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illegal [5 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
DEF

Contrary to or unauthorized by law...

CONT

When applied to promises, agreements, or contracts, the term "unlawful" denotes that such agreements have no legal effect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho privado
OBS

ilegal: Término reproducido de Law Terminology con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 2 2011-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Population Movements
  • Citizenship and Immigration
DEF

A person not having proper documentation especially for immigration.

OBS

indocumentado: used in English, for Mexican illegal immigrants to the US; undocumented person: used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements de population
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
CONT

La longue marche des sans-papiers. La lutte continue pour ces irréguliers irréductibles.

OBS

personne sans papiers : employé par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Movimientos de población
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
DEF

Extranjero que carece de documentación alguna con la que poder acreditar su identidad y circunstancias personales.

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Record 3 2007-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
  • Intelligence (Military)
DEF

An agent operating within a target country with a cover that gives him or her the identity of another, innocent, person, and a way of life that is unlikely to draw the attention of the enemy counter-espionage service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
CONT

Cours martiales et exécutions d'espions se succédèrent, et frappèrent de crainte certains clandestins à l'âme moins ferme. Le célèbre clandestin soviétique William Fischer, alias colonel Rudolf Abel.

OBS

L'équivalent correct du terme «intelligence» est «renseignement» au singulier.

Key term(s)
  • officier du renseignement clandestin
  • officier clandestin du renseignement

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
Key term(s)
  • invalid

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
DEF

Contraire aux conventions d'un système donné.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
DEF

[Dícese] de un programa que ha intentado ejecutar una instrucción que no existe o violar el área del programa reservada para su verificación.

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Record 5 2003-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
CONT

These countries opposed these measures as illegal on the ground that they were taken without the consent of two permanent members of the Security Council - the USSR being absent and China being represented by a "Nationalist" government.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
CONT

La décision a été prise en l'absence de deux de ses membres permanent l'URSS et la Chine. (LPD, p. 1) le représentant du «Kuomingtan» n'a pas le droit de représenter la Chine au Conseil [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
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