bem indisponível

English translation: inalienable right

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Portuguese term or phrase:	bem indisponível
English translation:	inalienable right
Entered by:	Barbara Cochran, MFA

19:30 Mar 25, 2022

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Medical - Medical (general) / Medical ethics and religion

Portuguese term or phrase: bem indisponível

Segundo a ordem jurídica brasileira contida na Constituição Federal de 1988, a vida é um bem indisponível. (sem mais contexto).

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life is an inalienable right

Explanation:
That's what we call it here in the US, as put forth in the United States Constitution. Every citizen, according to the Constitution, has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 07:07

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4 +3

life is an inalienable right

Barbara Cochran, MFA

4 +1

indisposable right

Oliver Simões

inviolability of the right to life

liz askew

inalienable good

Nelson Soares

Summary of reference entries provided

Diretos inalienáveis vs. Direitos indisponíveis

Oliver Simões

Discussion entries: 6

Muriel Vasconcellos

United States

@Oliver

04:49 Mar 26, 2022

Ahh, but Merriam-Webster unabridged is the gold standard. In the international organizations where I worked as a translator and editor, we couldn't use a word if it wasn't listed in M-W.

Oliver Simões

United States

Indisposable

04:15 Mar 26, 2022

It is listed in several other sources:
YourDictionary.com: https://www.yourdictionary.com/indisposable
Definitions.org: https://definition.org/define/indisposable/
Collins: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/submission/9828/indispo...
WordSense: https://www.wordsense.eu/indisposable/
Indisposable Concept: https://indisposableconcept.com/
Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indisposable

And last but not least, the links to a couple of Google Books and to "The Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook" (2017-2018) that I provided earlier.

Muriel Vasconcellos

United States

Indisposable

03:04 Mar 26, 2022

I looked it up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the standard for US English, and the word is not listed.

Muriel Vasconcellos

United States

@Oliver

01:30 Mar 26, 2022

The references I found to 'indisposable' were either from the 1800s or translations. It doesn't appear to be term used in contemporary Anglo-Saxon law.

Oliver Simões

United States

Muriel,

23:46 Mar 25, 2022

This speech from 1895 might shed some light. The guy is talking about the foundations on which the United States was built: "Its foundation is equality before the law. Its corner-stone is the absolute and indisposable right of the citizen to his life and liberty." https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_and_Revised_C...

I wonder if "indisposable" is one of those concepts that may have been lost over time. I found other instances, although not related to the right to life:

indisposable right
- pertaining to property habitable: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Treatise_on_Homestead...

- related to rent indexation in a court ruling:
https://f.datasrvr.com/fr1/018/76508/BakerMcKenzie_IAY_2017-...

Muriel Vasconcellos

United States

Wondering...

22:01 Mar 25, 2022

It may be that Anglo-Saxon law doesn't make this distinction and that therefore 'inalienable' covers both.

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4 mins confidence:

inalienable good

Explanation:
Sugestão.

Nelson Soares
Brazil
Local time: 08:07
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

life is an inalienable right

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 07:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

32 mins confidence:

inviolability of the right to life

Explanation:

united nations - OHCHR
http://docstore.ohchr.org › SelfServices › FilesHandler
The 1988 Brazilian Constitution represented a legal milestone in the ... aliens the inviolability of their right to life and personal safety and prohibits, ...

1966 COVgjsiANT ON ClVlk'ANJD POLITICAL RIGHTS
https://docstore.ohchr.org › FilesHandler
DOC

s) The approval of Federal Law no. ... Article 5 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution ensures the inviolability of the right to life.

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The Constitution of Brazil - Bloomsbury Professional
https://media.bloomsburyprofessional.com › files
PDF
by VA da Silva · 2019 — The Bill of Rights of Brazil ' s 1988 Constitution is quite lengthy. The ... Art 5 guarantees the inviolability of the rights to life, liberty,.

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:07
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English
PRO pts in category: 613

49 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

indisposable right

Explanation:
Apparently, according to the Brazilian Constitution, the two words (inalienável, indisponível) don't overlap, they appear side by side. See https://www.google.com/search?q="inalienável e indisponível"...

I just posted a reference re. "direitos inalienáveis" vs. "direitos indisponíveis".

Example Sentences

The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 provides Brazil's indigenous peoples with “inalienable and indisposable” rights to their homelands, including control over water bodies, rivers, and subsoil resources.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033221...

Other examples: https://www.google.com/search?q="indisposable right"

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Stating the obvious:
indisposable: (adj) that which cannot be disposed of
See disposable: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/disp...

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Archbishop to UN: "life is not at anyone's disposal"

... "In the same manner that the right to life cannot be disposed of at will, the right to religious freedom cannot be subject to human caprice." (emphasis added)

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10839/archbishop-to-...

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In my view, it's not coincidental that the right to life was deemed as a "bem indisponível" Brazil's Constitution of 1988:

"On February 11, 1985, St John Paul II founded the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. In 1994, this Pontifical Council issued the first Charter for Health Care Worker. Taking into account, on one hand, the rapid advances in science, biotechnology and biomedicine, and, on the other, the new documents on the matter from the magisterium of the Church, the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance issued in 2016 an updated and expanded New Charter for Health Care Workers. (...)

SECOND PART: LIVING. It is the longest part (nos. 40-143, pp. 37-101). Sub-titles: Human life inviolable and ‘indisposable,’ Abortion and the destruction of nascent life, Embryo reduction, Interception and contragestation, Ectopic pregnancies, Anencephalic fetuses..." (emphasis added) https://www.oclarim.com.mo/en/2018/05/18/for-ministers-of-li...

This paper examines the role of the Catholic Church in the Brazilian National Constituent Assembly 1987-1988: https://www.scielo.br/j/pp/a/zsrJVpLTTkQCJHvjkrqyJnG/?lang=p...

Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 04:07
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 76

Reference comments

38 mins peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: Diretos inalienáveis vs. Direitos indisponíveis

Reference information:
Direitos Indisponíveis
As pessoas não podem dispor dos direitos da personalidade. Os direitos da personalidade são extrapatrimoniais (não têm valor econômico). A indisponibilidade também é relativa, pois o Código Civil prevê possibilidades de disposição dos direitos da personalidade.

Como, por exemplo, a possibilidade de disposição do próprio corpo – de forma gratuita - para fins de transplantes ou fins de pesquisa.

Direitos Inalienáveis
Não podem ser objeto de cessão gratuita ou onerosa. Nesse sentido, os direitos da personalidade são inalienáveis, incessíveis e intransacionáveis.

https://trilhante.com.br/trilha/direito-civil-parte-geral/cu...

Oliver Simões
United States
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 76

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