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Record 1 2025-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

... an intentional trespasser is one who trespasses knowing he is wrong, while an innocent trespasser believes he is right.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Infractions et crimes
OBS

L'intrusion est intentionnelle lorsque l'auteur de l'intrusion est conscient que ce qu'il fait n'est pas correct.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
  • Criminal Psychology
CONT

The CIT, also known as the guilty knowledge test [GKT], is used in criminal investigations to examine whether a person recognizes crime-relevant information that innocent people would not know. In the CIT, an examiner presents several items to an examinee, one of which is a crime-relevant item. The items are selected such that innocent examinees would not be able to distinguish the crime-relevant(critical) item from the crime-irrelevant(non-critical) items. Each item is presented once in a block and this block is repeated several times in different presentation orders. During the CIT, the examiner records physiological responses to the items. In the case that the responses do not differ between the critical and non-critical items, the examiner would infer that the examinee does not recognize the critical item. On the other hand, in the case that the responses differ between the critical and non-critical items, the examiner would infer that the examinee recognizes the critical item.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
  • Psychologie criminelle
CONT

Le test des solutions connues et inconnues [...] a pour but de récolter des informations au sujet du crime que le suspect ne lâche pas […] Ce test permet de vérifier si la personne interrogée possède ladite "connaissance de culpabilité [...] On montre, par exemple, un certain nombre de couteaux, dont l'un constitut l'arme du crime. Tant le suspect coupable que le suspect innocent donneront une réponse négative à chaque fois qu'il leur est montré un couteau et qu'il leur est demandé s'ils l'ont utilisé pour commettre le meurtre. Or, le suspect coupable reconnaîtra le couteau qu'il a utilisé. C'est ce que nous appelons la connaissance de culpabilité et ce savoir déclenche une activité physiologique accrue.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-04-03

English

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

"The presence or absence of reasonable anticipation of damage determines the legal quality of the act as negligent or innocent. If it be thus determined to be negligent or innocent, then the question whether particular damages are recoverable depends only on the answer to the question whether they are the direct consequence of the act... "

French

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

"Le fait qu'on puisse ou non raisonnablement prévoir un dommage permet de déterminer si l'acte constitue ou non une négligence sur le plan juridique. Si l'on en vient à la conclusion qu'il y a eu négligence, le demandeur pourra obtenir réparation à l'égard de dommages donnés s'ils sont la conséquence directe de l'acte en question..."

OBS

conséquence 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 4 2022-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Rights and Freedoms
CONT

The avoidance of conviction and punishment of the innocent has long been in the forefront of the basic tenets of our legal system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droits et libertés
CONT

Le droit à la liberté et la présomption d'innocence sont des préceptes fondamentaux de notre système de justice criminelle.

Spanish

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Record 5 2019-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ethics and Morals
DEF

A hypothetical moral dilemma used by philosophers to investigate ethical judgements and intuitions.

OBS

The trolley problem concerns a set of cases that raise the problem of whether, when, and by whom some innocent bystanders may be killed in order that a greater number of different people can survive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éthique et Morale
DEF

Expérience de pensée utilisée en éthique qui vise à mettre à l'épreuve les valeurs morales d'une personne.

OBS

Un tramway s'approche à toute vitesse d'un aiguillage. Si ce dernier n'est pas actionné, cinq personnes se trouvant sur la voie empruntée seront tuées. S'il l'est, une personne présente sur la voie de déviation mourra. La décision d'actionner ou non l'aiguillage dépend de l'importance relative que chacun accorde à sa conception du devoir moral et à ses conséquences réelles.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-12-16

English

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

Condonation of a matrimonial offence requires three essential elements, namely :...(3) The reinstatement in his or her marital position of the guilty spouse by the innocent one-the factum of reinstatement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
CONT

Le terme «époux fautif» évoque immédiatement l'idée que l'époux a commis une faute, cet acte moralement blâmable sur lequel reposait traditionnellement l'institution du divorce.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
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Record 7 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 8 2016-07-22

English

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

Frequently words and ambiguous or capable of being understood in several senses, defamatory in one but not another. What meaning is to be attached to them : that intended by the author? that understood by the addressee? or some tertium quid? The first(intended meaning) was long ago disqualified : one may be liable though innocent of any intention to defame. The second(comprehended meaning) seems most compatible with the purpose of damages being to compensate for actual injury, provided only that to understand the words in a defamatory sense was not unreasonable. In some respects, indeed, this test is important. The words, e. g., must have been published to someone capable of understanding them in a defamatory sense, not in a foreign language he could not comprehend.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-01-20

English

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

Under the general law of contract, said Lord Wilberforce, acceptance of a repudiatory breach does not bring about rescission ab initio’. It follows, therefore, that if an innocent party, the victim of a breach of contract that is sufficiently important, chooses to treat the contract as discharged, for example, where goods sold to a buyer are defective and the buyer rejects them, his conduct is not to be looked upon as involving rescission of the contract.

French

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

anéantissement rétroactif : 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 10 2016-01-19

English

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

Although it is commonplace to speak of discharge of a contract by breach, meaning the breach of a condition(or its equivalent), the result of such a breach is not the automatic termination of the contract... The true effect of a breach which may be said to "discharge" the contract is to relieve the innocent party of his obligations to perform under the contract(and to entitle him to sue for damages in respect of his loss...)

French

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

décharge pour cause de violation : 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 11 2016-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

An untrue statement of fact made in the honest belief that it is true.

OBS

This term denotes misrepresentation that is neither fraudulent or negligent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

S'entend d'une assertion inexacte, mais ni frauduleuse ni négligente.

OBS

assertion inexacte faite innocemment : 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 12 2016-01-18

English

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

A distinction must be made between misrepresentations which are fraudulent and those which are not. A fraudulent misrepresentation is one which is made with knowledge that it is untrue and with the intent to deceive. It may even constitute a term of the contract.... Non-fraudulent misrepresentations have a different effect. At common law only fraud entitles an innocent party to upset his apparent consent and avoid a contract which originally was validly created.

