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Record 1 2024-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
CONT

By way of example, consider the defence of provocation set out in section 232 of the Criminal Code. The defence of provocation reduces culpable homicide that would otherwise be murder to manslaughter, provided that "the person who committed it did so in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation. "

Key term(s)
  • defense of provocation
  • provocation defense

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
CONT

Pour pouvoir bénéficier de la défense de provocation, l'accusé doit être en mesure d'établir que la victime a proféré une insulte ou un acte injuste tellement grave qu'une personne ordinaire, placée dans les mêmes circonstances que lui, aurait perdu la maitrise d'elle-même et aurait été poussée au meurtre. Il doit aussi avoir tué dans un accès de colère, sous l'impulsion du moment et avant d'avoir eu le temps de reprendre son sang-froid.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Laws and Legal Documents
  • Military Law
DEF

[A] confession of culpable conduct made secretly and in confidence by a person to a clergyman or priest in the course of the discipline or practice of the church or religious denomination or organization of which the person making the penitential communication is a member.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois et documents juridiques fédéraux
  • Droit militaire
DEF

[Aveu] d'une conduite coupable fait secrètement et confidentiellement par une personne à un pasteur ou à un prêtre dans le cours de la discipline ou de la pratique de l'église ou de la confession ou organisation religieuse dont est membre la personne faisant la communication en confession.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-07-22

English

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

A composite liability was imposed in a recent case on an organization for the acts of several servants, none of whom individually could be proved culpable. The defendant's buyer made a misrepresentation in reliance on information supplied to him by the accountant based on inadequate data. The latter was not liable because he had made no representation to the plaintiff, nor was the former because he was not negligent in passing it on. Yet their firm was held responsible, not vicariously, but presumably for breach of its personal duty of care.

French

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

Responsabilité attribuée à un groupe, mais non aux individus qui le composent.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-10-29

English

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

For long, the arbitrary principle prevailed that if, after the defendant's default, there intervened the culpable act of a third person, the "last human wrongdoer" was alone answerable for the plaintiff's injury.

French

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

ultime transgresseur; ultime transgresseuse : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-10-26

English

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

On this record we must assume that the design of the rear suspension was a cause of the accident, and a culpable cause if the design was defective.

French

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

La conclusion qu'il y a eu homicide ou cause blâmable de décès est donc cruciale pour pouvoir parler d'identité ou d'état d'esprit.

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Courses
  • Training of Personnel
Universal entry(ies)
G132
classification system code, see observation
OBS

This course examines a range of practical tools, skills and techniques, designed to help managers carry out positive employee performance management, as well as options for addressing culpable and non-culpable performance issues.

OBS

G132: a Canada School of Public Service course code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de cours
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
G132
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Ce cours présente divers outils, compétences et techniques pratiques qui aideront les gestionnaires à gérer le rendement de leurs employés de façon positive, et il propose des moyens pour corriger les comportements coupables et non coupables.

OBS

G132 : code de cours de l'École de la fonction publique du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
DEF

A lesser offence which is part of another greater or more serious offence and is established by proof of the same or fewer facts, or a less culpable mental state, or both, than that which is required to establish the offence charged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
DEF

Infraction moindre qui s'inscrit dans une autre infraction plus complexe ou plus grave, et dont la preuve réside dans les mêmes faits ou une partie des mêmes faits, ou encore un élément moral moindre que l'autre infraction.

Spanish

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Record 8 2012-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
CONT

Prosecution of a corporation is not a substitute for the prosecution of criminally culpable individuals within or without the corporation. Because a corporation can act only through individuals, imposition of individual criminal liability may provide the strongest deterrent against future corporate wrongdoing.

CONT

In the prosecution of a corporation for an offence under this section, it is sufficient proof of the offence to establish that it was committed by an employee or agent of the corporation, whether or not the employee or agent is identified, unless the corporation establishes that the corporation exercised due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
CONT

Dans la poursuite d'une personne morale pour infraction au présent article, il suffit d'établir que l'infraction a été commise par un employé ou un mandataire de la personne morale, que l'employé ou le mandataire soit identifié ou non, sauf si la personne morale établit qu'elle a fait preuve de toute la diligence voulue pour empêcher la perpétration de l'infraction.

