predecessor State definition
Examples of predecessor State in a sentence
However, where the date of independence of the successor State is earlier than the date of the day following the last day of the existence of the predecessor State, the successor State may declare that the said period starts on the date of its independence; such a declaration shall be made together with the declaration referred to in paragraph (a) and shall specify the date of independence.
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Purchase Agreement.
The Articles on the Succession of States in respect of Treaties are designed to resolve disputes over treaty obligations concluded by a predecessor State when a new State makes its appearance.
The Bidder shall disclose whether it, or any of its members, shareholders of 5% or more, parents, affiliates, or subsidiaries, have been the subject of any investigation or disciplinary action by the New York State Commission on Public Integrity or its predecessor State entities (collectively, “Commission”), and if so, a brief description must be included indicating how any matter before the Commission was resolved or whether it remains unresolved.
Namibia, for example, highlighted that, upon independence, former colonies found themselves “saddled with treaties to which they had been neither party nor privy, concluded by the predecessor State with one or more States, which regulated the use of the territory of the successor State, thereby denying it the full exercise of its sovereignty.”403 Similarly, Guyana 396 Id. at 118.
Mozambique, as a former Portuguese colony, fully corresponds to the definition in terms of which ‘a successor State the territory of which immediately before the succession was a dependent territory for the international relations of which the predecessor State (Portugal) was 13In 2011/2012 an agreement was entered into for the sale of more 7,5% of the HCB shares to Mozambique.