French

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

assertion inexacte non frauduleuse : 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 13 2015-11-16

English

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

... A fundamental breach has been defined as one which destroys "the whole contractual substratum, "as undermining the whole contract, as involving a totally different performance of the contract from that intended by the parties, as involving an event which deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which that party was to obtain under the contract.

French

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

violation fondamentale : 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 14 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Before recent developments with respect to exclusion and similar clauses, it might have been said that a clause that purported to exclude liability for breaches of conditions and warranties did not effectively exclude liability for breaches of a fundamental term : whereas a fundamental breach, which might nonetheless have been equated with a breach of condition, albeit no a breach of warranty fell within the ambit of the exclusion clause, so that the innocent party was deprived of any remedy.

Key term(s)
  • fundamental term breach

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

violation d'une clause fondamentale : 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 15 2015-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cancers and Oncology
Universal entry(ies)
8000/0
classification system code
DEF

A non-cancerous neoplasm.

OBS

... When cells divide without ... a distinct purpose, they form neoplasms, sometimes referred to as tumors. Strictly speaking, a tumor is a swelling caused by any number of conditions, for example, inflammation or trauma. However, the terms "neoplasm" and "tumor" often are used interchangeably.

OBS

8000/0: International Classification of Diseases code.

Key term(s)
  • innocent tumor
  • non malignant tumour
  • benign tumour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cancers et oncologie
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
8000/0
classification system code
DEF

Tumeur de croissance lente, n'ayant qu'une tendance expansive locale, souvent bien limitée par une capsule nette, ordinairement très différenciée, et ne donnant pas de métastases ni de récidives locales après exérèse correcte.

OBS

Une tumeur bénigne ne donne pas de métastases.

OBS

Les papillomes, les condylomes, les nævi sont des tumeurs bénignes.

OBS

8000/0 : Code de la Classification internationale des maladies.

Spanish

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Record 16 2015-11-03

English

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

imputed negligence : In some situations, the innocent victim of a concurrent tort, instead of being able to pursue both tortfeasors, may have the negligence of one imputed to him(because of a special relation between them) so as to impair his recovery against the other just as if he had been guilty of contributory negligence himself.

French

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

négligence imputée : 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 17 2015-10-30

English

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

Offences in which it is not open to a person to avoid liability on the ground that she or he acted under a reasonable mistake of fact which, if the facts had been as the accused believed them to be, would have made his act innocent.

OBS

Strict liability is distinct from absolute liability. Under absolute liability, only an actus reus is required. With strict liability, an actus reus, unintentional or not is all that is required.

French

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

responsabilité absolue : 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 18 2015-10-29

English

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

A trespass committed either unintentionally or in good faith.

French

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

intrusion non consciente; atteinte immobilière non consciente : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 19 2015-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
CONT

The various Acts require registration of such agreements if the conditional sales vendor is to retain his common law rights as owner against innocent purchasers of the goods from the buyer under the conditional sales agreement. Registration operates as notice(at least within the same jurisdiction), thereby precluding the innocent third party from relying upon the Sale of Goods and Factors Acts to obtain a good title as against the conditional sales vendor(assuming that those statutes apply to a conditional sales agreement).(Fridman, "Sale of Goods, "2nd ed., 1979, p. 541).

OBS

The term "vendor" usually designates a person who sells real property. The person who sells goods is usually called a "seller".

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

La forme féminine «venderesse» est en usage dans le langage juridique. La forme féminine «vendeuse» se dit plutôt d'une représentante des ventes dans un établissement.

OBS

vendeur à titre conditionnel; venderesse à titre conditionnel : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l’accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 20 2015-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Insurance
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Where the agent is entirely innocent, this action is the only one available : where he is fraudulent, the plaintiff can sue for deceit or breach of warranty of authority at his option.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Assurances
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
DEF

Situation où le mandataire a affirmé avoir l'autorité d'agir au nom du mandant alors qu'il n'en était rien.

Spanish

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Record 21 2015-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Penal Law
CONT

The aspect of probability in "presume" is foregrounded, for instance, in collocations without a following clause, such as to presume someone is innocent until proven guilty; his presumed father; missing, presumed dead.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit pénal
CONT

Ce qui est qualifié de présumé [...] découle d’une présomption légale ou légitime – née d’une preuve, d’un acte instrumentaire, d’un aveu, d’une situation factuelle, d’une circonstance aggravante, d’un fait notoire, d’une théorie admise, d’un indice ou d’une contestation ressortant d’une enquête, d’un serment – que l’on peut, certes, combattre par une preuve contraire, mais qui permet au juge de procéder à des inductions ou de former sa conviction. [...] Celui qui est présumé innocent ou présumé coupable est censé tel; on suppose que son innocence est reconnue par l’effet des choses; la culpabilité de l’accusé est donnée comme probable.

Spanish

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Record 22 2015-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protection of Life
  • Police
DEF

[The] swift and immediate deployment of law enforcement resources to an ongoing, life-threatening situation where delayed deployment could result in death or grievous bodily harm to innocent persons.

CONT

IARD has responding patrol officers attempt to make contact and engage the active shooter to minimize death and injury to innocents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Police

Spanish

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Record 23 2015-06-26

English

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

Condonation of a matrimonial offence requires three essential elements, namely :(1) A knowledge by the innocent spouse of the matrimonial offence which has been committed by the other spouse.(2) An intention by the innocent spouse to forgive and remit the offence-an animus remittendi.(3) The reinstatement in his or her marital position of the guilty spouse... There must be both forgiveness of the offence and reinstatement of the erring spouse.

French

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

En contexte de divorce, il s'agit du pardon d'une faute matrimoniale qui contribue à prouver l'absolution ("condonation") de l'époux fautif.

OBS

pardon : 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 24 2015-06-26

English

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

In marriage, the voluntary pardoning by an innocent spouse of an offense committed by his or her partner conditioned upon the promise that it will not recur.

