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POLITY [4 records]

Record 1 2019-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
DEF

[The] title... of the supreme ruler in a steppe nomad polity...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
DEF

Titre porté par les souverains turcs d'Asie centrale.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Religion (General)
DEF

A court held before a judge appointed by the archdeacon, and called his official. Its jurisdiction comprises the granting of probates and administrations, and ecclesiastical causes in general, arising within the archdeaconry. It is the most inferior court in the whole ecclesiastical polity of England.

CONT

The Court of the Archdeacon, or Archdeaconry Court, is an obsolete ecclesiastical court of the Church of England. The Court’s original responsibilities included trial for minor criminal matters falling within the territory of the archdeacon. Appeals against Court decisions were made directly to the diocesan bishop.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Religion (Généralités)
CONT

La cour de l’Archidiacre jouxtait l’arrière de l’hôtel du Lion d’Or situé à l’extrémité de la rue des Arènes et donnait place Bourbon (place de la Nation).

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law
DEF

A government defined by the existence of a constitution — which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity — that effectively controls the exercise of political power.

OBS

Statute cited: Emergency Management Act.

PHR

Continuity of the constitutional government.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel
DEF

Gouvernement dont les pouvoirs sont délimités par une constitution.

OBS

Entendus dans leur sens général, les termes «État» et «gouvernement» ne sont pas interchangeables. Toutefois, ces mêmes termes lorsqu'ils sont qualifiés par l'adjectif «constitutionnel» s'entendent au sens de «ensemble des pouvoirs publics» et renvoient par conséquent à la même notion.

OBS

Loi citée : Loi sur la gestion des urgences.

PHR

Continuité du gouvernement constitutionnel.

PHR

Continuité de l'État constitutionnel.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
DEF

... a set of deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes about the nature of law, about the role of law in the society and the polity, about the proper organization and operation of a legal system, and about the way law is or should be made, applied, studied, perfected, and taught.

CONT

A legal tradition is ... the general culture underlying a family of similar legal systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
CONT

Héritier d'une tradition juridique à la fois française et britannique, le droit canadien repose sur deux systèmes différents, le droit civil et la Common law.

CONT

[...] le caractère sacré de la vie est un principe fondamental sur lequel repose une bonne partie de notre tradition juridique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
OBS

tradición jurídica: Expresión reproducida del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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