#legislation
- Abrogation — The action of abrogating and its result; the official, total or partial annulment of the legal validity of a regulatory act (law, decree, regulation) by a subsequent legal provision.
- Repealed — (Jurisprudence) Of a law, decree, or regulatory act that has been officially deprived of force or validity by a subsequent legal provision.
- Adopter — An individual who adopts or intends to adopt a child, legally acquiring the rights and obligations of a biological parent through a court order. In organizational sociology and marketing, the term refers to an economic agent or user who accepts, internalizes, and implements a technology, work method, or conceptual trend in a market.
- Aggravating — Aggravating, worsening, or increasing the severity of a criminal act, a legal situation, or a patient's health status. In criminal law, the term describes specific circumstances accompanying the commission of an offense (such as premeditation or cruelty) that legally dictate a significantly harsher penalty.
- Forest management plan — A fundamental technical, economic, and legal study regulating over the long term (usually 10 years) the organization, sustainable exploitation, and protection of a forest estate. In specialized language, it represents the mandatory official document establishing wood-cutting quotas and required reforestation works.
- Fining / Imposition of a fine — The act of fining or amending and its result; the imposition of a financial contraventional penalty (fine); the process of modifying, correcting, or revising a legislative text or a contract; also, in agriculture, it denotes the chemical treatment of degraded soils to correct acidity or other structural deficiencies.
- Amendatory — Having the nature of an amendment or serving to amend or modify a legal, administrative, or contractual text; destined to introduce corrections, revisions, or improving additions into a pre-existing normative structure. In parliamentary procedure analysis, the term describes secondary acts or proposals oriented toward the positive transformation of a bill's initial form.
- Stateless person — A person who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law, lacking the legal protection of a sovereign national authority; a stateless person. In the historical context of Ancient Greece, the term denoted a citizen exiled or expelled from their native city-state (polis), thereby losing all civil, political rights and legal communal identity.
- Arrest — The act of arresting or detaining and its result; a legal measure of depriving a person suspected or accused of committing an offense of their liberty, structurally ordered by a competent judicial authority (judge or court) under the conditions provided by the criminal procedure code. This procedural act serves a preventive role to ensure the proper conduct of the criminal investigation or trial.
- Audiovisual — Based on the simultaneous use of sound and image; relating to the transmission or reception of messages through hearing and sight. As a noun, it denotes the entire field of television, cinema, radio, and digital multimedia platforms, as well as the collection of productions and regulatory bodies.
- Automatic repeal — The automatic and legal expiration or termination of the validity or applicability of a temporary, exceptional, or criminal law, occurring as a result of reaching the exact deadline set ab initio within its regulatory text or with the cessation of the special conditions that prompted its adoption, without requiring the issuance of another repealing legislative act.