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INJURY FEELINGS [7 records]

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Record 1 2026-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Civil Liability (civil law)
CONT

From this perspective, compensation for the grief and distress felt when someone close to us dies — the prejudice commonly referred to as solatium doloris or injury to feelings — is clearly consistent with the civil law's full recognition of moral damages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la responsabilité civile (droit civil)
DEF

Chef de dommage moral pouvant être réclamé par les proches d'un défunt pour la douleur éprouvée suivant son décès.

OBS

solatium doloris : Selon certains auteurs, le terme solatium doloris est critiqué.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of Human Relations
DEF

Rough or harmful action or treatment.

CONT

Violence is the exertion of substantial force, either physical or emotional, with the intent of causing harm to another individual or group of individuals. [...] An individual or group of individuals uses violence on another individual or group of individuals for the purpose of causing serious physical or emotional harm, such as severe injury or death, or feelings of fear, anxiety, or other sense of mental distress.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
DEF

Acte d'agression portant atteinte à l'intégrité physique ou morale d'une personne.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
  • Problemas sociales
  • Sociología de las relaciones humanas
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Record 3 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

Violence is the exertion of substantial force, either physical or emotional, with the intent of causing harm to another individual or group of individuals. [...] An individual or group of individuals uses violence on another individual or group of individuals for the purpose of causing serious physical or emotional harm, such as severe injury or death, or feelings of fear, anxiety, or other sense of mental distress.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

violence : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-05-11

English

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

One involving or consisting in an injury to the person or to the reputation or feelings....

French

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-01-18

English

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

non-material injury : By all accounts included are injury to reputation as such, injured feelings, indignation, fear and the psychological need for satisfaction.

French

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

Le [...] présent article prévoit expressément la réparation du préjudice non matériel. Il peut s'agir du pretium doloris, de la perte des amenités de la vie, du préjudice esthétique, aussi bien que de l'atteinte à l'honneur ou à la réputation.

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

... though recovery is primarily for business or other economic loss, damages may also be awarded for injured feelings at least consequent thereon.

CONT

By all accounts included are injury to reputation as such, injured feelings, indignation, fear and the psychological need for satisfaction....

OBS

term rarely used in the singular.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 1988-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

First and foremost is the libel rule that, aside from actual pecuniary damage, injury to reputation and feelings is itself compensable.

CONT

... most recently in McCarey v. Associated Newspapers Pearson., L. J. said that the plaintiff's damages "may also include the natural injury to his feelings-the natural grief and distress that he may have felt at having been spoken of in defamatory terms....

French

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

Spanish

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