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YIELD RIGHT [6 records]

Record 1 2024-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Highway Code
CONT

Failure to yield meaning. These charges are typically laid when drivers fail to yield to the right of way when entering an intersection or roadway from another road or driveway. This can include failing to yield to other drivers or pedestrians.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Code de la route
CONT

Le refus de priorité peut engendrer un accident de la route, c'est pourquoi l'infraction est sévèrement punie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Networks
DEF

Any highway or portion thereof at the entrances to which stop sign or yield right of way signs are erected and which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to stop or to yield the right of way before entering or crossing the same.

OBS

through road: term proposed by the World Road Association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réseaux routiers
OBS

route de transit : terme proposé par l'Association mondiale de la route.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Redes viales
OBS

carretera de paso; vía de paso: Términos utilizados por la Asociación Mundial de la Carretera.

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Record 3 2007-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
CONT

This is especially important in sports : not only team sports, in which factors such as cohesion and leadership are pivotal, but in individual sports when the right kind of ’chemistry’ between an athlete and his or her coaching staff can yield significant changes in performance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
CONT

Trois de ces athlètes pratiquent un sport collectif (comme le hockey sur glace) et sept d'entre eux pratiquent un sport individuel (comme le patinage de vitesse, la lutte, la course de vitesse, la natation, la natation synchronisée, le ski acrobatique, le bobsleigh).

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

A warrant, giving an investor the right to buy additional bonds at a predetermined price/yield.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Titre, le plus souvent détachable, conférant au titulaire de l'obligation à laquelle il est attaché initialement le droit de souscrire un nombre déterminé d'obligations non encore émises de la société émettrice, dans des conditions, des délais et à un prix déterminés lors de l'émission de l'obligation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
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Record 5 1989-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Real Estate
CONT

Split Equity Contract similar to the en viager method used in France, involves the actual sale of the property by the homeowner. There is no mortgage. The homeowner retains the right to rent-free occupancy for a specified number of years or life. The purchase price would be determined by the expected future value of the property discounted by its rent-free use, interest, and the specific or expected time lapse before actual possession. This could be a life mortality consideration. The proceeds of the sale could be invested to yield income or, alternatively, used to buy a Life Annuity from an insurance company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Immobilier

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
OBS

Very often there is a tendency to give [an] offender another chance. The drinking driving offense is improperly concealed under a lesser charge such as "failure to yield right of way" and others.

Key term(s)
  • drinking driving offence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police

Spanish

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