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IMPOSSIBLE CONDITION [7 records]

Record 1 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

A health condition (disability, illness, etc.) that does not remain at the same level.

CONT

A woman with a fluctuating condition may have periods of remission during which time she might be able to engage in some work; caring for a child as a single parent may exhaust any energy gained during a remission, making it impossible for her to work despite being "able" to do so.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

État de santé instable (maladie, handicap, déficience, etc.)

CONT

Le plan clinique est caractérisé par une atteinte variable des organes : purpura, ulcères cutanés, hépatite, glomérulonéphrite, neuropathie périphérique, et/ou vascularite étendue.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-06-10

English

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

This interest arises out of a special entail as to the parentage of the issue, when the express condition has become impossible by reason of death. Thus, if land is entailed upon a man and his issue from a particular wife, if she dies without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy in tail after possibility of issue extinct.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1741).

Key term(s)
  • tenancy in tail after possibility

French

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

Le terme «tenance» désigne le fait de tenir un bien, de même que la relation ainsi établie. Le terme «propriété» désigne les droits se rattachant à l'une des formes de «freehold tenancy».

OBS

tenance de fief taillé sans possibilité de descendance; propriété en fief taillé sans possibilité de descendance : 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 3 2013-02-12

English

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

(Conditions) are possible or impossible; the former when they admit of performance in the ordinary course of events; the latter when it is contrary to the course of nature or human limitations that they should ever be performed. (Black, 5th ed. 1979, p. 266)

French

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

condition impossible : 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 2012-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Botany
DEF

A condition in which structural obstacles within a flower make self-pollination impossible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Botanique
DEF

Type d'allogamie dû à une barrière mécanique.

OBS

allogamie : Mode de reproduction sexuée chez les végétaux où les deux gamètes proviennent d'individus différents.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Botánica
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Record 5 2012-09-25

English

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

Apparent conditions, or conditions merely in form, are(i) where the event, though unascertained, is not future, but is either happening at the time the condition is created... or has already happened...(ii) where the event, though future, is not uncertain, either because it must necessarily happen... or because its happening was always impossible;(iii) where the condition is a mere repetition or expression of something implied by law from the nature of the right....(Jowitt, 2nd ed. 1977, p. 410)

French

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

condition apparente : 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 6 2011-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrochemistry
  • Electrometallurgy
DEF

The condition of an unprotected metal surface in which electro-chemical corrosion is theoretically impossible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrochimie
  • Électrométallurgie
DEF

Condition d'un métal nu pour lequel la corrosion électrochimique est thermodynamiquement impossible.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Electroquímica
  • Electrometalurgia
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Record 7 1981-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanics
  • Machinery
  • Mechanical Components
OBS

If used grease is mixed with grease which has never participated in the lubrication process, the degree of "dilution" will be unknown and the wear particle content and the condition of the grease actually in the bearing, impossible to ascertain accurately.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique
  • Machines
  • Composants mécaniques
OBS

S'il arrivait que de la graisse usée soit mélangée avec de la graisse non usée, extérieure au roulement et n'ayant jamais participé à la lubrification, le degré de dilution resterait inconnu et la teneur en particules d'usure que l'on déterminerait serait complètement erronée.

Spanish

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