CONT

Condonation arises where a divorce petitioner, with knowledge of his or her spouse’s adultery or cruelty, forgives the offence and continues or resumes matrimonial cohabitation with the offending spouse.

French

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

«Pardon» est l'équivalent employé dans la Loi sur le divorce, L.R.C. 1985, ch. 3 (2e suppl.) pour exprimer la notion de «condonation». Toutefois, le sens du mot «pardon» est plus proche de la notion juridique de «forgiveness».

OBS

absolution : 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 25 2015-06-25

English

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

Condonation of a matrimonial offence requires three essential elements, namely :(1) A knowledge by the innocent spouse of the matrimonial offence which has been committed by the other spouse.(2) An intention by the innocent spouse to forgive and remit the offence-an "animus remittendi. "(3) The reinstatement in his or her marital position of the guilty spouse by the innocent one-the factum of reinstatement. There must be both forgiveness of the offence and reinstatement of the erring spouse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Époux ayant commis une faute matrimoniale.

OBS

époux fautif; épouse fautive : termes surtout employés en contexte de divorce.

OBS

époux fautif; épouse fautive : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 26 2015-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

Condonation of a matrimonial offence requires three essential elements, namely :(1) A knowledge by the innocent spouse of the matrimonial offence which has been committed by the other spouse.(2) An intention by the innocent spouse to forgive and remit the offence-an "animus remittendi. "(3) The reinstatement in his or her marital position of the guilty spouse by the innocent one-the factum of reinstatement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

époux non fautif; épouse non fautive : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 27 2015-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

... where the third party is misled by the agent's misrepresentation of authority(however innocent), the self-styled agent will be personally liable to the third party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 28 2015-06-10

English

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

Whilst there are striking similarities between the common law of England and the US in respect of defamation there are also differences(e. g. under English law, in cases of innocent dissemination, the defendant publisher has to establish his innocence, whereas under American law the plaintiff who has been libelled has to prove that the publisher was not innocent).

French

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

Spanish

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Record 29 2015-06-10

English

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

This does not mean that the repudiating party is free from all liability. It simply means that the innocent party may be freed from his obligations...

French

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

Spanish

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Record 30 2015-06-10

English

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

One who enters another’s land unlawfully, but either inadvertently or believing in a right to do so.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 31 2015-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea
  • International Public Law
CONT

Right of innocent passage.... Article 14. 1. Subject to the provisions of these articles, ships of all States, whether coastal or not, shall enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea. 2. Passage means navigation through the territorial sea... 4. Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State. Such passage shall take place in conformity with these articles and with other rules of international law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
  • Droit international public
DEF

passage innocent : Expression employée, notamment quand on parle de droit de passage innocent ou inoffensif, pour désigner le fait par un navire étranger de traverser la mer territoriale d'un État sans rien faire qui porte atteinte aux droits de l'État riverain ou les menace.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho del mar
  • Derecho internacional público
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Record 32 2015-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

Repudiation ... A contracting party’s words or actions that indicate an intention not to perform the contract in the future.

OBS

A repudiation puts an end to the contract in the sense that it releases the innocent party from the duty of further performance, but it does not abrogate the whole contract-the innocent party can sue for damages.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 33 2015-03-10

English

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

Eventually, in opposition to Holmes, scholars began to contend that "worthwhile 'social gain’ is achieved by shifting losses from innocent victims". A new rationale for tort law-loss distribution-was devised to reflect these developments and to spur further growth along these lines. According to this theory, accident losses are no longer shifted from one individual to another. Rather, the costs are transferred to industrial enterprises and insured activities which generate most accidents. These activities do not bear these costs themselves but spread them throughout the community via price increases or insurance premiums.

Key term(s)
  • loss spreading

French

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

Contrairement à la théorie de Holmes, les juristes en sont venus peu à peu à soutenir que "le fait de déplacer le fardeau du préjudice subi par une victime innocent procure sans contredit des 'avantages sociaux' notables". Une nouvelle théorie du droit de la responsabilité délictuelle - l'étalement des pertes - fut mise au point pour tenir compte de cette évolution et pour encourager de nouveaux développement dans cette voie.

Spanish

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Record 34 2015-03-05

English

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

A breach of contract, no matter what form it may take, always entitles the innocent party to maintain an action for damages, but the rule established by a long line of authorities is that the right of a party to treat a contract as discharged arises only in two types of case. Firstly, where the party in default has repudiated the contract before performance is due or before it has been fully performed. Secondly, where the party in default has committed what in modern judicial parlance is called a fundamental breach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit commercial

Spanish

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

Parte que falta a sus obligaciones.

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Record 35 2015-03-05

English

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

... an anticipatory breach of such a term might be treated by the innocent party as repudiation by the contract breaker.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 36 2014-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Courts
CONT

The double jeopardy concept is a principle of general application which is expressed in the form of more specific rules, such as the plea of autrefois acquit, issue estoppel and the Kienapple principle. Despite their common origin, these principles differ in the way they are applied.

CONT

The concept of double jeopardy has an almost iconic quality and it's one of the few protections that many lay-persons are familiar with : once you are charged for a crime once and found innocent then the government can’t try you again…or at least that's how it's supposed to work, right?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Tribunaux
CONT

Le concept de double péril est un principe d'application générale qui s'exprime par des règles plus particulières, comme le plaidoyer d'autrefois acquit, la chose jugée comme fin de non-recevoir (issue estoppel) et le principe de l'arrêt Kienapple. Malgré leur origine commune, chacun de ces principes diffère dans leurs détails d'application.

CONT

[...] «double jeopardy concept», expression traduite dans une décision de la Cour suprême du Canada par (concept de double péril) est fondamental dans le système de justice pénale au Canada. Il a pour objet d’empêcher que la poursuite tente à plusieurs reprises et par tous les moyens de faire déclarer une personne coupable de la même infraction, l’exposant ainsi à un harcèlement injustifié.

