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  2. List of legal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    A Law Reference Collection, 2011, ISBN 1624680003 and ISBN 978-1-62468-000-7 Trinxet, Salvador. Trinxet Reverse Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms , 2011, ISBN 1624680011 and ISBN 978-1-62468-001-4 .

  3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    the law of the place The law of the country, state, or locality where the matter under litigation took place. Usually used in contract law, to determine which laws govern the contract. / ˈ l ɛ k s ˈ l oʊ s aɪ / lex scripta: written law Law that specifically codifies something, as opposed to common law or customary law. liberum veto: free veto

  4. Reservation (law) - Wikipedia

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    A reservation in international law is a caveat to a state's acceptance of a treaty. A reservation is defined by the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) as: . a unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions ...

  5. Section sign - Wikipedia

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    The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1] It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. [2] [3] In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German ...

  6. List of national legal systems - Wikipedia

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    Civil law largely modeled after the Napoleonic code mixed with strong elements of German civil law. Criminal law retains Russian and German legal traditions, while criminal procedure law has been fully modeled after practice accepted in Western Europe. The civil law of Latvia enacted in 1937. Lebanon: Based on Napoleonic civil law. Lithuania

  7. Concessions and leases in international relations - Wikipedia

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    In international relations, a concession is a "synallagmatic act by which a State transfers the exercise of rights or functions proper to itself to a foreign private test which, in turn, participates in the performance of public functions and thus gains a privileged position vis-a-vis other private law subjects within the jurisdiction of the State concerned."

  8. Right of return - Wikipedia

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    The right of a person to enter his or her own country recognizes the special relationship of a person to that country ... It includes not only the right to return after having left one’s own country; it may also entitle a person to come to the country for the first time if he or she was born outside the country. [15]

  9. Reservation of rights - Wikipedia

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    The notice avoids later claims that one waived legal rights that were held under a contract, copyright law, or any other applicable law. The term is used in connection with copyright law. The term "reservation of rights" (particularly a "reservation of rights letter”) is often used in connection with insurance claims.