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FACT EXPRESS [9 records]

Record 1 2025-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

It [payment under protest] often occurs [when] payment is demanded of a debtor who, although quite convinced he owes nothing, realizes that failure to pay would result in serious prejudice to himself. It was decided that, in such cases, the debtor may pay under protest, that is, execute the obligation while at the same time declaring that he owes nothing, and that such payment cannot therefore be taken as tacit or express recognition of the fact that payment is due or that the debt exists.... payment under protest brings about a shifting of the burden of proof : the right of recovery arises in favour of the payer unless the person who has received the payment proves that such payment was in fact due.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
DEF

Paiement effectué par une personne qui affirme ne pas devoir la somme d'argent réclamée, et ce, afin d'éviter un préjudice comme une saisie de ses biens.

OBS

Le paiement effectué sous protêt permet d'éviter à la personne qui paie que son geste soit assimilé à une reconnaissance tacite ou expresse de l'existence d'une dette.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-11-13

English

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

Courts have used the word "consideration" with many different meanings. It is often used merely to express the legal conclusion that a promise is enforceable. Historically, its primary meaning may have been that the conditions were met under which an action of assumpsit(an early form of contract action) would lie. It was also used as the equivalent of the "quid pro quo" required in an action of debt. A seal, it has been said, imports a consideration, although the law was clear that no element of bargain was necessary to enforcement of a promise under seal. On the other hand, consideration has sometimes been used to refer to almost any reason asserted for enforcing a promise, even though the reason was insufficient(as in) promises in consideration of love and affection, illegal consideration, past consideration, and consideration furnished by reliance on a gratuitous promise where in fact there has been no consideration at all.(Yogis, 1983, p. 47).

OBS

Technical sense, as in "doctrine of consideration."

French

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

Le mot «consideration» n'est pas toujours employé dans ce sens technique. Ainsi, le tour «in consideration for the sum of» peut se rendre par «moyennant la somme de».

OBS

contrepartie : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-02-21

English

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

The legal process of removing a tenant from the premises for some breach of the lease ...

CONT

Typical grounds for the eviction of a tenant include nonpayment of rent, unlawful use of the premises violating the use provisions of the lease (such as conducting a business in a rental unit leased strictly for residential purposes), and noncompliance with health and safety codes. (Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 170).

OBS

The word "eviction" has in latter times been understood to mean what formerly it was not intended to express... [It] has come to have a popular meaning, and to be applied to every kind of expulsion in fact. [Stroud, 4th ed., 1971, p. 951].

French

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

Acception concrète visant l'action de faire sortir des lieux loués un locataire qui s'y trouve sans droit ou qui a violé les clauses du bail.

OBS

expulsion : 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 2008-09-10

English

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

Ordinarily, mere silence or passive failure to disclose the truth are not actionable, however deceptive in fact. This rule not doubt reflects generally accepted ethics of the market place for parties dealing at arm's length; even if its tolerance has sometimes been put to the severest stress as when a seller of thyphoid-infected pigs successfully insisted that his failure to disclose the disease was neither fraud nor reason for disregarding an express disclaimer of all warranties.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
OBS

Terms usually used in the plural.

CONT

The term "representation" is used in reference to any express or implied statement made by one of the parties to a contract to another, regarding a particular fact or circumstance that serves to influence the consummation of the deal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
DEF

Remarque, écrit exprimant le résultat de cette considération attentive.

OBS

Termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
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Record 6 2003-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

In order to express this fact to RDF, we have to model the original statement as a resource with four properties. This process is formally called reification in the Knowledge Representation community. A model of a statement is called a reified statement.

OBS

reified statement: term taken from a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) document. The W3C’s role is to establish standards relating to Internet technology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

Pour modéliser l'exemple précédent, nous pouvons joindre une autre propriété à la déclaration réifiée [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

In order to express this fact to RDF, we have to model the original statement as a resource with four properties. This process is formally called reification in the Knowledge Representation community. A model of a statement is called a reified statement.

OBS

model: term taken from a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) document. The W3C’s role is to establish standards relating to Internet technology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
DEF

[...] présenter sous forme de modèle (notamment de modèle formel, en informatique, en recherche opérationnelle).

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

In order to express this fact to RDF, we have to model the original statement as a resource with four properties. This process is formally called reification in the Knowledge Representation community. A model of a statement is called a reified statement.

OBS

reification: term taken from a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) document. The W3C’s role is to establish standards relating to Internet technology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

La réification permet de définir informatiquement une chose quelconque sous forme d'un objet : passage d'une chose, d'un évènement vers une entité qui représente cette chose ou cet évènement.

Spanish

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Record 9 1998-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
OBS

Bulletin publié chaque mois par la Commission canadienne du tourisme (1er numéro, décembre 1997).

OBS

Source(s) : CCT [Commission canadienne du tourisme].

Spanish

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