Spanish

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Record 37 2014-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

The breach of good faith in the performance of an insurance contract was also accepted as giving rise to significant punitive damages in Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co.

CONT

“Innocent violation” means an Improper Activity committed by a Respondent who did not know and who could not reasonably be expected to know of its impropriety, except where the law explicitly provides otherwise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

«Violation de bonne foi» s’entend d’un acte répréhensible commis par un intimé qui en ignorait la nature répréhensible et ne pouvait être raisonnablement censé la connaître, sauf en vertu de dispositions juridiques explicitement contraires.

Spanish

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Record 38 2014-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws and Legal Documents
CONT

This antiquated law is convicting innocent people, and consequently has no place in a self-proclaimed civilized society. It is also routinely abused by both the courts and the police to charge and convict.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois et documents juridiques
CONT

Craignant que les francophones du pays soient victimes d’une «loi désuète», la sénatrice libérale Maria Chaput revient à la charge. La parlementaire franco-manitobaine a déposé hier au sénat un projet de loi qui modifierait la Loi sur les langues officielles.

Spanish

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Record 39 2014-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Disputes
  • Labour Law
CONT

Alain Parisien of Ottawa claims that OC Transpo failed to accommodate his disability by not offering him a rehabilitation program and by terminating his employment, citing chronic innocent absenteeism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conflits du travail
  • Droit du travail
CONT

Le motif de l'absentéisme pour déficience est-il discriminatoire ou s'agit-il de l'application de la théorie de l'absentéisme involontaire chronique?

Spanish

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Record 40 2013-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

To relieve, to exculpate, to find no fault, to find innocent of any wrongdoing.(Canadian Law Dictionary, 1980, p. 141)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

exonérer : 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).

Spanish

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Record 41 2013-04-18

English

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

Apparent ownership derived from conduct or words. Theory of "ostensible ownership" estops an owner of property who clothes another with apparent title from later asserting his title against an innocent third party who has been induced to deal with apparent owner(Black, 6th, p. 1100).

French

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

propriété ostensible : 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).

Spanish

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Record 42 2013-02-20

English

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

Innocent conveyances, a covenant to stand seised, a bargain and sale, and a release, so called because, since they conveyed the actual possession by construction of law only, they did not confer a larger estate in property than the person conveying possessed, and therefore, if a greater estate was conveyed by these deeds than a person had, they were only void "pro tanto" for the excess. But a feoffment of such larger estate was a tortious conveyance, and therefore, under such circumstances, would have been void altogether, and produce a forfeiture. But the "Real Property Act", 1845, s. 4, provided that a feoffment should not have any tortious operation; it therefore became an innocent conveyance.(Jowitt, p. 978)

French

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

transport non préjudiciable : 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).

OBS

Acception technique.

Spanish

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Record 43 2012-12-03

English

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

At common law we shall see that the doctrine of apparent ownership, subsequently adopted in the Sale of Goods Act 1893, permits an innocent third party in certain circumstances to acquire a good title in property which the agent had no authority to transfer.(Markesinis, p. 141-142)

French

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

doctrine de la propriété apparente : 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).

Spanish

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Record 44 2012-10-29

English

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

One who in good faith acquires legal title to property by paying valuable consideration and has no notice of third party claims. (Yogis, 1983, p. 29).

French

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

acquéreur de bonne foi : 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).

OBS

L'équivalent «acheteur de bonne foi» est aussi acceptable en contexte.

Spanish

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Record 45 2012-10-29

English

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

One who purchases real property without notice, actual or constructive, of any superior rights or interests in the property. The state recording statutes are designed to protect an innocent purchaser for value from the secret claims of a prior purchaser.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 243)

CONT

If a person who has notice (except in the case of a charity) sells to another who has no notice, and is a "bona fide" purchaser for valuable consideration, the latter may protect his title, although it was affected with the equity arising from notice in the hands of the person from whom he derived it ... (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, pp. 1253-1254).

OBS

Under the Law of Property Act 1925 the word [purchaser] means a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration, and includes a lessee, mortgagee, or other person who for valuable consideration acquires an interest in property... (Mozley and Whiteley, 10th, p. 370-371)

French

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

acquéreur de bonne foi et à titre onéreux : 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).

Spanish

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Record 46 2012-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
CONT

At one time arbitrary consecration of tithes was allowed, —that is, payment to any priest at the will of the tithe-payer. This was forbidden by a decretal epistle of Innocent HI., about 1200.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif

Spanish

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Record 47 2012-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

... whether necessity could ever justify personal injury.... It could be, however, that one who is threatened with very serious injury may subject an innocent stranger to slight harm, disproportionately smaller than any from which he is trying to escape.

French

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

dommage sans gravité; préjudice sans gravité : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 48 2012-04-26

English

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

Nor may a policeman, in discharging his duty to apprehend felons, ignore entirely the safety of innocent persons, though he is apparently justified to resort to measures, even the use of firearms. Which involve some risk of injury to bystanders but are no more than reasonably necessary to effect his purpose.

French

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

risque de dommage; risque de préjudice : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 49 2012-03-29

English

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

A defendant may be excused from intentional tort liability if he acts under necessity. The defence of necessity differs from self-defence in that the person whose interest is being sacrificed is innocent of any responsibility for the creation of the danger. In necessity cases, the threat emanates from some external source, whereas in self-defence the person whose interest is being infringed is a wrong-doer himself.

French

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

Un défendeur peut être exonéré de responsabilité délictuelle intentionnelle s'il agit par nécessité. Le moyen de défense de nécessité se distingue de celui de légitime défense en ce que la personne dont les droits sont sacrifiés n'est nullement responsable du danger. Dans les cas où il y a nécessité, la menace vient d'une source extérieure alors que dans les cas de légitime défense, la personne dont les droits sont écartés est elle-même l'auteur du délit.

OBS

défense de nécessité : 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 50 2012-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (civil law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A marriage in which either the husband or the wife believes in good faith that the two are married, but for some technical reason they are not formally married (as when the ceremonial official was not authorized to perform a marriage.)

