Treaty

Treaty in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of treaty.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Treaty in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term treaty into Spanish: tratado (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• treaty in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• treaty in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

An international agreement concluded between two or more states but can also be between igos or an igo and a state.

An international agreement concluded between two or more states but can also be between igos or an igo and a state.

Meaning of Treaty in Political Science

A very basic notion of Treaty related to the United States’election law is provided here: An agreement between two or more countries or states about trade, peace, or other matters

Notion of Treaty

The meaning of Treaty may be as follows: A formal agreement between two or more nations states, having the effect of higher law. Under the U.S. Constitution, a treaty is negotiated by the President, and must then be submitted to the U.S. Senate for advice and consent, requiring a two-thirds vote of the Senate for ratification.

Meaning of Treaty in the Past

A treaty is a compact made between two or more independent nations with a view to the public welfare treaties are for a perpetuity or for a considerable time. Those matters which are accomplished by a single act and are at once perfected in their execution, are called agreements, conventions and pactions.

Developments

On the part of the United States of America, treaties are made by the president, by and with the consent of the senate, gived two-thirds of the senators present concur. Const. article 2, s. 2, n. 2.

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No state must enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation; Const. art. 1, s. 10, n. 1; nor must any state, without the consent of congress, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power. Id. art. 1, see. 10, n. 2; 3 Story on the Const. 1395.

Other Aspects

A treaty is declared to be the supreme law of the land and is therefore, obligatory on courts; 1 Cranch’s Reports (U. S. Supreme Court) R. 103; 1 Wash. C. C. R. 322 1 Paine, 55; whenever it runs of itself without the aid of a legislative provision; but when the terms of the stipulation import a contract and either of the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the polit-ical, not the judicial department and the legislature must execute the contract before it can become a rule of the court. 2 Pet. S. C. Rep. 814. Vide Story on the Constitut. Index, h. t.; Serg. Constit. Law, Index, h. t.; 4 Hall’s Law Journal, 461; 6 Wheat. 161: 3 Dall. 199; 1 Kent, Comm. 165, 284.

More Information

Treaties are divided into personal and real. The personal relate onlyto the people of the contracting parties, such as family (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) alliances and treaties guarantying the throne to a particular sovereign and his family. As they relate to the people they expire of course on the death of the sov-ereign or the extinction of his family. Real treaties relate only to the subject-matters of the convention, independently of the people of the contracting parties and continue to bind the state, although there may be changes in its constitution (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) or in the people of its rulers. Vattel, Law of Nat. b. 2, c. 12, 183-197.[1]

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Notes and References

1. Partialy, this information about treaty is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including treaty.

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Treaty in Global Commerce Policy

In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: usually defined as a binding agreement entered into between two or more states (countries) under international law. The entries on trade policy in the Encyclopedia are here. Other names for a treaty are convention, covenant, protocol and exchange of letters. Treaties are legal instruments under which the parties establish mutual rights and obligations. Through acceding to a treaty, the parties undertake to become obliged to behave in accordance with it, and to face the possibility of sanction if they do not. Treaties usually have to be ratified, sometimes through a constitutionally defined process, before they enter into effect. See also Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.[1]

Treatyin the wold Encyclopedia

For an introductory overview on international trade policy, see this entry.

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Notes and References

1. Dictionary of Trade Policy, “Treaty” entry (OAS)

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