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INJURY CHARACTER [4 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2015-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire Safety
CONT

Serious fire is a fire that meets any of the following criteria : involves death or serious injury; results in a direct $250, 000 loss or greater; causes a significant interruption of essential federal services; requires the suppression services of one or more local fire departments; necessitates immediate action to prevent reoccurrence; or damages the heritage character of one or more classified heritage buildings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité incendie
DEF

Incendie qui répond à l'un ou l'autre des critères suivants : a causé la mort ou des blessures graves; a causé des pertes directes égales ou supérieures à 250 000 $; a causé une interruption importante de services fédéraux essentiels; a nécessité l'intervention des services d'extinction d'un ou de plusieurs services d'incendie locaux; a nécessité des mesures immédiates pour empêcher sa répétition; a endommagé le caractère patrimonial d'un ou plusieurs édifices du patrimoine classé.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-09-18

English

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

Any act which changes the character of property is, technically, waste. Ameliorating waste is that which results in benefit and not in an injury, so that it in fact improves the inheritance. Examples of this kind are the turning of pasture land into arable land and vice versa and the conversion of rundown dwellings into modern, productive shops.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 168)

French

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

dégradation avantageuse : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-10-14

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
OBS

Formation of brownish, roughened corky areas on the skin of fruit, potato tubers, etc. caused by disease, insects, other injury or due to a natural varietal character.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
OBS

Phénomène fréquent chez les fruits à pépins, il constitue parfois une caractéristique variétale (Reinette du Canada). Il est accidentel chez d'autres variétés et constitue un défaut.

Spanish

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