CONT

A putative marriage is typically treated as valid to protect the innocent spouse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (droit civil)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Mariage qui, même frappé de nullité, produit ses effets en faveur des époux qui étaient de bonne foi.

OBS

mariage putatif : Seront de bonne foi les époux qui ignoraient, par exemple, l'existence d'un empêchement à leur mariage, les époux qui croyaient le fonctionnaire compétent à célébrer le mariage alors qu'il ne l'était pas.

OBS

mariage putatif : 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 51 2012-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Courts
CONT

Coerced-compliant false confessions occur when a person falsely confesses to a crime for some immediate gain and in spite of the conscious knowledge that he or she is actually innocent of the crime...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Tribunaux
CONT

Les fausses confessions induites par coercition constituent le type le plus répandu de fausses confessions. Ces confessions sont habituellement le fruit de menaces ou de promesses qui convainquent le suspect que, malgré les conséquences que sa décision pourrait avoir à long terme, il est dans son intérêt, à court et à moyen terme, de faire une confession.

Spanish

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Record 52 2011-02-25

English

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

A third kind of false confession is the non-coerced-persuaded confession. In this scenario, police tactics cause the innocent person to “become confused, doubt his memory, be temporarily persuaded of his guilt and confess to a crime he did not commit”

French

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

Le troisième type de fausses confessions est la fausse confession induite par persuasion sans coercition. Dans ce scénario, les tactiques policières utilisées ont pour effet d’amener la personne innocente à [traduction] «devenir confuse, à douter de sa mémoire, à être temporairement persuadée de sa culpabilité et à confesser un crime qu’elle n’a pas commis»:

Spanish

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Record 53 2011-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vessels (Medicine)
DEF

A continuous blowing, singing, or humming murmur heard on auscultation over the right jugular vein in the sitting or erect position; it is an innocent sign that is obliterated on assumption of the recumbent position or on exerting pressure over the vein.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)
CONT

[Le] souffle veineux bénin [est un souffle continue] lié à la turbulence du sang veineux systémique sur les axes de drainage jugulaire interne - veine cave supérieure -, très fréquent : le plus souvent maximal le long du bord droit du sternum haut, augmenté en position assise, diminué en position couchée, aboli par la compression jugulaire modérée ou par la rotation de la tête.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Redes vasculares (Medicina)
DEF

El que se escucha sobre una vena.

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Record 54 2011-01-31

English

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

At one time bent on discouraging actions for slander, courts insisted that oral words be interpreted in their most favourable sense and that the plaintiff negative any innocent meaning they might bear... all expressions however published now fall to be scrutinized for any damaging meaning that would be put on them by "ordinary sensible men"....

French

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

Que la tortue ait accepté d'affronter le lièvre à la course, n'était-ce pas un défi au bon sens? Toutes les personnes de bon sens n'eussent-elles pas parié pour le lièvre? Mais ceci nous renseigne aussi que les personnes de bon sens ne parient jamais.

Spanish

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Record 55 2010-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Any person charged with an offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law.

French

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

Tout inculpé a le droit d'être présumé innocent tant qu'il n'est pas déclaré coupable, conformément à la loi.

Spanish

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Record 56 2010-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
CONT

Innocent absenteeism. Generally arbitrators are reluctant to sustain the termination of a person's employment on the basis of an absenteeism record which, though checkered, is bona fide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
OBS

Équivalence proposée par analogie avec l'absence involontaire dont parle Dion dans son Dictionnaire des relations du travail.

Spanish

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Record 57 2009-10-16

English

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

The test (for fair comment) is not whether reasonable men might disagree with the comment, but whether they might reasonably regard the opinion as one that no fair-minded man could have formed or expressed.

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho privado
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Record 58 2009-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Courts
  • Sentencing
DEF

One of the most ancient forms of trial in England that required the accused person to submit to a dangerous or painful test on the theory that God would intervene and disclose his or her guilt or innocence.

CONT

Trial by ordeal is a judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task. In some cases, the accused was considered innocent if they survived the test, or if their injuries healed; in others, only death was considered proof of innocence.(If the accused died, they were often presumed to have gone to a suitable reward or punishment in the afterlife, which was considered to make trial by ordeal entirely fair).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Tribunaux
  • Peines
CONT

Ordalie : épreuve judiciaire moyenâgeuse qui faisait appel aux éléments de la nature pour prononcer le verdict. Le jugement de Dieu par l'eau, le feu.

OBS

Historiquement, épreuves judiciaires : épreuves auxquelles on soumettait des accusés, des adversaires, en faisant appel à l'intervention de Dieu pour désigner le coupable ou trancher une contestation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Tribunales
  • Penas
DEF

Prueba ritual usada en la antigüedad para establecer la certeza, principalmente con fines jurídicos, y una de cuyas formas es el juicio de Dios.

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Record 59 2009-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
  • Courts
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
DEF

[A]n ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons.

CONT

The ordeal by fire—walking through fire or putting the hand into a flame—was common, and there were other fiery ordeals, such as walking on hot plowshares or plunging the hand into molten metal. Usually it was believed that if the accused were innocent God would spare him

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
  • Tribunaux
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

Au Moyen Âge, il existait plusieurs moyens de déterminer avec une exactitude sans faille qui était coupable de quelque chose. Parmi eux, il y avait les combats. Par la force divine, le vaincu n'était jamais simplement le plus faible, c'était obligatoirement le fautif. Et il y avait aussi l'épreuve du feu. Elle consistait soit à saisir puis garder un moment en main une barre de fer rougie au feu, soit à mettre la main dans un gant métallique également rougi au feu. Quelle que soit la méthode, grâce à l'intervention divine, celui dont la main guérissait en moins de trois jours était déclaré innocent de ce dont on l'accusait.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
  • Tribunales
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
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Record 60 2009-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
  • Courts
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
DEF

An ancient form of trial, now abolished, by which the accused, tied band and foot, were cast into cold water, and if they did not sink they were deemed innocent or they were compelled to plunge their limbs into hot water, and if they came out unhurt they were considered innocent.

