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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Immunity

Andrzej Jackiewicz, Artur Olechno

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
March 2018

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Comparative constitutional law — Political accountability

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. The term immunity comes from the Latin word immunitas which means freeing from burdens. In constitutional law, immunity consists in restriction of legal responsibility due to the function performed (eg a parliamentary mandate) or, in other words, in exemption of a person who enjoys immunity from universally binding legal norms to the extent specified in the content of the immunity. There are two types of immunity: material (non-accountability) and formal (non-violability). 2. Non-accountability consists in exclusion of illegality of or punishment for specific...
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