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INJURY RIGHTS [14 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

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

... people should remain free to agree to waive their legal rights, at least under conditions of free and informed choice. Such a waiver contemplates, of course, a complete shifting of the legal risk, absolving the defendant from all-not just an apportioned share of-responsibility for resulting injury.

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 2 2016-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Private Law
OBS

The Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association is a plaintiff-oriented organization dedicated to obtaining legal redress for those who have suffered injury or injustice, and to preserving the rights of the injured to full and fair compensation.... APTLA speaks with one voice on matters of concern to plaintiff-oriented lawyers and their clients. APTLA was formed with three fundamental purposes in mind : to form a network of like thinking trial lawyers who would share among its members their wealth of knowledge and experiences; to work to preserve innocent victims’ rights to tort recovery and to directly oppose tort recovery restrictions and work to correct the erosion of rights around the region; and, to establish first class skill-sharpening legal education programs which are inspirational, highly relevant, and impart to plaintiff trial lawyers skills and information directly related to their practices.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Droit privé

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-07-22

English

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

Where one man orders or procures another to commit a trespass, and the agent does so, both principal and agent are liable for the damage done.

OBS

Trespass : To commit an unlawful injury to the person, property, or rights of another, with actual or implied force or violence, especially to enter onto another's land wrongfully.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-10-29

English

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

The act itself that causes injury to the plaintiff's person, property or rights which involves immediate force or violence.

OBS

General sense. "All forcible, direct and immediate injury to the plaintiff’s person, land or goods." Dukelow and Nuse, Dictionary of Canadian Law, 2nd edition, pp. 1284-1285.

French

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

En droit anglais moderne on peut employer «atteinte» tout court, en raison de l'évolution jurisprudentielle en Angleterre, ou lorsque le contexte est clair.

OBS

Pour la forme verbale, on peut dire «commettre une atteinte directe».

OBS

atteinte directe : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-10-29

English

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

For injuries to the person or property which were the immediate and direct result of the defendant’s force and for which an action of trespass would lie, the early common law imposed a rather strict responsibility.

OBS

"A form of action instituted to recover damages for any unlawful injury to the plaintiff's person, property or rights, involving immediate force or violence. "John A. Yogis, Canadian Law Dictionary, 5th edition, p. 282.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

action pour atteinte directe : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Protection of Farm Animals
OBS

The Canadian Association for Humane Trapping(CAHT) was founded in the late 1940's and received its national charter as a not-for-profit, charitable association from the Secretary of State on January 21, 1954. CAHT is a charitable, non-profit organization which works constructively toward abolishing the suffering imposed on wild animals by devices or trapping systems used to capture them. It is not a trapping, anti-trapping or animal rights organization. CAHT respects diverse philosophies and approaches while reserving the right to promote its own objectives. CAHT's mission is to abolish the pain and suffering of animals trapped for any reason. CAHT seeks to work with persons and institutions promoting humane trapping improvements benefiting wild animals and wildlife biologists, conservationists, the fur industry, governments and their officials, and to make practical progress to reduce and eliminate avoidable pain, suffering and injury of fur bearers.

OBS

Title and abbreviation confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmés par l'organisme.e

OBS

Proposition de traduction : Association canadienne du piégeage humanitaire.

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Occupational Health and Safety
OBS

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. This is your guide to working safely in food preparation and food service workplaces. It will help you to : Recognize workplace hazards; Prevent accident and injury through safe work practice and use of personal protective equipment; Deal with accidents and emergencies; Understand your duties and rights as given in occupational health and safety legislation and Contact government departments to find health and safety information.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Santé et sécurité au travail
OBS

Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail. Le présent guide porte sur les aspects suivants de la sécurité du travail dans le secteur de l'alimentation : reconnaître les dangers qui existent sur les lieux de travail; prévenir les accidents et les lésions en observant des méthodes de travail sécuritaires et en utilisant les équipements de protection individuelle appropriés; intervenir en cas d'urgence ou d'accident; comprendre vos droits et obligations aux termes de la législation sur l'hygiène et la sécurité du travail; communiquer avec les organismes gouvernementaux appropriés pour obtenir plus d'information sur l'hygiène et la sécurité du travail.

