Glossary
972 noziuns · 56 categorias
Fundamental Legal Principles
- Rule of law
- Equality before the law
- Principle of legality
- Good faith
- Prohibition of arbitrariness
- Right to be heard
- Access to justice
- Effective remedy
- Judicial independence
- Abuse of rights
- Principle of trust
- Due process
- Protection of legitimate expectations
- Public interest
- Equality of arms
- Access to the file
- Duty to give reasons
- Right to an impartial tribunal
- Right to a lawful judge
- Timely justice
- Prohibition of denial of justice
- Prohibition of excessive formalism
- Presumption of innocence
- Burden of proof
- Standard of proof
- Legal personality
- Jurisdiction
- Standing
- Justiciability
Construction & Planning Law
Administrative Law
- Delegated legislation
- Legitimate interest
- Lack of competence
- Excess of authority
- Scope of judicial review
- Administrative contract
- Real act
- General administrative order
- Administrative enforcement
- Administrative sanction
- Administrative fine
- Procedural fairness
- Licensing
- Public accountability
- Administrative authorities
- Ordinance-making and delegated rulemaking
- Administrative decision
- Administrative discretion
- Abuse or excess of discretion
Administrative Procedure
- Administrative appeal
- Administrative permit requirement
- Concession
- Public service concession
- Review of legality
- Review of appropriateness
- Suspensive effect
- Withdrawal of suspensive effect
- Standing in administrative law
- Association appeal
- Access to official documents
- Objection procedure
- Consultation procedure
- Reconsideration
- Revision of administrative decision
- Revocation of administrative decision
- Nullity of administrative act
- Voidability
- Coercive administrative measures
- Planning decision
Public Procurement Law
- Public procurement
- Technical specifications
- Bid evaluation
- Abnormally low bid
- Award decision
- Exclusion from procurement
- Standstill period
- Procurement appeal
- Framework agreement
- In-house procurement
- Contracting authority
- Tender procedure
- Open procedure
- Selective procedure
- Invitation procedure
- Direct award
- Award criteria
- Suitability criteria
International Law
Commercial & Corporate Law
Company Forms & Commercial Register
- Sole proprietorship
- Branch office
- Articles of association
- Share capital
- Capital contribution
- Capital increase
- Capital reduction
- General meeting
- Audit body
- Managing directors
- Commercial power of attorney
- Simple partnership
- Organizational defects
- General partnership
- Limited partnership
- Company limited by shares
- Limited liability company
- Cooperative
- Association
- Foundation
Evidence & Procedure
Civil Procedure & Litigation
- Default judgment
- Statement of defence
- Reply
- Rejoinder
- Main hearing
- Simplified procedure
- Ordinary procedure
- Summary procedure
- Conciliation request
- Conciliation hearing
- Authorization to proceed
- Joinder of parties
- Procedural costs
- Advance on costs
- Security for costs
- Party compensation
- Production of documents
- Duty to cooperate
- Novae
- Amendment of claim
- Withdrawal of action
- Acknowledgment of claim
- Burden of allegation
- Settlement
- Legal force
- Enforceability
- Restoration of time limit
- Time limit
- Service of documents
- Local jurisdiction
- Declaratory action
- Provisional measures in civil procedure
- Professional secrecy
- Substantiation burden
- Conciliation procedure
- Legal aid
- Disposition principle
- Inquisitorial principle
- Statement of claim
Federal Supreme Court Procedure
- Appeal to the Federal Supreme Court
- Exhaustion of remedies
- Federal Supreme Court standing
- Cassatory decision
- Reformative decision
- Remand to lower authority
- Supervisory complaint
- Revision before the Federal Supreme Court
- Matter of public law
- Civil law matter
- Criminal law matter
- Subsidiary constitutional complaint
- Final decision
- Interim decision
- Appeal against interim decision
- Irreparable harm
Constitutional Law
- Separation of powers
- Primacy of federal law
- Popular initiative
- Referendum
- Cantonal autonomy
- Municipal autonomy
- Federal act
- Ordinance-making power
- Federal Constitution
- Political rights
- Voting rights
- Checks and balances
- Eligibility for election
- Right of petition
- Economic freedom
- Guarantee of property
- Freedom of the press
- Core content of fundamental rights
- Horizontal effect of fundamental rights
- Judicial review
- Fundamental rights
- Freedom of expression
- Right to privacy
- Freedom of religion and conscience
- Federalism
- Constitutional amendment process
Criminal Procedure
- Arrest warrant
- Accused person
- Private claimant
- Victim
- Defence counsel
- Mandatory defence
- Official defence
- Investigation
- Coercive measures
- Seizure of evidence
- Pre-trial detention
- Search warrant
- Detention review
- Provisional release
- Main hearing in criminal proceedings
