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INDEMNITY ACTION [5 records]

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Record 1 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Insurance
CONT

Your Title Insurance Policy is a legal contract between you and... Title Insurance Company. This policy is not an opinion or report of your title. It is a contract of indemnity, meaning a promise to pay you or to take other action if you have a loss resulting from a covered title risk.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Assurances

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... a person... is entitled to indemnity from the association in respect of all costs, charges and expenses... if the person seeking indemnity a) was substantially succesful on the merits in the defence of the action....

Key term(s)
  • merits on the defense
  • merits on the defence
  • merits in the defense

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[...] les personnes [...] sont indemnisables par l'association pour tous les frais [...] dans la mesure où : a) d'une part, elles ont obtenu gain de cause sur la plupart de leurs moyens de défense au fond [...].

OBS

moyens de défense au fond : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Commercial Law
  • Administrative Law
DEF

In France, judicial proceedings taken by a government department against an employee who has committed a fault for which the department has been found liable by a court of law.

OBS

In England such an action would be founded on tort and described as an action for contribution or indemnity. The French term "action de recours" would seem to include actions of this kind which are founded on contract as well e. g. an "action en garantie", action to enforce a warranty, where it concerns peaceful possession, and an "action cambiaire", action on a negotiable instrument, where it is taken against a liable on the instrument who is not the person dishonouring it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit commercial
  • Droit administratif
CONT

La nouvelle constitution inclut aussi le fait que les normes de la procédure ne seront pas applicables si elles s'opposent à l'action de recours, ni le seront les dispositions qui tendent à retarder son expédition rapide.

OBS

action de recours : Terme reproduit de Law Terminology avec l'autorisation du Bureau des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguros
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Derecho mercantil
  • Derecho administrativo
DEF

Es la única modalidad peculiar de reclamación de cheque, ya que en éste no se admite la llamada «acción cambiaria directa».

OBS

acción de regreso: Término reproducido de Law Terminology con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 4 2003-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-02-05

English

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

Judicial proceedings taken to obtain compensation for loss or damage caused by the commission of a criminal ofence...

OBS

... can be brought in the criminal court concurrently with the criminal action or separately in a civil court...

OBS

... use indemnification/indemnity rather than damages because the forms of redress available are not only payment of damages (in money), but also payment of costs and restitution (in kind).

OBS

[In] Philippines, [is called] civil action but do not translate as such.

OBS

criminal indemnification and criminal indemnity action : Expressions reproduced from Law Terminology with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

action civile: Expression reproduite de Law Terminology avec l'autorisation du Bureau des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho procesal
  • Régimen jurídico
OBS

acción civil: Expresión reproducida de Law Terminology con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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