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QUESTION MONEY [6 records]

Record 1 2017-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
  • Courts
DEF

A trial that is divided into two stages, such as for guilt and punishment or for liability and damages.

CONT

A common example of a "bifurcated trial" is one in which the question of liability in a personal injury case is tried separately from and prior to a trial on the amount of damages to be awarded if liability is found. A "bifurcated trial" in such a case is advantageous because if the defendant is not found liable, there is no need to spend the money or time in the presentation of proof and witnesses on the issue of damages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice
  • Tribunaux
DEF

Procès dans lequel deux étapes distinctes se succèdent - par exemple, l'une pour l'établissement des responsabilités ou de la culpabilité et l'autre pour la détermination des dommages-intérêts ou de la peine.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-05-31

English

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

Another problem involving the use of words is the question of "conditional assault". If one person points a gun at another and says, "Your money or your life!", it might be argued that it is not assault because the plaintiff may avoid any harm by complying with the condition and parting with his money. It could be contended that the requirement of immediacy is absent. Such an argument is fallacious, however, for one cannot impose conditions upon another, when one has no legal right to do so. It would be otherwise of a landowner said to a trespasser, "Get off my land or I’ll throw you off, "for in such a case, the landowner is only threatening to do what he is entitled to do anyway.

French

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

Un autre problème relié aux paroles est celui des «voies de fait conditionnelles». Si un individu braque une arme sur quelqu'un en lui disant : «la bourse ou la vie!», on pourrait soutenir qu'il n'y a pas de voies de fait parce que le demandeur peut éviter tout préjudice en se soumettant à la condition et en se défaisant de son argent. On pourrait soutenir que le caractère d'imminence est absent, mais cet argument est faux car personne ne peut, sans justification, imposer des conditions à une autre personne. La situation serait différente si un propriétaire disait à un intrus «Si vous ne déguerpissez pas, je vous expulserai moi-même!», puisque, dans ce cas, le propriétaire menace seulement de faire ce qu'il a le droit de faire de toute façon.

OBS

voies de fait conditionnelles : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • voie de fait conditionnelle

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-11-13

English

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

Value is often used as an abbreviation for "valuable consideration," especially in the phrases "purchaser for value," "holder for value," etc. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1849).

OBS

Value may consist of spiritual or aesthetic qualities, or in utility in use, or in the amount of money or other goods which could be obtained in exchange for the thing in question. In legal contexts, the last is the sense usually relevant, in such phrases as "holder for value" or "purchaser for value, "in each of which "value" means "having paid a reasonable equivalent in money. "[Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, p. 1270].

French

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

Ce syntagme figure dans diverses expressions telles que «purchaser for valuable consideration, bailment for valuable consideration», etc., et s'oppose aux adjectifs «gratuitous» et «voluntary» rendus par «à titre gratuit» ou «gratuit».

OBS

On veillera à éviter l'emploi de la locution «contre valeur» qui est un calque de l'anglais.

OBS

à titre onéreux : 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 4 2015-05-11

English

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

An agreement to fix the remedy available to an injured party may take one of three forms. [...] the contract may provide for the payment of a sum of money(or the forfeiture of something which has already been paid over, or given by way of a bond to secure performance) and the sum in question is expressed to be a pre-assessment of the injured party's loss.

Key term(s)
  • preassessment

French

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

évaluation. - Opération consistant à calculer et à énoncer une valeur d'après des données et des critères déterminées (not. la date d'évaluation), c'est-à-dire à chercher et à chiffrer ce que vaut en argent un bien ou un avantage (évaluation d'un patrimoine, évaluation d'un profit) ou la somme d'argent que représente une perte (évaluation d'un dommage); le terme est plus général qu'estimation, a fortiori qu'appréciation.

Spanish

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Record 5 1992-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Call Distribution Systems
CONT

This feature is available in broadcast mode only and allows participants to register their questions by pressing 14 on their touthtone telephones. Participants with questions are queued and introduced by the GTS Operator in sequence. Participants can cancel their request by entering 13 on the keypad. The question period during a leleconference, with a conventional service, tends to be long, and lacks organization and structure. This feature may greatly improve the structure and efficiency of the teleconference, and save you money and time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distributeurs d'appels (Téléphonie)

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims
OBS

it's a question of money

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons

Spanish

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