Out of matter politico-nun, a legal settlement (of the Latin medieval concordatum , “agreement, treaty”) is a treaty signed between a State and the the Holy See (or between the king and the pope for modern Europe) with an aim of organizing the activities of the Roman Catholic church in the country signatory (or certificated ). According to the political situation of the country, and the state of its relations with the the Vatican, the legal settlement can comprise liberal clauses and others more restrictive.

Out of economic material, one also speaks about legal settlement for a company. When this one is in difficulty, one can under certain conditions of granting one period to him to be rectified.

In Swiss right, a legal settlement is an agreement concluded between several cantons to legislate on a regional plan in a given field. Example: the Legal settlement of October 18th, 1996 on the companies of safety.

List legal settlements

• Legal settlement of Worms (1122), putting fine at the Quarrel Nominations;

• with the France :
• the Legal settlement of Bologna under François I {{er}};
• the legal settlement of 1801;
• the Legal settlement of June 11th, 1817, ever come into effect;
• with Haiti : legal settlement of the March 28th 1860;
• with the Italy : Agreements of Lateran of February 11th, 1929;
• with the Austria : legal settlement of the June 5th 1933;
• with the Germany : Legal settlement of July 20th, 1933, various legal settlements with the Länder ;
• with the Portugal : legal settlement of the May 7th 1940;
• with the pro-Franco Spain : legal settlement of August 27th, 1953;
• with the Colombia : legal settlement of the July 12th 1973;
• with Israel in 1993;
• with the PLO in 2000
• with the Russia tsarist

To these agreements bearing the official name of legal settlements agreements are added on precise points. Thus, Italy signed the May 23rd 1932 a convention on the veneration of the tomb of Antoine de Padoue; Portugal signed the July 18th 1950 an agreement on the episcopal sees in old colonial territory.