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Agrément, in international affairs, is the agreement by a state to receive members of a diplomatic mission from a foreign country. In this procedure, the posting state formally requests consent, via a demande d'agréation , from the receiving state before appointing a diplomat to the receiving state. [ 1 ]
Agreement (linguistics) or concord, a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of another word; Consistency, logical agreement between two or more propositions; Reliability (statistics) in the sense of, for example, inter-rater agreement
A chicken game is a situation where two states engage in brinkmanship even though the ideal solution is for one state to yield to the other. For example, the United States and the USSR risked global nuclear war to protect relatively minor strategic interests during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The word consensus is Latin meaning "agreement, accord", derived from consentire meaning "feel together". [2] A noun, consensus can represent a generally accepted opinion [3] – "general agreement or concord; harmony", "a majority of opinion" [4] – or the outcome of a consensus decision-making process.
Refers to a court or other official agency taking some action on its own accord (synonyms: ex proprio motu, ex mero motu). Similar to sua sponte. supersedeas: refrain from A bond tendered by an appellant as surety to the court, requesting a delay of payment for awards or damages granted, pending the outcome of the appeal. suppressio veri
In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated agr) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. [1] It is an instance of inflection , and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person ) "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence .
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Meeting of the minds (also referred to as mutual agreement, mutual assent, or consensus ad idem) is a phrase in contract law used to describe the intentions of the parties forming the contract. In particular, it refers to the situation where there is a common understanding in the formation of the contract.