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Record 1 2026-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
DEF

[A] communal right of Aboriginal peoples to occupy and use the land inhabited by their ancestors from time immemorial.

CONT

In 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Delgamuukw case that Aboriginal title is a property right to the land itself-not just the right to hunt, fish and gather. [An] Aboriginal title is a communal right; an individual cannot hold [an] Aboriginal title.

OBS

Aboriginal title: A legal term that recognizes an Aboriginal interest in the land. It is based on the long-standing use and occupancy of the land by today’s Aboriginal peoples as the descendants of the original inhabitants of Canada.

Key term(s)
  • Aboriginal title to the land

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

En 1997, la Cour suprême du Canada a statué dans l'affaire Delgamuukw que le titre ancestral est un droit sur la terre elle-même et ne se limite pas au droit de chasser, de pêcher et de récolter. Le titre ancestral est un droit collectif; un particulier ne peut pas détenir de titre ancestral.

OBS

titre ancestral : Terme juridique qui reconnaît les intérêts des Autochtones à l’égard des terres. Il est fondé sur le fait que les peuples autochtones d’aujourd’hui, en tant que descendants des premiers habitants du Canada, utilisent et occupent les terres depuis très longtemps.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho indígena
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Record 2 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Specialized Vocabulary and Phraseologism of Sports
  • Sports (General)
DEF

A title given to the person or team who has defeated all opponents in an event, a competition or a series of competitions, a tournament or a championship, so as to hold first place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire spécialisé et phraséologie des sports
  • Sports (Généralités)
DEF

Titre attribué à l'athlète ou à l'équipe qui a remporté l'épreuve finale d'un championnat ou, aux Jeux Olympiques, l'épreuve finale d'une discipline officiellement inscrite.

OBS

Un athlète détient un titre de champion pour un an dans le cas d'un championnat tenu chaque année, pour quatre ans, dans le cas des Jeux Olympiques, pour une période indéterminée dans les cas où le titre est mis en jeu lorsqu'un aspirant lance un défi au champion.

OBS

Le Comité International Olympique (CIO) demande de respecter le nom des Jeux Olympiques tel qu'établi dans la Charte olympique, soit d'utiliser la majuscule «O». Par contre, les règles d'écriture de la langue française recommandent d'utiliser «Jeux olympiques», graphie préconisée par Sport Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Corporate Management
  • Public Administration
CONT

A senior vice president is usually a vice president who has advanced through the [organization] and receives a title, due in large part, to his or her longevity and experience. This person is usually the highest ranking of the vice presidents... He [or she] may hold ancillary titles as well, such as senior vice president, operations; or, senior vice president, corporate development. In some organizations, the senior vice president directs the activities of other [vice-presidents], while in other instances, the senior VP is simply the highest ranking in the category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Gestion de l'entreprise
  • Administration publique
Key term(s)
  • VP principal
  • VP principale

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Clinical Psychology
OBS

Persons wishing to practise psychology or use the title psychologist in the provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia must hold a certificate of registration from a provincial board of examiners.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Psychologie clinique

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Trusts (common law)
DEF

A trustee whose sole function is to hold the title to the trust property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des fiducies (common law)
OBS

nu-fiduciaire; nue-fiduciaire : termes normalisés 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 2015-10-20

English

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

unlimited ownership... One of the primary features of tenancy in common is that it allows an unlimited number of people to hold title to a property, which can be an advantage in expensive real estate markets because a group of people can contribute to the purchase price of a property, and all of them can benefit from the property's use.

French

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

Droit que possède le propriétaire d'un bien immobilier dont le titre est acquis en commun avec d'autres personnes.

OBS

Il s'agit bien d'une notion qu'on retrouve en droit des biens où tous les propriétaires d'un immeuble possèdent un droit d'usage illimité sur un espace commun à tous.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-03-19

English

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

... so long as the former time-share owners or their trustee hold title to an estate or interest equal to the sum of the time-shares, each former time-share owner and his successors in interest have the same rights with respect to occupancy in the former time-share unit...

French

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

Spanish

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Record 8 2014-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Property Law (civil law)
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

A possessor is presumed to hold the real right he is exercising. A person contesting that presumption has the burden of proving his own right and, as the case may be, that the possessor has no title, a defective title, or defective possession.

French

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

Possession qui ne réunit pas toutes les conditions requises par la loi pour produire des effets juridiques.

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

Civil law. Possession by operation of law of an entirely by virtue of corporeal possession of a part.

