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What does renvoi mean?

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  1. (law) A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum, based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum.
  2. cross-reference in text; A sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text.
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Finally, acceptance of GE's interpretation would give rise to an inconsistency between Alberta and Ontario statutory registration procedures and potentially create a renvoi.
This game of jurisdictional ping-pong is prevented by the doctrine of renvoi, which stops the game after one round if the country applies single renvoi.
However, this first-degree renvoi allowed by Spanish law is not compulsory.

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