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ACTUAL CONTRACT [45 records]

Record 1 2025-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
CONT

Class A estimates are pre-tender estimates, based on completed construction drawings and detailed specifications contained in tender documents. They are expected to be quite accurate, within 5-10% of the actual contract price.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

Obligation de dresser une estimation préalable à l'appel d'offres pour tous les contrats de plus de 100 000 $.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
CONT

Standing Offers. Standing Offers are used to meet recurring needs when departments or agencies repeatedly order the same goods or services. A request for standing offer(RFSO) is used to solicit standing offers. Suppliers who meet the evaluation criteria stated in the RFSO become pre-qualified suppliers and holders of standing offers. A standing offer is an offer from a potential supplier to provide goods and/or services at pre-arranged prices, under set terms and conditions, when and if required. It is not a contract until the government issues a "call-up" against the standing offer. The government is under no actual obligation to purchase until that time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

Offres à commandes. Les offres à commandes sont utilisées pour répondre à des besoins répétitifs dans les cas où les ministères et organismes commandent fréquemment les mêmes biens ou services. Une demande d'offre à commandes (DOC) est utilisée pour solliciter des offres à commandes. Les entreprises qui répondent aux critères d'évaluation énoncés dans la DOC sont les fournisseurs préqualifiés et ils sont détenteurs d'offres à commandes. Une offre à commandes est une offre déposée par un fournisseur éventuel qui propose de fournir, au besoin, des biens ou des services à des prix préétablis, selon des clauses et des conditions définies. Il n'y a pas de marché tant que le gouvernement ne passe pas une commande subséquente à l'offre à commandes. Le gouvernement n'est pas tenu d'acquérir tout bien ou service tant qu'une commande subséquente n'est pas passée.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
DEF

An examination of the contractor's records to : determine the actual time charged for carrying out the work in accordance with the terms of the contract; ensure that the amount of time thus determined was required in the performance of the work under the contract; and ascertain that the time charged reflects the performance of the work under the contract in an efficient and economical manner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
DEF

Examen du dossier de l'entrepreneur pour : déterminer le temps réel imputé pour l'exécution des travaux conformément aux modalités du contrat; s'assurer que le temps ainsi déterminé était nécessaire à l'exécution du contrat; établir si le temps imputé correspond à une exécution efficace et économique des travaux prévus au contrat.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Management Control
  • Federal Administration
CONT

The discretionary audit clause validates the actual costs incurred and profit earned in the contract and compares them to those originally estimated in the establishment of the firm price. Resulting decreases in actual costs and related excess profits realized by the contractor are then recovered by [the government of] Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Contrôle de gestion
  • Administration fédérale
CONT

La clause de vérification discrétionnaire valide les coûts réels engagés et le bénéfice réel réalisé dans le cadre du contrat et les compare aux coûts du bénéfice initialement estimés dans l'établissement du prix ferme. Le [gouvernement du] Canada recouvre les réductions des coûts réels et le bénéfice excessif afférent réalisé par l'entrepreneur.

Spanish

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Record 5 2024-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Prices
  • Government Contracts
CONT

7. 6. 6 Economic Price Adjustment. The prices and rates indicated in annex "B, "basis of payment, are subject to annual economic price adjustments, upwards or downwards, during the option period, to account for actual fluctuations in the economy during the term of the contract.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prix (Commercialisation)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

7.6.6 Ajustement économique du prix. Après la fin de chaque année du contrat, les prix et les taux indiqués à l'annexe «B», base de paiement, sont assujettis à un ajustement économique du prix annuel, à la hausse ou à la baisse, lors de la période facultative, afin de tenir compte des fluctuations réelles de l'économie lors de la durée du contrat.

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Government Contracts
  • Estimating (Construction)
DEF

A contract in which the contractor is paid profit on the basis of a fixed percentage of the actual cost of the work.

Key term(s)
  • cost plus percentage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Marchés publics
  • Évaluation et estimation (Construction)
CONT

Un troisième type de marché est celui dit de travaux sur dépenses contrôlées. L'entrepreneur est alors rémunéré sur la base de ses dépenses réelles et contrôlées en main-d'œuvre, matériaux, etc.; au montant de ces dépenses on applique des majorations en pourcentages pour tenir compte des frais généraux, des impôts et de la rémunération nette de l'entrepreneur.

