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Home Dictionary Name: contracting stateContracting State
Contracting State, means (1) one of the original parties to the 1968 Convention (Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands); or (2) one of the parties acceding to that Convention under the Accession Convention (Denmark, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom), being a state in respect of which the Accession Convention has entered into force in accordance with Art. 39 of that convention, Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act, 1982, s. 51(3), 50 (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 330, p. 259.Means any State, including the United Kingdom, which is a party to the Chicago Convention, Air Navigation Order 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 1190, p. 580....
Contracting State
Contracting State, means a Government of any country or place outside India in respect of which arrangement has been made by the Central Government with the Government of such country or place through a treaty or otherwise for transfer of prisoners from India to such country or place and vice versa and includes any other Government of such country or place specified by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, under sub-s. (1) of s. 3. [Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003 (49 of 2003), s. 2(a)]...
Contracts concluded in advance
Contracts concluded in advance, Contracts which are concluded between a producers or an association of producers and a buyer to supply hops which have been produced in the community must be registered in the relevant producer member State. A separate register must be kept in each member State in respect of 'contracts concluded in advance, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 1072, p. 719....
Contraction
The act or process of contracting shortening or shrinking the state of being contracted as contraction of the heart of the pupil of the eye or of a tendon the contraction produced by cold...
Letters of safe-conduct
Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with us can, by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of safe-conduct, which, by drivers old statutes, must be granted under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit. 416. But passports or licences from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and such property is suspected to be in a contracting State, the court may issue a letter of request to a court or an authority in the contracting State for ...
United States Court of Federal Claims
United States Court of Federal Claims : a federal court having nationwide trial jurisdiction over claims against the United States see also federal circuit NOTE: The claims over which this court has jurisdiction include those based on the Constitution, acts of Congress, regulations of an executive agency, contracts with the United States, actions for damages not sounding in tort, claims of American Indian groups against the United States, and certain tax cases (as claims for tax refunds). Private bills are referred to it from Congress for advisory findings as to whether there is a genuine legal or equitable claim for relief. The court does not have jurisdiction over claims for pensions or claims based on treaties with foreign nations. ...
Contracting out of a statute
Contracting out of a statute. In accordance with the maxim, Quilibet potest [or Cuilibet licet] renunciare juri pro se introducto, persons for whose benefit a statute has been passed may contract with others in such a manner as to deprive themselves of the benefit of the statute, as, for instance, the benefit of the Employers Liability Act, 1880; see Griffiths v. Earl of Dudley, (1882) 9 QBD 357.Certain Acts prohibit 'contracting out' or impose limitations. For example, by s. 1 (3) of the Workmens Compensation Act, 1925, contracting out of the Act is allowed upon the certificate of the Registrar of Friendly Societies that a proposed scheme of compensation is not less favourable to the workmen than the scheme of compensation provided by the Act. See also s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923; and s. 146 (12) of the (English) Law of Property Act,1925, which provides for relief against the forfeiture of a lease; and also ss. 95 and 96 as to mortgages which exclude contracting out, ...
Contractibility
Capability of being contracted quality of being contractible as the contractibility and dilatability of air...
Contracted
Drawn together shrunken wrinkled narrow as a contracted brow a contracted noun...
contracting
the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease contraction as the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic...
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