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INCIDENTAL LOSS [8 records]

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Record 1 2023-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Statistics
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Precatch loss is [a] type of incidental mortality caused by fishing. Examples of precatch losses include the incidental crushing or smothering of marine organisms that may occur from laying traps or pots or trawling. There have been examples where a predator has eaten a fish caught on a longline... This can be considered a precatch loss because the animal may not have been consumed by the predator if fishing had not been occurring in the area...

OBS

pre-catch loss; precatch loss: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • pre-catch losses
  • precatch losses
  • precatch mortality
  • precatch fishing mortality

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Statistique
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

[...] la politique ne s'applique pas, en règle générale, à la mortalité par pêche accidentelle découlant des pertes avant capture [...] (p. ex., les poissons qui s'échappent du filet avant que celui-ci soit remonté et qui meurent des suites de leurs blessures) [...]

OBS

perte avant capture; perte pré-capture : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • pertes avant capture
  • pertes pré-captures

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
DEF

The loss of civilian life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects incidental to the engagement of a legitimate military objective, in the circumstances ruling at the time.

OBS

[Collateral] damage is not unlawful if it is not excessive relative to the overall military advantage anticipated from the engagement.

OBS

collateral damage; CD: designations and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel in 2017; designations officially approved by the Army Terminology Panel and the Defence Terminology Standardization Board in 2015.

OBS

collateral damage: designation standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
DEF

Perte en vies humaines dans la population civile, blessures aux personnes civiles et dommages aux biens de caractère civil accessoires suite à l'engagement d'une cible militaire légitime dans les circonstances prévalant à ce moment.

OBS

Ces dommages ne sont pas illégaux tant qu'ils ne sont pas excessifs par rapport à l'avantage militaire concret et direct attendu de l'engagement les ayant entraînés.

OBS

dommage collatéral; dégât collatéral; dégât subsidiaire : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

OBS

dommage collatéral; DC : désignations et définition uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie interarmées en 2017; désignations uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie de l'Armée de terre et par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la défense en 2015.

OBS

dommage collatéral : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN et uniformisée par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Key term(s)
  • dommages collatéraux
  • dégâts collatéraux
  • dégâts subsidiaires

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-06-11

English

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

The victim of a breach of contract... may incur expenses after a breach has come to his [her] attention, such as the administrative costs of buying a substitute or of sending back defective goods. Such expenses are hardly incurred in reliance on the contract; and they will... be called "incidental" loss.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Transportation Insurance
DEF

A partial loss of a subject matter e. g. cargo, ship or freight which is exposed to the risks incidental to a maritime adventure, and which is not a general average loss.

OBS

Any loss, which is a particular average loss, falls on the owner of the particular subject-matter affected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Assurance transport

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The court held that worry and anxiety caused by job loss is not a risk incidental to employment and an injury resulting from it is not compensable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Paper Manufacturing Processes
  • Properties of Paper
DEF

The loss of water from a sheet of paper subsequent to manufacture by exposure to high temperature or low humidity ambient air. This is usually incidental to ink drying, storage, or the like.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie chimique
  • Fabrication du papier
  • Propriétés des papiers
DEF

Perte d'eau dans la feuille de papier causée par une exposition à une température élevée et/ou une faible humidité relative. Elle affecte l'aspect des piles de feuilles ou bobines entreposées et le temps de séchage des encres.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ingenieria química
  • Procesos de fabricación de papel
  • Propiedades del papel
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Record 7 1998-10-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation Insurance
DEF

Inland Transportation Insurance means insurance, other than Marine Insurance, against loss of or damage to property while in transit or during delay incidental to transit.(Import, export, and domestic shipments; Registered Mail; Travelers’ samples.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurance transport
DEF

Assurance de transport intérieur signifie l'assurance, autre que l'assurance maritime, contre la perte ou la détérioration de biens pendant leur transport ou pendant un retard inhérent au transport. (Importations, exportations et expéditions domestiques; courrier recommandé; échantillons de commis-voyageurs).

OBS

assurance transports terrestres : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR. Extrait de la norme NF-K40-001, reproduite avec l'autorisation de l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
  • Execution of Work (Construction)
DEF

Insurance against loss to buildings or ships, including machinery and equipment, in course of construction, and to materials incidental to construction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)
  • Exécution des travaux de construction

Spanish

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