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  2. Convention (norm) - Wikipedia

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    A convention influences a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom.. In physical sciences, numerical values (such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many ...

  3. 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. Raistrick, Donald. Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations. 3rd ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2008. This book focuses more on British ...

  4. Convention - Wikipedia

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    Convention may refer to: Convention (norm), a custom or tradition, a standard of presentation or conduct Treaty, an agreement in international law; Convention (political norm), uncodified legal or political tradition; Convention (meeting), meeting of a (usually large) group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field who share a common ...

  5. United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International ...

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    Basic Contract Law according to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods(CISG)." 120. Moss, Sally, 'Why the United Kingdom Has Not Ratified the CISG' (2005) 1 Journal of Law and Commerce 483. Pace International Law Review, (ed) Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (1st ed, 1998).

  6. List of International Labour Organization Conventions

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    Type relates to whether the convention is fundamental, covers governance matters or is technical (generally issues of working conditions). Subjects covered by the Conventions: Individual rights at work , mainly on safety, wage standards, working time, or social security, and the rights to freedom from forced to work or work during childhood.

  7. Apostille Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). The Apostille Convention is intended to simplify the procedure through which a document, issued in one ...

  8. International commercial law - Wikipedia

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    International Commercial Law is a body of legal rules, conventions, treaties, domestic legislation and commercial customs or usages, that governs international commercial or business transactions. [1]

  9. Contract - Wikipedia

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    Nominate contracts in civil law jurisdictions and contracts subject to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) are subject to terms implied by the appropriate civil or commercial code or by the convention, respectively. Many civil law jurisdictions impose a legal duty of good faith which extends to ...