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ENTER INTO LAW [13 records]

Record 1 2016-01-18

English

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

Misrepresentation of facts made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract, and on which the representee relies in doing so, is sanctioned by rescission of the contract and/or by damages at common law...

French

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

assertion factuelle inexacte : 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 2012-12-11

English

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

It is often a source of great surprise to property owners in older residential areas to discover that the front porch and steps of their house, which appear to be well set back from the curb, are in fact shown by the survey to be situated on the City street... In such situations, it is possible to enter into an encroachment agreement with the municipality.("Law Society of Upper Canada, Bar Admission Course, Real Estate and Landlord and Tenant", 1991-92, p. 11-2).

French

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

empiètement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

OBS

convention d'empiétement : 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 3 2012-12-03

English

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

At common law, a tenant "pur autre vie" could not devise his estate by will and... it could not pass to his heirs by descent. On his death, however, the land did not revert to the grantor... and it did not escheat.... By reason of the rule that the freehold must never be vacant, the estate was completed by means of the doctrine of occupancy. If no one was entitled to enter into occupancy, any person who did enter into possession could hold the land during the life of the "cestui que vie" by right of occupancy....(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 156).

French

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

doctrine de l'occupation : 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 4 2011-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • International Law
  • National and International Security
DEF

A person of international law that possesses : a permanent population; a defined territory; government; and capacity to enter into relations with the other states.

OBS

Definition derived from Article One of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, 26 December 1933 [AKA {also known as} Montevideo Convention].

OBS

state: term and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel and the Defence Terminology Standardization Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Droit international
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
DEF

Personne de droit international qui possède une population permanente, un territoire déterminé, un gouvernement et une capacité d'entrer en relation avec les autres États.

OBS

Définition dérivée de l’article premier de la Convention concernant les droits et devoirs des États, 26 décembre 1933 [appelée aussi Convention de Montevideo].

OBS

État : terme et définition uniformisés par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la Défense; terme uniformisé par le Groupe d’experts en terminologie interarmées.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-12-08

English

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

Postnuptial contract.(a) Spouses who are legally married under the laws of this state may enter into a postnuptial contract or settlement which is valid and enforceable if it :...(b) A postnuptial contract or settlement that conforms with this section may determine all matters that may be determined by an antenuptial contract or settlement under the law of this state, except that a postnuptial contract or settlement may not determine the rights of any child of the spouses to child support from either spouse or rights of child custody.

OBS

An antenuptial contract is an agreement in contemplation of marriage, whereas a postnuptial contract is generally one in contemplation of separation. The former is providing and planning for a union of interest with some property modifications; the latter for a complete disunion of all domestic and property interests."

Key term(s)
  • post-nuptial contract
  • post-nuptial agreement

French

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

Convention intervenue entre deux personnes engagées dans le mariage afin d'adopter des mesures jugées nécessaires quant aux biens et aux propriétés qu'elles possèdent après leur séparation ou leur divorce.

Key term(s)
  • contrat postmarital
  • entente postmaritale
  • accord postmarital

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-11-25

English

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

An optional form of marriage which is harder to enter and harder to leave than the usual sort. It requires pre-marital counselling, and it allows divorce only under tight conditions : abandonment, two years separation, adultery, physical or sexual abuse, or if a spouse gets sentenced in court to hard labour or death. Concept passed into law in Louisiana on August 15, 1997.

French

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

Dans un mariage covenant entre un homme et une femme, certains principes essentiels sont indispensables et intégrés à cette relation en raison de la nature même des deux sexes, que l'on qualifie parfois de genres, en présence. Il n'existe que deux genres hétérosexuels, l'homme et la femme, et non pas trois ou cinq.

OBS

Voir «covenant de droit» (covenant in law).

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
  • Maritime Law
OBS

In 1964, Congress passed the Bartlett Act(Pub. L. No 88-308, 78 Stat. 194) which excluded foreign vessels from fishing within the United States’ territorial sea, defined as all ocean waters within three miles from the coast. Two years later, Congress passed the Contiguous Fisheries Zone Act(Pub. L. No. 89-658, 80 Stat. 908), which created a nine-mile contiguous zone extending out from the three-mile limit, from which foreign fishing vessels would be excluded. These acts and treaties failed to protect U. S. fisheries as they were intended to. The Bartlett Act provided no authority for federal management measures, limiting the federal government's role to data collection and law enforcement against foreign fishers. Other nations also found their fisheries to be suffering, as most treaties provided no means of enforcement against nations who had not chosen to enter into an agreement. As a result, several countries moved to extend the area of their marine jurisdiction. By 1975, of the parties involved in ongoing law-of-the-sea negotiations, sixty nations including the United States, favored a twelve-mile territorial sea and a two-hundred-mile resource conservation zone.

