Chilean Civil Code: Acts and Consent
Acts and Statements of Will
Article 1445
For a person to be bound by an act or declaration of will, it is necessary:
- To be legally capable.
- To consent to the act or declaration, with consent free from vices.
- To have a lawful object.
- To have a lawful cause.
Legal capacity is the ability to bind oneself without the need for another’s ministry or approval.
Article 1446
All persons are legally capable except those declared incapable by law.
Article 1447
The insane, prepubescent, and deaf individuals who cannot
Read MoreCivil Service Statute: Key Provisions and Regulations
TITLE I: KEY PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of the Act
This Act governs public employment relations between officials and public servants of the national, state, and city governments, encompassing:
- Leadership and management of the civil service and public careers.
- Personnel management, including human resource planning, recruitment, selection, admission, induction, training, development, career planning, merit evaluation, promotion, transfer, job classification, salary scales, permits, licensing, discipline,
Understanding Complex Vocabulary: Definitions and Insights
Colorful Vocabulary Insights
- Recant: Go back on, repudiate
- ABOCA (SE): Cast; provide; arrimar, engage
- ABRASIVES: Overheating
- Abruptly: Cliff, ordinary
- Absorbed: Shocked, stunned
- Abstruse: Incomprehensible, impenetrable
- Cur: Creeping, servile, despicable, disgusting, unworthy
- Access Road
- ACCESSORY: Ornamental
- Stalk: Monitor
- Refined: Debugging
- ACQUIS: Acid, violent
- Asiago: Funesto
- Acicate: Encouragement
- COLLECTION: Storage
- Acrimony: Acidity
- ACUSIAR: Pushing
- ADEPT: Adherent
- Garnish: Arrange
- ADMONITION: Blame
- ADUC: Impose
- Stern:
Understanding Agreements and Contracts in Civil Law
Agreements and Contracts
Article 990 – An agreement is the consent of two or more persons to create, transfer, modify, or extinguish obligations.
Article 991 – For a contract to be valid, it must meet:
I. Capacity of the contractors.
II. Mutual consent.
III. Lawful subject matter.
IV. Required legal formalities.
Contracting Capacity
Article 996 – All persons not exempt by law can contract.
Mutual Consent
Article 1000 – Consent can be express or implied. Express consent is verbal, written, or by unmistakable
Read MoreSpanish Organic Law of the State (1967): Franco’s Powers
Organic Law of the State (Spain, 1967)
Palabra: The supreme representative of the nation holds the national leadership of the Movement, enforces fundamental laws, appoints senior State officials, commands the armies, and ensures public order.
Comments: This legal primary source, a fragment of the Organic Law of the State (LOE) from January 10, 1967, outlines the powers of Spain’s Head of State, Franco. The LOE distinguished between the Head of State and the government. Under Franco’s totalitarian
Read MoreAppealing Court Resolutions: Procedure and Evidence
Procedure
I. Preparation: The appeal should be prepared before the same court that issued the resolution within 5 days. This is done through a letter stating the contested decision and the willingness to use the expression of the rulings being appealed.
After preparation, the resource can be properly or improperly prepared. Until May 2010, adequate preparation resulted in a decision. From May 2010, the clerk determines if the appeal is properly prepared.
If not properly prepared, an order shall be
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