Procès-verbal

Procès-verbal (French procès, process, Late Latin verbalis, from verbum, word) is a legal term with a number of meanings:

In law

In Francophone countries, such as France, the term procès-verbal is frequently abbreviated as "P.V.", and most commonly means a ticket or a fine issued by a police or other law enforcement officer. Despite the use of verbal in the term, a P.V. is often a paper ticket or citation; in this case verbal comes from Latin verbalis, where it means "relating to a word or words", and simply indicates the incident has been officially documented or written down.
In French, Belgian and Dutch law, a procès-verbal (Dutch: proces verbaal) is a detailed authenticated account drawn up by a magistrate, police officer, or other person having authority of acts or proceedings done in the exercise of his duty.
In a criminal charge, a procès-verbal is a statement of the facts of the case
Procès-verbal can also mean the written minutes of a meeting or assembly.
In Canada, a procès verbal d'infraction is a misdemeanor police citation or ticket.

In international law and diplomacy, a procès-verbal is the process of adopting corrections to the text of a treaty, by mutual agreement of the parties. As such it is a process of amendment, but is reserved for minor and non-controversial technical corrections that do not change the substance of the treaty.

1 2 3 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Procès-verbal". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 417.
↑ "Procès-verbal d'infraction" (in French). Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Retrieved 2018-10-22.

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