Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Abbreviationum ille numerus et sensus accipiendus est ut concessio non sit inanis
Such number and sense is to be given to abbreviations that the grant may not be void.
Benigne faciendae sunt interpretations chartarum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et quaelibet concessio fortissime contra donatorem interpretanda est
Deeds should be subject to liberal interpretation, so that the matter may take effect rather than fail; and every grant is to be taken most strongly against the grantor.
Concessio per regem ieri debet de certitudine
A grant by the king ought to be made of a certainty. ( Coke explains, "If the king grants to me that I shall not be sheriff, without showing of what county, it is void for uncertainty." 9 Coke 46b.
Concessio versus concedentem latam interpretationem habere debet
A grant ought to have a liberal interpretation against the grantor.
Concession
n. 1. A government grant for specific privileges. 2. The voluntary yielding to a demand for the sake of a settlement. 3. A rebate or abatement. 4. Int'Z law. A contract in which a country transfers some rights to a foreign enterprise which then engages in an activity (such as mining) contingent on state approval and subject to the terms of the contract. - concede, vb. - concessive, adj.
Falsa grammatica non vitiat concessionem.
False or bad grammar does not vitiate a grant. Neither false Latin nor false English will make a deed void when the intent of the,parties plainly appears.
Falsa orthographia sive falsa grammatica non vitiat concessionem
Error in spelling or grammar does not vitiate a grant.
Libertates regales ad coronam spectantes ex concessione regum a corona exierunt
Royal franchises relating to the Crown have emanated from the Crown by grant of kings.
Quaelibet concessio fortissime contra donatorem interpretanda est
Every grant is to be construed most strongly against the grantor.
Qui concedit aliquid, concedere videtur et id sine quo res ipsa esse non potuit (sine quo concessio est irrita)
A person who grants anything is considered as granting that without which the thing itself could not be (without which the grant is invalid).( More precisely, Cuicunque aliquis quid concedit (q.v.). 11 Coke 52.
concessio
[Latin] Hist. A grant. ( A term of conveyance used to convey incorporeal property. Pl. concessiones. "Grants, concessiones; the regular method by the common law of transferring the property of incorporeal hereditaments, or, such things whereof no livery can be had. For which reason all corporeal hereditaments, as lands and houses, are said to lie in livery; and the others, as advowsons, commons, rents, reversions, etc., to lie in grant .... These therefore pass merely by the delivery of the deed." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 317 (1766).
concession bargaining
Labor law. A type of collective bargaining in which the parties negotiate the employees' giving back previously gained improvements in wages, benefits, or working conditions in exchange for some form of job security, such as protection against layoffs. - Also termed employee givebacks; union givebacks. See COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.