation : Termes reproduits de Law Terminology avec l'autorisation du Bureau des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
  • Operaciones bancarias
  • Derecho de propiedad (derecho civil)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
OBS

abandono y renuncia: Términos reproducidos de Law Terminology con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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