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CLAUSULA ROJA [2 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

In a documentary credit, special clause included which allows.Her seller to obtain an advience from the correspondent bank to finance the manufacture or purchase of goods to be delivered under the documentary credit. Liability is assumed by the issuing bank rather than the corresponding bank.

OBS

It is called red clause because red ink used to be used to draw attention to the clause.

PHR

red clause letter of credit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

En matière de crédit documentaire, clause particulière incluse à la demande du donneur d'ordre dans un crédit, et autorisant la banque notificatrice ou confirmatrice à effectuer des avances au bénéficiaire avant présentation des documents ou sur présentation de documents provisoires.

CONT

lettre de crédit comportant une clause rouge

OBS

Le terme «clause rouge» («red clause») vient du fait qu'autrefois la procuration donnée au correspondant bancaire de payer l'avance était écrite en rouge pour être mise en évidence.

OBS

Clause rouge : terme normalisé par le gouvernement de la France.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

En una carta de crédito documentario, cláusula que permite al beneficiario utilizar hasta el 100% del crédito antes de que se presenten los documentos de embarque e incluso antes de que se efectúe el embarque.

CONT

carta de crédito con cláusula roja

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Record 2 2000-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treaties and Conventions
  • International Public Law
CONT

The Martens Clause is indisputably one of the contemporary legal myths of the international community. Being particularly ambiguous, it has been variously interpreted. The author dismisses the more radical interpretation whereby the clause upgrades to the rank of sources of international law the "laws of humanity" and the "dictates of public conscience". The other, less extreme interpretation, whereby the clause merely serves to reject a possible a contrario argument, is equally without merit. He suggests that the clause was essentially conceived of, at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference, as diplomatic gimmick intended to break a deadlock in the negotiations between smaller and Great Powers. The clause could nevertheless be given a twofold legal significance. First, it could operate at the interpretative level: incase of doubt international rules of humanitarian law should be construed in a manner consonant with standards of humanity and the demands of public conscience. Secondly, the clause, while operating within the existing system of international sources, could serve to loosen - in relation solely to the specific field of humanitarian law -the requirements prescribed for usus whilst at the same time raising opinio to a rank higher than normarly admitted.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traités et alliances
  • Droit international public

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratados y convenios
  • Derecho internacional público
CONT

Enunciada en el preámbulo de la Convención de la Haya de 1907 y reproducida en el párr. 2 del art. 1 del Protocolo I adicional a los Convenios de Ginebra de 1949. El comentario de la Cruz Roja sobre ese párrafo decía, entre otras cosas :"La cláusula de Martens impide interpretar que todo lo que no está expresamente prohibido en los tratados pertinentes está autorizado".

OBS

cláusula de Martens: Expresión y contexto reproducidos del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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