Sentences with phrase «to have legal effect»

Short of suing you and winning, nothing they do can have any legal effect on you.

Your judgment of divorce will always have the legal effect of being an fully enforceable court order.

The intent of a clause like this is to prohibit an oral modification of the contract, for example, by a salesman, from having legal effect.

As far as the European regime is concerned, the referendum result had no legal effect.

However, this doesn't strictly mean that the law has no legal effect.

But a void marriage has no legal effect regardless of whether you go to court.

But Kieron Beal and Tom Hickman of Blackstone Chambers argued in a 2011 paper that «there can no longer be any real doubt that the Charter has legal effect in UK law».

The Ministers» position that no TRP [temporary resident permit] would be granted conveyed by Mr. Orr's e-mails or Mr. Velshi» statements to the press did not have the legal effect of settling the matter of Mr. Galloway's entitlement to a TRP as he had not requested one.

Odd as it may seem to many, the referendum result has no legal effect whatsoever.

Tuesday's vote by Gambia's parliament to extend Yahya Jammeh's presidency by 90 days does have some legal effect.

Section 22 of the UECA says that an electronic document (such as a contract or offer to contract) has no legal effect if a material error is made with the electronic agent of another party and the electronic agent did not provide an opportunity to prevent or correct that error.

The new law specifically provides that the U.S. Secretary of Education has no authority to require states to implement any kind of teacher evaluation system, and that all waivers have no legal effect on or after Aug. 1, 2016.

A pending patent has no legal effect.

One significant feature of these whereas clauses is that they usually have no legal effect: they are merely preliminary statements providing introductory background information before the binding promissory language.

They might declare that the rent shall be double, but such a declaration has no legal effect, and a court would not enforce a rent - hike in the middle of a lease.

It is now generally recognized that «code is law»: how computers process the millions of on / off, yes / no signals in their binary universe can have legal effects beyond their obvious output.

This means that an HS — an act of the EU can have legal effect only if it is accessible free of charge and after its publication.

If a line in your will bequeaths something that you don't have the power to give (e.g. you bequeath something that you don't own at the time of your death), that line has no legal effect.

Speaking generally, if a mandatory contractual or statutory provision required a party to give a notice in a particular form in order to achieve a result identified in the contract or statute and if a purported notice given by that party failed to comply with the mandatory contractual or statutory provision, then the normal position was that the notice had no legal effect.

Prior to Divorce When a couple begins to live separate and apart (which may include a separation under the same roof), without obtaining a limited divorce or legal separation order and without signing a separation agreement, the fact of the estrangement alone generally has no legal effect on the inheritance rights or fiduciary authority of a surviving spouse.

The court state that the Statute of Frauds requires a writing for all real estate contracts, and so the fact that the Second Buyer knew this fact did not have any legal effect because the written contract was a binding legal document.

These two systems are based on quite different premises and values, but the two have to find a way to interact as they coexist over the same land and in the case of land and native title rights, Indigenous laws have legal effect in the European system.

The rights of custody mentioned in sub-paragraph a) above, may arise in particular by operation of law or by reason of a judicial or administrative decision, or by reason of an agreement having legal effect under the law of that State.

This article focuses only on civil annulments, not religious annulments, which can only be granted by a church or clergy member and have no legal effect on marital status as far as the state is concerned.

Only a specific, written waiver signed by an authorized representative of Kontos Foods shall have any legal effect whatsoever.

However the DUP again tabled a motion of concern, preventing the motion from having any legal effect.

(9) Titles and numbers of Articles, Paragraphs and Items of this Agreement shall be for convenience purposes only, and they shall not have any legal effects.

At bottom, what's the difference between that and a trial judge being able to make factual resolutions that have the legal effect of increasing a sentencing outcome beyond what the jury verdict did?

The House Appropriations fiscal 2017 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill, released Wednesday, states that no DOL fiduciary or conflict of interest rule «shall have an effective date or have any legal effect.»

And once both parties were properly advised, and had mutually agreed the legal outcomes of various unhappy scenarios, then there would be a cooling - off period of 12 months before the agreement had legal effect.

[17] The Scottish government insisted in 2010 that they could legislate for a referendum, as it would be an «advisory referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Parliament», [16] whose result would «have no legal effect on the Union».

That is because, strictly speaking, it has no legal effect.

Clearly, Parliament is acting unconstitutional in this needless and reckless interference with the Agreement and will have no legal effect on the Agreement.

To this end, the framers of the Constitution provided that anytime Government intends to enter into any agreement with any foreign entity that has economic or business interest, the agreement must be subject to prior parliamentary approval or ratification before it can have any legal effect.

[1] Borrowers hand the logbook lender the V5C registration document - or «logbook» - but this is purely symbolic and has no legal effect.

This has the legal effect of changing the second mortgage from a secured debt to an unsecured debt.

The Court added «The possible future legalization of possession of marijuana can have no legal effect on the sentencing regime,» and, «it is an irrelevant extraneous factor that could, in this case, play no part in sentencing considerations.

The Working Group started with, and finished with, the key UNCITRAL principles that it has applied to the law of e-communications since the Model Law on Electronic Commerce in the mid-1990s: functional equivalence (an electronic record has the same legal effect as its paper equivalent if it can serve the same policy functions) and technology neutrality (any technology that can serve those functions may have that legal effect.)

Has the document been altered, either intentionally or not, since it was created in a form meant to have legal effect?

However, I agree with the last commentator that e-signature systems does not necessarily have to be more reliable, or less susceptible to misuse, than paper - based systems in order to have legal effect and that what is prudent will always depend on the circumstances, whatever the medium of communication as may be agreed or accepted by the engaging parties.

If this employee's case makes it all the way to the Third Circuit, and that court upholds what this judge determined, that ruling would have legal effect in ADA cases in New Jersey, potentially giving transgender workers a powerful new tool in federal actions.