acte clair
Noun. (legal) The doctrine, in European law, that cases involving a law with a reasonably obvious interpretation do not need to be referred to the (w, European Court of Justice) .This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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