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FUNCTION COURT [17 records]

Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Diplomacy
CONT

In every well-organized Foreign Office there is an important officer called the Chief of Protocol who decides matters relating to the rules of diplomatic and state etiquette and ceremony. He briefs newly-arrived ambassadors-designate on procedures regarding the presentation of credentials and related matters. He is consulted by members of the diplomatic corps on questions regarding precedence, correct procedure, formalities at official ceremonies, courtesies, seating arrangements at dinner, dress and the like. He is the arbiter of ceremonial usage and local custom. His decisions on unofficial matters are not binding but they are generally followed.

OBS

At some capitals, [the Introducer of Ambassadors] is the officer whose function is to fetch the ambassador, who is scheduled to present his credentials, from his embassy to the residence of the Head of State and introduce him to the latter at the presentation ceremony. At other capitals, the officer who corresponds to the Introducer of Ambassadors is the Master of Ceremonies. At the Court of St. Jame's, this function is performed by Her Majesty's Marshall of the Diplomatic Corps, in Washington by the Chief of Protocol.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Diplomatie
CONT

Le chef du Protocole est un haut fonctionnaire du ministère des Affaires étrangères et il règle notamment le cérémonial de la présidence.

OBS

«Chef du Protocole» : Titre et orthographe employé au ministère des Affaires extérieures, Canada.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
CONT

The function of juvenile probation is to provide supervision and monitoring to youth under the jurisdiction of the court and ensure that youth on probation comply with all court orders.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
CONT

Les pratiques actuelles en matière de probation juvénile sont [...] tributaires d’un modèle à l’intérieur duquel on ne reconnaissait aucun type de délinquant particulier, aucun profil type, la probation pouvant s’adresser indifféremment à n’importe quel contrevenant.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Rules of Court
CONT

The guardian ad litem does not fulfill a neutral function and will present recommendations to the court regarding what he believes to be in the child's best interests, without being bound by the child's stated views and preferences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

tuteur à l'instance; tutrice à l'instance : termes normalisés 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 2015-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
CONT

Traditionally, administrative tribunals have been allowed to intervene in Higher Court proceedings where jurisdictional or operational matters have been in issue. However, one aspect of the IRB's [Immigration and Refugee Board] increased focus on strategic adjudication of its cases may include a need for the IRB to seek leave to intervene in more of its cases before the higher courts. The IRB's [Immigration and Refugee Board] ability to establish a consistent and coherent body of jurisprudence depends, in part, on the establishment of a coordinated and rational approach to its adjudicative function. To be most effective, each division must establish a selective and strategic approach to the adjudication of issues. This adjudication strategy is aimed at identifying the relatively small number of cases that merit the division's particular attention because they are cases that have the potential to shape the Board's jurisprudence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
CONT

Habituellement, les tribunaux administratifs ont le droit d'intervenir dans les affaires portées devant une cour supérieure dans les cas qui soulèvent des questions de compétence ou de fonctionnement. Toutefois, l'attention accrue accordée par la CISR [Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié] à la stratégie décisionnelle visant ses cas peut s'expliquer par la nécessité de demander l'autorisation d'intervenir dans un plus grand nombre de ses cas portés en appel devant les cours supérieures. La capacité de la CISR d'élaborer un corpus cohérent et uniforme de décisions faisant jurisprudence repose, en partie, sur la mise au point d'une approche coordonnée et rationnelle de sa fonction décisionnelle. Pour assurer une efficacité optimale, chaque section doit définir une approche sélective et stratégique du règlement des cas. Cette stratégie décisionnelle vise à préciser le nombre relativement faible de cas qui méritent l'attention de la section puisqu'ils peuvent façonner la jurisprudence de la Commission.

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Labour Law
DEF

A body or person which exercises a judicial or quasi-judicial function outside the regular court system.

CONT

Where a trade union ... and an employee have made arrangements to resolve any differences between them ... and have designated a tribunal ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Droit du travail
DEF

Institution chargée de l'administration de la justice.

OBS

Tribunal est un terme générique qui désigne le lieu où l'on rend la justice, où siège les juges et, également, l'ensemble des magistrats qui composent une juridiction. Tribunal s'emploie également de manière spécifique pour désigner une juridiction particulière (tribunal administratif, tribunal d'appel, etc.).

OBS

Lorsqu'un syndicat [...] et un employeur [...] ont pris des dispositions en vue de régler tout conflit entre eux [...] et ont désigné un tribunal [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
CONT

In Canada,(outside Quebec) a lawyer is both barrister and solicitor, whereas in England, there is a distinction : The barrister does the actual court work, presenting and arguing the case in court, but does not prepare the case from the start; the solicitor's function is to assemble the legal materials, do the research and compile the legal precedents. A solicitor also is employed to perform a wide variety of legal work, such as the preparation of documents like wills and mortgages, conveyancing, company work and advising on tax matters.

French

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

Dans un contexte de common law.

OBS

procureur : Recommandation du Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.

OBS

solliciteur, solliciteuse : Qui poursuit une affaire, qui fait tous les pas nécessaires pour la mettre en état.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización de la profesión (Derecho)
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Record 7 2009-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
DEF

One who makes arrests for failure to pay a debt.