CONT

The ordeal of water was performed by casting the suspect into a pond or river. If the suspect floated to the surface without any action of swimming, she was deemed guilty. If the suspect sank, she was pulled out and pronounced innocent.

Key term(s)
  • water-ordeal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
  • Tribunaux
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

La nature de ces épreuves a souvent varié. Elles consistaient tantôt à rester un certain temps sous l'eau sans se noyer (une pratique déjà attestée dans l'ancienne Mésopotamie où l'on en appelait au "jugement du fleuve") ou à plonger le bras dans un vase d'eau bouillante sans en éprouver aucun mal (épreuve de l'eau), tantôt à prendre avec la main une barre de fer rouge, ou à marcher pieds nus sur du fer ardent (c'est ce qu'on appelait le jugement par le feu).

CONT

Le jugement par ordalie a été pratiqué pendant plusieurs siècles. On peut en être surpris lorsque l'on constate, avec le « jugement de l'eau », que les mêmes signes étaient interprétés à charge ou à décharge d'un peuple à un autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
  • Tribunales
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
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Record 61 2008-10-14

English

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

Apportionment is... equally proper where a separate part of the damage is attributable to an innocent, rather than a culpable cause. Thus a motorist who faultlessly knocks down a pedestrian but thereafter fails to apply his brakes promptly, will be answerable only for those injuries due to his subsequent failure to stop on time.

OBS

innocent cause : As opposed to "culpable cause".

French

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

Spanish

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Record 62 2008-10-14

English

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

The classical mode of conversion consists in unauthorized transfer or disposal of the goods, whether by sale and delivery, pledge, or just mistaken delivery to the wrong person....(It) is not even an answer to have acted under authority from someone who had himself no right to dispose of them so that a sale and delivery by an agent or auctioneer constitutes conversion as against the true owner, although made in honest belief that his principal had title to the goods. Property rights are protected at the expense of an innocent mistake.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 63 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 64 2008-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Employment Benefits
CONT

Innocent overcontributions to an RRSP [registred retirement savings plan] are those made exceeding the personal allowable limit, but not exceeding $5, 500.

PHR

Personal allowable limit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Avantages sociaux

Spanish

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Record 65 2007-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
  • Intelligence (Military)
DEF

An agent operating within a target country with a cover that gives him or her the identity of another, innocent, person, and a way of life that is unlikely to draw the attention of the enemy counter-espionage service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
CONT

Cours martiales et exécutions d'espions se succédèrent, et frappèrent de crainte certains clandestins à l'âme moins ferme. Le célèbre clandestin soviétique William Fischer, alias colonel Rudolf Abel.

OBS

L'équivalent correct du terme «intelligence» est «renseignement» au singulier.

Key term(s)
  • officier du renseignement clandestin
  • officier clandestin du renseignement

Spanish

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Record 66 2006-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Conventions, Treaties and Agreements (Documents)
  • Laws and Legal Documents
OBS

Magna Carta(Latin for "Great Charter", literally "Great Paper"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English charter originally issued in 1215. Magna Carta was the most significant early influence on the long historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today. Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between Pope Innocent III, King John and his English barons about the rights of the King. Magna Carta required the king to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that the will of the king could be bound by law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de conventions, de traités et d'accords (Documents)
  • Lois et documents juridiques
OBS

La Grande Charte ou Magna Carta est une charte de 63 articles arrachée par le baronnage anglais au roi Jean sans Terre le 15 juin 1215 après une courte guerre civile notamment marquée par la prise de Londres, le 17 mai, par les rebelles. Les barons étaient excédés des exigences militaires et financières du roi et de ses échecs répétés en France à Bouvines et à la Roche-aux-Moines. Ce texte limite l'arbitraire royal et établit en droit l'habeas corpus qui empêche, entre autres, l'emprisonnement arbitraire. Il garantit les droits féodaux, les libertés des villes contre l'arbitraire royal et institue le contrôle de l'impôt par le Grand Conseil du Royaume. L'archevêque de Canterbury, Langton défend ardemment les barons, son nom restant le premier à avoir été apposé en qualité de témoin de la Grande Charte. Lorsque le pape excommunie les barons, Langton refuse de publier l'interdit et est suspendu par le pape.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de convenciones, tratados y acuerdos (Documentos)
  • Leyes y documentos jurídicos
OBS

La Carta Magna ("Gran Carta" en latín), también conocida como Magna Carta Libertatum es un documento inglés de 1215 que limitó el poder de los monarcas de Inglaterra, especialmente el del rey Juan sin Tierra, que la firmó, impidiendo así el ejercicio del poder absoluto. Fue el resultado de los desencuentros entre Juan, el Papa y los nobles ingleses sobre las prerrogativas del soberano. De acuerdo a los términos de la Carta Magna, Juan debía renunciar a ciertos derechos y respetar determinados procedimientos legales, reconociendo que la voluntad del rey estaría sujeta a la ley. Se considera a la Carta Magna como el primer capítulo de un largo proceso histórico que llevaría al surgimiento del constitucionalismo.

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Record 67 2005-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
  • International Relations
CONT

Terrorism, both foreign and domestic, represents an extreme form of criminal violence. This recent incident [September 11], not part of an organized military conflict, resulted in the immediate deaths of thousands of innocent victims and is the most violent crime ever perpetrated on American soil.

Key term(s)
  • organised military conflict

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 68 2005-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Sources (Journalism)
CONT

Some years later it emerged, in an extremely low-key press release, that in fact the technology was largely over-rated and not able to distinguish "military" from "civilian" targets after all, with the loss of the lives of thousands of innocent bystanders.

