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GENERAL LIMITATION [14 records]

Record 1 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 2 2014-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

The words "and his heirs" constitute a general limitation... denoting that the estate is one of that class of estates which are termed estates in fee. And similarly the words "and the heirs of his body, ""for life, ""for years, "are general limitations, denoting that the estates are respectively estates tail, freeholds not of inheritance, and chattel interests.(Ferne, v. 2, p. 11)

French

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

délimitation ordinaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
OBS

The main difference between the general purpose forces and the multi-purpose forces is that in the first case, forces can perform all kinds of tasks or functions without any limitation whatsoever whereas multi-purpose forces may only perform some tasks or functions and limitations do apply.

OBS

Information provided by Department of National Defence officials specialized in doctrine for all forces (land, maritime and air).

OBS

multi-purpose force: term used in the context of the Defence Renewal Project.

Key term(s)
  • multipurpose force

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire
OBS

Il existe une différence sémantique entre les termes «forces polyvalentes» et «forces plurifonctionnelles» dans ce sens que dans le premier cas, les forces peuvent effectuer toutes sortes de fonctions sans aucune restriction alors que dans le cas de «plurifonctionnelles» il y a des restrictions quant au nombre de fonctions que peuvent remplir les forces.

OBS

Le choix du terme «plurifonctionnelles» est privilégié au terme «multifonctionnelles» parce qu'il s'applique autant aux êtres animés qu'inanimés alors que le second ne se refère qu'aux êtres inanimés.

OBS

force plurifonctionnelle : terme utilisé dans le contexte du Projet de renouvellement de la défense.

Key term(s)
  • force pluri-fonctionnelle

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

The concept of limitation must be contrasted with the concept of prescription. The former was unknown to the common law and is wholly a creature of statute. The latter was a common law rule of evidence based on the presumption of lost modern grant. The former abolishes stale or obsolete claims and operates in a negative fashion. The latter creates or establishes rights in land such as easements and operates in a positive fashion. (Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 1496).

OBS

Statutes of Limitation are generally regarded as a means of protecting the defendant against a stale or unjust claim. Except in actions chiefly concerned with real property, in which, by the judicial interpretation of the limitation provisions applicable thereto, it has been held that the lapse of the statutory period operates to extinguish the right, "The Limitations Act" operates merely as a bar to the remedy by proceedings in the courts. Except where the statute by its terms absolutely extinguishes the debt or demand itself, the general rule with respect to debts, or more money demands is that statutes of limitation are regarded as barring the remedy, and not as extinguishing the cause of action.("C. E. D. "(Ont., 2nd), Vol. 13, p. 5).

French

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

prescription extinctive; prescription : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

La distinction entre «limitation» et «prescription» est exprimée en français par les adjectifs «extinctif» et «acquisitif». L'expression «prescription extinctive» peut toutefois s'abréger en «prescription» lorsque le contexte le permet.

Spanish

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Record 5 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 6 2006-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Conventions, Treaties and Agreements (Documents)
  • Arms Control
OBS

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty(or ABM Treaty) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile(ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons. On May 26, 1972, the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The treaty was in force for thirty years, from 1972 until 2002. On June 13, 2002, six months after giving the required notice of intent, the US withdrew from the treaty.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de conventions, de traités et d'accords (Documents)
  • Contrôle des armements
OBS

Au milieu des années 90, devant l'évolution du contexte stratégique et la prolifération grandissante des armes de destruction massive et des systèmes de missiles, le président Clinton a donné son accord de principe à la nécessité d'une défense antimissiles et cherché à aller de l'avant dans le dossier, tout en essayant de rester fidèle au Traité sur les missiles antimissiles balistiques (ABM) de 1972. Conclu par les États-Unis et l'URSS, le Traité ABM visait à limiter les systèmes antimissiles. De fait, la National Missile Defense Act a été entériné en 1999, en vue de déployer un système de défense antimissiles dès que la technologie le permettrait.

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-01-26

English

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

Conclusion as to proper purpose ... the most important issue is whether the directors, in adopting the defensive tactics culminating in the issuer bid, met the onus upon them to show that they acted in the best interests of the corporation as a whole.

CONT

... courts tended to overcome the difficulty of determining a "proper purpose" by applying the general limitation applicable to fiduciaries : that they exercise their powers in the best interests of the beneficiaries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
CONT

Les devoirs des administrateurs. Le devoir de se servir de leurs pouvoirs dans une fin légitime (proper purpose).

Key term(s)
  • proper purpose

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

The overlooking of differences due to oversimplification in categorizing. Also a general experimental limitation due to the misuse of categorization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
DEF

Fait de négliger les différences en raison d'une trop grande simplification au moment du processus de catégorisation; restriction expérientielle générale causée par un usage inadéquat de la catégorisation.

Spanish

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Record 9 1993-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Administration
CONT

On application from an employee or former employee, the designated authority may reduce the limitation period on employment. Decisions to reduce the limitation period will be made taking into consideration :... the general employment prospects of the employee or former employee making the application

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration fédérale
CONT

A la demande de tout employé ancien ou actuel, l'autorité désignée peut réduite la période de restriction relative à l'emploi. Pour en décider, l'autorité désignée tiendra compte des facteurs suivants : les perspectives générales d'emploi de l'employé ancien ou actuel qui a fait la demande.

Spanish

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Record 10 1990-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveying
  • Cartography
DEF

A general term, not susceptible of defined limitation, covering a wide range of surveys lying between and merging into exploratory surveys on the one hand and basic topographic surveys on the other.

CONT

Geographic surveys usually cover large areas, are based on coordinated control, and are used to record physical and statistical characteristics of the area surveyed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arpentage
  • Cartographie

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
  • Patents (Law)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
DEF

... one that grants to the licensee the power to use the patented invention in all its parts in any manner and to any extent throughout the whole territory for which the patent monopoly was granted.

CONT

... the words "use and exercise the invention", in the grant of a licence, without words of limitation, will create a general licence.

Key term(s)
  • general license

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents juridiques
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle

Spanish

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Record 12 1983-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

Admission of aliens. While theoretically almost all States claim the right to exclude aliens, in practice they do not exercise this right to its fullest extent. As a general rule, conditions are imposed on admission, or only certain classes, for example, tourists, or students, are freely admitted. Moreover, there is one practical limitation on the full exercise of the right which every State must carefully take into account, namely, that the entire prohibition of the citizens of one particular State would diplomatically be regarded as an affront or as an unfriendly act towards that State.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

[...] le fait par un État d'accepter, éventuellement sous certaines conditions, que les étrangers pénètrent sur son territoire, y séjournent, s'y établissent.

Spanish

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Record 13 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Satellite Telecommunications
  • Telecommunications Facilities
CONT

The general disadvantage of passive systems is the limitation to message capacity because large tracking Earth-station antennas... would be necessary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications par satellite
  • Installations de télécommunications
CONT

Cette technique a l'avantage [...] d'augmenter la capacité de transmission dans une bande donnée, mais elle nécessite à bord du satellite de grandes antennes très soignées

Spanish

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Record 14 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
  • Engineering
OBS

general : not confined by specialization or careful limitation : not limited to a particular class, type or field characterized by scope, diversity or variety.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
  • Ingénierie
OBS

cours préparant un ingénieur polyvalent (non-spécialisé)

Spanish

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