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CONCURRENT JURISDICTION [10 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

A duplicate of the original writ, with such variation of the wording of the form as the circumstances may require.

OBS

[A concurrent writ] is sealed with a special seal bearing the word "concurrent" and when issued is in all respects and for all purposes equivalent to the original, and remains in force for the period during which the original is in force. A concurrent writ is frequently issued for service out of the jurisdiction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

Pluriel : des duplicatas ou des duplicata.

OBS

duplicatas (pl.) : 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

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Record 3 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Constitutional Law
DEF

Jurisdiction that might be exercised simultaneously by more than one court over the same subject matter and within the same territory, a litigant having the right to choose the court in which to file the action.

CONT

The committee was provided with updates on the recently issued Internet acceptable use policy, concurrent jurisdiction, and the military judiciary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Droit constitutionnel
CONT

Le comité a reçu des mises à jour sur la politique nouvellement émise quant à l'utilisation acceptable d'Internet, la juridiction concurrente et la magistrature militaire.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
  • Courts
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
DEF

The power of an agency to decide an issue in the first instance when a court, having concurrent jurisdiction with the agency, determines that it would be more pragmatic for the agency to handle the case initially.

CONT

Canadian provinces and one of the territories (Yukon) have the primary jurisdiction over most areas of water management and protection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif
  • Tribunaux
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

Les provinces et un des territoires, le Yukon, disposent de la compétence principale dans la plupart des domaines de la gestion et de la protection de l'eau.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • Constitutional Law
DEF

Jurisdiction shared by two or more states, especially over the physical boundaries (such as rivers or other bodies of water) between them.

CONT

It follows from the two rules of international law permitting the local State to exercise jurisdiction over foreign merchant vessels in its waters and the flag State to exercise jurisdiction over them in foreign waters that the two States may have concurrent jurisdiction over acts and events occurring on board foreign ships in inland waters, and subject to the qualifications mentioned elsewhere, in territorial waters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Droit constitutionnel
CONT

[...] dans le cas où un territoire sert d'assise commune à deux ou plusieurs États : ce sont des hypothèses de compétences territoriales communes ou concurrentes.

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-01-08

English

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

In the jurisdiction where the land was located a typical statute provided that all concurrent tenancies shall be deemed tenancies in common and not joint tenancies unless it is expressly declared that the grantees or devisees shall take as joint tenants.(Smith & Boyer, 2nd ed., 1971, p. 57)

French

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

tenance concurrente; cotenance : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

tenance : acception de base générique qui vise le fait de «tenir» un bien (ou, plus exactement, un «domaine», etc., sur celui-ci), de même que la relation ainsi établie.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 8 2000-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 9 2000-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 10 1993-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Seeks to limit alimony, "alimony prison, "and the concurrent jurisdiction of the Family Court and the Supreme Court(in New York). Advocates adequate child support with both parents contributing and equal visitation and responsibility for each parent. Supports a standard and uniform divorce code in every state, "thereby eliminating frauds, deceptions and injustices. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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