- Appeal in criminal matters
- Complaint in criminal procedure
- Revision in criminal procedure
- Exclusion of evidence
- Acceleration principle
- Right to counsel
- In dubio pro reo
- Right to silence
- Criminal complaint
- Penal order
- Simplified criminal procedure
- Prosecutor
Family Law
- Marriage contract
- Matrimonial property regime
- Participation in acquired property
- Separation of property
- Community of property
- Maintenance obligation
- Parental authority
- Child welfare
- Child protection measures
- Adult protection
- Curatorship
- Divorce
- Advance care directive
- Child and adult protection authority
- Contact rights
- Relocation of child
- Adoption consent
- Recognition of paternity
- Matrimonial home
- Pension splitting
- Divorce settlement
- Spousal maintenance
- Child custody
- Child support
- Adoption
- Guardianship
- Domestic violence protection orders
- Paternity
Labor & Employment Law
- Employment contract
- Duty of loyalty of employee
- Duty of care of employer
- Salary claim
- Overtime
- Working time
- Vacation entitlement
- Sick pay
- Protection against dismissal in employment
- Abusive dismissal
- Immediate termination
- Wrongful termination
- Non-compete clause
- Employment reference
- Mass dismissal
- Transfer of undertaking
- Staff leasing
- Collective employment agreement
- Normal employment contract
- Workplace accident
- Occupational disease
- Equal pay
- Workplace discrimination
- Maternity protection
- Harassment
- Collective bargaining
- Trade unions
- Minimum wage laws
- Occupational safety regulations
- Employee benefits
Intellectual Property Law
- Copyright
- Author
- Neighboring rights
- Collective rights management
- Exhaustion
- Quotation right
- Private use exception
- Software copyright
- Patentability
- Inventive step
- Novelty
- Patent
- Industrial applicability
- Trademark distinctiveness
- Likelihood of confusion
- Geographical indication
- Trade name
- Domain name dispute
- Trademark
- Trade secret
- Infringement
- Licensing agreements
- Moral rights
- Industrial design rights
- Work
Banking & Finance Law
Environmental Law
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability
- Nature protection area
- Water protection
- Forest protection
- Noise abatement
- Air pollution control
- Soil protection
- Pollution control
- Sustainable development
- Precautionary principle
- Climate regulation
- Waste management laws
- Biodiversity protection
- Carbon trading
- Polluter pays principle
Miscellaneous / Specialized
Advanced Constitutional & Public Law
- Proportionality principle
- Concrete norm control
- Division of competences
- Fiscal federalism
- Severe restriction of fundamental rights
- State liability in Swiss public law
- Federal guarantee
- Margin of appreciation
- Subsidiarity
- Non-discrimination principle
- Constitutional supremacy
- Emergency powers
- Derogation of rights
- State neutrality
- Abstract norm control
Advanced Criminal Law & Theory
Criminal Law
- Criminal negligence
- Criminal responsibility
- Diminished responsibility
- Justifying necessity
- Excusing necessity
- Consent of victim
- Omission offence
- Duty to act
- Instigation
- Aiding and abetting
- Confiscation
- Self-defense
- Monetary penalty
- Custodial sentence
- Suspended sentence
- Partially suspended sentence
- Therapeutic measure
- Ne bis in idem
- Nulla poena sine lege
- Objective elements of an offence
- Subjective elements of an offence
- Intent
- Conditional intent
- Unlawfulness in criminal law
Tort & Civil Liability (Advanced)
Property & Land Law (Advanced)
- Co-ownership
- Public faith of the land register
- Mortgage certificate
- Register mortgage certificate
- Paper mortgage certificate
- Pledge
- Possessory pledge
- Right of retention
- Right of residence
- Building right
- Source right
- Restrictive covenant
- Neighbour law
- Immission
- Boundary
- Right of pre-emption
- Purchase right
- Repurchase right
- Acquisition of land by persons abroad
- Encumbrance
- Usufruct
- Condominium ownership
- Joint ownership
- Possessory protection
- Ownership action
- Land register entry
Corporate Governance & Business Law
Tax Law
- Tax evasion
- Progressive taxation
- Tax liability
- Unlimited tax liability
- Limited tax liability
- Tax domicile
- Economic affiliation
- Wealth tax
- Income tax
- Profit tax
- Capital tax
- Tax avoidance
- Stamp duty
- Participation relief
- Hidden equity
- Monetary benefit
- Permanent establishment
- Double taxation
- Tax residency
- Withholding tax
- Value-added tax (VAT)
- Transfer pricing
- Tax treaties
- Capital gains tax
Tax Procedure
Human Rights Law
Technology & Cyber Law
Data Protection Law
- Personal data
- Adequacy decision
- Standard contractual clauses
- Data security
- Data breach notification
- Right of access
- Right to erasure
- Right to rectification
- High-risk profiling
- Sensitive personal data
- Processing
- Data subject
- Joint controllership
