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MASTER CONTRACT [9 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Law
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

"Contract of service"... means any contract providing for the employment of one person by another person where the nature of the employment is a contract of service.... a "contract of service"... implies some relationship of master and servant and involves an obligation to obey orders in the work to be performed and as to its mode and manner of performance.

OBS

contract of employment: Expression reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Key term(s)
  • service contract
  • employment agreement

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit du travail
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
DEF

Contrat entre employeur et salarié établissant les conditions de travail dans une entreprise ou un organisme, notamment la rémunération que l'employeur devra verser au salarié pour le travail accompli.

OBS

On distingue parfois en anglais «contract of service», qui lie l'employeur à son salarié, du «contract for service», par lequel un donneur d'ouvrage confie un travail à un tiers. Il ne semble pas que cette distinction se fasse en français.

OBS

Voir la fiche «contract for services»

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho laboral
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
DEF

Contrato entre la empresa y el empleado. En la mayoría de los países es escrito aunque frecuentemente las cláusulas sean comunes para todos los empleados. Recoge fundamentalmente descripción del trabajo, nombre del cargo o función, categoría laboral, retribución, beneficios adicionales, horario laboral, vacaciones y duración del empleo o condiciones de rescisión.

OBS

contrato de trabajo: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

OBS

contrato de trabajo: 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 2 2024-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Freight
  • Transport of Goods
OBS

Master air waybills are issued by or on behalf of freight forwarders offering a consolidation service. This document specifies the contract between a freight forwarder(or consolidator) and aircraft operator(s) for the transportation of goods originated by more than one shipper but destined for the same final state, airport or other destination.

Key term(s)
  • master air way bill

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fret aérien
  • Transport de marchandises
OBS

La lettre de transport aérien de groupage est délivrée par ou au nom de transitaires offrant un service de groupage. Ce document précise le contrat global passé entre le transitaire (ou groupeur) et un ou plusieurs exploitants d'aéronefs pour le transport de marchandises provenant de plus d'un chargeur mais destinées au même État, aéroport ou autre destination finale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-08-31

English

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

The contract of carriage of passengers by sea is an ordinary contract for the conveyance from port to port by ship of persons, other than master, crew, owner and the latter's family or servants.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A contract or agreement by which one, who is the lender, lends to another, who is the borrower a certain sum of money, upon condition that if the thing upon which the loan has been made, should be lost by any peril of the sea, or vis major, the lender shall not be repaid, unless what remains shall be equal to the sum borrowed; and if the thing arrives in-safety, or in case it shall not have been injured, but by its own defects or the fault of the master or mariners, the borrower shall be bound to return the sum borrowed, together with a certain sum agreed upon as the price of the hazard incurred.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho marítimo
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 5 2008-09-10

English

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

The master may bring an action against any person who injures his servant, if he thus loses the services of his servant, and thereby suffers actual damage..., and the master has an action against any person who knowingly entices away a servant or harbours and detains him after having been apprised of the contract(of employment).

French

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

détourner : Plus explicitement : détourner quelqu'un de ses devoirs, du bon chemin.

Spanish

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Record 6 2002-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
OBS

Peden said he didn’t want to sign the contract until he had obtained the signature of the building's owner on a master lease. He didn’t own the building himself; he was leasing to buy it, and building owner Duke Covert hadn’t signed the lease because he was waiting for his lawyers to examine it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
DEF

Personne qui conclut avec le propriétaire d'un immeuble un contrat de location-accession.

OBS

Cette formule permet à un locataire de devenir propriétaire de son appartement au bout d'un certain laps de temps prévu dans le contrat.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plans and Specifications (Construction)
CONT

Whereas published standard specifications are commonplace with government and other agencies, master specifications are useful tools for design organizations that serve private clients. A master specification covers a particular item of construction, such as excavation and embankment, concrete structures, or structural steel. It contains requirements for all possible conditions and construction that can be anticipated for that particular item. Master specifications are prepared in-house... When applying a master specification to a specific project, the specifications engineer deletes those requirements that do not apply to the project. Thus, use of a master specification not only effects a reduction in the time required to produce a contract specification but serves as a check-list and minimizes errors and omissions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Devis, cahiers des charges et plans (Construction)
DEF

Formulaire comprenant de 150 à 200 articles, dont l'architecte ou l'ingénieur tire les éléments nécessaires à la rédaction du devis relatif à un projet de construction.

Spanish

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Record 8 1989-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Card Games
CONT

An ACBL [American Contract Bridge League] member needs 30 national red points, or 50 regional red points, and a total of 300 points to become a Life Master, the highest player ranking awarded by the ACBL.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de cartes
CONT

L'échelon convoité par tous les amateurs de bridge est de devenir maître à vie.

Spanish

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Record 9 1981-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
OBS

This type of group insurance contract assumes that the employee contributions are used to purchase units of paid-up life insurance. Each employee is insured for an amount of insurance according to a schedule stated in the master contract and the employer is required to contribute the amount necessary to purchase the difference between the amount of the paid-up life insurance purchased up to that time on the life of an employee and the amount stated in the schedule of insurance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
OBS

Dans ce genre d'assurance collective, on impute les contributions des employés à l'achat d'unités d'assurance Vie libérée. Chaque employé est assuré pour un montant qui est indiqué au tableau des montants d'assurance dans la police universelle et l'employeur contribue le montant qui comblera la différence entre le montant d'assurance Vie libérée constitué jusqu'à cette époque sur la tête d'un employé et le montant qu'indique le tableau des montants d'assurance.

Spanish

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