19.01 This chapter is concerned with the enforcement (there is no provision for recognition) of two special kinds of legal instruments: authentic instruments and court settlements.1 Neither instrument is found in English law, the terms authentic instrument and court settlement being the best that translators have been able to come up with for the French terms, acte authentique2 and transaction judiciaire.3 They are not judgments, but they may be enforced as if they were judgments. 19.02 Authentic instruments are unknown in the common-law EU States (Cyprus and...
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