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GENERAL DAMAGES [15 records]

Record 1 2018-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Production Management
  • Industrial Design
CONT

The manufacturing technician operates production equipment, as well as assembles applicable components. Manufacturing technicians must closely follow guidelines, blueprints, and/or diagrams of the products being manufactured... Manufacturing technicians may need to work directly with customers and are expected to implement process improvements to help reduce cost and improve the quality of manufactured products. They often work closely with design and manufacturing engineers on projects and most often report to the senior manager of plant operations, as well as technical services supervisors. Strong support skills are essential in this position, as manufacturing technicians must monitor and assist technicians and general workers in the manufacturing department, particularly in troubleshooting potential equipment failures, damages, and issues with production batches.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Gestion de la production
  • Dessin industriel

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Goods
  • Transportation Insurance
  • Trade
CONT

If the charterer has failed to make payments due to the shipowner,... according to the lien clause, the shipowner may retain the cargo on board or in a warehouse ashore until the outstanding payment is made.... The lien clause extends this to cover not only nonpayment of freight but also dead freight, demurrage, damages for detention, and general average contributions due to the shipowner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Assurance transport
  • Commerce

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transporte de mercancías
  • Seguro de transporte
  • Comercio
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Record 3 2017-04-28

English

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

Defamation can be divided into the two broad categories of libel and slander. The former has basically been associated with the written word but also extends to pictures, statues, films and even conduct implying a defamatory meaning. It is actionable without proof of damage, as general damages are presumed. It may even be the subject of a criminal prosecution. Slander, on the other hand, is generally conveyed by the spoken word and is not actionable per se, so that, no matter how offensive the language used is, an action lies only if special damages are pleaded and proved subject to certain exceptions.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-04-19

English

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

Defendants found liable for intentional torts may be ordered to pay punitive or exemplary damages in addition to the special and general damages payable in ordinary tort cases. Such damages, which have also been described as "vindictive", "penal", "aggravated" and "retributory", are awarded in cases of high-handed, malicious, or contemptuous conduct, in order to punish the defendant for the wrong and to make an example of him in order to deter others from committing such torts.

French

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

Les défendeurs déclarés responsables de délits intentionnels peuvent être tenus de payer des dommages-intérêts exemplaires ou punitifs, en plus des dommages-intérêts spéciaux et généraux normalement accordés à l'issue de poursuites en responsabilité délictuelle. Ces dommages-intérêts sont accordés dans des cas de conduite tyrannique, malveillante ou méprisante, pour punir le défendeur et en faire un exemple qui servira à dissuader d'autres personnes de commettre les mêmes délits.

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-11-16

English

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

... in Photo Production Ltd. v. Securicor Transport Ltd. His Lordship drew a distinction between the "general" secondary obligation to pay damages, which usually arises on the breach of any primary contractual obligation, and an "anticipatory" secondary obligation which may arise on termination.

French

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

obligation secondaire générale : 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 2015-11-02

English

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

Monetary damages which may be awarded in compensation for general damage or the kind or harm and loss which naturally and normally follows from the wrong and which does not need to be specifically pleaded and proved, as in cases of personal injuries for pain and suffering, loss or limbs and damage to health.

OBS

general damages; damages at large : terms used in the plural.

French

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

dommages-intérêts généraux: terme utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

dommages-intérêts généraux : 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 2015-08-18

English

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

... there can be but one action for damages for a total breach of an entire contract to deliver goods, and the fact that they were to be delivered in installment from time to time does not change the general rule.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-04-21

English

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

Compensation for injured feelings or loss of expected enjoyment is not inconsistent with a general limitation of damages to compensation, and, though earlier cases denied them recent cases have awarded damages for such non-material losses.

Key term(s)
  • non material loss

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Penal Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

Civil damages are usually monetary awards due to a winning plaintiff by a losing defendant in a court of law. Civil damages can be general, punitive or special, or any combination of these.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit pénal
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

En matière de responsabilité civile ou pénale, toute personne qui commet une faute intentionnelle ou un délit qui porte atteinte aux droits/biens matériels d'un autre, doit indemniser la victime pour les préjudices subis en guise de réparation.

OBS

Lorsqu'une personne est blessée par suite d'un acte criminel, le contrevenant peut être poursuivi au criminel tout aussi bien qu'en dommages-intérêts au civil.

OBS

Le terme «réparations civiles d'un acte criminel» s'écrit au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-04-20

English

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

Loss from sale, exchange or other disposition of property used in trade or business.

CONT

... damages are limited to the actual value of the services lost, both because of the very nature of the action and because it would unduly enlarge liability contrary to the general exclusion of consequential business losses in cases of negligence.

French

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

perte commerciale : 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 2012-04-16

English

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

Defendants found liable for intentional torts may be ordered to pay punitive or exemplary damages in addition to the special and general damages payable in ordinary tort cases. Such damages, which have also been described as "vindictive", "penal", "aggravated" and "retributory", are awarded in cases of high-handed, malicious or contemptuous conduct, in order to punish the defendant for the wrong and to make an example of him in order to deter others from committing such torts.

French

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

Les défendeurs déclarés responsables de délits intentionnels peuvent être tenus de payer des dommages-intérêts exemplaires ou punitifs, en plus des dommages- intérêts spéciaux et généraux normalement accordés à l'issue de poursuites en responsabilité délictuelle. Ces dommages-intérêts sont accordés dans des cas de conduite tyrannique, malveillante ou méprisante, pour punir le défendeur et en faire un exemple qui servira à dissuader d'autres personnes de commettre les mêmes délits.

OBS

conduite malveillante : 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 2012-04-13

English

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

Compensation for injured feelings or loss of expected enjoyment is not inconsistent with a general limitation of damages to compensation, and, though earlier cases denied then, recent cases have awarded damages for such non-material losses.

French

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

perte de jouissances escomptées : 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 2010-07-30

English

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

Defendants found liable for intentional torts may be ordered to pay punitive or exemplary damages in addition to the special and general damages payable in ordinary tort cases. Such damages, which have also been described as "vindictive", "penal", "aggravated" and "retributory", are awarded in cases of high-handed, malicious, or contemptuous conduct, in order to punish the defendant for the wrong and to make an example of him in order to deter others from committing such torts.

French

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

Les défendeurs déclarés responsables de délits intentionnels peuvent être tenus de payer des dommages-intérêts exemplaires ou punitifs, en plus des dommages-intérêts spéciaux et généraux normalement accordés à l'issue de poursuites en responsabilité délictuelle. Ces dommages-intérêts sont accordés dans des cas de conduite tyrannique, malveillante ou méprisante, pour punir le défendeur et en faire un exemple qui servira à dissuader d'autres personnes de commettre les mêmes délits.

OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

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Record 14 2009-09-15

English

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

General Damages-Those losses that are a natural and probable or ar reasonably contemplated result of the breach(subject to principles of remoteness).

French

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

Spanish

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Record 15 2009-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
  • Agricultural Economics
CONT

Agricultural insurance may contain the following protections : Farm buildings and equipment; Main and secondary residences of the insured; Agricultural instruments; Farm products; Machinery damages; Operating loss; Animals; Risk of pollution; General liability.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)
  • Économie agricole
CONT

L'assurance agricole s'adresse à tous les producteurs agricoles, quels que soient leurs types de production (animaux, céréales, sirop d'érable, fruits et légumes, etc.) et la taille de leur exploitation [...]

Key term(s)
  • assurance des exploitations agricoles
  • assurance de ferme

Spanish

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