Legal Definitions - dementenant en avant

dementenant en avant (də-men-tə-nahnt on ə-vahnt). [Law French] From this time forward.

Dementenant en avant is a legal term that means "from this time forward." It is a phrase that is used in legal documents to indicate that something will be effective from a certain point in time and will continue into the future.

• The new law will be in effect dementenant en avant the first of January.
• The contract will be terminated dementenant en avant the end of the month.

In the first example, the phrase "dementenant en avant" is used to indicate that the new law will be effective from the first of January and will continue into the future. In the second example, the phrase is used to indicate that the contract will be terminated from the end of the month and will not continue into the future.