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

All crimes have several basic elements. First, the defendant must have committed a voluntary act("actus reus")... Secondly, a defendant must have a culpable intent("mens rea"). Mens rea represents the requirement that a person possess a "culpable state of mind" to be punished for a crime...

OBS

mens rea: a guilty mind. Although as a general rule there must be a mind at fault before there can be a crime, it is not an inflexible rule, and a statute may relate to such a subject-matter and may be so framed as to make an act criminal whether there has been an intention to break the law or otherwise do wrong or not.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Infractions et crimes
DEF

État psychologique [...] faute intentionnelle), de celui qui commet volontairement un fait qu'il sait prohibé, élément que la loi exige (not. dans presque tous les crimes) pour que l'infraction soit constituée.

OBS

L'intention coupable est un élément essentiel dans la plupart des crimes et des infractions.

Key term(s)
  • dessein criminel

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho penal
  • Infracciones y crímenes
DEF

mens rea : Dolo penal. Elemento fundamental de toda responsabilidad del orden criminoso, que está integrada por la voluntad de ejecutar el hecho y la conciencia de lo que se ejecuta.

OBS

intención dolosa y mens rea: Expresiones y definición reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 10 2011-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

Culpable homicide that is not murder or infanticide is manslaughter.

OBS

Term used in the Criminal Code.

OBS

Generally unlawful homicide which cannot be classified as murder, as where X kills Y as a result of grossly negligent conduct.

OBS

May be classified as (1) voluntary, manslaughter because the accused succesfully pleads diminished responsibility or provocation; (2) involuntary, as where the actus reus of homicide is unaccompanied by malice aforethought, resulting from an act performed with criminal negligence.

OBS

manslaughter: Term, context and observations reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

L'homicide coupable qui n'est pas un meurtre ni un infanticide constitue un homicide involontaire coupable.

OBS

Le terme «homicide involontaire coupable» a remplacé «homicide involontaire» dans le Code criminel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
CONT

Es "voluntary" (voluntario) cuando se dan circunstancias atenuantes como la provocación o la capacidad mental disminuida, e "involuntary" (involuntario) cuando sobreviene durante la realización de una conducta, lícita o delictiva, pero sin observar la necesaria cautela o reunir la competencia necesaria.

OBS

En Inglaterra, el "manslaughter" consiste en matar a otro ilegítimamente sin intención, definición amplia que comprende el homicidio cometido con dolo eventual y el causado por imprudencia temeraria.

OBS

homicidio involuntario; homicidio por imprudencia; homicidio por negligencia: Expresiones, contexto y observaciones reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 11 2010-05-06

English

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

The principle that if, after the defendant's default, there intervened the culpable act of a third person, the "last human wrongdoer" was alone answerable for the plaintiffs's injury.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 12 2008-10-14

English

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

Apportionment is... equally proper where a separate part of the damage is attributable to an innocent, rather than a culpable cause. Thus a motorist who faultlessly knocks down a pedestrian but thereafter fails to apply his brakes promptly, will be answerable only for those injuries due to his subsequent failure to stop on time.

OBS

innocent cause : As opposed to "culpable cause".

French

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

Spanish

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Record 13 2007-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

One issue that attracts much attention is whether a corporation should be at fault or culpable before liability is imposed, and precisely what corporate fault or corporate culpability means. In other words, what liability standard should be required before imposing liability on the corporation.

CONT

In the context of criminal liability, the concepts of intent and corporate wrongdoing are not reducible to the individual intent of the employees, managers or officers. They correspond, rather, to the express or implicit policies governing the activities of the corporation. Corporate fault should, therefore, be sought in the corporate culture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

Dans le contexte de la responsabilité pénale, les notions d'intention et de faute corporative ne pourraient se réduire à l'intention individuelle des employés, gérants ou directeurs. Elles correspondraient plutôt aux politiques expresses ou implicites gouvernant les activités de la personne morale. La faute corporative serait donc à rechercher dans la culture corporative.

Spanish

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Record 14 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

The severest professional punishment that could be visited on any culpable Watergate lawyer is disbarment, which can be inflicted even for misconduct that is not serious enough for criminal prosecution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

ordre professionnel : Organisme créé par la loi en vue d'assurer la réglementation, la discipline et la défense d'une profession libérale : l'ordre des médecins, des avocats, des architectes.

Spanish

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