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FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION [14 records]

Record 1 2025-04-08

English

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

... someone who gives false information or presents something in a misleading way to another person.

CONT

A fraudulent misrepresentation amounts to the tort of deceit, for which the injured party will receive damages from the misrepresentor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Assurances
OBS

assertion : Proposition, de forme affirmative ou négative, qu'on avance et qu'on donne comme vraie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Health Law
DEF

A contract based on a special relationship of trust between the care-giver and the recipient of care.

CONT

The patient must consent in a free and voluntary manner. He must be in a position to choose between consent and refusal without any feeling of constraint. Similarly, a consent given under compulsion, duress or fraudulent misrepresentation would be no consent at all.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Droit de la santé
DEF

En médecine, acte autorisant le médecin à mettre en œuvre un traitement spécifique qu'il a, au préalable, expliqué au patient.

CONT

Engelhart, de son côté, définit le consentement comme une procédure de négociation. La relation entre le patient et le médecin est tissée d'attentes (la confidence, la confiance), de permissions (être touché, faire l'objet d'exploration physique) dans un but commun et compris de chacun.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
  • Derecho de salud
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Record 3 2016-01-20

English

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

True meaning. The effect of the rescission is retroactive.

OBS

In its primary and more correct sense, rescission means the retrospective cancellation of a contract ab initio, as for instance where one of the parties has been guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation. In such a case the contract is destroyed as if it had never existed, but its discharge by breach never impinges upon rights and obligations that have already matured.

French

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

Sens propre. L'effet est rétroactif.

OBS

Pour rendre la forme verbale «rescind the contract» prise en ce sens, on pourra dire : «résoudre le contrat».

OBS

résolution de contrat : 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 4 2016-01-18

English

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

A fraudulent misrepresentation consists of a representation of fact made without any belief in its truth...

French

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

assertion de fait : 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 5 2016-01-18

English

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

For purposes of the common-law tort of fraudulent misrepresentation, such may be either an affirmative misrepresentation or a failure to disclose a material fact when a duty to disclose that fact has arisen.

French

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

fausse assertion : 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 6 2016-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

An untrue statement of fact made in the honest belief that it is true.

OBS

This term denotes misrepresentation that is neither fraudulent or negligent.

French

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

S'entend d'une assertion inexacte, mais ni frauduleuse ni négligente.

OBS

assertion inexacte faite innocemment : 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 7 2016-01-18

English

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

A distinction must be made between misrepresentations which are fraudulent and those which are not. A fraudulent misrepresentation is one which is made with knowledge that it is untrue and with the intent to deceive. It may even constitute a term of the contract.... Non-fraudulent misrepresentations have a different effect. At common law only fraud entitles an innocent party to upset his apparent consent and avoid a contract which originally was validly created.

French

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

assertion inexacte non frauduleuse : 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 8 2015-05-19

English

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

Limitation liability... Except in the case of death or personal injury due to negligence or fraudulent misrepresentation for which no limit shall apply the limitation of our liability to you for direct loss or other loss within the reasonable contemplation of the parties at the time...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Assurances
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-05-10

English

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

A fraudulent misrepresentation is one made with the knowledge that it is false and with the intent to deceive the party to whom it is made.

French

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

assertion frauduleuse et inexacte : 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 2006-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
CONT

material misrepresentation : Giving fraudulent documents or telling a consular officer false information in an interview. The information must be important and make a difference in whether the consular officer issues a visa...

OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

OBS

Le terme «présentation erronée des faits» est tiré du «Lexique du programme des investisseurs, Emploi et Immigration, 1989».

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-03-30

English

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

A false statement that is likely to induce a reasonable person to assent or that the maker knows is likely to induce the recipient to assent.

CONT

"Unconscientiousness" was defined as a mistake induced by a material misrepresentation even though not fraudulent or fundamental, or if one party is aware of the other's mistaken belief and does not correct it.

Key term(s)
  • material mis-representation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

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Record 12 2001-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Exaggerated commendation or depreciation of the quality of anything is not a false pretence unless it is carried to such an extent that it amounts to a fraudulent misrepresentation of fact

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Une louange ou dépréciation exagérée de la qualité d'une chose n'est pas un faux semblant, à moins qu'elle ne soit poussée au point d'équivaloir à une dénaturation frauduleuse des faits.

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-05-02

English

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

Amount to a fraudulent misrepresentation of fact.

OBS

Exaggerated commendation.

French

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

Équivaloir à une dénaturation frauduleuse des faits.

Spanish

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Record 14 1987-11-16

English

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

Dependence, trust in what is deemed sufficient support or authority.

CONT

A fraudulent misrepresentation is not actionable, unless it was made with the intent that the plaintiff should act upon it as he did. It is not sufficient merely that the defendant, as a reasonable man, should have realized the likelihood that the plaintiff might rely on it to his detriment : even for negligent misrepresentation, reliance must have been known rather than merely foreseeable.

French

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

Spanish

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