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Record 1 2016-01-18

English

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

It should be noted that the phrase "contributory negligence" was nowhere mentioned by the court, but this case is, nevertheless, thought to be the origin of the "stalemate rule".... The theory, according to Viscount Simon was that "where a man is part author of his own injury, he cannot call on the other party to compensate him in full".

French

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

Il convient de signaler que le tribunal n'a jamais employé les mots «négligence de la victime» («contributory negligence») mais on estime néanmoins que la «règle du pat» («stalemate rule») a son origine dans cette affaire. [...] Selon cette conception, au dire du vicomte Simon, «lorsqu'un homme a contribué en partie à ses propres blessures, il ne peut pas demander à l'autre partie de le dédommager complètement».

OBS

règle du pat : 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 2 2015-06-16

English

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

A police officer responding to an emergency call of a man struck by a car accidentally ran over the victim with his cruisor...

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
CONT

Police in Irvine are hoping new surveillance video will lead them to a man they call a "distraction" robber. There could be other suspects.

OBS

One Ottawa convenience store owner is warning others about "distraction" robberies where people preoccupy a store clerk while others steal goods ...The video shows one group distracting the store clerk, security guards and customers while three women can be seen sneaking into the back and cutting open locks on the store’s safe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
DEF

Individu ayant cherché à distraire un commis d'un magasin avec l'aide de son complice pour voler ses biens, en utilisant des manœuvres visant à détourner l'attention du commis ou du propriétaire des biens dépouillés pendant la perpétration de cette infraction criminelle.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Photography
  • Cinematography
DEF

A technique of taking a series of photographs by either a still or a cine camera at set intervals to record changes that take place slowly with time, such as the growth history of plants, time and motion studies, records of air pollution by smoke, movement of clouds, and other flow patterns, progress of corrosion, etc.

OBS

A typical speed might be 1 frame every 30 seconds so that 24 hours of real time would be compressed, when projected, into 2 minutes of film time.

OBS

As film speeds improved, first came chronophotography, what we might call time-lapse photography today, the study of movement in man and animals.

OBS

The Dictionary of New Media is available at: <a href="http://hepdigital.com/" title="http://hepdigital.com">http://hepdigital.com</a>.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Photographie
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Technique qui consiste à prendre une série de prises de vues à intervalles pré-réglés avec un appareil-photo ou une caméra afin d'enregistrer la chronologie de certains sujets tels que la croissance d'une plante, les études portant sur le temps et le mouvement, la constitution de dossiers sur la pollution engendrée par la fumée, le mouvement des systèmes atmosphériques, la progression de la rouille, etc.

OBS

chronophotographie : Procédé imaginé par Marey pour étudier les mouvements rapides (vol des oiseaux, etc.) au moyen d'une succession de photographies.

OBS

La projection des images prises à intervalle permet un visionnement en accéléré au moment de la projection.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
  • Criminal Psychology
DEF

A person who commits a series of similar murders with no apparent motive.

CONT

[A] man was discussing what the Brits called crimes in series-a series of rapes, burglaries, arsons, murders. That seemed a highly appropriate way of characterizing the killings of those who do one murder, then another and another in a fairly repetitive was.... After a murder, the serial murderer thinks of how the crime could have been bettered.... When he follows this sort of train of thought, his mind jumps ahead to how he can kill more nearly perfectly the next time; there's an improvement continuum.... Serial killers... are obsessed with a fantasy, and they have what we must call nonfulfilled experiences that become part of the fantasy and push them on toward the next killing.

OBS

serial killer: Term coined by former FBI detective Robert Ressler.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
  • Psychologie criminelle
DEF

Personne qui commet plusieurs meurtres successifs, généralement, dans des circonstances analogues.

CONT

Contrairement au meurtrier de masse, qui ne frappe généralement qu'une seule fois au cours de sa vie, mais de façon spectaculaire, le tueur en série tue tant et aussi longtemps qu'il n'est pas appréhendé.

OBS

Le terme "tueur en série" a été également retrouvé dans la base de données AGRA et dans l'Actualité Québec.

OBS

En français, le complément de TUEUR précise généralement le type de victimes visées : tueur d'enfants, tueur de femmes, etc.

Key term(s)
  • auteur de meurtres à répétition
  • multi-assassin

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Criminología
  • Psicología criminal
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Record 6 2002-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Annuities (Insurance)
  • Employment Benefits
CONT

Sometimes economists call rent paid by a man to himself "implicit"... Very clearly, implicit rent is as much part of long-run competitive costs as are any other costs...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rentes (Assurances)
  • Avantages sociaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Anualidades (Seguros)
  • Beneficios sociales
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Record 7 1999-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting Services
DEF

A regularly enrolled firefighter in a community fire service who contributes his time to fire protection and suppression activities without pay, except for workman’s compensation or other injury or death benefits.

OBS

vamp: colloquial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service d'incendie
DEF

Pompier dûment enrôlé, mais ne touchant aucune rémunération pour les heures passées en service. Il a cependant droit à l'assurance contre les accidents du travail, aux indemnités pour incapacité et aux indemnités de décès.

CONT

Les corps des sapeurs-pompiers communaux ou départementaux. (...) Près de 17 000 sapeurs-pompiers professionnels et 202 000 volontaires, répartis dans 11 676 corps professionnels, volontaires ou mixtes, veillaient en 1984 sur le patrimoine national en dehors des secteurs confiés aux militaires à Paris et à Marseille.

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting Services
DEF

A firefighter who regularly follows another occupation but responds to a fire emergency when called by radio, telephone, siren, or house bells.

OBS

A call firefighter may be paid at an hourly rate for the time spent on the fireground or a flat fee per response.

Key term(s)
  • call fire fighter
  • retained fire fighter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service d'incendie

Spanish

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Record 9 1983-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language
OBS

..., and I dare say doesn’t call on any man unless he knew something of him before...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique
OBS

[...] qui j'en réponds, n'ira pas trouver chez lui un étudiant à moins qu'il ne le connaisse déjà un peu (Faux amis, 301).

Spanish

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Record 10 1983-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
OBS

Sometimes economists call rent paid by a man to himself "implicit" rather than "explicit" rent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois

Spanish

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