Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

vertiente pasiva /vertiente activa

English translation:

passive aspect / active aspect

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Spanish term

vertiente pasiva /vertiente activa

Spanish to English Law/Patents Law (general)
As in the following examples:

A partir de aquí podría encontrar justificación la distinción entre una vertiente pasiva y una vertiente activa de la legitimidad de dichos Tribunales.
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Un derecho a recibir información no como una vertiente pasiva del derecho a comunicar información, sino como un derecho distinto.
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Y es el reconocimiento específico de esta vertiente pasiva de la libertad de información el rasgo más destacable de la nueva concepción: la libertad de ...

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passive aspect / active aspect

Perhaps “vertiente pasiva” refers to freedom from interference of courts, while “vertiente activa” refers to the freedom to resort to courts in order to defend and assert one’s legal rights.

See:
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
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agree neilmac : Or "side"...
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agree Thomas Walker : I agree with your answer, but not with your Explanation. See my Reference post below.
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Reference:

El derecho de acceso a la información pública en la República del Ecuador

From 11.1 El derecho de la información, p.196:
"El acceso a la información posee dos vertientes, el derecho a comunicar y el derecho a recibir información.
En su vertiente activa de comunicar información, comprende el derecho del emisor a comunicar o no la información; mientras que en la vertiente pasiva, esto es la de recibir información, se concreta al obtenerla de manera libre y veraz.
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