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ACQUIESCEMENT [5 records]

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Record 1 2015-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Copyright
DEF

The failure to object to an infringement of right, yielding an inference of assent and excluding a claim to equitable relief, arising when a person, in the full knowledge of his rights and of the conduct infringing them, allows the person to infringe, does not object, and leads the person infringing to believe that he has waived or abandoned his rights.

CONT

[A trespasser includes] any person who happens to enter someone else's land without consent or privilege ... Consent may be inferred from acquiescence in persistent intrusions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droits d'auteur
DEF

Absence d'objection d'une personne à la violation de son droit.

OBS

L'acquiescement laisse présumer le consentement. Il exclut d'avance toute demande de compensation qui, sans lui, aurait pu être formulée en equity.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derechos de autor
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Record 2 2012-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

[An] assurance by personal representatives vesting property in the person entitled. (Megarry & Wade, The Law of Real Property, 4th ed., 1975, p. cxii)

CONT

The title of a legatee or devisee is not complete until the executor has assented to the legacy or devise. An assent to the vesting of a legal estate must be in writing signed by the personal representative, and must name the person in whose favour it is given and it operates to vest in that person the legal estate to which it relates ... (Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 6th ed., 1976, p. 34)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

acquiescement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Legal Documents
CONT

An assent has been defined as the instrument whereby a personal representative effectuates a testamentary disposition by transferring the subject-matter of the disposition to the person entitled to it ... (Curzon, "Law of Succession", 1976, p. 201)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Documents juridiques
OBS

Acception métonymique. Le terme anglais et les équivalents français désignent le document.

OBS

acte d'acquiescement; acquiescement : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
DEF

The indication of agreement or consent by permitting things to be done or claims to be made without objection.

OBS

Reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

[...] adhésion expresse ou tacite à une décision ou à un acte judiciaire, la renonciation aux voies de recours, dont on pouvait user, ou aux nullités qu'on pouvait invoquer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho internacional público
DEF

Inacción, pasividad o silencio ante comportamientos normalmente merecedores de protesta.

OBS

Reproducido del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 5 2000-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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