Key term(s)
  • Twelve Mile Fishery jurisdiction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
  • Droit maritime
Key term(s)
  • Loi instituant une zone de pêche de 12 milles

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

In English contract law, the expression ’agency of cohabitation’ is... used to mean that in certain circumstances cohabitation entitles a person to enter into certain legal transactions which will bind his or her cohabitee.

Key term(s)
  • cohabitation agency

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language Problems (General)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

Powers and duties of directors... The directors of an association may administer the affairs of the association in all things, and make or cause to be made for the association, any description of contract that the association may, by law, enter into.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Problèmes de langue (Généralités)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

Pouvoirs et fonctions des administrateurs [...] Les administrateurs d'une association peuvent, en toutes choses, diriger ses affaires, et passer ou faire passer, pour l'association tout contrat que l'association peut légalement conclure.

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-04-19

English

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

... the owner-driver was held liable to a child who fell through some defective floorboards and was run over, on the ground that the cause of the accident was not the negligent driving but the dangerous floorboards, for which the owner was responsible as the occupier of the automobile. Mr. Justice Aylesworth stated that "the statute does not provide an exemption from common law liability upon the owner of defective premises or in this case defective chattels, where injury arises from that defect known or which ought to be known to the owner of the chattel and when the person injured has been invited to enter into or on the chattel. "

French

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

[...] le conducteur propriétaire a été tenu responsable envers un enfant qui était tombé au travers d'un plancher défectueux et avait été écrasé, au motif non que l'accident était dû à sa négligence mais que le plancher était dangereux, et qu'il était responsable à titre d'occupant de l'automobile. Le juge Aylesworth a déclaré que «la loi ne soustrait pas le propriétaire de lieux défectueux ou, en l'occurrence, de biens mobiliers défectueux, à la responsabilité que lui impose la common law, lorsque les blessures sont dues aux vices que le propriétaire du bien connaissait ou aurait dû connaître, et que la personne blessée a été invitée à pénétrer dans ou sur le bien en question».

OBS

[...] à l'occasion de la normalisation du Droit des biens, le gouvernement fédéral a choisi de laisser les gouvernements provinciaux établir la terminologie en ce domaine de droit privé qui relève de la compétence législative des provinces. Aussi, dans les Lois révisées du Canada de 1985, on retrouve [par ex.] dans la version française «biens meubles» et «biens immeubles» pour rendre «personal property» et «real property» et non les expressions normalisées «biens personnels» et «biens réels.

OBS

«chatel» est l'équivalent de «chattel» normalisé dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

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Record 11 1989-02-06

English

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

... the owner-driver was held liable to a child who fell through some defective floorboards and was run over, on the ground that the cause of the accident was not the negligent driving but the dangerous floorboards, for which the owner was responsible as the occupier of the automobile. Mr. Justice Aylesworth stated that "the statute does not provide an exemption from common law liability upon the owner of defective premises or in this case defective chattels, where injury arises from that defect known or which ought to be known to the owner of the chattel and when the person injured has been invited to enter into or on the chattel. "

French

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

[...] le conducteur propriétaire a été tenu responsable envers un enfant qui était tombé au travers d'un plancher défectueux et avait été écrasé, au motif non que l'accident était dû à sa négligence mais que le plancher était dangereux, et qu'il était responsable à titre d'occupant de l'automobile. Le juge Aylesworth a déclaré que "la loi ne soustrait pas le propriétaire de lieux défectueux ou, en l'occurrence, de biens mobiliers défectueux, à la responsabilité que lui impose la common law, lorsque les blessures sont dues aux vices que le propriétaire du bien connaissait ou aurait dû connaître, et que la personne blessée a été invitée à pénétrer dans ou sur le bien en question.

Spanish

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Record 12 1987-11-13

English

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

Persons entering as of right may be divided into, at least, two separate groups according to the nature of the right asserted by them. The first comprises broadly all lawful users of facilities open to the public.... The second group comprises those who enter private premises for a public purpose authorized by law.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 13 1987-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treaties and Conventions
DEF

In international law, an undertaking on behalf of his state by an official not specifically empowered to enter into it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traités et alliances
DEF

Terme latin employé, surtout autrefois, pour désigner un accord international conclu par qui n'en avait pas reçu pouvoir.

Spanish

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