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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2016-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
  • Corporate Management
  • Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
DEF

The practice of marketing an existing motor vehicle under a new brand name or badge.

CONT

Days before and barely hours into his return to GM's salaried-exec payroll, [the vice-chairman] said GM was going to rebadge the underappreciated, Australia-sourced Pontiac G8 as a Chevrolet, calling it a car "too good to waste. "The pronouncement flew directly against an earlier thumbs-down verdict about the G8 from [the chief executive officer], who said he does not favor rebadging...

OBS

rebadging: Not to be confused with "badge engineering" or "crossbadging."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
  • Gestion de l'entreprise
  • Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes
DEF

Stratégie d’entreprise qui consiste à commercialiser sous une marque différente un véhicule proposé jusqu’alors à la vente sous une autre marque.

OBS

remarquage : Ne pas confondre avec «multimarquage».

OBS

remarquage : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 11 juin 2016.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-01-18

English

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

The classical pronouncement of a general formula for "duty" is Lord Atkin's... "neighbour test" in Donoghue v. Stevenson :... You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour. Who then, in law, is my neighbour? The answer seems to be-persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question.

OBS

Technical sense.

French

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

prochain : : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-01-18

English

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

The classical pronouncement of a general formula for "duty" is Lord Atkin's... "neighbour test" in Donoghue v. Stevenson :... You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour. Who then, in law, is my neighbour? The answer seems to be-persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question.

French

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

critère du prochain : : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO). 2

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Family Law (civil law)
CONT

In a divorce action, the order of the court granting the divorce in the first instance is called a decree nisi, and is subsequently followed by a final order called decree absolute. Ordinarily, a period of three months should elapse between the pronouncement of the decree nisi and the decree absolute...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Droit de la famille (droit civil)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
  • Derecho de familia (derecho civil)
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Record 5 2006-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
CONT

The pronouncement replaces the dual entry approach, which initially charged direct costs to expense and then reclassified them as an asset, with direct capitalization of initial direct costs as part of the gross investment in the lease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
DEF

Somme des paiements minimaux exigibles par le bailleur en vertu d'un contrat de location-financement ou de location-vente, majorée de toute valeur résiduelle non garantie revenant au bailleur.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

If a change in accounting policy is required by a new IASB standard or interpretation, the change is accounted for as required by that new pronouncement or, if the new pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions, then the change in accounting policy is applied retrospectively.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

Passage d'une méthode comptable généralement admise à une autre méthode également admise, par exemple un changement de méthode d'évaluation des stocks par le passage de la méthode du coût moyen pondéré à la méthode du premier entré, premier sorti (PEPS).

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
OBS

The Corrections and Conditional Release Act permits judges to require violent and serious drug offenders to serve one-half of their sentence in prison before they may become eligible for parole. The judge must make this pronouncement, called judicial determination, at the time of sentencing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
OBS

En vertu de la Loi sur le système correctionnel et la mise en liberté sous condition, les juges peuvent exiger que les délinquants violents et les auteurs d'infractions graves en matière de drogue purgent la moitié de leur peine en prison avant d'être admissibles à la libération conditionnelle. Cette disposition, appelée «détermination judiciaire», est prise par le juge au moment du prononcé de la sentence.

Spanish

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