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DECREE COURT [20 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2017-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

Interim divorce order which is open to challenge during a fixed period of time.

CONT

Every decree of divorce is in the first instance a decree nisi and no such decree shall be made absolute until three months have elapsed from the granting of the decree and the court is satisfied that every right to appeal from the judgment granting the decree has been exhausted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

jugement conditionnel : terme recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
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Record 2 2017-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
DEF

A proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
DEF

Voie de recours extraordinaire, par laquelle le requérant demande aux juges qui ont rendu une décision de bien vouloir la rétracter, à l'effet de procéder à nouveau à l'examen et au jugement de l'affaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
CONT

When the landowner defaulted, courts of equity were again asked to respond, and developed the system of equitable foreclosure. The landowner's failure to repay the loan no longer resulted in an automatic forfeiture of their ownership interest in the land to the lender. Instead, the lender would have a right to petition a court for a decree of foreclosure, the granting of which would bar the landowner's right to the equity of redemption. The lender would thereby recoup his investment by taking title and possession of the property if the landowner failed to repay the loan within a time fixed by the court. The equitable foreclosure system was slow but fair : the lender could petition the court to give ownership of the land to the lender to repay the loan, but the landowner would have a chance to remedy the default or explain the default when the lender had not behaved reasonably.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

forclusion en equity : 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 4 2015-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
  • Rules of Court
CONT

A memorial of a judgment obtained in the Supreme Court, or of a decree of The Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes providing for the payment of alimony or other money... binds the lands of the person against whom the judgment was recovered, decree or execution issued.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

L'extrait d'un jugement obtenu de la Cour suprême, d'un jugement de la Cour des divorces et des causes matrimoniales prévoyant le paiement d'une pension alimentaire ou d'autres sommes d'argent [...] grève les biens-fonds de la personne contre laquelle le jugement a été obtenu ou le bref d'exécution décerné.

OBS

extrait de jugement : 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 2015-06-29

English

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

... the Court must be able, in the rare cases where such a point arises, to rule that some questionable ceremony or event, whilst having the trappings of marriage, failed fundamentally to effect one, such that it neither needs nor is susceptible to a decree of nullity to determine its lack of any legal status : ie. to find in convenient shorthand that it is a "non-marriage" or a "non-existent marriage. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

mariage inexistant : 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 6 2015-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • PAJLO
OBS

A defence upon proof of which the court has a discretion to refuse to grant a decree or judgment of divorce.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • PAJLO
DEF

Moyen de défense qui fait obstacle au prononcé d'un jugement de divorce, mais qui peut être écarté en vertu du pouvoir discrétionnaire du tribunal.

OBS

empêchement discrétionnaire au divorce : 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 7 2015-06-17

English

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

The common learning... is that invalid marriages are of two types : a void marriage which is void "ab initio" and therefore not a marriage at all, and a voidable marriage, which subsists until avoided by a decree of nullity obtained from the court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

Le mariage invalide est nul ou annulable.

OBS

mariage invalide : 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 8 2015-05-12

English

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

In its most extensive sense, the restoration or vindication of a right existing in a person, by the formal judgment or decree of a competent court, at his instance and suit, or the obtaining, by such judgment, of some right or property which has been taken or withheld from him.

French

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

Action de réclamer la propriété d'un bien ou la reconnaissance d'un droit.

CONT

La revendication n'est pas toujours et exclusivement réservée au propriétaire d'un bien; elle peut être accordée à celui qui a un droit réel sur la chose ou un droit spécial assimilable au droit de propriété.

CONT

Le droit de revendication conféré par la loi au liquidateur de la succession ou au vendeur impayé.

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
CONT

An injunction is an order by a court requiring the defendant to do, or refrain from doing something. If the former, it is a mandatory injunction; if the latter, it is a prohibitory injunction. Such a remedy is closely allied to and indeed may be the converse of a decree of specific performance.

French

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

Si le tribunal en est convaincu, il peut accorder une injonction prohibitive ou une injonction mandatoire.

CONT

L'injonction prévue à l'article 19.2 L.Q.E. est l'injonction prohibitive, "pour empêcher tout acte ou toute opération qui porte atteinte à un droit conféré par l'article 19.1".

Spanish

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Record 10 2014-04-15

English

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

To have a contested case heard by a divorce commissioner, the parties must submit a Decree of Reference to the clerk's office endorsed by both parties indicating their agreement that the case be heard by a divorce commissioner or a divorce commissioner may be appointed upon motion of either party or the court for good cause shown.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)

Spanish

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Record 11 2014-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
CONT

The careless disclosure of privileged information to a Board of Inquiry can create an injustice that may significantly disrupt the adjudication of a complaint.

OBS

Adjudication. The legal process of resolving a dispute. The formal giving or pronouncing of a judgment or decree in a court proceeding; also the judgment or decision given.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

Le délai de règlement d'une plainte varie d'un cas à l'autre. Si le plaignant et le mis en cause sont disposés à trouver une solution, la Commission désignera un médiateur qui les aidera à trouver un terrain d'entente.