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Highway Code
  • Driving (Road Vehicles)
OBS

A criminal offence; a basis of liability for injury to the person or property of another. Driving under circumstances showing a reckless disregard of the consequences; driving carelessly and heedlessly in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others, or without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner endangering person or property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Code de la route
  • Conduite automobile
OBS

Voir la circulaire, n° 12, règlement 5, chapitre 2.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Código de la circulación
  • Conducción de vehículos automotores
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Record 9 2005-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Toxicology
  • Environment
OBS

Title and abbreviation confirmed by the founder of the Network.

OBS

As a volunteer not for profit organization established in 1997, RAINET provides cost-free services to disabled clients who have become financially disadvantaged; we provide education and information about chemically/environmentally induced injury/illness, and the means by which prevention can be achieved so that these conditions will ultimately be eliminated; we believe that chemically/environmentally induced injury/illness must become official and recognized disabilities at all levels of government; we believe that all persons who have become disabled must be provided with the protection of the law as enshrined within the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; we believe that all disabled persons should be provided with the means for accommodation and necessary devices and/or supports; we believe that all persons who have become disabled must be assisted to achieve the highest level of wellness and quality of life; we support and encourage the integrated use of traditional and non-traditional health care modalities.

Key term(s)
  • Research Advocacy and Information Network on Environmental Toxins

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Toxicologie
  • Environnement
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmées par la fondatrice du réseau.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-06-04

English

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

Malice in law is not necessarily personal hate or ill will, but it is that state of mind which is reckless of law and of the legal rights of the citizen... A condition of mind which prompts a person to do a wrongful act wilfully, that is, on purpose, to the injury of another, or to do intentionally a wrongful act toward another without justification or excuse.

French

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

Malice : intention de nuire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 11 2003-04-30

English

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

Future damages that, based on the facts pleaded and proved by the plaintiff, can reasonably be expected to occur.

CONT

The operation of the St. Andrews dam, constructed downstream by the federal government between 1903 and 1910 resulted in the gradual erosion of the river bank and forced the plaintiff in 1986, to abandon her home and to construct a new one farther away from the river. The plaintiff in this action, initially representative in nature, claimed damages for past injury. She also claimed in nuisance, seeking declarations tha there was a continuing nuisance, as to breach of duty and as to interference with riparian rights, and prospective damages.

OBS

prospective damages: Term used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • prospective damage

French

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

dommages-intérêts potentiels: Terme pluriel d'usage.

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • International Law
CONT

Officers of the Foreign Service shall ordinarily not intervene nor make representations on behalf of Filipinos in official proceedings of local government authorities except in such cases as injury, oppression, unjust discrimination, deprivation of liberty, and only to the extent necessary to protect their rights and interests. Representations to be made with the authorities of the National Government(of the host country) shall be made by the diplomatic mission. If representations are made and redress is not obtained, detailed report shall be sent to the department(of Foreign Affairs).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Droit international
CONT

Représentation. Terme qui, employé au pluriel dans l'expression : faire des représentations, désigne des observations, des remontrances adressées à autrui et a un sens moins fort que celui de protestation.

CONT

«Lorsqu'une Puissance disposée à chercher une injuste querelle à une autre Puissance recevra les représentations du corps diplomatique étranger, faites au nom du droit international, il arrivera [...] rarement qu'elle fermera l'oreille à une pareille remontrance [...] il a parfois suffi des représentations du corps diplomatique pour faire cesser certains abus qui constituaient une violation du droit international».

Spanish

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Record 13 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 14 1990-02-06

English

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

The injury to the person and the injury to the goods, and perhaps the injury to the plaintiff's real property and the injury to such modern rights as the right to privacy flowing from the negligence serve only as yardsticks useful in measuring the damage which the breach caused.

French

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

Les lésions corporelles, les dommages matériels et, peut-être, les dommages causés aux biens immeubles du demandeur et le préjudice subi en raison de la violation de droits d'apparition plus récente, comme le droit au respect de la vie privée, résultant de la négligence du défendeur, ne sont que des étalons utiles pour évaluer les dommages causés.

OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

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