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TRESPASS ACT [7 records]

Record 1 2016-07-22

English

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

At common law, every unauthorized and direct breach of the boundaries of another's land was an actionable trespass. No intent to commit a trespass was required. All that was necessary was that the act resulting in the trespass be volitional, and that the resulting trespass be direct and immediate.

French

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

Commettre une intrusion, c'est entrer dans la propriété d'autrui sans permission ni excuse légitime.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-10-29

English

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

An unlawful interference with one’s person ...

CONT

Trespass to the person comprises assault, assault and battery and wrongful imprisonment. The act may be intentional or negligent but must be committed against the will of the plaintiff.

French

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

atteinte directe à la personne : 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 2015-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
OBS

... the court held the omission of the words "persons or" in the revision of the death act giving administrators and executors an action for trespass to "person or property" of their decedent...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-03-18

English

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

A licence is a permission given by the occupier of land which allows the licensee to do some act which would otherwise be a trespass, "e. g. ", to lodge in his house.(Megarry and Wade, p. 776)

CONT

A licence is in the nature of a right or privilege to enter upon and use the grantor’s land in a certain manner or for a specified purpose. It is a personal right between the licensor and licensee and does not create any estate or interest in the land. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., p. 918).

Key term(s)
  • license

French

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

permission : 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 5 2012-10-03

English

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

An easement which entitles the owner of the dominant tenement to use the servient tenement, or which clothes him with authority to do some act on the servient tenement which would otherwise be unlawful. (Ballentine, 1969, p. 46)

OBS

An easement is positive when it entitles the dominant owner to make active use of the servient tenement, or to do some act which, in the absence of an easement, would be a nuisance or a trespass.(Jowitt, p. 676)

French

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

servitude positive : 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 2012-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

Against this general approach to the interpretation of s. 9 of the TPA [Trespass to Property Act], the appellant argues that a negative inference should be taken from other Ontario legislation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
CONT

À l’encontre de ce mode d’interprétation général de l’art. 9 LESA [Loi sur l'entrée sans autorisation], l’appelant fait valoir qu’une inférence négative devrait être faite à partir d’autres textes législatifs de l’Ontario.

Spanish

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Record 7 2008-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

The fact or set of facts which give a person a right to bring an action.

CONT

A cause of action is sometimes a wrongful act by itself, e. g. trespass, but in other senses, e. g. negligence, a cause of action is not complete until there is both wrongful act and resultant harm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Règles de procédure
DEF

Fondement de la demande en justice; base de la prétention qui concourt, avec l'objet, à déterminer la matière du litige [...] et l'étendue de la chose jugée à laquelle la loi attache autorité.

OBS

cause d'action : Recommandation du Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.

OBS

évènement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Reglamento procesal
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