OBS

Le règlement d'une plainte est survenu dans ce cas précis à la suite d'une procédure engagée par les parties devant un tribunal administratif. Il ne faut pas confondre ce terme avec «settlement of a complaint» qui se traduit par «règlement d'une plainte». Ce dernier se fait entre les parties en dehors d'une instance judiciaire.

Spanish

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Record 12 2013-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

Judicial separation is nothing more than enforcing through an order of the court an arrangement which the parties, assuming they were willing, could have as equally well effected for themselves. A right to alimony provided in such an agreement arises by virtue of that contract with the force of a decree if by judicial separation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
CONT

La séparation judiciaire est [...] une création des tribunaux reconnaissant la séparation de corps des conjoints en les libérant de leurs obligations de cohabiter et de se rendre les services auxquels les autorise le consortium ou le fait d'être mariés. La séparation judiciaire ne met toutefois pas fin au mariage.

Spanish

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Record 13 2013-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Family Law (civil law)
CONT

In a divorce action, the order of the court granting the divorce in the first instance is called a decree nisi, and is subsequently followed by a final order called decree absolute. Ordinarily, a period of three months should elapse between the pronouncement of the decree nisi and the decree absolute...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Droit de la famille (droit civil)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
  • Derecho de familia (derecho civil)
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Record 14 2013-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Courts
DEF

An officer appointed by a court of equity to assist the court.

CONT

master in chancery. An officer of a court of chancery who acts as an assistant to the judge or chancellor. His duties are to inquire into such matters as may be referred to him by the court, examine causes, take testimony, take accounts, compute damages, etc., reporting his findings to the court in such shape that a decree may be made; also to take oaths and affidavits and acknowledgments of deeds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Tribunaux
CONT

Toute partie à interroger oralement pour l'application de la présente loi, doit être ainsi interrogée par ou devant un juge [...] un conseiller maître de la chancellerie, un greffier de la Couronne ou un commissaire-enquêteur spécial du tribunal devant lequel cette pétition d'élection est en cours [...]

CONT

Comme il était conseiller à la cour de la chancellerie depuis 1823, et qu’en 1838 il en était le conseiller principal, sa nomination allait de soi. Il semble avoir rempli cette fonction avec distinction jusqu’à la suppression du poste en 1854, lors d’une réorganisation de la magistrature [...]

Spanish

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Record 15 2013-02-19

English

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

The [Iowa Supreme Court] affirmed the trial court's refusal to render a foreclosure decree ordering a sale of the property involved to repay the mortgage held by the plaintiff and pointed out that the Iowa code expressly required the filing of the instrument, the copying of the instrument into the record book, and the indexing of the instrument. Relying on the purposes for the establishment of a system of recordation, the court interpreted the legislative intent as requiring the indexing of an instrument before there could be valid recordation.(Axelrod, Berger and Johnstone, 1971, pp. 552-553).

French

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

L'expression «inscrire au répertoire» s'emploiera davantage pour indiquer l'inscription d'un nom ou d'un document dans un répertoire donné, tandis que «répertoriage» vise l'action générale de répertorier.

OBS

inscription au répertoire; répertoriage : 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).

Spanish

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Record 16 2012-11-14

English

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

A conveyance evidenced by the order, judgment or decree of a court of record.(Ballentine, p. 269)

CONT

Conveyances by matter of record are such as are substantiated by a court of record. The only examples of this class in use at the present day are royal grants and vesting orders. Fines and recoveries belonged to this class before their abolition. (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 457).

French

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

transport par acte d'archives : 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 17 2004-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
  • Family Law (common law)
OBS

His function is, in a proper case, to intervene to show cause why a decree nisi of divorce or nullity should not be made absolute because material facts were not brought before the court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización de la profesión (Derecho)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
DEF

Representante del Estado con capacidad para intervenir en las demandas complejas de divorcio [...]

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Record 18 2003-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Development
CONT

The therapeutically value of these waters had already been recognized by Dr. Yeager, and he was not slow to see the future of the embryo town and take advantage of its opportunities by establishing himself as one of its first citizens. The wisdom of this move has since been proved by the growth of Mineral Wells to a town of over three thousand, among whom are many wealthy citizens, and as a health resort it ranks among the foremost of the state.

CONT

Even before a road was opened under a decree of Court from what is now Rochester to the ford of the Big Beaver at Old Brightom, the necessity of a bridge at the letter point was apparent. No settlement as yet existed east of the crook, but the embryo town of Brighton, west of the stream already contained a couple of factories and several log dwellings, so the necessary steps were taken for that purpose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement urbain
DEF

Ensemble des premiers éléments nécessaires pour la création et le libre développement d'une agglomération urbaine.

CONT

L'étude à court terme conduit à définir un germe de ville comportant 5000 logements et les équipements correspondants (Introduction à la planification urbaine, p. 245).

CONT

1968. La Mission d'étude et d'aménagement du Vaudreuil, composée d'une équipe pluridisciplinaire d'une trentaine de spécialistes (urbanistes, ingénieurs, géographes, économistes, sociologues, paysagistes), est chargée d'étudier concrètement les conditions de faisabilité de la ville, et notamment d'un premier lot de 4000 logements dans le germe de ville.

Spanish

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Record 19 1995-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Family Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)

Spanish

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Record 20 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)

Spanish

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