award

Award, originating in Latin adiudicatĭo, is the action and effect of adjudicating or being awarded (to appropriate something, obtain, conquer, declare that a thing corresponds to a person or organization).

The award is the judicial act which consists of the attribution of a thing (movable or immovable) to a person through a auction, tender or hereditary partition. The winner of the process, therefore, is awarded the property and becomes its owner or responsible. For example: "The concessionaire reported this morning the award of the cars that will be delivered during the month", "I want to be attentive to the awarding of tickets to see if we can travel next week".

In the case of proceeding to undertake the process of judicial adjudication of a specific property, it is important to make it clear that it is required to carry out the presentation of a series of documentation for it to be granted. Specifically, we would have to talk about the corresponding application, the registration background, a sketch, the proof of registration or the payment of the acquisition fee.

When we talk about inheritances and adjudication processes, it must be made clear and patent that the corresponding heir does not need to have any type of public deed before the notary to be able to adjudicate them.

For the Public administration, the award is a administrative act with various procedural formalities that consists of the assignment of a contract for the provision of services or acquisition of goods: "The government announced the award of the works to the company of the engineer López", "The mayor assured that the award will be defined in the next few days".

In this sense, we cannot ignore the fact that within the teaching field the term adjudication is also used with this meaning. And it is that when the course is about to begin it is usual for the corresponding public administration to be in charge of proceeding to undertake the adjudication acts by means of which the destinations corresponding to the different professors and teachers who do not yet have a fixed place in a population.

Within the educational field, and specifically with regard to the university area, it must be borne in mind that students who want to start a career in a specific faculty must know that there will be a process for awarding places. It will establish, for example, that among the criteria to determine which students will be integrated into it, both the marks obtained in the entrance exams and the established admission marks will be established.

For him international right, the award is the acquisition of the sovereignty on a certain territory based on the decision of a court or other competent body.

In everyday language, the notion of adjudicating is linked to getting something: "The Spanish tennis player won the trophy after beating the Italian in three sets", "The award of the Italian Cup is the main objective of the team for this season", "The golfer was one step away from winning the tournament".