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MISDESCRIPTION [3 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Real Estate
DEF

An error, mistake, or misstatement in the description of property.

OBS

A misdescription affecting the title, value or character of land in a contract of sale may be(1) substantial, so that the property purchased is not that which it was intended to purchase, or(2) slight, so that compensation in money would be proper.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trademarks (Law)
CONT

The difference here is that a mark is deceptively misdescriptive simply by improperly describing some aspect of the goods or services, but to be a deceptive mark, there must also be either :(i) an intent to deceive by the mark's owner; or(ii) a likelihood that purchasers will rely on the misdescription.

OBS

Marks which are deceptively misdescriptive, however, cannot be protected or federally registered until they acquire secondary meaning.

PHR

Deceptively misdescriptive mark.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marques de commerce (Droit)
DEF

Mention qui décrit de façon trompeuse une caractéristique d'une marchandise ou d'un service et qui ne peut donc pas être enregistrée comme marque de commerce.

CONT

[...] si une marque donne une description claire ou une description fausse et trompeuse, en langue française ou anglaise, du lieu d'origine des marchandises en liaison avec lesquelles elle est employée ou à l'égard desquelles on projette de l'employer, cette marque n'est pas enregistrable. Pour que l'interdiction s'applique, il faut que la marque, prise dans son ensemble, donne, comme première impression, une description claire ou fausse et trompeuse.

PHR

Description fausse et trompeuse d'une marque.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-06-12

English

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

Where the subject-matter of the contract lacks some quality which it is believed to have, the first question is whether the quality forms part of the contractual description of the thing.... If there is no contractual misdescription, mistake as to quality has in general no effect.

French

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

Spanish

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