Key term(s)
  • low-key press release

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sources d'information (Journalisme)
OBS

Lorsqu'une organisation doit annoncer quelque chose, mais qu'elle veut éviter que cela suscite trop de réactions, elle publie un tel communiqué, c'est-à-dire qu'à l'heure et au jour appropriés ledit communiqué est transmis au moins de médias possible de manière à ce que l'information ait le moins de «visibilité» possible.

Spanish

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Record 69 2005-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

Prime minister Jean Chrétien responded with anger at the recent terrorist attack at Hebrew University, which brutally took the lives of innocent Israeli and international students.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

Le Premier ministre Jean Chrétien a condamné l'attentat terroriste contre l'Université de Jérusalem qui coûté la vie d'innocentes victimes, Israéliens et étudiants internationaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
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Record 70 2005-08-02

English

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

"The conduct of the defendant's guard, if a wrong in its relation to the holder of the package, was not a wrong in its relation to the plaintiff standing far away. Relatively to her it was not negligence at all... If no hazard was apparent to the eye of ordinary vigilance, an act innocent and harmless, at least to outward seeming, with reference toward her, did not take to itself the quality of a tort because it happened to be a wrong, though apparently not one involving the risk of bodily insecurity, with reference to someone else... "

French

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

Si l'acte du gardien de la défenderesse est blâmable en ce qui concerne le porteur du colis, il ne l'est pas à l'égard de la demanderesse qui se trouvait loin du lieu de l'événement. Il n'y a eu relativement à celle-ci aucune négligence... S'il était impossible avec une vigilance ordinaire de déceler un danger, un acte en toute apparence innocent et ne présentant aucun danger à l'égard de celle-ci ne devient pas un délit du seul fait qu'il s'est révélé représenter une faute, et encore là, même pas semble-t-il une faute comportant un risque d'atteinte à l'intégrité physique, à l'égard de quelqu'un d'autre [...]

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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Record 71 2005-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

... An arbitration agreement, included in a contract, shall be independent of its other provisions. The voidance of a contract shall not mean ipso facto invalidity of the arbitration agreement contained therein.

OBS

The notion of total abrogation can hardly be taken literally for it would mean the abrogation of any right to damages on the part of the innocent party.

OBS

Avoid, void; avoidance, voidance ... In legal writing these verb and noun pairs are perfectly synonymous. In law "avoid" often means " to make void or to cancel."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
OBS

annulation [...] Anéantissement rétroactif par le tribunal d'un acte juridique entaché de nullité. Par ex., annulation d'un contrat pour vice de consentement.

Spanish

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Record 72 2004-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

The continued conviction of David Milgaard would constitute a miscarriage of justice if, on the basis of the judicial record, the reference case and such further evidence as this court in its discretion may receive and consider, the court is satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that David Milgaard is innocent...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Le maintien de la condamnation de David Milgaard constituera une erreur judiciaire si, sur le fondement du dossier judiciaire, du dossier produit dans le cadre du présent renvoi et de toute autre preuve que notre Cour peut, à sa discrétion, recevoir et prendre en considération, la Cour est convaincue hors de tout doute raisonnable que David Milgaard est innocent [...]

Spanish

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Record 73 2004-05-18

English

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

Proper recordation imparts constructive notice to the world of the existence of the recorded document and its contents. It protects both innocent purchasers for value who act in ignorance of an unrecorded instrument and the grantee in the event that the deed is altered or lost. Any conveyance not properly recorded is generally void as against any subsequent purchaser, lessee, or mortgagee in good faith and for a valuable consideration who, without having actual notice of the unrecorded conveyance, records his or her subsequent interest in the property.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 396).

French

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

non publié : 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).

Spanish

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Record 74 2004-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
CONT

It is admitted that no resolution of directors was passed and that no meeting of directors took place. However, the "inside management rule" enunciated inter alia in Royal British Bank v. Turquand... would apply to protect an innocent third party dealing with Ridout Real Estate Ltd. without notice of those facts and that Miss MacDonald was not the secretary of the company.

CONT

indoor management rule. This rule permits third parties to rely upon officers, directors or employees having the authority to bind the company where their actions would imply that they have such authority.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
CONT

[...] l'application de la règle de la régie interne permettait aux tiers de présumer le respect des règles de régie interne de la compagnie, notamment celles relatives à l'élection des administrateurs, à la nomination des dirigeants et à la tenue des réunions du conseil d'administration et des assemblées générales des actionnaires.

Key term(s)
  • règle de l'indoor management

Spanish

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Record 75 2004-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

A repudiation puts an end to the contract in the sense that it releases the innocent party from the duty of further performance, but it does not abrogate the whole contract. The innocent party can sue for damages.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 76 2002-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
CONT

Many policies include a "severability" provision stating that the acts of one director or officer, giving rise to an exclusion under the policy, will not be imputed to the other insureds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
OBS

L'acte d'un assuré ayant pour effet de rendre la police non applicable ne pénalisera pas un autre assuré qui n'est ni l'auteur ni le complice de tel acte.

Spanish

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Record 77 2001-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Offences and crimes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 78 2000-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Environmental Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Order declaring nature and extent of interests.... Where, on the hearing of an application under this section, the Federal Court is satisfied that the applicant, or the intervenors, if any, or any of them,(a) is innocent of any complicity in any conduct that caused the thing to be subject to forfeiture and of any collusion in relation to any such conduct...

OBS

Statute cited: Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Droit environnemental
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Ordonnance déclarative de la nature et de l'étendue des droits. [...] Après l'audition de la requête, le requérant et l'intervenant sont fondés à obtenir une ordonnance préservant leurs droits des effets de la confiscation et déclarant la nature et l'étendue de leurs droits ainsi que leur rang respectif [...]

OBS

Loi citée : Loi canadienne sur la protection de l'environnement.

Spanish

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Record 79 2000-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Social Problems
OBS

June 4 - A U.N. observance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

4 juin.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Designaciones de años, semanas y días especiales
  • Problemas sociales
OBS

4 de junio.