CONT

When a possessor holds title to a property and physically possesses part of it, the law will deem the possessor to hold constructive possession of the rest of the property described in the title.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
DEF

Possession qui unit toutes les conditions requises par la loi pour produire des effets juridiques.

Spanish

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Record 10 2013-06-10

English

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

A tenancy which is created between a husband and wife and by which together they hold title to the whole with right of survivorship so that, upon death of either, other takes whole to exclusion of deceased's heirs.... It is essentially a "joint tenancy, "modified by the common-law theory that husband and wife are one person, and survivorship is the predominant and distinguishing feature of each.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, pp. 1313-14).

Key term(s)
  • tenancy by entireties
  • tenancy by the entirety

French

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

tenance unitaire : 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 11 2013-06-04

English

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

One who settles on another's land, without legal title or authority. A person entering upon lands, not claiming in good faith the right to do so by virtue of any title of his own or by virtue of some agreement with another whom he believes to hold the title.(Black, 5th, p. 1258)

French

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

Personne prenant abusivement possession d'un local vacant. (Arrêté du 16 juillet 1984 relatif à l'enrichissement du vocabuliare de l'urbanisme et du logement, Journal official - N. C. du 21 juillet 1984).

OBS

squatteur; squatteuse : 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 12 2013-03-06

English

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

Two forms of co-ownership of property exist, joint property or joint tenancy, where two or more persons jointly hold the same title for the same duration and the seisin or possession is vested in all; and common property or tenancy in common, where each co-owner has his own title and interest to a share in the property though it is held undivided.("Oxford Companion to Law", 1980, p. 289)

OBS

Every joint tenant is seised or possessed of the joint property "per my et per tout", that is, by every part and by the whole ... (Jowitt’s, 1977, p. 1018)

French

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

Le terme anglais «joint property» désigne à la fois le régime de tenance conjointe (ou propriété conjointe) et le bien soumis à ce régime.

OBS

bien conjoint; propriété conjointe : 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 13 2013-02-19

English

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

Since the typical recorder's office may contain thousands of volumes and millions of documents, some form of index is essential so that searchers can locate instruments which affect the land whose title is being searched. Thus the office contains two types of volumes : index books and books which hold the actual copies of the legal instruments. The latter are sometimes called deed books, even though they include other types of documents, such as leases, mortgages and releases in addition to deeds.(Cunningham, Stoebuck and Whitman, 3rd ed., 1984, p. 797).

French

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

répertoire : 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 14 2013-01-08

English

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

Co-ownership. Two forms of co-ownership of property exist, joint property or joint tenancy, where two or more persons jointly hold the same title for the same duration and the seisin or possession is vested in all; and common property or tenancy in common, where each co-owner has his own title and interest to a share in the property though it is held undivided.(Walker, p. 289)

French

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

Acception juridique stricte qui vise la notion de tenance commune.

OBS

propriété commune : 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 15 2012-10-05

English

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

The actual occupation of real estate, but without any apparent or colorable right to hold and continue such possession; spoken of as the lowest and most imperfect degree of title.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1048).

French

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

simple possession : 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 16 2012-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
  • Political Institutions
CONT

In setting the criteria, the Commissioner interpreted that Parliament's intent was to designate those who :hold positions which, by any title, have comparable decision-making or advisory responsibilities to Associate Deputy Ministers and Assistant Deputy Ministers; are remunerated at least as much as the minimum salary of an Assistant Deputy Minister; and, report to a DPOH [designated public office holder], as do Associate Deputy Ministers and Assistant Deputy Ministers

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
  • Institutions politiques
CONT

Pour nous, cela signifiait, et signifie toujours, que nos responsabilités consultatives englobent tout ce qui touche le contenu et l’innovation, les normes, la recherche-développement et la passerelle.

OBS

Comparables à celles des sous-ministres délégués et des sous-ministres adjoints.

Spanish

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Record 17 2010-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
OBS

constructive possession : Possession not actual but assumed to exist, where one claims to hold by virtue of some title, without having the actual occupancy, as, where the owner of a tract of land, regularly laid out, is in possession of a part, he is constructively in possession of the whole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
OBS

présomption : Mode de raisonnement juridique en vertu duquel, de l'établissement d'un fait on induit un autre fait qui n'est pas prouvé.

OBS

possession présumée de narcotique : traduction proposée par Mme Odile Calder, réviseur à la section judiciaire.

OBS

possession conjointe : expression proposée par un terminologue juriste à l'O.L.F., Montréal.

Spanish

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Record 18 1994-02-21

English

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

French

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

Source(s) : Lexique Justice.

Spanish

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Record 19 1994-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Source(s) : Lexique Justice.

Spanish

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