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IMMEMORIAL [15 records]

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 2023-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
CONT

Every candidate for the order of Saint Michael Bavaria must not only prove sixteen quarters of nobility, but that his own paternal family had been noble from time immemorial...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
DEF

Degré d'ascendance noble.

CONT

«Avoir quatre quartiers, huit quartiers de noblesse», c'est avoir quatre, huit ascendants nobles paternels et maternels.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización social
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Record 3 2013-09-06

English

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

Possession that began so long ago that no one still living witnessed its beginning.

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 dont le début remonte à une époque si ancienne qu'il ne reste aucun souvenir de son origine.

OBS

Une servitude ne peut se fonder sur une possession, même immémoriale.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-04-26

English

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

In order to establish his prescriptive interest, the claimant had to introduce proof of use from "time immemorial".(Berger, 3rd ed., 1983, p. 525).

French

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

intérêt acquis par prescription : 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).

OBS

Dans certains contextes, la construction «acquisition d'un intérêt par prescription» conviendrait mieux.

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-02-12

English

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

As a general rule the evidence of user necessary to induce the court to presume a lost modern grant must be stronger than that upon which the court will presume a grant upon immemorial user, for where the party opposing the claim shows that the user did not at one time exist, the presumption of a modern grant becomes a more violent inference than the presumption of an ancient grant based upon immemorial user.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 14, p. 46)

French

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

usage immémorial : 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 7 2012-10-24

English

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

Proof of user as of right for so long as aged persons could remember came to be accepted as sufficient to raise a presumption that it had existed from time immemorial. Nevertheless, it has been held that common law prescription based upon legal memory cannot be set up in Canada as there is no time immemorial on which to found it.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, pp. 936-7)

French

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

prescription acquisitive de common law; prescription de common law : 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 8 2005-10-06

English

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

There was the whole domain of petty jurisdiction over villeins, as subjects of the lord, there were the numberless cases arising from agrarian transgressions and disputes, there were disputes between tenants of the same lord in regard to land held from him, there were the franchises, that is, the powers surrendered by special grants of the government or by immemorial encroachment of the lords in regard to tolls, market rights, the assize of bread and ale and other matters of commercial police, to the trying of thieves, poachers, and the like.

French

Domaine(s)
  • 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).

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Events
  • Exhibitions (Arts and Culture)
  • Exhibition Themes (Museums and Heritage)
  • Heritage
OBS

Exhibition of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. "This exhibition shows a reproduction of archaeological excavations carried out from 1966 to 1978 in the Prince Rupert region on the West Coast. In the setting of an ancient forest, it presents both archaeological and ethnological elements, teaching us about the way of life of the Tsimshian nation and the role of the archaeologist."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de manifestations et d'activités diverses
  • Expositions (Arts et Culture)
  • Thèmes d'expositions (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Patrimoine
OBS

Exposition du Musée canadien des civilisations. «Cette exposition montre une reproduction des fouilles archéologiques effectuées dans la région de Prince Rupert, sur la côte Ouest, de 1966 à 1978. Dans l'atmosphère d'une forêt séculaire, elle présente des éléments tant archéologiques qu'ethnologiques pour nous en apprendre davantage sur le mode de vie de la nation tsimshiane ainsi que sur le rôle de l'archéologue».

Spanish

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Record 10 1999-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • Law of the Sea

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Droit de la mer

Spanish

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Record 11 1995-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial and Territorial Laws and Regulations (Canadian)
OBS

The trailing Arbutus(Epigaea repens, Linn) commonly known as the Mayflower, is declared to be, and from time immemorial to have been, the floral emblem of Nova Scotia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements provinciaux et territoriaux canadiens
OBS

Les lois de la Nouvelle-Écosse ne sont pas traduites.

Spanish

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Record 12 1986-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
OBS

The patrimonial form of leadership operates with a staff of relatives rather than officials. The leader is supported by traditional authority resting on belief in the sanctity of immemorial traditions....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
OBS

Le type autoritaire, visant à influencer autrui (...) contient (...) deux espèces : le chef autocratique, s'imposant par intimidation (...); le chef paternaliste, aux visées plus complexes, car il veut à la fois âtre obéi, respecté et même aimé.

Spanish

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Record 13 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems
OBS

(adj.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

P.L.

Spanish

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Record 14 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

DTDI

Spanish

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Record 15 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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