CONT

The Marshal(a) is charged with the service and execution of all writs, summonses, orders, warrants, precepts, process and commands of the Court that are directed to him or her, and... A deputy Marshal may, subject to any directions of the Marshal, exercise any power or perform any function of the Marshal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
OBS

The Judicial Affairs, Court and Tribunal Policy Unit fulfills both a specialized legal advisory role as well as a policy function on all matters relating the Canadian judiciary and the courts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Droit judiciaire
OBS

Les Services des affaires judiciaires, des cours et des tribunaux judiciaires jouent un rôle de conseiller juridique spécialisé et exercent aussi une fonction d'élaboration de politiques au regard de toutes les questions qui ont trait à la magistrature canadienne et aux tribunaux.

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Military Law
  • Maritime Law
OBS

The statutory [admiralty] jurisdiction of the High Court [of England] is... exercised by the Admiralty Court, a court created by the Administration of Justice Act, 1970, as part of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court to take the admiralty and prize business formerly the function of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Droit militaire
  • Droit maritime
Key term(s)
  • Cour d'amirauté d'Angleterre
  • Cour anglaise d'amirauté

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Courts
OBS

The statutory [admiralty] jurisdiction of the High Court [of England] is... exercised by the Admiralty Court, a court created by the Administration of Justice Act, 1970, as part of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court to take the admiralty and prize business formerly the function of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court.

OBS

The Family Division is comparatively modern, having been formed by combining the Admiralty Court and probate courts into the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court, or Wills, Wrecks and Wives as it was informally called.

OBS

In 1887 the High Court of Admiralty was absorbed into the new Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités gouvernementaux non canadiens
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Tribunaux
Key term(s)
  • Division des successions, des divorces et d'amirauté de la Haute Cour

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Law
  • International Public Law
DEF

Source of international law [which consists] in two principal elements: a concordant practice of a number of States acquiesced in by others; and a conception that the practice is required by or consistent with the prevailing law (the opinion juris).

CONT

The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply :... international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as a law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international
  • Droit international public
CONT

Les sources formelles de droit international sont identifiées à l'article 38 du Statut de la Cour internationale de Justice. Cet article lie tous les États membres des Nations Unies qui peuvent l'invoquer à leur tour. L'article 38 constitue le point de départ obligé de toute analyse de l'état du droit international. Il porte que la Cour applique les conventions internationales, la coutume internationale comme preuve d'une pratique générale acceptée comme étant le droit, les principes généraux de droit reconnus par les nations civilisées ainsi que les décisions judiciaires et la doctrine comme moyens auxiliaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho internacional
  • Derecho internacional público
OBS

costumbre internacional: Expresión reproducida del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 12 2005-04-28

English

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

Interpretation which is given to provisions of will and the law to be applied therein when there is conflict as to the meaning intended by the deceased. Such function is commonly performed by Probate court.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 13 2004-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
  • Family Law (common law)
OBS

His function is, in a proper case, to intervene to show cause why a decree nisi of divorce or nullity should not be made absolute because material facts were not brought before the court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización de la profesión (Derecho)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
DEF

Representante del Estado con capacidad para intervenir en las demandas complejas de divorcio [...]

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Record 14 2003-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Courts
CONT

A superior court of record in England created by the Judicature Acts of 1875. In itself it performs no judicial function. The high court was a consolidation of both law and equity jurisdictions and presently consists of three divisions : Chancery division, Queen's Bench division, and the Family division.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales no canadienses
  • Tribunales
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Record 15 2001-03-13

English

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

The collection of the assets of the deceased, payment of debts and distribution of the surplus to the persons beneficially entitled thereto.

CONT

Administration of Estate. The executor carries out the general work of administration of the deceased’s estate, involving such matters as ...

OBS

On an intestacy, there is obviously no executor to administer the estate. Therefore, someone must make an application to the court for the appointment of an "administrator" who will perform the executor's function-the administration of the estate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
CONT

Le ou les administrateurs [...] doivent, avant tout, réaliser l'actif immobilier et mobilier [...]. Sur l'actif ainsi réalisé, ils prélèvent la somme nécessaire pour payer les frais funéraires, le passif, les frais d'administration, les droits de mutation, et, en cas de legs particuliers mentionnés dans un testament ne disposant que d'une partie de la succession, le montant des legs en espèces, mais en principe les «meubles meublants» (personal chattels) ne doivent pas être vendus [...], à moins que cela ne soit absolument nécessaire pour l'administration de la succession.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Referring to the limits of a tennis court.

CONT

Court Markings. Tennis lines are boundary lines and are named according to their function.

Key term(s)
  • court marking
  • bound

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Limites. Des lignes délimitent le court et elles portent le nom de leur fonction.

Key term(s)
  • limite

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Las líneas en tenis son limítrofes y se las denomina en base a su función.

Key term(s)
  • marca
  • límite
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Record 17 1989-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Legal System
CONT

... a policy making function different from waht is expected of a court....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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