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Record 1 2016-01-18

English

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

Negligent conduct that, while not intentional, involves a disregard of the consequences likely to result from one’s actions.

OBS

Negligence in law ranges from inadvertence that is hardly more than accidental to sinful disregard of the safety of others.

French

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

négligence coupable : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-09-29

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-04-08

English

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

Property which the owner has involuntarily parted with, through neglect, carelessness or inadvertence, and does not know where to find or recover it, not including property which he has intentionnally concealed or deposited in a secret place for safe-keeping. Distinguishable from mislaid property which has been deliberately placed somewhere and forgotten.(Blcak, 6th, p. 946)

French

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

Dans certains contextes, l'expression plus générale «la chose perdue» pourra s'employer pour exprimer la même notion.

OBS

bien perdu : 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).

Key term(s)
  • chose perdue

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
CONT

The Chief Electoral Officer may not authorize an extension or correction unless he or she is satisfied by the evidence submitted by the applicant that the circumstances giving rise to the application arose by reason of...(c) inadvertence or an honest mistake of fact.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
CONT

Le directeur général des élections ne peut toutefois agréer à la demande que s'il est convaincu par la preuve que les circonstances qui ont donné lieu à celle-ci ont pour cause, selon le cas : [...] c) une inadvertance ou une véritable erreur de fait.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
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Record 5 2008-09-19

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Administrative Structures (Publ. Admin.)
  • The Executive (Public Administration)
CONT

Where, on application made in the proceedings on an election petition or otherwise, it is shown to the court or the trial judges by sufficient evidence that any act or omission of a candidate at an election,... constitutes an illegal practice, but...(a) that the act or omission arose from inadvertence or from accidental miscalculation, or from any other reasonable cause of a like nature...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Structures de l'administration publique
  • Structures du pouvoir exécutif (Admin. publ.)
CONT

Si, une demande formulée dans les procédures relatives à une pétition d'élection ou d'autre façon, il est démontré suffisamment au tribunal et aux juges instructeurs qu'un acte ou une omission de la part d'un candidat à une élection [...] constitue un acte illégal, mais que : [...] a) cet acte ou cette omission résulte d'une inadvertance, ou d'une erreur accidentelle, ou de quelque autre cause raisonnable de même nature [...]

Spanish

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