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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

to release, discharge, waive, relieve from liability. To relieve excuse or set free from a duty or service...  2, record 1, English, - exempt

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Rendre quelqu'un exempt ou soustraire quelqu'un d'une charge ou d'un service  3, record 1, French, - exempter

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

de una obligación o carga  2, record 1, Spanish, - eximir

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The law does not excuse a defendant from liability for a consequence merely because other causal factors for which he is not responsible were also necessary to produce it.  2, record 2, English, - causal%20factor

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

facteur de causalité : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 2, French, - facteur%20de%20causalit%C3%A9

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A plea, which the defendant has the burden of establishing at trial, by which he admits the truth of material facts stated in the plaintiff’s statement of claim, but destroys the legal effect of these admissions by pleading other facts, which, if true, constitute a defence.  3, record 3, English, - affirmative%20defence

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

As the early common law attached liability to trespass on mere proof of direct causation, it became necessary, after the later admission of exculpatory considerations, for the defendant to "justify" or "excuse" his conduct by specially pleading and proving the circumstances which destroyed its actionable quality. Thus "justification" became an affirmative defence.  4, record 3, English, - affirmative%20defence

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

In a statement of defence.  3, record 3, English, - affirmative%20defence

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

défense affirmative : terme recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  3, record 3, French, - d%C3%A9fense%20affirmative

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... considerable hardship might result from inexorably subjecting purely technical offenders(of traffic regulations) to civil liability. One way of avoiding(an) impasse is to predicate civil liability on wilful and negligent breaches alone or to admit the excuse of inevitable accident, mistake and necessity....  1, record 4, English, - negligent%20breach

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is a plea of admission and avoidance. That is, this plea admits that the defendant committed the acts charged, but seeks to excuse the defendant from criminal liability on the ground that the defendant was insane.  2, record 5, English, - admission%20and%20avoidance

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Admission. A voluntary acknowledgment made by a party to a lawsuit or in a criminal prosecution that certain facts that are inconsistent with the party’s claims in the controversy are true.  3, record 5, English, - admission%20and%20avoidance

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Aveu par lequel une partie reconnaît le fait qui lui est défavorable mais y ajoute un fait secondaire et distinct qui modifie totalement ou partiellement la portée de son aveu.  1, record 5, French, - aveu%20complexe

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Dans une action en remboursement de prêt d'argent, le défendeur admet avoir emprunté du demandeur mais il ajoute qu'il a remboursé en totalité les sommes qu'il lui devait.  1, record 5, French, - aveu%20complexe

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

S'excuser d'une faute délictuelle  2, record 6, French, - excuser

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish