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ILLEGALITY [21 records]

Record 1 2023-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Rights and Freedoms
OBS

International human trafficking involves someone who in the process of being trafficked, crosses an international border, regardless of the victim's immigration status. The legality or illegality of border crossing in this case is irrelevant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Droits et libertés
OBS

La traite de personnes internationale est associée aux cas de victimes qui, durant le processus de la traite, franchissent une frontière internationale, quel que soit leur statut d'immigrant. La frontière peut être franchie légalement ou non.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
OBS

illegality : concrete meaning.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Infractions et crimes
OBS

illicite : Contraire à la loi [...]

OBS

On donne parfois à «illicite» un autre sens, soit contraire à la morale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
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Record 3 2017-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Legal System
OBS

Of an act as opposed to the act itself

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

A contract may be frustrated by supervening illegality resulting from the war-time prohibition against trading with the enemy, in spite of the fact that the war was a foreseeable event.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

La loi, dans la définition qu'elle donne du cas fortuit, requiert que le débiteur n'ai pas «prévu» l'événement. Au contraire, la jurisprudence, reprenant en cela les données de la doctrine classique, demande au débiteur de démontrer non seulement qu'il n'a pas effectivement prévu l'événement mais encore que celui-ci n'était pas normalement «prévisible».

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Rules of Court
DEF

The rule that evidence derived from an illegal search, arrest, or interrogation is inadmissible because the evidence(the "fruit") was tainted by the illegality(the "poisonous tree").

Key term(s)
  • doctrine of fruit-of-the-poisonous tree

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-10-23

English

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

The second question is whether illegality which does not frustrate the contract but only affects some subsidiary obligation excuses non-performance of that obligation.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

The idea that contractual obligations are based on agreement must... be qualified in relation to the scope of the principle of freedom of contract. In the nineteenth century, judges took the view that persons of full capacity should in general be allowed to make what contracts they like, the law only interfered on fairly specific grounds such as misrepresentation, indue influence or illegality.

Key term(s)
  • contract freedom

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
DEF

Principe consacrant le droit de toute personne de s'engager librement dans un contrat.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
DEF

Principio económico del liberalismo que defiende la posibilidad de concluir toda clase de acuerdos o convenios privados, para la realización de cualquier tipo de obra, proyecto, compraventa, etc.

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Record 8 2015-09-23

English

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

The rules so far stated apply to supervening prohibition, i. e. to one imposed by a law made after the contract. If, at the time of contracting, the prohibition is already in force, the case is one of antecedent prohibition. This may make the contract void ab initio for illegality, but it will not bring about frustration.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

The expression "clan lab" refers to any location where drugs are grown, produced or prepared. Under the Criminal Code, these labs operate in total illegality, whether in Quebec or in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

L'expression «laboratoire clandestin» désigne n'importe quel endroit où l'on cultive, fabrique ou prépare des drogues. En vertu du Code criminel, ces laboratoires fonctionnent dans la plus totale illégalité, tant au Québec qu'au Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
  • Infracciones y crímenes
CONT

A pesar de las grandes diferencias de complejidad entre laboratorios clandestinos, especialmente los que producen MDMA [metilenodioximetanfetamina] y metanfetaminas, éstos pueden estar situados en cualquier parte del planeta debido al desvío de productos químicos de base con respecto a su destino declarado.

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Record 10 2015-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Rules of Court
DEF

A defense formerly available only in a court of equity but now maintainable in a court of law.

OBS

Examples include mistake, fraud, illegality, and failure of consideration.

Key term(s)
  • equitable defense

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

En français le terme «equity» ne s'écrit ni en italique ni entre guillemets. La graphie et le genre sont normalisés.

Spanish

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Record 11 2015-03-18

English

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

Supervening illegality, for example, a statute or proclamation making trading with an enemy in time of war illegal, renders the act or contract illegal, but not impossible to perform.

CONT

It is now customary to treat supervening illegality as an instance of frustration, in that it is similar to frustration by a subsequent change in the law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 12 2015-03-17

English

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

The rules so far stated apply to supervening prohibition, i. e. to one imposed by a law made after the contract. If, at the time of contracting, the prohibition is already in force, the case is one of antecedent prohibition. This may make the contract void ab initio for illegality, but it will not bring about frustration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 13 2014-02-21

English

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

Failure of legacy. A legacy may fail for a number of reasons, e. g. uncertainty, illegality, death of the legatee in the testator's lifetime, ademption, satisfaction, attestation of the will by the legatee, disclaimer, and non-fulfilment of a condition. [Williams’ "Law Relating to Wills, "5th, p. 190].

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

Acception restreinte. Le verbe correspondant (fail) peut se rendre en français par «tomber».

OBS

défaillance : 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 2012-08-07

English

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

Absolute and Conditional Sales. The parties being free, both at common law and under the Act, to make whatever contract they chose, subject only to the limitations of illegality and possibility, they can insert into a contract of sale of goods such terms or conditions as they think fit. In the absence of any such express conditions or the possibility of implying into the contract any conditions from the course of dealing of the parties, trade usage or custom, it might be thought that a contract of sale of goods would be absolute.(Dobson, 2nd ed., 1979, p. 157)

French

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

vente absolue : 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 2010-08-30

English

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

There has been a rebirth of an old, harsh doctrine of the common law-ex turpi causa non oritur actio, or what might be called the illegality defence.... Pursuant to this defence, an injured plaintiff who is engaged in criminal conduct at the time he is injured may be denied all tort recovery.

Key term(s)
  • illegality defense
  • defense of illegality

French

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

Une ancienne et rigoureuse règle de la common law, la règle ex turpi causa non oritur actio, ou ce que l'on peut appeler le moyen de défense d'illégalité, a recommencé à être appliquée par les tribunaux. [...] Lorsque ce moyen de défense est invoqué, le demandeur qui commettait un acte criminel au moment où il a été blessé peut perdre son droit de recouvrer des dommages-intérêts.

Spanish

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Record 16 2004-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

A legacy may fail for a number of reasons, e. g. uncertainty, illegality, death of the legatee in the testator's lifetime, ademption, satisfaction, attestation of the will by the legatee, disclaimer, and non-fulfilment of a condition.(Williams’ "Law Relating to Wills", 5th ed., 1980, p. 190.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

Le terme (fail) est considéré ici en tant qu'il se rapporte à une libéralité («gift», «bequest», «devise», «legacy»...).

Spanish

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Record 17 2004-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Legal Documents
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

In law, used particularly with reference to the question of illegality as to whether a sale, contract, etc., is to be set aside from its inception or from the time of action by a party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Documents juridiques
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

Quand un acte est nul «ab initio», c'est qu'il est nul dès sa formation; le jugement le déclarant nul ne fait que déclarer un état de fait antérieur. Au contraire, l'acte annulable était atteint d'un vice, mais n'était pas nul au moment de sa formation; il le devient, lorsque le tribunal prononce l'annulation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Documentos jurídicos
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
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Record 18 2001-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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Record 19 1998-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
DEF

Clause in a loan agreement which allows the lender to ask for repayment of his funds if a change in national legislation obliges him to withdraw from the loan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
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Record 20 1994-04-07

English

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Phraséologie
OBS

Codification administrative des Règles de la Cour fédérale, des Règles de la Cour fédérale en matière d'immigration, des Règles de 1993 de la Cour fédérale en matière d'immigration.

Spanish

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Record 21 1987-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Law
CONT

In the nineteenth century the standard of civilization was explicitly asserted in the text of conventions-first, in the Declaration of St. Petersburg, which refers to the "laws of humanity", then in the final Protocol of the Brussels Conference of 1874, and later in the famous de Martens clause included in the preambles to Hague Convention II of 1899 and Hague Convention IV of 1907. Resolution 1653(XVI) of the United Nations General Assembly, of 24 November 1961, on illegality of the use of nuclear weapons incorporates the sense of these declarations; according to its text, "the laws of humanity" prohibit causing unnecessary human suffering as well as indiscriminate suffering and destruction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international
DEF

Expression désignant certains principes d'ordre moral imposant un respect élémentaire de la personne humaine.

Spanish

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