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  2. Lists of legal terms - Wikipedia

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    The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms; List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms

  3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Ancillary terms and conditions; express contractual terms that are purely voluntary, optional, and not necessitated by the contract's subject matter. Also called incidentalia (Roman-Dutch law). One of three types of contractual terms, the others being essentialia negotii 'core terms' and naturalia negotii 'implied terms'. actus iuridicus: legal ...

  4. List of legal entity types by country - Wikipedia

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    For-profit entities of public law. valtion liikelaitos (Swedish: statens affärsverk): commercial government agency, expected to fund themselves, but debts directly backed by state funds—distinguished from regular companies where the government owns stock. (See: List of Finnish government enterprises)

  5. Nondelegable obligation - Wikipedia

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    The specific definition of nondelegable obligations depends on the specific municipality. It is a compound term consisting of two sub-terms: delegate and obligation. To delegate is to "To hand over or assign responsibility to another, such as a subordinate in a business". [3]

  6. Law of obligations - Wikipedia

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    Thus an obligation encompasses both sides of the equation, both the obligor's duty to render prestation and the obligee's right to receive prestation. It differs from the common-law concept of obligation which only encompasses the duty aspect. Every obligation has four essential requisites otherwise known as the elements of obligation. They are:

  7. Public sector - Wikipedia

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    The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises. Public sectors include the public goods and governmental services such as the military , law enforcement , public infrastructure , public transit , public education , along with public health care and those ...

  8. Joint powers authority - Wikipedia

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    A joint powers authority (JPA) is an entity permitted under the laws of some U.S. states, whereby two or more public authorities (e.g. local governments, or utility or transport districts), not necessarily located in the same state, may jointly exercise any power common to all of them. Joint powers authorities may be used where:

  9. Assignment (law) - Wikipedia

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    An assignment does not necessarily have to be made in writing; however, the assignment agreement must show an intent to transfer rights. The effect of a valid assignment is to extinguish privity (in other words, contractual relationship, including right to sue) between the assignor and the third-party obligor and create privity between the obligor and the assignee.