Renvoi

Quick meaning: Renvoi is a noun meaning Cross-reference in text; a sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text.

Meaning

Cross-reference in text; a sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text.

More Meanings

1. (law) A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum, based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum.
2. (obsolete) A return.

Example Sentences

The description would be inexact because it gives figure to an essential play of return (renvoi).

As has been shown, the renvoi, if logically carried out, involves a perpetual deadlock. But both England and America try the validity of a will of personalty by the law of the testator's last domicil.

However, it could be alternatively argued that there is a general principle at common law that renvoi does not apply in relation to what are termed “obligations” for the purposes of private international law.

"But since you have brought up Jakobson's formula", I continued, "let me remind you that he intended the formula to express the relation distinctive or constitutive of sign, a relation Jakobson felicitously characterized as renvoi."

Word Forms

• renvois

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remand, remission, allocation, committal, referral, return.

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