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Record 80 1998-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heraldry
CONT

In 1203 Innocent III sends a flag to the tsar of the Bulgars with a cover-letter; the flag bore a cross and the keys of St. Peter. This flag reappears in 1316 when the town of Viterbo was allowed to add the vexillum of the Church to its arms : it is depicted as a red oblong flag with two tails, with a white cross cantonned by four upright white keys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Héraldique
CONT

D'argent à la croix d'azur, cantonnée de quatre aigles de gueules. (Larousse X1Xe siècle).

CONT

Croix cantonnée de quatre globules.

Spanish

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Record 81 1998-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
OBS

English, French, Spanish, Polish. Human Life International(HLI) was founded in 1981 by Benedictine monk, Fr. Paul Marx. A Catholic priest and Doctor of Sociology. Fr. Marx was a pro-life pioneer in the 1960s and 1970s, teaching scientifically proven natural methods of birth spacing, commonly referred to as Natural Family Planning(NFP). Fr. Marx became alarmed at the increased reliance on abortion, especially among the young, and the proliferation of groups promoting abortion rights. He founded the Human Life Center at Minnesota's St. John's University in 1972. This became Human Life International in 1981. Through HLI Fr. Marx worked to promote NFP and to defend innocent unborn human life. HLI has grown over the years into a worldwide human rights organization, whose global mission is to protect and defend the right to life at all stages of human development and to promote natural methods of birth spacing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
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Record 82 1997-11-21

English

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

In Sidney, Nova Scotia. The CIDC is a humanitarian, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization(NGO) formed to address the impact of landmines on innocent populations of post conflict countries world wide. Mission statement : To establish sustainable indigenous demining capacities in mine polluted countries world wide in order to reclaim socio-economic resources with the minimum of foreign assistance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
OBS

Renseignements obtenus du Centre en Nouvelle-Écosse.

Spanish

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Record 83 1997-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
  • Security
  • Private International Law (Private Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
  • Sécurité
  • Droit international privé (Droit privé)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de leyes y reglamentos
  • Seguridad
  • Derecho internacional privado (Derecho privado)
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Record 84 1997-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 85 1997-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paramedical Staff
CONT

The North American Polygraph and Psychophysiology : Disinterested, Uninterested, and Interested Perspectives The subtle changes in physiological functions that psychophysiologists study appear to show considerable promise in the area of deception, because they are not under voluntary control. ["The Psychophysiologist as Innocent Bystander : Ethical Mismatch", Robert J. Barry, Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Australia]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel para-médical
CONT

Au cours des années 1980, les psychophysiologistes ont commencé à étudier explicitement les relations entre la conscience phonologique et la lecture.

Spanish

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Record 86 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
OBS

Bâti sur le modèle de «droit de passage inoffensif». Un État invoque le droit d'usage inoffensif pour rassurer la communauté internationale quant à l'utilisation sécuritaire d'une importante ressource naturelle.

Spanish

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Record 87 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 88 1995-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

Source(s) : Sault Ste. Marie, [1978] 2 R.C.S. [Recueil des arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada] 1299, p. 1310; Tutton, [1989] 1 R.C.S. 1392, p. 1397, Nova Scotia, [1992] 2 R.C.S. 606, p. 617 et 659; DeSousa, [1992] 2 R.C.S. 944, p. 966 et 967.

Spanish

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Record 89 1994-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Security
  • Translation (General)
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Sécurité
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 90 1994-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

Source(s) : Schweitzer [1982] 1 R.C.S. 953.

Spanish

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Record 91 1994-03-10

English

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

French

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

On a proposé d'exonérer ou de soulager celui qui diffame sans aucune malveillance, par exemple en répétant une fausseté qu'il a de bonnes raisons de prendre pour la vérité.

Spanish

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Record 92 1994-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

Source(s) : 1) R. c. B.(C.R.), [1990] 1 R.C.S.717, à la p. 724; R. c. D.(L.E.), [1989] 2 R.C.S. 111, à la p. 121; Robertson, [1987] 1 R.C.S. 918, à la p. 942; R. c. B.(F.F.), [1993] 2) Clermont, [1986] 2 R.C.S

Spanish

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Record 93 1991-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Employment Benefits
CONT

Innocent overcontributions are those made to an RRSP exceeding the personal allowable limit, but not exceeding $5, 500.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Avantages sociaux

Spanish

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Record 94 1987-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea
  • War and Peace (International Law)
CONT

Art. 12 of Hague Convention No. XIII concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval Warfare provides :"In default of special provision to the contrary in the legislation of a neutral Power, belligerent warships are forbidden to remain in the ports, roadsteads, or territorial waters of the said Power for more than twenty-four hours, except in the cases covered by the present convention". The reason for the rule is presumably that a belligerent armed vessel should not be permitted to remain in a neutral port longer than is absolutely necessary for the procurement of innocent supplies or the making of repairs to insure seaworthiness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
DEF

Règle adoptée par l'Angleterre au cours de la guerre de Sécession, acceptée par de nombreuses Puissances, que l'art. 12 de la C. XIII, La Haye, 18 octobre 1907, n'a consacrée qu'à défaut d'autres dispositions de la législation de la Puissance neutre et d'après laquelle il est interdit aux navires de guerre des belligérants de demeurer dans les ports et rades ou dans les eaux territoriales d'une Puissance neutre pendant plus de vingt-quatre heures.

Spanish

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Record 95 1987-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Law
CONT

International waterways, apart from international rivers and canals, are those which are used frequently by commercial shipping or warships belonging to States other than the nations bordering upon them. According to customary international law merchant ships of all flags are entitled to pass through such straits whether these belong to the territorial waters of the neighbouring States or form part of the high seas. Warships are also entitled to innocent passage but subject to particular rules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international
DEF

Voie d'eau, maritime ou fluviale, dont l'utilisation est régie par le droit international coutumier ou conventionnel, que son régime administratif soit ou non confié à une commission internationale.

Spanish

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Record 96 1985-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité

Spanish

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Record 97 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)

Spanish

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