Table of Articles
Brussels
Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
Title IV
- Authentic Instruments and Court Settlements
Art. 50
Recognition and enforcement of judgments - Definition of 'judgment' - Scope - Court settlement - Excluded
- N° 1994/4
Recognition and enforcement of judgments - Grounds for refusal - Strict interpretation - Judgment irreconcilable with a judgment given in the State in which recognition is sought - Treatment of a court settlement reached in the State in which recognition is sought as a judgment given by a court of that State - Excluded
- N° 1994/4
Enforcement order of the authentic instruments - German instrument containing an acknowledgment of paternity and a commitment to pay maintenance - Documents to produce - Enforceable copy of the document satisfying the requirements set out in the Convention
- N° 1994/22
Authentic instruments - Notion of "authentic instrument" within the meaning of Article 50 of the Convention - Promissory note under Danish law that can serve as the basis for enforcement and drawn up without the involvement of a public official ("Gældsbrev")
- N° 1998/5
Authentic acts - Purpose of enforcement proceedings of such an act - Availability for the creditor of the same enforcement proceedings as for judicial decisions - Nature of the jurisdiction of the courts of the State addressed - Jurisdiction to enforce of rights established in another Contracting State but not to determine rights of the parties - Judicial injunction (Mareva injunction), ordered by an English court in support of rights established in another Contracting State - Injunction limited, except in exceptional cases, to assets situated in England
- N° 1998/32
Enforcement of documents formally drawn up or registered as authentic instruments in a Contracting State - Concept of "authentic instruments" - Instrument drawn up without the involvement of a competent authority - Exclusion
- N° 1999/6
