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IMPROPER PURPOSE [11 records]

Record 1 2025-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Auditing (Accounting)
  • Government Accounting
DEF

A record of the misstatements identified during the audit, whether corrected or expected to be corrected, or not, by the entity.

OBS

For this purpose, "misstatements" include... qualitative findings, including inadequate or improper description of an accounting policy and incomplete or omitted disclosures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
  • Comptabilité publique
DEF

Compte rendu des anomalies identifiées au cours de l'audit, qui ont été corrigées ou qui devraient être corrigées, ou non par l'entité.

OBS

À cette fin, les «anomalies» comprennent les constatations qualitatives, y compris la description inadéquate ou inappropriée d'une méthode comptable et des informations à fournir incomplètes ou omises.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

... when attacked with such extreme violence that his very life is in danger, a person is privileged to inflict grievous bodily harm or even kill, provided he believes on reasonable grounds that he cannot preserve himself by lesser means.

CONT

Malicious prosecution postulates two fault requirements : the proceedings complained of must have been instituted without reasonable and probable cause and for an improper purpose.

OBS

reasonable grounds; reasonable and probable grounds: usually used in the plural

French

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

motifs raisonnables : pluriel d'usage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho procesal
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Record 3 2015-11-02

English

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

Spite, ill-will or a spirit of vengeance and includes any other improper purpose, such as to gain a private collateral advantage.

French

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

malveillance : 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 4 2011-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Where the force applied is within the standards of the day, but the purpose of the discipline is alleged to be improper, a presumption of regularity will apply.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Lorsque la force utilisée correspond aux normes de l'époque mais que le but de la mesure disciplinaire est présumé injustifié, on appliquera une présomption de régularité.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Environment
OBS

The purpose of this guideline is to establish standards that should be followed in the discharge of waste from an industrial operation on Commissioner's Land or lands administered by municipal governments in the Northwest Territories(NWT). This guideline has been developed by the Environmental Protection Service(EPS) of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development(RWED). It is also intended to : provide direction for the management and discharge of industrial waste, protect the environment, protect municipal infrastructure, such as sewage systems and solid waste modified landfills, from immediate and long term environmental problems, and protect workers and the public from improper industrial waste discharge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Environnement

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

The quality of a data processing system fulfilling its operational purpose while both preventing unauthorized users from making modifications to or use of resources and preventing authorized users from making improper modifications to or improper use of resources.

OBS

system integrity: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Aptitude d'un système informatique à accomplir la fonction prévue, en interdisant toute utilisation ou modification des ressources par des utilisateurs non autorisés, et en empêchant les utilisateurs autorisés d'effectuer des modifications inadéquates ou de faire un usage incorrect de ces ressources.

OBS

intégrité de système; intégrité du système : termes et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad de IT
DEF

Condición que existe mientras un sistema de computadora (ordenador) permanece disponible y trabaja correctamente.

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Record 7 2007-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Legal Actions
DEF

The bad-faith joinder of a party, usually a resident of the state, to prevent removal of a case to federal court.

CONT

In order to defeat federal court jurisdiction, it is improper but possible for a complaint to be filed in state court naming a non-diverse defendant "fraudulently, "i. e., naming a defendant against whom a good faith claim could not be asserted solely for the purpose of defeating federal court jurisdiction. An action wherein "fraudulent joinder" has occurred may nonetheless be removed. Fraudulent joinder is a judicially created exception to the requirement of complete diversity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

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Record 8 - external organization data 2006-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
08.01.27 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

quality of a data processing system fulfilling its operational purpose while both preventing unauthorized users from making modifications to or use of resources and preventing authorized users from making improper modifications to or improper use of resources

OBS

system integrity: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-8:1998].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
08.01.27 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

aptitude d'un système informatique à accomplir la fonction prévue, en interdisant toute utilisation ou modification des ressources par des utilisateurs non autorisés, et en empêchant les utilisateurs autorisés d'effectuer des modifications inadéquates ou de faire un usage incorrect de ces ressources

OBS

intégrité de système; intégrité du système : termes et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-8:1998].

Spanish

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Record 9 2001-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-12-20

English

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

A qualified privilege will be lost if the defamatory statement is published for an improper purpose. That is, the immunity is defeated by the misuse of the privileged occasion for some other purpose than that for which it was given by law.

French

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

fin illégitime : Dans le contexte de la diffamation.

Spanish

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Record 11 1991-07-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Penal Administration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Administration pénitentiaire
OBS

Formule type d'un affidavit.

Spanish

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