An entrenched clause whose intent is to prevent subsequent amendments, will, once it is adopted, and provided that it is correctly drafted, make some portion of a basic law or constitution irrevocable except through the assertion of the right of revolution.

By contrast, a right is an inherent, irrevocable entitlement held by all citizens or all human beings from the moment of birth.

Assignments made for consideration are irrevocable, meaning that the assignor permanently gives up the legal right to take back the assignment once it has been made.

" You grant Opobox a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free right to ( a ) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat Your Information in any media now known or not currently known ..."

Approved contributions would be credited, though contributing automatically grants Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. perpetual, irrevocable license to those contributions.

Another example is the legal infrastructure which allows life insurance to be held in an irrevocable trust which is used to pay an estate tax while the proceeds themselves are immune from the estate tax.

However, dealing between merchants, an offer can be made ' firm ' or irrevocable for a certain period of time.

In contrast to a revocable trust, an irrevocable trust is one in which the terms of the trust cannot be amended or revised until the terms or purposes of the trust have been completed.

Although in rare cases, a court may change the terms of the trust due to unexpected changes in circumstances that make the trust uneconomical or unwieldy to administer, under normal circumstances an irrevocable trust may not be changed by the trustee or the beneficiaries of the trust.

Roth contributions are irrevocable and cannot be converted to pre-tax contributions at a later date.

Spock's death was intended to be irrevocable, but Nimoy had such a positive experience during filming that he asked if he could find a way for Spock to return in a later film.

Almost all letters of credit are irrevocable, i. e., cannot be amended or canceled without prior agreement of the beneficiary, the issuing bank and the confirming bank, if any.

They argued in the Request that through the MTA and JDC, " the UnitedLinux members agreed that each member would have an irrevocable, perpetual, and worldwide license to use and unlimitedly exploit any intellectual property rights of the other members in the UnitedLinux Software, which would be transferred to the LLC for this very purpose.

This emphasized the fact that currency boards are not irrevocable, and hence may be abandoned in the face of speculation by foreign exchange traders.

On this subject, David Yaffe stated the RCG's position that " no anti-imperialist or socialist movement can be built unless the British left makes a fundamental and irrevocable break with the British Labour Party.

" This was especially true because the written plea agreement included the warning that it would be irrevocable, and it had been read to him in Spanish.

In reply to the argument of his opponents that Nicholas III's bull Exiit qui seminat was fixed and irrevocable, John XXII issued the bull Quia quorundam of 10 November 1324, in which he declared that it cannot be inferred from the words of the 1279 bull that Christ and the apostles had nothing, adding: " Indeed, it can be inferred rather that the Gospel life lived by Christ and the Apostles did not exclude some possessions in common, since living ' without property ' does not require that those living thus should have nothing in common.

Almost all letters of credit are irrevocable, i. e., cannot be amended or canceled without the consent of the beneficiary, issuing bank, and confirming bank, if any.

An LC can be irrevocable or revocable.

An irrevocable LC cannot be changed unless both buyer and seller agree.

Its final goal, however, must be the irrevocable removal of the Jews themselves.

The gift is to be received over a period of twenty years from an irrevocable charitable lead trust and is the single largest gift to an existing private school in U. S. history.

For this reason, the trust vehicle is used to own the life insurance policy and it must be irrevocable to avoid inclusion in the estate.

In essence it is an agreement that subject to a safe word or other restrictions, and reasonable care and commonsense, consent ( within defined limits ) will be given in advance and with the intent of being irrevocable under normal circumstances, at times without foreknowledge of the exact actions planned.

The SCNC was born in Bamenda in 1994, after the All Anglophone Conference ( AAC2 ) issued the Bamenda " Declaration " in which it had asked the government of President Paul Biya to respond to all anglophone grievances stated in the Buea Declaration of 1993 or face the wrath of the people of the Southern Cameroons. The Cameroon government failed to respond to the Bamenda Declaration and since then, the SCNC has categorically maintained that it now considers the restoration of the independence of the Southern Cameroons to be final and irrevocable.

* the intention to benefit must generally be irrevocable, though a life insurance policy is an exception ;

To be enforceable, a ius quaesitum tertio must be irrevocable.

Blaze later appears to Eddie Bloomberg, who had recently lost his Neron-spawned powers, and offers him a new contract, with his demonic powers now irrevocable, but with the same price of servitude as Neron's contract.

Whatever the declaration, most scholars ( those of the Hanafi, Shafi ' i, some of the Hambali and the Imami Shi ' i schools ) hold that it is not binding and irrevocable until actually delivered to the beneficiaries or put in their use.

Unless the power of attorney has been made irrevocable by its own terms or by some legal principle, the grantor may revoke the power of attorney by telling the attorney-in-fact it is revoked.

In some passages, she is also known as a demon of irrevocable curses.

In Catholicism, the Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of " the fall of the angels " not in spatial terms but as a radical and irrevocable rejection of God and his reign by some angels who, though created as good beings, freely chose evil, their sin being unforgivable because of the irrevocable character of their choice, not because of any defect in the infinite divine mercy.

There are a range of systems specifying the requisite formalities to complete an irrevocable divorce, i. e., whether some period of time must elapse between each pronouncement of talaq, whether there must be mediation, or the need for witnesses.

To qualify for irrevocable debt relief, countries must also maintain macroeconomic stability and implement a Poverty Reduction Strategy satisfactorily for at least one year.

The advantages and disadvantages of these two types of charting, bar charting and point and figure charting, remain the subject of fairly good-natured litigation among their respective professional advocates, with both methods enjoying in common, one irrevocable merit.

IBM maintains that their license was irrevocable, and continued to sell and support the product until the litigation was adjudicated.

The split became irrevocable when Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child Jiddu Krishnamurti as the reincarnated Christ.

On reaching 21 ( including soft 21 ), the hand is normally required to stand ; busting is an irrevocable loss and the players ' wagers are immediately forfeited to the house.

On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

" Carr argued that the Soviet Union's replacement of Foreign Minister Litvinov with Molotov on May 3, 1939 indicated not an irrevocable shift towards alignment with Germany, but rather was Stalin ’ s way of engaging in hard bargaining with the British and the French by appointing a proverbial hard man, namely Molotov, to the Foreign Commissariat.

And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS.

The surrender ... we have made is not irrevocable.

Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction ( MAD ), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender, becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.

Originally, the clock analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war ; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate-changing technologies and " new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.

The Edict remained unaltered in effect, registered by the parliaments as " fundamental and irrevocable law ," with the exception of the brevets, which had been granted for a period of eight years, and were renewed by Henry in 1606 and in 1611 by Marie de Médecis, who confirmed the Edict within a week of the assassination of Henry, stilling Protestant fears of another St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

One can also distribute one's assets to charitable purposes by creating an irrevocable charitable trust that may distribute the principal or the income of the trust much in the same manner as a private foundation.