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TRESPASS PERSON [8 records]

Record 1 2016-07-22

English

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

Where one man orders or procures another to commit a trespass, and the agent does so, both principal and agent are liable for the damage done.

OBS

Trespass : To commit an unlawful injury to the person, property, or rights of another, with actual or implied force or violence, especially to enter onto another's land wrongfully.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-10-29

English

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

At common law, an action for damages resulting from an intentional injury to person or property, esp. if by violent means; trespass to the plaintiff's person, as in illegal assault, battery, wounding, or imprisonment, when not under color of legal process, or when the battery, wounding, or imprisonment was in the first instance lawful, but unnecessary violence was used or the imprisonment continued after the process had ceased to be lawful.

French

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

trespass vi et armis : 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 2015-10-29

English

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

For injuries to the person or property which were the immediate and direct result of the defendant's force and for which an action of trespass would lie, the early common law imposed a rather strict responsibility.

OBS

"A form of action instituted to recover damages for any unlawful injury to the plaintiff’s person, property or rights, involving immediate force or violence." John A. Yogis, Canadian Law Dictionary, 5th edition, p. 282.

French

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

action pour atteinte directe : 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 4 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 5 2015-10-29

English

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

A continuing trespass is one which is permanent in its nature; as where a person builds on his own land so that part of the building overhangs his neighbour's land.

French

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

intrusion continue; atteinte immobilière continue : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 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 7 2012-10-22

English

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

A parcel of land, whether or not enclosed, in which a person has at least a present possessory interest which will entitle him to bring an action of trespass for breach of the close.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 159).

French

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

clos : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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Record 8 1990-03-02

English

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

"Hunters must recognize that firing over land without permission of the owner constitutes a trespass to land and if injury to person results, trespass to person

French

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

"Les chasseurs doivent savoir que de tirer des coups de feu sur le terrain d'autrui sans la permission du propriétaire constitue une atteinte directe à la propriété immobilière et, s'il en résulte des blessures à des personnes, une atteinte à l'intégrité physique de celles-ci

OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

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