Key term(s)
  • contrat de travaux sur dépenses contrôlées

Spanish

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Record 7 2016-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... express actual authority: words or conduct communicated by principal to agent.

OBS

In the Freeman case, Willmer L. J. differentiated express actual authority from implied actual authority, an instance of the latter occurring if the agent in question had been appointed by the company of which he was a director to some office which carried with it authority to make such a contract of the kind involved on behalf of the company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 8 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Transportation Insurance
OBS

Unless a different intention appears from the terms of the contract, and insurance against total loss includes a constructive total loss as well as an actual total loss.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Assurance transport
OBS

A moins que les conditions du contrat n'autorisent des conclusions différentes, l'assurance contre les pertes totales comprend tant celles qui sont réelles que celles qui sont implicites.

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

At common law a contract can be avoided if it was made under duress. At one time the common law concept of duress was a very narrow one. It was restricted to actual or threatened physical violence to, or unlawful constraint of, the person of the contracting party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

contrainte en common law : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 10 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A contract inferred from the conduct of parties or from some relationship existing between them. (Curzon, 2nd, po. 179)

CONT

In some cases a contract is said to be implied by law. Such an implied contract is really an obligation imposed by law independently of an actual agreement between the parties, and may be imposed notwithstanding an expressed intention by one of the parties to the contrary.(9 Hals., 4th, p. 88)

OBS

May be implied in law or in fact.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Générique par rapport à «contrat de droit» et «contrat tacite».

OBS

contrat implicite : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 11 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

Detrimental reliance is a term commonly used to force another to perform their obligations under a contract, using the theory of promissory estoppel. Promissory estoppel may apply when the following elements are proven : A promise was made-Relying on the promise was reasonable or foreseeable-there was actual and reasonable reliance on the promise...

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

créance désavantageuse : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 12 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

A contract inferred from the conduct of parties or from some relationship existing between them (Curzon, 1979, p. 163)

OBS

In some cases a contract is said to be implied by law. Such an implied contract is really an obligation imposed by law independently of an actual agreement between the parties, and may be imposed notwithstanding an expressed intention by one of the parties to the contrary.(9 Hals., 4th ed., p. 88)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

contrat tacite : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 13 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

Completing a transaction, particularly a contract for the sale of real estate, in execution of the contract. (Ballentine, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 211).

CONT

The actual closing process ... involves the exchange and examination of the deed and related closing documentation, as well as the delivery of the necessary funds ... In the land titles system, the transfer of title is effected by the completion of registration of the transfer document. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 1139).

CONT

Completion of a contract for the sale of land consists on the part of the vendor in conveying with a good title the estate contracted for in the land sold and delivering up the actual possession or enjoyment thereof; on the purchaser's part it lies in accepting such title, preparing and tendering a conveyance for the vendor's execution, accepting such conveyante, taking possession and paying the price.(Jowitt, p. 403)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Pour les formes verbales «complete» et «close» on pourra dire «clore» ou «clôturer».

OBS

clôture : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 14 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

An express contract is an actual agreement of the parties, the terms of which are openly uttered or declared at the time of making it, being stated in distinct and explicit language, either orally or in writing.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 292)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

contrat exprès : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 15 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

One of the parties to a contract may, before the time fixed for performance, say that he will not perform, or incapacitate himself from performing. Such conduct is sometimes called "anticipatory breach". The other party then has a choice. He can try to keep the contract alive by continuing to press for performance, in which case the anticipatory breach will have the same effects as an actual breach. Alternatively, he can "accept" the breach, in which case his rights to damages and rescission are governed by certain special rules...

