Legal Definition and Related Resources of Validity

The quality of being valid, being sound and well grounded in law.

Freedom from vices of substance; effectiveness in point of law. It is broader than “form” or “requisites,” as they are often applied; “form” signifying only regularity or technical phraseology, while “requisites” imports only positive requirements or essentials, and not matters extraneous to the act or instrument itself.

noun

• authenticity
• authority
• correctness
• force
• forcefulness
• genuineness
• gravitas
• lawfulness
• legal force
• legality
• legitimacy
• legitimateness
• meritoriousness
• pondus
• potency
• power
• puissance
• reality
• realness
• significance
• soundness
• strength
• trueness
• truth
• veracity
• verity
• Associated Concepts: validity of a statute foreign phrases: Quod in minori valet valebit in majori; et quod in majori non valet nec valebit in minori
• That which is valid in the greater shall be valid in the less; and that which is not valid in the greater shall neither be valid in the less
• Nul charter
• nul vente
• ne nul done vaultperpetualment
• si le donor n ‘est seise al temps de contracts de deux droits
• sc
• del droit de possession et del droit depropertie
• No grant
• no sale
• no gift
• is valid forever
• unless the donor
• at the time of the contract
• has two rights
• namely
• the right of possession
• and the right of property Quae ab initio non valent
• ex post facto convalescere non possunt
• Things invalid from the beginning cannot be made valid by a subsequent act
• Semper praesumitur pro matrimonio
• The presumption is always in favor of the validity of a marriage
• Quod initio vitiosum est non potest tractu temporis convalescere
• That which is void from the beginning cannot become valid by lapse of time
• Pacta conventa quae neque contra leges neque dolo malo inita sunt omtii modo observanda sunt
• Agreements which are not contrary to the laws nor entered into with a fr audulent design must be observed in all respects
• Quod initio non valet
• tractu temporis non valet
• That which is void at the beginning does not become valid by lapse of time

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This definition of Validity is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . This entry needs to be proofread.

Vocabularies (Semantic Web Information)

Definition of Validity

The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Validity: One of two criteria (the other being reliability) by which researchers judge their results or measurement tools. A valid result is one that accurately measures what it claims to be measuring. Using shoe size as a measurement of intelligence is not a valid measure of intelligence. It lacks face validity since it is not obvious that it is measuring what it claims to measure. One test of validity might be the extent to which your measurements allow you to make predictions about future behaviour. If your measurement of intelligence does not predict how people perform on exams then perhaps it is not a valid measurement of intelligence. See: EXTERNAL VALIDITY / INTERNAL VALIDITY / RELIABILITY in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.

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Notes and References

• Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Validity. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada