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FUNDAMENTAL BREACH [8 records]

Record 1 2015-11-16

English

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

Before recent developments with respect to exclusion and similar clauses, it might have been said that a clause that purported to exclude liability for breaches of conditions and warranties did not effectively exclude liability for breaches of a fundamental term : whereas a fundamental breach, which might nonetheless have been equated with a breach of condition, albeit no a breach of warranty fell within the ambit of the exclusion clause, so that the innocent party was deprived of any remedy.

Key term(s)
  • fundamental term breach

French

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

violation d'une clause fondamentale : 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 2 2015-11-16

English

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

... A fundamental breach has been defined as one which destroys "the whole contractual substratum, "as undermining the whole contract, as involving a totally different performance of the contract from that intended by the parties, as involving an event which deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which that party was to obtain under the contract.

French

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

violation fondamentale : 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 3 2015-09-25

English

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

The concept of improper, or no performance, or of deviation from proper performance of the contract, is closely connected with the doctrine of fundamental breach.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-20

English

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

Although the expression "repudiation" is usually employed to describe an express or implied refusal on the part of a promisor to perform his contractual obligations, the expression "repudiatory breach" has recently been employed to describe any breach capable of giving rise to a right to terminate at common law. The expression encompasses both breach of condition and... "fundamental breach"....

French

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-03-05

English

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

A breach of contract, no matter what form it may take, always entitles the innocent party to maintain an action for damages, but the rule established by a long line of authorities is that the right of a party to treat a contract as discharged arises only in two types of case. Firstly, where the party in default has repudiated the contract before performance is due or before it has been fully performed. Secondly, where the party in default has committed what in modern judicial parlance is called a fundamental breach.

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Derecho mercantil
DEF

Parte que falta a sus obligaciones.

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Record 6 2014-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

Turning first to the alleged breach of the treaty, the First Nation argues that the promise of land under Treaty 6 included a "fundamental Treaty promise, "which was assurance of a homeland for future generations.

OBS

Alexis First Nation Inquiry TransAlta Utilities Rights of Way Claim (March 2003).

Key term(s)
  • treaty breach

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

Pour ce qui est premièrement du présumé manquement au traité, la Première Nation fait valoir que la promesse de terres prévue au Traité 6 comprenait une «promesse fondamentale au Traité», savoir l'assurance d'une terre d'appartenance pour les générations futures.

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication de la Première Nation d'Alexis relative aux emprises accordées à TransAlta Utilities (Mars 2003).

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

Turning first to the alleged breach of the treaty, the First Nation argues that the promise of land under Treaty 6 included a "fundamental Treaty promise", which was assurance of a homeland for future generations.

OBS

Alexis First Nation Inquiry TransAlta Utilities Rights Way Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

While these factors alone could not justify a breach of fundamental fairness, I find no such breach in this case.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Ces facteurs ne peuvent à eux seuls justifier une atteinte au droit fondamental à l'équité procédurale, mais je ne constate pas une telle atteinte en l'espèce.

Spanish

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