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

accepter la violation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 16 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A consideration bearing no relation to the real value of the contract or article, as where a parcel of land is described in a deed as being sold for "one dollar", no actual consideration passing, or the real consideration being concealed.(Black, 6th, p. 307)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

contrepartie nominale : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 17 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Where a party fails to perform one of his obligations, that may be called actual breach; where he evinces an intention not to perform, that may be called anticipatory breach. Actual breach may take one of three forms. Non-performance is one form of breach. Suppose A, a shipowner, charters his ship to B, undertaking to have the ship at Liverpool for loading by a certain date. If A(perhaps because he has received a more profitable offer from C in Southampton) never takes his ship to Liverpool, that is a breach of contract by non-performance. Another form of actual breach is defective performance. If A attempts to get his ship to Liverpool, but arrives late, that is a breach of contract by defective performance. A third form of actual breach is the non-truth of a statement which is a term of the contract. If it is written into the contract that the ship is suitable for carrying motor-cars, and in fact it is not, that is a breach of contract.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

violation effective : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 18 2015-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Doctrine of Anticipatory Breach... One of the parties to a contract may, before the time fixed for performance, say that he will not perform, or incapacitate himself from performing. Such conduct is sometimes called "anticipatory breach. "The other party then has a choice. He can try to keep the contract alive by continuing to press for performance, in which case the anticipatory breach will have the same effects as an actual breach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 19 2015-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

In the Freeman case, Willmer LJ differentiated express actual authority from implied actual authority, an instance of the latter occurring if the agent... had been appointed by the company of which he was a director to some office which carried with it authority to make such a contract of the kind involved on behalf of the company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 20 2015-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
CONT

This Act, which must be regarded as the actual beginning of the modern rule as to the limitation of shipowners’ liability, referred only to British-owned vessels, and the limit of liability was the value of the ship and the freight which she was earning or was under contract to earn.(Roscoe, Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice of the High Court of Justice, 1931, p. 232).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho marítimo
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Record 21 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Foreign Trade
CONT

Delegations and shall be issued within 15 calendar days of contract award and the notification of acceptance should be received within 45 days after contract/sub-contract award to ensure prompt on site delegated agency safety and mission assurance performance.

OBS

If actual notification to the offeror of the fact of acceptance is a requisite, the answer should be that there is no contract.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 22 2013-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
DEF

... an offer from a potential supplier to provide goods and/or services at pre-arranged prices, under set terms and conditions, when and if required.

OBS

No contract exists until the Government issues an order or "call-up" against the standing offer, and there is no actual obligation by the Government to purchase until that time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

Une offre à commandes n'est pas un contrat. Il s'agit d'une offre d'un fournisseur éventuel qui vise à fournir, au besoin, des biens et des services à des prix convenus au préalable, conformément aux modalités prévues dans l'offre à commandes. Un contrat n'est conclu que lorsque le gouvernement passe une commande ou établit une commande subséquente à une offre à commandes. En outre, le gouvernement n'assume aucune obligation d'achat tant que la commande n'est pas passée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contratos gubernamentales
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Record 23 2013-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport
  • Sales (Marketing)
  • Negotiable Instruments (Commercial Law)
DEF

The right of the buyer to select the carrier to be used for shipment of goods when buyer pays freight charges ...

CONT

Buyer's right of routing. When the vendor does not pay freight costs, the purchaser has option of routing. When the vendor is to prepay freight, the purchaser's right to name the carrier must be exercised before actual shipment of goods and must be made a part of the contract of sale.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau
  • Vente
  • Effets de commerce (Droit)
DEF

Droit permettant à un acheteur de bénéficier de conditions avantageuses d'un fournisseur de services de transport sur les coûts d'expédition et d'affranchissement d'un colis ou d'un produit quelconque.

Spanish

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Record 24 2013-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

An offer once made is not revoked until the person to whom the offer is made is actually notified of the revocation thereof before he has accepted the offer. No formal notice of the revocation is necessary and a subsequent sale or contract for sale of the property to another party, the actual knowledge of the prior offeree, will constitute "a revocation" of the prior offer, but the mere recording of the deed, under a statute which makes the recording of a deed constructive notice to subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers, is not of itself notice of the revocation of an offer of sale made to a prior offeree.(91 C. J. S., p. 286)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Par extension métonymique, le terme désigne aussi le document consignant l'offre. Le syntagme verbal correspondant "offer for sale" peut se rendre en français par «offrir en vente».

