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LEGAL COMPETENCE [5 records]

Record 1 2017-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Private Law
DEF

The lack of legal power, ability or competence to enter into a legal contract, e. g. an infant, a bankrupt. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estado de las personas (Derecho privado)
  • Derecho privado
DEF

Carencia de aptitud legal para ejercer derechos y contraer obligaciones.

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Record 2 2011-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Legal System
DEF

Aptitude to be vested with and to exercise rights.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Théorie du droit
DEF

Aptitude d'une personne à être titulaire d'un droit et à l'exercer.

OBS

capacité juridique : recommandation du Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estado de las personas (Derecho privado)
  • Régimen jurídico
DEF

Aptitud que tiene una persona para ser sujeto o parte, por sí o por representante legal, en las relaciones jurídicas, ya sea como titular de derechos o facultades, ya como obligado a una prestación o al cumplimiento de un deber.

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Record 3 2011-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • International Relations
DEF

... jurisdiction ... which falls within the exclusive competence of a State and over which it claims and reserves the exclusive right to act, uninterfered by other States, considering that it alone is competent to order and regulate such matters which are essentially within the domain of its internal (home) affairs.

CONT

The term "domestic jurisdiction", as used in the theory and practice of international law, mainly since the Covenant of the League of Nations, is not a new legal concept from the point of view of its content. Indeed, it does not mean anything else or anything more than the term sovereignty in the sense of the supreme power of the State over its territory and inhabitants in the framework of international law binding upon the State. What some authors used to call "internal sovereignty" corresponds to domestic jurisdiction. This term does not mean exactly the same thing as the French expression "compétence exclusive de l'État, "although it is translated in this way in the Covenant.

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
  • Relations internationales
DEF

Juridiction [...] qui est de la compétence exclusive d'un État et sur laquelle il revendique et se réserve le droit exclusif d'agir, à l'exclusion de toute ingérence étrangère, puisqu'il considère qu'il est seul compétent à réglementer et contrôler les matières qui sont essentiellement du domaine de ses affaires intérieures.

OBS

compétence nationale. Expression employée dans la Charte des Nations Unies et désignant les affaires dans lesquelles, aux termes de l'Article 2, par. 7, l'ONU n'est pas fondée à intervenir [...]

OBS

Reproduit de la Liste provisoire de termes juridiques se rapportant aux travaux de la Commission du droit international avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho internacional público
  • Relaciones internacionales
CONT

Según el párrafo 7 del artículo 2 de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas ninguna disposición de la Carta autorizará a las Naciones Unidas "a intervenir en los asuntos que son esencialmente de la jurisdicción interna de los Estados".

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 4 2005-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
OBS

The Canadian College of Microbiologists(CCM) is a professional association for Microbiologists across Canada. The College was incorporated in 1978 under the Canada Corporations Act and has a mandate to : gain recognition of microbiology as a distinctive scientific profession and to provide an association through which professional microbiologists may develop programs and activities to promote their professional development and status; provide a designation, by which they are recognized to work with microorganisms with competence, dependability and safety; and operate with legal and professional status as a non-profit organization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Health Law
CONT

... "synthetic competence". This concept contemplates treating mentally ill persons for the purpose of making them competent to stand trial, in order to convict and sentence them.

CONT

There is... a combined legal-pharmacological-psychiatric enquiry required in relation to synthetic competence. In order to determine the legal effect of synthetic competence, it is necessary for courts to have some idea of the effect of psychotropic drugs on a person's mind.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Droit de la santé

Spanish

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