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LEGAL WRITINGS [5 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Trusts (common law)
  • Taxation Law
OBS

The term is pronounced "setty-ker-trust" and the plural is cestuis que trust.

OBS

A Law French term still in use occasionally in legal writings and teaching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des fiducies (common law)
  • Droit fiscal
OBS

Cestui que trust remonte à l'époque du «Law French». Il s'emploie encore parfois dans la doctrine, la jurisprudence et l'enseignement.

OBS

cestui que trust; bénéficiaire de fiducie : termes normalisés 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 2021-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • International Law
CONT

"Doctrine" means "the teaching of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations." It is considered a subsidiary means for the determination of the law, i.e. resorted to only in the absence of treaty, custom or general principles of law.

OBS

legal writings : Expression reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit international
DEF

Conception et interprétation du droit présentées par les auteurs dans leurs ouvrages de science juridique.

CONT

La Cour, dont la mission est de régler conformément au droit international les différends qui lui sont soumis, applique [...] les décisions judiciaires et la doctrine des publicistes les plus qualifiés des différentes nations, comme moyen auxiliaire de détermination des règles du droit.

OBS

Se distingue et parfois s'oppose à la jurisprudence, c'est-à-dire à la conception et à l'interprétation du droit qui se dégage des décisions arbitrales ou judiciaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
  • Derecho internacional
DEF

doctrina científica: Es la doctrina de los autores que no constituye parte del ordenamiento jurídico pero tiene influencia en la vida jurídica.

OBS

doctrina científica: Expresión y definición reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 3 2017-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
CONT

Literacy property refers to the writings of an author which gives him/her legal rights to the exclusive use of the writings, including publication, and sale or license for a profit to others who the author allows the right to publish it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits d'auteur
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
CONT

La propriété littéraire et artistique [...] L'auteur d'une œuvre de l'esprit jouit sur cette œuvre, du seul fait de sa création, d'un droit de propriété incorporelle exclusif et opposable à tous.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Trusts (common law)
OBS

A Law French term still in use occasionally in legal writings and teaching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des fiducies (common law)
OBS

«Cestui que use» remonte à l'époque du Law French. Il s'emploie encore parfois dans la doctrine, la jurisprudence et l'enseignement.

OBS

cestui que use; usager; usagère : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Law
CONT

The sources of international law. There is innate in man a consciousness of right and wrong, regulating his behaviour towards his fellows, the recognition of the requirement to "co-exist" with them on a reasonable footing. Human society, on the other hand, cannot function without a certain number of binding rules of conduct which must be such as to enable it to avoid bellum omnium contra omnes. These factors are the underlying causes of the birth of law in any human community. The accent may be laid on one or other of these fundamental elements, but the two are always present. These are the "sources" of the law in their philosophical, psychological, sociological connotation, the "material" sources.... The concrete ways and means, the "formal" sources of the law, differ from community to community : they are not the same in secular as in ecclesiastical communities, nor in national as in international society. These "formal" sources,... necessarily reflect the nature and structure of the community concerned : they appear as custom, legislation, bye-laws, national case law, papal bulls, treaties, resolutions of international bodies, etc., as the case may be. There is still a third sense in which the expression "sources" is used in respect of law; in this sense the metaphor does not refer to the basic or to the "formal" origins of legal rules, but to the documents and writings in which they can be found, just as in another field historians work with their "sources". These are not, of course, genuine sources of the law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international
OBS

Ces sources englobent les sources matérielles (ensemble des éléments auxquels se rattache la formation des règles du droit international, c'est-à-dire les sources du droit des gens, la conscience juridique commune, les principes et les faits qui expliquent l'origine profonde de l'apparition des règles juridiques) et les sources formelles (qui extériorisent, qui expriment les règles de droit), c'est-à-dire les quatre catégories de sources que la CIJ [Cour internationale de Justice] utilise pour déterminer le droit applicable aux différends dont elle est saisie.

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

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