OBS

offre de vente : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 25 2012-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

Notice of certain facts that may be discovered by diligence or inquiry into a public record; a legal presumption that a person is responsible for knowing these facts. The proper recording of a document gives constructive notice to the world of the document's existence and contents. Possession of property also imparts constructive notice of the rights of the party in possession. Examples of rights of parties in possession would be rights under an unrecorded deed, contract for deed, lease-option, and rights of adverse possession. Constructive notice is also referred to as legal notice, in contrast to actual notice, which is express or direct knowledge acquired in the course of a transaction.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 100).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

connaissance de droit : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 26 2011-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Private Law
CONT

The absolute nullity of a contract may be invoked by any person having a present and actual interest in doing so; it is invoked by the court of its own motion. A contract that is absolutely null may not be confirmed.

OBS

absolute nullity: A contract is absolutely null where the condition of formation sanctioned by its nullity is necessary for the protection of the general interest.

OBS

absolute nullity: Term, context and observation reproduced from sections 1417 and 1418 of the Civil Code of Québec.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit privé
CONT

La nullité absolue d'un contrat peut être invoquée par toute personne qui y a un intérêt né et actuel; le tribunal la soulève d'office. Le contrat frappé de nullité absolue n'est pas susceptible de confirmation.

OBS

nullité absolue : La nullité d'un contrat est absolue lorsque la condition de formation qu'elle sanctionne s'impose pour la protection de l'intérêt général.

OBS

nullité absolue : Terme, contexte et observation reproduits des articles 1417 et 1418 du Code civil du Québec.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
  • Derecho privado
CONT

La nulidad absoluta de un contrato podrá ser invocada por toda persona que tuviere un interés actual y real; el tribunal la invocará de oficio. El contrato declarado de nulidad absoluta no es susceptible de ser confirmado.

OBS

La nulidad de un contrato es absoluta cuando la condición de perfeccionamiento que ella sanciona se impone para la protección del interés general.

OBS

nulidad absoluta: Término, contexto y observación traducidos de los artículos 1417 y 1418 del Código Civil de Quebec. El C.C.Q. fue traducido según la versión de 1999-2000.

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Record 27 2011-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

A duty that is based only on one’s conscience and that is not legally enforceable; an obligation with a purely moral basis, as opposed to a legal one.

CONT

In contract law, moral obligation may support a promise in the absence of traditional consideration, but only if the promisor has previously received some actual benefit from the promisee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

Si l'attribution est faite en vertu d'une obligation imparfaite, elle n'est pas sans cause. Ces obligations existent même si le créancier ne peut en obtenir l'exécution. Si le débiteur l'exécute, sa prestation a une cause.

Spanish

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Record 28 2011-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Criminology
CONT

... a contract to kill a person is void, meaning that it is not legally enforceable. Any contract to commit an indictable offense is not enforceable. Furthermore, both the actual killer and the person who paid the killer can be found guilty of murder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Criminologie
DEF

Convention intervenue entre un tueur professionnel et un particulier ou un groupe criminalisé qui vise à commettre une infraction criminelle portant atteinte à la vie d'une autre personne.

CONT

Toutes les clauses qui ont pour but de déroger au droit sont illégales , par exemple le contrat de tueur à gages est illégal (exemple souvent cité dans les cours de droit).

OBS

L'expression «contrat de tueur à gages» peut être utilisée dans le cas où un tueur à gages serait engagé dans le but de commettre un homicide, moyennant une somme d'argent en contrepartie, sans se soucier des raisons qui motivent son crime.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho penal
  • Criminología
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Record 29 2010-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Grain Growing
CONT

Another concern with hedging is having a basis change(particularly widening) during the time between when you sold the contract and when you deliver the actual cash grain.

OBS

Term used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

Pour le grain de provende, la valeur doit être calculée en utilisant le coût des provendes utilisées pour remplacer toute perte de rendement; en conséquence, les valeurs utilisées peuvent être supérieures à celle du marché du grain au comptant.

OBS

Terme en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía agrícola
  • Cultivo de cereales
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Record 30 2010-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Government Contracts
CONT

The maximum-price contract, often placed non-competitively, sets a ceiling price; the final price is settled on the basis of actual cost plus an agreed profit.