- Consent in data protection
- Privacy notice
- Data protection impact assessment
- Cross-border disclosure
Dispute Resolution & Procedure (Advanced)
Comparative & Legal Theory
Contract Law
EU Law
Financial Markets & Securities
- Initial public offering (IPO)
- Basel accords
- FINMA supervision
- Financial intermediary
- Prudential supervision
- Financial market licensing duty
- Fit and proper requirement
- Prospectus approval
- Key information document
- Market conduct rules
- Insider information
- Prospectus requirement
- Price manipulation
- Client segmentation
- Suitability assessment
- Appropriateness assessment
- Collective investment scheme
- Banking license
- Capital adequacy
- Liquidity requirement
- Depositor protection
- Market abuse
- Disclosure obligations
- Derivatives regulation
- Short selling
- Clearing and settlement
- Central counterparty (CCP)
- Systemic risk
Insurance Law
Immigration & Asylum Law
- Visa
- Statelessness
- Short-stay permit
- Settlement permit
- Cross-border commuter permit
- Hardship case
- Removal order
- Entry ban
- Administrative detention
- Asylum application
- Refugee status
- Residence permit
- Temporary admission
- Safe third country
- Dublin transfer
- Ordinary naturalization
- Facilitated naturalization
- Citizenship / naturalization
- Deportation / removal
- Asylum seeker status
- Temporary protection
- Family reunification
- Border control
- Immigration detention
Health & Medical Law
- Informed consent
- Therapeutic products
- Medical devices
- Medical professional license
- Patient rights
- Advance directive
- Medical secrecy
- Mandatory reporting
- Research ethics committee
- Human research
- Genetic testing
- Medical malpractice
- Assisted reproduction
- Involuntary commitment
- Capacity to consent
- Substitute consent
- Bioethics
- Organ donation law
- End-of-life decisions
- Clinical trials regulation
- Public health orders
- Quarantine powers
- Pharmaceutical regulation
Energy & Natural Resources Law
Sports & Entertainment Law
Emerging & Interdisciplinary Law
Remedies & Enforcement
Debt Enforcement & Bankruptcy
- Debt enforcement
- Schedule of claims
- Collocation action
- Realization of assets
- Distribution schedule
- Loss certificate
- Composition proceedings
- Avoidance action
- Arrest of assets
- Pledge realization
- Enforcement against pledged property
- Debt collection request
- Action for recognition of debt
- Action for denial of debt
- Continuation request
- Wage seizure
- Bankruptcy threat
- Bankruptcy opening
- Bankruptcy estate
Civil Law General Concepts
- Capacity to act
- Name rights
- Beginning of legal personality
- End of legal personality
- Presumption of death
- Kinship
- Affinity
- Representation
- Power of attorney
- Apparent authority
- Ratification
- Domicile
- Good faith acquisition
- Prescription
- Peremption
- Forfeiture
- Personality rights
- Capacity of judgement
- Capacity to have rights
- Minority
- Majority
- Residence
- Civil status
Private International Law
Consumer Protection Law
Education Law
Cultural Heritage & Art Law
Telecommunications Law
Military and Security Law
Philosophical & Meta-Legal Concepts
Law of Obligations
- Freedom of contract
- Qualified written form
- Authentic deed
- Condition precedent
- Condition subsequent
- Time term in contract law
- Impossibility of performance
- Delay in performance
- Debtor default
- Creditor default
- Defective performance
- Consensus
- Warranty for defects
- Rescission
- Reduction of price
- Substitute performance
- Set-off
- Assignment of claim
- Assumption of debt
- Joint and several liability
- Solidary debtors
- Contract interpretation
- Essential terms
- Trust principle in contract interpretation
- Pre-contractual liability
- Unjust enrichment
- Restitution
- Management without mandate
- Specific performance
- Penalty clause
- Liquidated damages
- Force majeure
- Clausula rebus sic stantibus
- Error
- Novation
- Fraud
- Threat
- Simulation
- Form requirement
- Simple written form
Tenancy Law
- Lease agreement
- Defects in leased property
- Termination of lease
- Ordinary termination
- Extraordinary termination
- Termination protection in tenancy law
- Extension of lease
- Eviction
- Sublease
- Conciliation authority in tenancy matters
- Abuse in tenancy law
- Residential lease
- Indexed rent
- Graduated rent
- Reference interest rate
- Commercial lease
- Rent
- Ancillary costs
- Rent deposit
- Initial rent challenge
- Rent increase
- Rent reduction
Tort Law
- Negligence (civil)
- Gross negligence
- Natural causation
- Adequate causation
- Interruption of causation
- Damage calculation
- Loss of support
- Satisfaction
- Moral damages
- Liability for auxiliaries
- Building owner liability
- Duty of care
- Animal owner liability
- Motor vehicle liability
- Strict causal liability
- Breach of duty
- Causation
- Damages
- Defamation
- Product liability
- Unlawfulness
- Fault
Social Insurance Law