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MATERIAL BREACH [8 records]

Record 1 2016-05-31

English

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

To constitute a vital or material breach a defendant's nonperformance must be such as to go to the essence of the contract; it must be the type of breach that would discharge the injured party from further contractual duty on his part.

French

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

Il arrive pourtant un moment à partir duquel le retranchement atteint l'essence du contrat (...).

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-11-16

English

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

A breach of contract for which the remedial rights provided by law are substituted for all the existing contractual rights, or can be so substituted by the injured party; esp., a material breach that gives rise to a claim for damages based on the aggrieved party's remaining rights to performance under the contract.

French

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

violation totale : 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 2015-11-16

English

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

The aggrieved party may cancel the contract only if the breach is a material breach of the whole contract...

French

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

violation substantielle : 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 4 2015-05-19

English

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

Because of the quality of the material, the plaintiff had to pay the claims of dissatisfied customers and lost anticipated profits. At the trial of the action for breach of contract, the plaintiff was awarded compensation for loss of future business.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-04-15

English

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

The extent to which(the new provisions of the Ontario "Residential Tenancies Act") will cause covenants in residential tenancy agreements to be regarded as interdependent will depend upon the interpretation by the courts of the expression "material covenant", at least with respect at the present(sic) Ontario provision and enactments elsewhere that have followed the Ontario mode. It would seem that, for instance, only a serious breach on the part of the landlord, e. g., a failure to heat, would justify a tenant in withholding payment of rent.(Williams & Rhodes, 5th ed., p. 3-19)

French

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

covenant substantiel : 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 2012-04-25

English

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

The Ontario Court of Appeal appears to have adopted a professional medical standard, not only for determining what are the material risks that should be disclosed but also, and concurrently, for determining whether there has been a breach of the duty of disclosure.... To allow expert medical evidence to determine what risks are material and, hence, should be disclosed and, correlatively, what risks are not material is to hand over to the medical profession the entire question of the scope of the duty of disclosure, including the question whether there has been a breach of that duty.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la santé
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
CONT

Par le passé, les tribunaux appelés à se prononcer sur le bien-fondé des décisions prises par un médecin s'en remettaient à la «norme médicale professionnelle» [ ... ]

OBS

norme médicale professionnelle : 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 2009-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
CONT

[W] indow shop provision prevent a target from actively soliciting bids from third parties after the signing of a definitive agreement. However, a window shop provision contains a fiduciary out that allows the target's board to negotiate with, provide due diligence material to, and, if appropriate, ultimately accept a bid from a third party that makes an unsolicited offer if taking such action is necessary to avoid a breach of the board's fiduciary duties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
DEF

Clause interdisant à la société cible de solliciter, d'étudier ou d'accepter des offres concurrentes à moins que le devoir fiducial des administrateurs ne l'exige.

OBS

La clause de lèche-vitrine est une clause interdisant la sollicitation assortie d'une clause de retrait par devoir fiducial.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-10-25

English

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

Since liability rests only in negligence, in a failure to disclose material risks, the issue of causation would be in the patient's hands on a subjective test, and would, if his evidence was accepted, result inevitably in liability unless, of course, there was a finding that there was no breach of the duty of disclosure

CONT

The principal issue considered by the Court of Appeal was whether the loss suffered by the patient was caused by the failure of disclosure by the doctor, or whether it would have occurred even if there had been full and proper disclosure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[ ... ] l'omission de divulguer les risques que comporte l'opération quelle que soit leur importance, devrait relever de la négligence et non des voies de fait.

CONT

Il a formulé la question du consentement éclairé [ ... ] sur le fondement des voies de fait et de la négligence résultant du défaut de divulguer les risques courus.

Spanish

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