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GENERAL TAIL [20 records]

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Record 1 2024-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
OBS

crow: designation used in the common name of various species of birds of the genus Corvus.

OBS

Not to be confused with "raven. "In general, crows are smaller than ravens. The shape of the beak and tail, and the call are other features that distinguish the species.

OBS

Not to be confused with "crow family," which includes not only crow species, but also raven species and other birds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
OBS

corneille : désignation utilisée dans le nom commun de diverses espèces d'oiseaux du genre Corvus.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «corbeau». Généralement, les corneilles sont plus petites que les corbeaux. La forme du bec et de la queue ainsi que le cri sont d'autres caractéristiques permettant de distinguer les espèces

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
OBS

raven: designation used in the common name of various species of birds of the genus Corvus.

OBS

raven: common name also used to refer to the species Corvus corax.

OBS

Not to be confused with "crow. "In general, crows are smaller than ravens. The shape of the beak and tail, and the call are other features that distinguish the species.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
OBS

corbeau : désignation utilisée dans le nom commun de diverses espèces d'oiseaux du genre Corvus.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «corneille». Généralement, les corneilles sont plus petites que les corbeaux. La forme du bec et de la queue ainsi que le cri sont d'autres caractéristiques permettant de distinguer les espèces.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-02-21

English

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

An estate resulting from the statute of "De Donis Conditionalibus" operating upon the old common law conditional fee. The estate is limited to the grantee and his lineal heirs, which may be an estate tail "general, "as where the grant is to the grantee and the heirs of his body generally, or an estate tail "special. "... [Cartwright, 1972, p. 361].

French

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

domaine taillé ordinaire; fief taillé ordinaire : 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).

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-02-21

English

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

In English law, the issue in tail, who claims "per formam doni," by the form of the gift. [Black, 6th, p. 724].

CONT

An heir general took by descent as fixed by law, as opposed to an heir special or heir in tail, who claimed as issue in tail "per formam doni, "i. e., according to the nature of the estate tail. [Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897].

French

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

héritier en fief taillé; héritier particulier : 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).

Spanish

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Record 5 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 6 2013-06-26

English

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

"And his heirs" were also said to be words of inheritance since they indicated an inheritable estate, as opposed to a life estate which died with the life tenant. Moreover, they were words of general inheritance in contrast to "and the heirs of his body" which created a fee tail and were words of special inheritance, limiting the estate to descendants of A.(Cribbet, p. 42).

OBS

words of special inheritance: term used in the plural in this context.

French

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

termes d'hérédité particulière; termes de transmission héréditaire particulière : 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

termes d'hérédité particulière; termes de transmission héréditaire particulière : termes utilisés au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-06-25

English

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

"And his heirs" were also said to be words of inheritance since they indicated an inheritable estate, as opposed to a life estate which died with the life tenant. Moreover, they were words of general inheritance in contrast to "and the heirs of his body" which created a fee tail and were words of special inheritance, limiting the estate to descendants of A.(Cribbet, p. 42).

OBS

words of general inheritance: term used in the plural in this context.

French

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

termes d'hérédité générale; termes de transmission héréditaire générale : 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).

OBS

termes d'hérédité générale; termes de transmission héréditaire générale : termes utilisés au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-05-29

English

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

There were thus the following types of entail :(i) a tail general, e. g., "to A and the heirs of his body", where any descendants of A, male or female, could inherit;(ii) a tail male....(iii) a tail female.... In addition, a "special tail" could be created, confining the heirs entitled to those descended from a specified spouse.... A special tail could exist in any of the three above forms : special tail general, special tail male, special tail female.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 58).

French

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

fief taillé spécial sans restriction de sexe : 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 9 2013-04-26

English

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

Tail male general is the same thing as tail male; the word "general", in such case, implying that there is no other restriction upon the descent of the estate than that it must go in the male line.... The word "general", in the phrase, expresses a purely negative idea, and may denote the absence of any restriction, or the absence of some given restriction which is tacitly understood.(Black, 5th, p. 1303)

French

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

fief taillé ordinaire en ligne masculine : 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 10 2013-01-24

English

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

Estate in tail female general. One restricted to female issue but not restricted as to spouse, e. g., "to A and the heirs female of his body".(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 131)

French

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

fief taillé ordinaire en ligne féminine : 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 11 2013-01-11

English

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

The(fee tail) estate is limited to the grantee and his lineal heirs, which may be an estate tail general... or an estate tail special, where the grant is to the grantee and the heirs of his or her body by a certain wife or husband.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 361).

French

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

domaine taillé spécial; fief taillé spécial : 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).

Spanish

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Record 12 2012-12-12

English

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

The estate "in fee tail", "estate tail", or "fee tail" may be defined as a freehold estate of inheritance limited not to the grantee's heirs general, as in the case of the fee simple, but to the heirs of his body.... The line of heirs is called the entail.(Anger and Honsberget, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 128).

French

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

héritiers du fief taillé : 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).

