Representation - Law

Law

  • Representation (politics), one's ability to influence the political process
    • Representative democracy
    • (Permanent) Representation, a type of diplomatic mission
    • Representation of the International NGO – the representative office of the INGO mission
  • Legal representation or advocacy is provided by lawyers
  • Lobbying for a group of individuals or companies
  • In unionised workplaces, shop stewards and union executives can represent employees
  • The legal status of a statement made with regards to contract law
  • A fiction of the law which causes a person to enter into another's right of succession, called 'representation,' and also called 'substitution'.

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Famous quotes containing the word law:

    Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Since you were so thankfully confused
    By law with someone else, you cannot be
    Semantically the same as that young beauty:
    It was of her that these two words were used.
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    Escalus. What do you think of the trade, Pompey? Is it a lawful trade?
    Pompey. If the law would allow it, sir.
    Escalus. But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall not be allowed in Vienna.
    Pompey. Does your worship mean to geld and spay all the youth of the city?
    Escalus. No, Pompey.
    Pompey. Truly, sir, in my poor opinion they will to’t then. If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)