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LEGAL VALIDITY [9 records]

Record 1 2015-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
OBS

... proviso generally has a narrower sense than provision(=a contractual term). In DRAFTING, a proviso is either a clause that is inserted in a legal or formal document and that makes some condition, stipulation, exception, or limitation, or a clause upon whose observance the operation or validity of the instrument depends. E. g., "When there is no accuracy or promptitude, the company should answer for all injury resulting, subject to the proviso that the injury must be the natural and direct consequence of the negligent act. "…(A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, 2nd Ed., p. 710.)

OBS

[defeasance] A condition upon the fulfillment of which a deed or other instrument isdefeated or made void; a contractual provision containing such a condition. – Alsotermed defeasance clause. (Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th Ed., p. 449.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

disposition restrictive portant anéantissement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l’accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

... there is a theoretical dichotomy that classically separates the rules governing validity of marriage into those going to "essential" validity and those going to "formal" validity. Matters of essential validity address the legal and personal capacity of the persons marrying, whereas those relating to formal validity... deal by and large with ritual and bureaucratic requirements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
CONT

Les éléments essentiels à la validité du mariage. Si un mariage qui ne rencontre pas les conditions de forme fixées par la loi peut quand même être valide, il n'en est pas ainsi d'un mariage qui ne répond pas aux conditions essentielles à sa validité. Ces dernières touchent l'essence même du mariage [...]

OBS

validité du mariage : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
OBS

Grant "pendente lite"(while litigation is pending). Where legal proceedings relating to the validity of a will or the obtaining, recalling or revoking of a grant are pending, the... Court may grant administration to an administrator "pendente lite".... The grant is limited to the duration of the legal proceedings.(Curzon, "Law of Succession", 1976, p. 138)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

lettres d'administration pendant l'instance : 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).

Key term(s)
  • lettre d'administration pendant l'instance

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

The investigation and determination by a court of the legal validity of an act, decision, instrument or transaction, of a question of "vires", jurisdiction, concerning an obligation to observe the rules of natural justice or "act fairly", or concerning principles which should be observed when statutory discretion is exercised. S. A. DeSmith, "Judicial Review of Administrative Action", 4th ed., by J. M. Evans(London : Stevens, 1980) at 26.

Key term(s)
  • control by the courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
DEF

Poder de un tribunal de declarar anticonstitucionales los actos del poder legislativo.

CONT

La revisión judicial se interpreta de diversas formas [...] En aquellos sistemas legales que cuentan con un Tribunal Constitucional y una constitución por escrito, este concepto incluye frecuentemente el poder de un tribunal de revisar la constitucionalidad de una ley o de un acto oficial llevado a cabo por un empleado o agente gubernamental. El tribunal tiene la potestad de revocar dicha ley, anular el acto del poder ejecutivo u ordenar a un funcionario público que se conduzca de cierta forma si estima que la ley o el acto en cuestión son inconstitucionales. En el Reino Unido, se refiere a la potestad de los tribunales de declarar que las acciones de los entes gubernamentales son contrarias a la ley o que violan la Convención Europea de Derechos Humanos [...]

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Record 5 2004-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

To complete or carry into effect. Where a legal instrument is involved, to complete all the formalities necessary in order to give validity thereto. Thus, to execute a deed requires that it be signed, sealed and delivered.(Yogis, 1983, p. 80)

French

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

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
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Record 7 1987-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

Most writers maintain that States have as one of their fundamental rights the right of self-preservation, that is, a legal right to exist. They claim that the right of self-preservation is a primary, inherent, fundamental right, so fundamental that it takes precedence overall other rights. But there are authorities who deny the validity of this theory.... According to them this right means only that a State is entitled to protect itself and may attempt to maintain its independence. "The truth is, "says Brierly, "that self-preservation is not a legal right but an instinct... "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
CONT

Tout État ([...]a le droit d'exister, de se maintenir, de se développer. Ce droit qu'on appelle droit de conservation, est le premier des droits des États.

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-03-05

English

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

The frequency of offensive alliances in the past clearly gives the lie to the myth that the international community already at an early period actually recognized in its positive law the validity of a basic legal distinction between just or lawful(especially defensive) and unjust or unlawful(in particular offensive or aggressive) wars.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Droit international public
CONT

alliance : Sens donné d'ordinaire à ce terme par les juristes et dans l'expression : traité d'alliance. Situation créée par traité entre deux ou plusieurs États et comportant des obligations d'aide politique et militaire dont ils ont à assumer l'exécution par leur action propre ou concertée, sans création d'organes supérieurs de décision. Fondée sur un traité, l'alliance est susceptible de modalités diverses; elle peut être réciproque ou inégale, défensive ou offensive et défensive, temporaire ou perpétuelle, dirigée contre un danger déterminé, viser une ou plusieurs hypothèses déterminées ou avoir un caractère général.

Spanish

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Record 9 1987-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

Surely a government such as that of General Franco which considers itself to be the legal government of Spain cannot, as it seems to me, sit passively by while the proceedings are in process and would have the duty towards itself to contest the legitimation of its rival as party to the proceedings or, rather, on grounds of deeper principle, to attack the validity of the special agreement itself as having been concluded by an "illegal government".

CONT

It is sometimes asserted that a state may exist even though it has no territory, and in this connection instances of the governments in exile during the World War II are cited. This, however, is not a true illustration because the cases of the governments in exile are merely examples of lawful governments functioning from another country during continuance of military operations. The dispossession of the lawful government by the invader pendente bello is no more than an incident of military operations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

Terme répondant à un concept d'ordre interne et désignant un Gouvernement, quel que soit son origine, intégré dans le régime constitutionnel du pays considéré, ce terme étant employé dans les rapports internationaux soit pour distinguer le Gouvernement ainsi qualifié d'un gouvernement de fait établi ou qui tente de s'établir dans le pays ou dans une partie de celui-ci, soit par opposition au pouvoir de fait exercé par une armée ennemie occupant une partie du territoire de l'État.

OBS

L'I.D.I. [L'Institut de droit international] dans sa résolution de Neuchâtel, Annuaire 1900, p. 227, a préféré se référer à la notion de Gouvernement établi et reconnu, laquelle correspond à un concept non de légalité interne, mais de droit international : Art. 1er. Le droit international impose aux puissances tierces, au cas de mouvement insurrectionnel ou de guerre civile, certaines obligations envers les gouvernements établis et reconnus qui sont aux prises avec l'insurrection.

Spanish

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