CONT

for "guaranteed-maximum-price contract" : A cost-plus-fixed-fee contract or a cost-plus-percentage-fee contract which provides for a maximum total price of cost and fee, beyond which the owner need not pay (...) If the cost and fee together amount to less than the maximum price, the owner saves the difference. This type of contract may also provide for sharing of savings and excess cost.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

(...) il est possible de combiner marché à forfait et marché au métré. C'est le marché au maximum dans lequel les travaux doivent être payés au métré comme dans le marché du même nom, mais sans que le prix puisse excéder un certain chiffre, comme dans le marché à forfait.

Key term(s)
  • contrat au maximum

Spanish

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Record 31 2008-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The master may bring an action against any person who injures his servant, if he thus loses the services of his servant, and thereby suffers actual damage..., and the master has an action against any person who knowingly entices away a servant or harbours and detains him after having been apprised of the contract(of employment).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

détourner : Plus explicitement : détourner quelqu'un de ses devoirs, du bon chemin.

Spanish

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Record 32 2008-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Government Accounting
DEF

An obligation arising from an existing contract, agreement or legislative enactment or regulation that will become an actual liability upon the fulfillment of specified conditions.

PHR

Authorize, control, discharge, enter, enter into, honour, meet, record a commitment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Comptabilité publique
DEF

Promesse par laquelle une entité s'oblige, par contrat ou autrement, par exemple un contrat d'approvisionnement ou une commande, à conclure une opération.

OBS

En général, au Canada, les engagements ne sont pas inscrits dans les comptes, sauf dans le cas de certains organismes du secteur public, puisque la conclusion d'un contrat ou la passation ou la réception d'une commande n'est généralement pas considérée comme une opération achevée. Plutôt que de les faire figurer dans le bilan, les entités fournissent dans une note complémentaire une description sommaire des engagements importants par rapport à la situation financière actuelle ou à l'exploitation future de l'entité.

PHR

Autoriser, contrôler, consigner, prendre, contracter, remplir, respecter, acquitter, honorer, tenir, assumer, inscrire un engagement.

PHR

Se libérer, s'acquitter d'un engagement.

Spanish

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Record 33 2005-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Private Law
CONT

Actual authority is the authority which in fact the agent has been given by the principal under the agreement or contract which has been made between them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

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Record 34 2003-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management (General)
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining
DEF

A form of seniority whereby transfers or layoff under a contract are based on the actual length of service of the individual in his occupation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
  • Conventions collectives et négociations
DEF

Durée du service dans l'exercice de la même profession.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión del personal (Generalidades)
  • Convenios colectivos y negociaciones
OBS

Prioridad en el cargo de acuerdo con la antigüedad.

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Record 35 2003-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Urban Housing
  • Real Estate
DEF

Payment for the use of property as designated in a lease.

OBS

Used to establish the fact that the actual rent designated, or contract rent, may differ from market rent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
  • Immobilier
CONT

Le loyer contractuel correspond toujours aux conventions du bail alors que le loyer économique varie selon l'offre et la demande; ce dernier peut donc être égal, inférieur ou supérieur au loyer contractuel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Viviendas (Urbanismo)
  • Bienes raíces
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Record 36 2001-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy (Physics)
  • Real Estate
CONT

Accordingly, the Federal Government incurs no initial outlays, and pays the contractor annual amounts over a period of time specified in the contract, that will not exceed the actual energy savings generated, until the contractor's initial outlays are recovered.

Key term(s)
  • actual energy saving

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie (Physique)
  • Immobilier
CONT

En conséquence, le gouvernement fédéral n'a pas à engager de dépenses initiales, et il verse à l'entrepreneur, pendant une période précisée dans le contrat, des montants annuels ne dépassant pas les économies d'énergie réelles réalisées jusqu'à ce que les sorties de fonds initiales de l'entrepreneur aient été recouvrées.

Key term(s)
  • économie d'énergie réelle

Spanish

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Record 37 2001-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Forecasting of year end actuals : At the end of period 9(December 31) the contractor shall prepare a forecast of the total actual PMS costs expected for the entire contract year ending March 31. This forecast shall be provided to PWGSC [Public Works and Government Services Canada] no later than the fifteenth day of January. The forecast must be within two percent of the total actual costs for the contract year.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Ils se basent sur des apports quantitatifs.

