reciprocity (res-[schwa]-pros-i-tee). 1. Mutual or bilateral action (the Arthurs stopped receiving social invitations from friends because of their lack of reciprocity). 2. The mutual concession of advantages or privileges for purposes of commercial or diplomatic relations (Texas and Louisiana grant reciprocity to each other’s citizens in qualifying for in-state tuition rates). — Also termed mutuality […]
reciprocity between states or nations 州际(或国际)互惠１在美国，指州与州的协议，允许一州的律师不经考试在另一州执业；２一州或一国承认依据另一州或另一国法律的权利，另一州或另一国也承认依据该州或该国法律的类似权利；３两国法院相互承认对方法院的判决。
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quid pro quo (kwid proh kwoh), n. [Latin “something for something”] An action or thing that is exchanged for another action or thing of more or less equal value; a substitute (the discount was given as a quid pro quo for the extra business). See RECIPROCITY(2). Cf. CONSIDERATION. [Cases: Contracts 50. C.J.S. Contracts § 87.]
Buenos Aires Convention. Copyright. A 1910 treaty regulating copyright reciprocity among Latin American nations and the United States. • Under this agreement, the phrase “all rights reserved” guaranteed copyright protection in member nations. Since all the Convention’s signatories are now signatories to more recent and broader international-copyright treaties, this Convention now has little if any
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universality. 1. Equality of applicability. 2. Copyright. A nation’s policy or practice of protecting an artist’s rights in his or her their creation irrespective of the creator’s nationality or where the work was created. • Universality, the most generous approach to international intellectual-property rights, is generally favored in countries that treat copyright as a moral
national treatment. Intellectual property. The policy or practice of a country that accords the citizens of other countries the same intellectual-property protection as it gives its own citizens, with no formal treaty of reciprocity required. • The principle of national treatment underlay the first international intellectual-property treaties in the 19th century, the Paris and Berne
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droit d’aubaine (drwah doh-ben), n. [Law French “right of alienage”] Hist. With certain exceptions, a sovereign’s right to a deceased alien’s property, regardless of whether the alien had a will. • This right was primarily exercised in France, where it was revived in some form by Napoleon after its initial abolishment in 1790. It was
droits civils (drwah see-veel), n. [French] French law. Private rights not connected to a person’s civil status. • Foreigners had certain rights that could be enforced when there was reciprocity with the foreigner’s home country.