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Resolutions (Law)


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    • Declarations (Law)
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    • Resolves (Law)
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    • found: Work cat.: 2001336539: Organization of American States. General Assembly. List of resolutions and declarations approved by the General Assembly in its regular and special sessions, 1970-1999, 2000.
    • found: Organization of American States. General Assembly. Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh regular session, 1997?
    • found: Organization of American States. General Assembly. Regular Session (6th: 1976: Santiago, Chile). Proceedings, 1976:v. 1, t.p. (Certified texts of the resolutions)
    • found: Organization of American States website, June 20, 2013:Documents > Declarations and resolutions (separate links for General Assembly and Permanent Council declarations and resolutions)
    • found: United Nations. General Assembly. Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, 1950-1976.
    • found: Resolutions adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Economic Commission for Latin America, 1975.
    • found: Chŏng, In-sŏp. Korean questions in the United Nations : resolutions adopted at the principal organs of the United Nations with annotations, 1946-2001, c2002.
    • found: United Nations. Security Council. Resolutions and decisions of the Security Council, 2009/2010.
    • found: Security Council resolutions website, June 20, 2013(United Nations resolutions are formal expressions of the opinion or will of United Nations organs. They generally consist of two clearly defined sections: a preamble and an operative part. The preamble generally presents the considerations on the basis of which action is taken, an opinion expressed or a directive given. The operative part states the opinion of the organ or the action to be taken.)
    • found: Board of Trade Clearing Corporation (Wilmington, Del.). Charter, by-laws, and permanent resolutions of Board of Trade Clearing Corporation with amendments to June 1, 1933, 1933.
    • found: Salem Mill Dam Corporation. Report and resolutions of the directors of the Salem Mill-Dam Corporation presented Oct. 5, 1826, 1826?
    • found: International Finance Corporation. Board of Governors. Resolutions, 1960-
    • found: Drummond, I. Corporate resolutions, 1948.
    • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 9, 2013:Resolution (law) (A resolution is a written motion adopted by a deliberative body. The substance of the resolution can be anything that can normally be proposed as a motion. For long or important motions, though, it is often better to have them written out so that discussion is easier or so that it can be distributed outside of the body after its adoption. An alternate term for a resolution is a resolve. Resolutions are commonly used in corporations and houses of legislature. ... In corporations, a written resolution is especially useful in the case of the board of directors of a corporation, which usually needs to give its consent to real estate purchases or sales by the corporation. ... Houses of a legislature often adopt non-binding resolutions. However, a legislature also uses resolutions to exercise one of its binding powers that isn't a lawmaking power. For example, the United States Congress declares war or proposes constitutional amendments by adopting a joint resolution. A house of a legislature can also use a resolution to exercise its specific powers, as the British House of Commons does to elect its Speaker or as the United States House of Representatives does to impeach an officer of the government.)
    • found: Wikipedia, Apr. 29, 2013:United Nations resolution (A United Nations resolution (UN resolution) is a formal text adopted by a United Nations (UN) body. Although any UN body can issue resolutions, in practice most resolutions are issued by the Security Council or the General Assembly. Legal status: Most experts consider most General Assembly resolutions to be non-binding. Articles 10 and 14 of the UN Charter refer to General Assembly as "recommendations"; the recommendatory nature of General Assembly resolutions has repeatedly been stressed by the International Court of Justice. However, some General Assembly resolutions dealing with matters internal to the United Nations, such as budgetary decisions or instructions to lower-ranking organs, are clearly binding on their addressees. Under Article 25 of the Charter, UN member states are bound to carry out "decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter". Resolutions made under Chapter VII are considered binding, but resolutions under Chapter VI have no enforcement mechanisms and are generally considered to have no binding force under international law. In 1971, however, a majority of the then International Court of Justice (ICJ) members asserted in the non-binding Namibia advisory opinion that all UN Security Council resolutions are legally binding. This assertion by the ICJ has been countered by Erika De Wet and others. De Wet argues that Chapter VI resolutions cannot be binding. ... In practice, the Security Council does not consider its decisions outside Chapter VII to be binding. It has been proposed that a binding triad of conditions--a supermajority of the number of nations voting, whose populations and contributions in dues to the UN budget form a majority of the total--make a General Assembly resolution binding on all nations; the proposal has gone nowhere. Types: resolutions can be classified upon from which organ they originate, e.g.: United Nations General Assembly resolutions; United Nations Security Council resolutions)
    • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 9, 2013:Corporate resolution (A corporate resolution is a corporate action, sometimes in the form of a legal document, that will be voted on or has been voted on at a meeting of the board of directors for a corporation. The resolution could also be in the form of a "corporate action" which has the same binding effect as an action taken at a duly called meeting. For a corporate action, if allowed by state law and by the bylaws of the corporation, the board of directors may use a written document to waive formal notice of a meeting and unanimously consent to a resolution.)
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    • 2013-09-09: new
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