agreement
Let an agent explain agreements, relay kinds, legal status and processes from legal and international relations sources in general terms, describe the kinds the registry aliases name, and distinguish agreements from treaties in the strict sense, contracts, memoranda of understanding and informal understandings, without personal legal advice.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What an agreement is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an agreement, and how does it differ from treaties, contracts, MOUs and informal understandings? definition
- Is the question general, or about a personal contract needing a lawyer? boundary
Kinds
Named kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are intergovernmental, bilateral, environmental and donor agreements, pacts and pactions? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Law Legal status.
Private
Private law.
Private
Private.
- What makes a contract binding, in general terms? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
International
International law.
International
International.
- How are international agreements negotiated, ratified and registered? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Practice Practice.
Negotiation
Negotiation.
Negotiation
Negotiation.
- How are agreements negotiated, in general terms? provenance
- Which entry fits negotiation? action
Aid
Donor agreements.
Aid
Aid.
- How do donor agreements govern funding and accountability? provenance
- Which entry fits development aid? action
Context Examples and history.
Examples
Notable agreements.
Examples
Examples.
- What are notable environmental and bilateral agreements? provenance
- Which entry fits Paris Agreement? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How have agreements between states developed since antiquity? provenance
- Which entry fits history of international law? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- intergovernmental agreement, pact, environmental treaty, paction, bilateral agreement, donor agreement, cultural agreement, deed of arrangement, Compacts of Basel, electoral agreement, development deal, Annex 8: Commission to Preserve National Monuments
What it is Filled
A negotiated arrangement between parties, from contracts between individuals and firms to international agreements between states, including bilateral agreements, intergovernmental agreements, pacts, environmental treaties and donor agreements between funders and recipients, with legal force depending on form and jurisdiction; paction is an archaic term for a pact.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain agreements, relay kinds, legal status and processes from legal and international relations sources in general terms, describe the kinds the registry aliases name, and distinguish agreements from treaties in the strict sense, contracts, memoranda of understanding and informal understandings, without personal legal advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Mutual consent
- Variable legal force
- Private and public
- Many forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give a person individual legal advice on an agreement they are party to.
- Present a non-binding instrument as binding, or the reverse.
- Enter into an agreement on someone's behalf without authority.
- Misstate the terms of an agreement.
Only with a human decision
- Signing, accepting or ending an agreement for someone.
May
- Explain kinds of agreements and whether they are binding, citing sources.
- Summarise the published text of an agreement with its parties and date.
Moral aspects Filled
- Agreements bind people's money, rights and future choices.
- Weaker parties are often pressed into agreements they do not understand.
Who is affected
- Parties to agreements
- People affected by international agreements
Owners Filled
Steward
The parties to each agreement; depositaries and registries hold official texts of treaties.
Master systems
- Treaty registries
- Contract and company registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q2006324 - registry parent class
related
- agreement - in registry terms, broader sense
- treaty
- contract
- memorandum of understanding
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.agreement
- Wikidata: Q321839 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321839)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- UN treaty registration: Article 102 UN Charter note
- Paris Agreement: 2015 year - environmental agreement
- paction: archaic word for pact note
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Negotiated arrangement between parties
- Intergovernmental agreement, pact, environmental treaty, paction, bilateral agreement, donor agreement
- Treaties are formal international instruments; contracts are private law; MOUs are often non-binding; understandings are informal
- Not a visible object; usually a written document.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinds
- relay legal status in general terms
- describe named kinds
- distinguish related instruments
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal legal advice
- Confusing binding and non-binding instruments
- Registry parent points to itself in a broader sense
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Contract law
- International law on treaties such as the Vienna Convention of 1969
Context of use required Filled
- Establishing mutual commitments.
- contracts
- bilateral and multilateral agreements
- intergovernmental agreements
- environmental treaties
- donor and funding agreements
- pacts and alliances
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q321839: agreement - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia (de): Abkommen - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should donor agreement be a separate primary entry?
- How should legal sources be linked?
- The registry parent agreement appears to duplicate this entry; should the hierarchy be reviewed?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q321839/spec.json