The action or process of referring a case or dispute to the jurisdiction of another country.
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Finally, acceptance of GE's interpretation would give rise to an inconsistency between Alberta and Ontario statutory registration procedures and potentially create a renvoi.
- However, this first-degree renvoi allowed by Spanish law is not compulsory (the wording used is ‘it will be taken into account’).