OBS

héritiers du fief taillé : terme utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 13 2012-11-14

English

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

Coparcenary arose where two or more persons took hereditaments by the same title by descent. This might be at common law or by special custom. Coparcenary arose at common law where upon the death of a man seised in fee or in tail the land descended upon two or more females as heirs general or heirs in tail; it arose by custom where, according to the custom of gavelkind, the land descended upon two or more male persons. Such persons were called "coparceners"; they constituted but one heir to their ancestor; they had a joint seisin, and they had equal rights in the land as regards each other.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, pp. 371-2)

Key term(s)
  • co-parcenary
  • coparcenery
  • coparceny

French

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

cotenance héréditaire : 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 14 2012-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
DEF

The rear part of a body, as of an aircraft, a rocket, etc.

OBS

The aircraft fuselage generally consists of three sections : The nose section, the center section and the rear section. The term "tail section" designates the rear section of the fuselage. However, the term "tail" is often used in a more general sense, without any reference to the fuselage sections.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
DEF

Partie postérieure du fuselage d'un avion.

OBS

queue : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

OBS

Le terme "section arrière" a été uniformisé par le CUTA opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 15 2011-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
CONT

Sideward movement. This rarer form of locomotion is found only in a few North American and African desert snakes. In a general way it is something like walking since the parts of the body behind the head and in front of the tail are used like legs to support the body and are alternately lifted and lowered. While the tracks made by all other snakes are an uninterrupted sliding track, sideward movement produces a discontinuous twin set of tracks like one might find in a two-legged animal. The individual footprints are produced by the parts of the body rubbing against the ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reptiles et amphibiens
CONT

Comme tous les serpents vivant dans le désert, Cerastes cerastes se déplace par reptation latérale. Ses tortillements latéraux qui lui permettent d'avancer assez rapidement sur des surfaces aussi meubles que le sable laissent des traces caractéristiques qu'un herpétologiste expérimenté distingue très facilement de celles provenant d'autres espèces.

CONT

Son déplacement latéral particulier, laisse dans le sable une empreinte en "S" très caractéristique.

Spanish

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Record 16 2008-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Cessna-172. Visually check aircraft for general condition during walk-around inspection. In cold weather, remove even small accumulations of frost, ice or snow from wing, tail, and control surfaces. Also make sure that control surfaces contain no internal accumulations of ice or debris. If night flight is planned, check operation of all lights and make sure a flashlight is available.

PHR

Visually check cockpit, engine and gearbox, fuel level, fuel grade markings, fuel quantity, liquid flow, tanks, vacuum pump and line, wing attach and strut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

vérifier visuellement : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 17 2005-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
OBS

A mammal of the family Felidae.

OBS

Although in Canada, the terms "cougar," "mountain lion," "puma," and "panther" are often used to designate the species known to scientists as Felis concolor or Puma concolor, we recommend using the terms "cougar" or "puma" in order to avoid confusion with similar species that, in most cases, are not found in Canada.

OBS

This animal is one of only three wild felids(the general name for any member of the cat family) native to Canada; it is larger than the bobcat and the lynx, and has a much longer tail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
OBS

Mammifère de la famille des Felidae.

OBS

Bien qu'au Canada, les mots «couguar», «lion de montagne», «puma» et «panthère» servent souvent à désigner une seule et même espèce, à laquelle les scientifiques donnent le nom de Felis concolor ou Puma concolor, nous recommandons d'utiliser les termes «couguar» ou «puma» dans le but d'éviter de confondre l'espèce canadienne avec d'autres espèces qui généralement ne se trouvent pas au pays.

OBS

Le couguar est l'une des trois espèces de félins sauvages (félin est le nom générique qui désigne les membres de la famille des [Felidae]) indigènes du Canada; le couguar est plus gros que les deux autres espèces, soit le lynx roux et le loup-cervier, et sa queue est beaucoup plus longue.

OBS

cougouar : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 18 1986-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
CONT

Enter tail compartment and visually check condition of all wiring runs for proper routing, security, signs of chafing, overheating & general deterioration.

OBS

The word compartment is loosely used to mean any space occupied by personnel or cargo.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
OBS

compartiment de queue : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 19 1978-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
DEF

any of various rodents of the chiefly palaearctic genus "Microtus" that are closely related to the lemmings and muskrats but in general resemble murine mice, or rats, typically have a stout body, rather blunt nose, short tail, and short ears, inhabit both moist meadows and dry uplands, and do much damage to crops.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
DEF

Mammifère rongeur, au corps plus ramassé que le rat, à queue courte et poilue.

Spanish

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Record 20 1978-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
OBS

vole : any of various rodents of the chiefly palaearctic genus "Microtus" that are closely related to the lemmings and muskrats but in general resemble murine mice, or rats, typically have a stout body, rather blunt nose, short tail, and short ears, inhabit moist meadows and dry uplands, and do much damage to crops.

CONT

Eleven species of microtine rodents are classified together as pine voles (Pitymys).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
CONT

Les "Pitymys" sont de petits Campagnols répandus çà et là en France.

Spanish

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