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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Where a person called or desiring to give evidence objects, on grounds of conscientious scruples, to take an oath, or is objected to as incompetent to take an oath, such person may make the following affirmation...  1, record 1, English, - incompetent%20to%20take%20an%20oath

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

personne frappée d'incapacité mentale : Recommandation du Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.  6, record 2, French, - personne%20frapp%C3%A9e%20d%27incapacit%C3%A9%20mentale

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Personne qui n’a pas la capacité légale exigée pour la jouissance ou l’exercice de certains droits.  4, record 3, French, - incapable

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Persona que tiene limitada su plena capacidad para realizar actos jurídicamente válidos.  1, record 3, Spanish, - incapaz

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A person who appears in a lawsuit to act for the benefit of an incompetent or minor plaintiff, but who is not a party to the lawsuit and is not appointed as a guardian.  2, record 4, English, - next%20friend

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

plus proche ami; plus proche amie : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 4, French, - plus%20proche%20ami

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Where a person called or desiring to give evidence objects, on grounds of conscientious scruples, to take an oath, or is objected to as incompetent to take an oath, such person may make the following affirmation...  2, record 5, English, - take%20an%20oath

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Unsoundness of mind, lunacy, idiocy, imbecility. Inability to transact the ordinary affairs of life, to understand their nature and effect, and exercise the will in relation to them.  2, record 6, English, - mental%20incompetence

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

A person who has been adjudged to be mentally incompetent has no legal capacity and can only act through his guardian or Committee.  2, record 6, English, - mental%20incompetence

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Inhabilité (à témoigner) fondée sur l'incapacité mentale.  1, record 6, French, - inhabilit%C3%A9%20d%27ordre%20mental

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

inhabilité d'ordre mental : 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).  2, record 6, French, - inhabilit%C3%A9%20d%27ordre%20mental

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A relationship in which one person is under a duty to act for the benefit of the other on matters within the scope of the relationship.  2, record 7, English, - fiduciary%20relationship

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... the consent agreement is premised on a special relationship of trust often called a "fiduciary" relationship. This means that the care-giver is expected to act in a way that benefits the patient, resident or client. The trustee of an incompetent person is in a similar position. The care-giver, like the trustee, must act with a view towards what will best serve the other party in the relationship.  3, record 7, English, - fiduciary%20relationship

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Le professionnel, par définition, doit exercer sa profession dans l'intérêt d'un autre. C'est ce qu'on entend d'ailleurs par la relation fiduciaire. Cette relation caractérise des professions comme le droit ou la médecine. La défense de l'intérêt de son patient doit devenir l'intérêt professionnel même du médecin.  3, record 7, French, - relation%20fiduciaire

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Le médecin a, envers son patient ou sa patiente, les obligations qui découlent traditionnellement du rapport fiduciaire, savoir «la loyauté, la bonne foi et l'absence de conflits d'intérêts et d'obligations».  4, record 7, French, - relation%20fiduciaire

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 CONT

No company shall act in Canada as an executor, administrator or official guardian or a guardian, tutor, curator, judicial adviser or committee of a mentally incompetent person. [Insurance Companies Act].  1, record 8, English, - official%20guardian

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Il est interdit à la société d'agir au Canada soit comme fiduciaire, soit comme exécuteur testamentaire, administrateur, gardien officiel, gardien, tuteur, curateur ou conseil judiciaire d'un incapable. [Loi sur les sociétés d'assurance].  2, record 8, French, - gardien%20officiel

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Refers to a judgment made by a surrogate decision-maker on behalf of an incompetent individual according to what the surrogate decision-maker believes would be the wishes of the incompetent individual were the individual competent.  2, record 9, English, - substituted%20judgment

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The primary purpose of the substituted judgment test is to attempt to determine what decision the mental incompetent would make, if she were reviewing her situation as a competent person, but taking account of her mental incapacity as one factor in her decision.  3, record 9, English, - substituted%20judgment

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[...] le critère [...] du jugement substitué [...] consiste à favoriser la décision que le patient incapable aurait lui-même prise s'il était capable.  4, record 9, French, - jugement%20substitu%C3%A9

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A person is not incompetent to give evidence by reason of interest or crime  1, record 10, English, - incompetent%20to%20give%20evidence

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Nul n'est pas inhabile à témoigner pour cause d'intérêt ou de crime.  1, record 10, French, - inhabile%20%C3%A0%20t%C3%A9moigner

Record 10,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

In this sense, the first syllable of "committee" is stressed, not the second.  2, record 11, English, - committee%20of%20a%20mentally%20incompetent%20person

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

curateur : Équivalent de "committee" recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile.  2, record 11, French, - curateur%20d%27une%20personne%20mentalement%20incapable

Record 11,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Interdicted persons are also incapable of contracting. The interdiction is a legal procedure whereby a court declares a person to be incompetent to exercise his rights and entrusts his assets to the care of a curator and, for certain types of interdiction, the very person of the incompetent is also entrusted to his curator.  1, record 12, English, - interdicted%20persons

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

La loi reconnait aussi que les personnes interdites sont incapables de contracter. L'interdiction est une procédure judiciaire par laquelle une cour prononce une personne incompétente à exercer ses droits civiques et confie alors ses biens à la garde d'un curateur et même, pour certaines interdictions, la personne même de l'incompétent.  1, record 12, French, - personnes%20interdites

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish