| 释义 |
‖ travaux préparatoires, n. pl. Law.|travo preparatwar|
[Fr., lit. ‘preparatory works’.]
Drafts, records of discussions, etc., pertaining to legislation or a treaty under consideration (see quot. 1980).
1935Harvard Law Rev. Feb. 562 French courts exhibited the tendency to limit recourse to travaux preparatoires. 1957H. F. Jolowicz Roman Foundations Mod. Law ii. 16 No text appears to deal with travaux préparatoires, but it is in accordance with the civilian tradition that resort to drafts, speeches in Parliament, and similar evidence is usually allowed more widely on the Continent than in England. 1962Listener 15 Mar. 456/1, I am thinking about our rule which excludes the so-called travaux preparatoires; that is to say, statements made in negotiation, prior to the treaty, which might throw light on its meaning. 1980Oxf. Compan. Law 1231/1 Travaux préparatoires, materials used in the preparation of, and having formative effect on, the ultimately adopted form of an agreement, or legislation, or an international treaty. Such materials include, in the domestic sphere, reports, proposals and technical advice, in the legislative sphere, Select Committee or Royal Commission or other reports, academic studies, Green Papers, White Papers, and the like, and in the international sphere reports of expert committees, discussions and proposals, drafts, and the like. |