Spanish

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Record 38 1998-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Rights and Concessions
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The basis for payment on drilling contracts when payment by the foot drilled is suspended(as when the drilling rig is used in taking extra cores, logging, or other activities that delay actual drilling). The compensation for use of the rig on daywork is usually agreed upon and included in the drilling contract.

CONT

... when chert is encountered in a drilling well, footage rates are no longer applicable and daywork rates become effective. Chert is very hard and difficult to drill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit minier
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Tarif qui s'applique dans un contrat de forage lorsque l'entrepreneur est payé par jour de travail au lieu d'être rémunéré par mètre foré.

Spanish

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Record 39 1997-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

An "express contract" is an actual agreement of the parties, the terms of which are openly uttered or declared at the time of making it, being stated in distinct and explicit language, either orally or in writing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

Source(s) : Alinéa a) de la définition du terme «emploi», par. 35(1) du Règlement sur l'assurance-emploi.

Spanish

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Record 40 1992-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

providing for calculation of payment for work done under contract by adding to actual cost either a fixed fee or a percentage of the cost as profit.(Webster).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

contrat selon lequel un entrepreneur recouvre les frais engagés pour exécuter le contrat plus une majoration convenue.

Spanish

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Record 41 1991-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

Price may be on actual, spot, cash commodities or on a futures contract.

OBS

Commodity: term normally used to describe raw materials, or semi-finished goods, such as wheat, coffee, pork bellies, copper, nickel, lumber, oil, cotton, rubber or tin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
OBS

Le terme denrée désigne une marchandise généralement destinée à l'alimentation (...)

OBS

Dans un sens restreint, le terme anglais «commodity» désigne un bien d'usage économique qui fait l'objet de spéculation.

Key term(s)
  • prix des matières premières

Spanish

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Record 42 1989-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Real Estate
CONT

Split Equity Contract similar to the en viager method used in France, involves the actual sale of the property by the homeowner. There is no mortgage. The homeowner retains the right to rent-free occupancy for a specified number of years or life. The purchase price would be determined by the expected future value of the property discounted by its rent-free use, interest, and the specific or expected time lapse before actual possession. This could be a life mortality consideration. The proceeds of the sale could be invested to yield income or, alternatively, used to buy a Life Annuity from an insurance company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Immobilier

Spanish

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Record 43 1987-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

When the seller does not pay freight charges, buyer has option of routing. When seller is to prepay the freight, the buyer's right to name the carrier must be made a part of the contract of sale; such right to be exercised before actual shipment of goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

Lorsque le fret n'est pas à la charge du vendeur, l'acheteur peut spécifier le transporteur de son choix. Dans le cas contraire, ce choix doit être précisé dans le contrat et exercé avant l'expédition des biens.

Spanish

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Record 44 1986-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Cost Accounting
DEF

A calculated amount, as distinguished from an actual outlay, based upon related cost experience, prevailing wages and prices, or anticipated future conditions, usually for the purposes of contract negotiation, budgetary or cost control, or a material item, project, job, contract, or function, or part thereof.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Comptabilité analytique
DEF

Montant, distinct des dépenses réelles, calculé en se fondant sur le prix de revient effectif dans un domaine connexe, sur les taux régnants de salaires et de prix ou sur les conditions prévues, ordinairement aux fins de négociation d'un contrat, de contrôle budgétaire ou de contrôle du coût, ou en vue d'un article de matériel, d'un projet, d'un ouvrage, d'un contrat ou d'une fonction, ou encore d'une partie de l'un d'eux.

Spanish

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Record 45 1982-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
OBS

The Property Valuation Condition of the Policy states that the contract is one of indemnity only, and is designed to pay for only the Actual Cash Value of any of the Insured's property damaged or destroyed by an Accident.

Key term(s)
  • property valuation condition of the policy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)
OBS

La condition évaluation des biens de la police indique que le contrat est un simple contrat d'indemnité qui est accordée pour payer seulement la valeur réelle en espèces des biens de l'assuré, endommagés ou détruits par un accident.

Spanish

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