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INSTANCE COURT [21 records]

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Record 1 2026-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

To state or assert that something is the case, as for instance, in an originating process seeking a court judgement or order.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Droit de la preuve
DEF

Faire valoir en justice un fait, invoquer un moyen de fait au soutien d'une prétention, que celle-ci émane du demandeur ou du défendeur.

OBS

Le verbe alléguer ne s'emploie pas pour un texte, un argument ou un moyen de droit.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Derecho probatorio
DEF

Argumentar en un proceso o procedimiento [...] actos, hechos, situaciones u opiniones que favorecen la postura y opinión de cada una de las partes que alega.

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Record 2 2025-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

When an application to stay an exclusion order is presented at the last minute, as in the instant case, certain facts must be taken into consideration. The first is that the court may very well refuse to hear the application... But if the court is persuaded that it should hear the case, that does not mean that everything will happen in the usual way. The applicant still has the burden of satisfying the court that he is entitled to the order he is seeking. In this instance, the burden is eased if the applicant is credible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Quand une demande de surseoir à une mesure d'exclusion se présente à la dernière minute telle que dans l'instance, certaines réalités s'imposent. La première est que la cour peut très bien refuser d'entendre la demande [...] Mais, si la cour est persuadée qu'elle doit entendre la cause, cela ne veut pas dire que tout se passe de façon habituelle. Le demandeur a toujours le fardeau de satisfaire la cour qu'il a droit à l'ordonnance qu'il réclame. Dans l'instance, le fardeau est soulagé si le demandeur est crédible.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

Interim divorce order which is open to challenge during a fixed period of time.

CONT

Every decree of divorce is in the first instance a decree nisi and no such decree shall be made absolute until three months have elapsed from the granting of the decree and the court is satisfied that every right to appeal from the judgment granting the decree has been exhausted.

French

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

jugement conditionnel : terme recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
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Record 5 2017-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

The International Association of Refugee Law Judges seeks to foster recognition that protection from persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion is an individual right established under international law, and that the determination of refugee status and its cessation should be subject to the rule of law. The Association's membership consists of specialists in refugee law issues, members of specialized tribunals such as Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board(IRB) ;members of courts of first instance having general jurisdiction, similar to Canada's Federal Court; and members of appellate courts having powers of review over administrative determinations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
CONT

L'Association internationale des juges aux affaires des réfugiés veut faire davantage reconnaître que la protection contre la persécution en raison de la race, de la religion, de la nationalité, de l'appartenance à un groupe social ou des opinions politiques est un droit individuel reconnu par le droit international et que l'attribution, ou la perte, du statut de réfugié doivent être décidées en conformité avec le principe de la légalité. L'Association regroupe des spécialistes des questions touchant le droit des réfugiés, des membres de tribunaux spécialisés (du genre de la Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié au Canada (CISR)), des membres de tribunaux de première instance ayant une compétence générale (comme la Cour fédérale du Canada) et des membres de cours d'appel habilitées à réexaminer des décisions administratives.

Key term(s)
  • Association internationale des juges œuvrant dans le domaine du droit des réfugiés
  • Association internationale des juges des affaires aux réfugiés
  • Association internationale des juges œuvrant en droit des réfugiés

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
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Record 6 2015-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Rules of Court
CONT

The entry of a caveat warrant should not prevent the issue of a warrant, but a party whose instance a warrant shall be issued for the arrest of any property in respect of which there is a caveat warrant outstanding, shall be condemned in all costs and damages occasioned thereby, unless he shall show to the satisfaction of the Court good and sufficient reason to the contrary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-09-18

English

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

The Court also distinguished between the legal right of redemption in foreclosure proceedings and a borrower's contractual right to reinstate a defaulted loan. By law, a defaulting borrower in foreclosure is entitled to redeem his or her property by paying the entire principal and interest due before confirmation of the sheriff's sale. When that happens, the lender has a legal duty to dismiss the foreclosure proceedings and may not condition that dismissal on payment of attorney fees. This differs from a contractual right to reinstate a loan. In that instance, the borrower typically pays only the amounts needed to make the loan current and continues all future payments on the previously agreed-upon schedule.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

droit de rachat en common law : 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 8 2015-07-16

English

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

If the court is satisfied to accept the legislative judgment as conclusively determining the standard of conduct appropriate to the occasion, it follows that any unexcused deviation is negligence per se.... For the duty to comply is one of "absolute obligation. "This means in the first instance that the defendant will not be heard to excuse his failure to adopt the prescribed safeguard by arguing that what he did was quite adequate or just as good...

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-05-12

English

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

In its most extensive sense, the restoration or vindication of a right existing in a person, by the formal judgment or decree of a competent court, at his instance and suit, or the obtaining, by such judgment, of some right or property which has been taken or withheld from him.

French

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

Action de réclamer la propriété d'un bien ou la reconnaissance d'un droit.

CONT

La revendication n'est pas toujours et exclusivement réservée au propriétaire d'un bien; elle peut être accordée à celui qui a un droit réel sur la chose ou un droit spécial assimilable au droit de propriété.

CONT

Le droit de revendication conféré par la loi au liquidateur de la succession ou au vendeur impayé.

Spanish

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Record 10 2014-05-15

English

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

The power of an agency to decide an issue in the first instance when a court, having concurrent jurisdiction with the agency, determines that it would be more pragmatic for the agency to handle the case initially.

CONT

Canadian provinces and one of the territories (Yukon) have the primary jurisdiction over most areas of water management and protection.

French

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

Les provinces et un des territoires, le Yukon, disposent de la compétence principale dans la plupart des domaines de la gestion et de la protection de l'eau.

Spanish

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Record 11 2013-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Family Law (civil law)
CONT

In a divorce action, the order of the court granting the divorce in the first instance is called a decree nisi, and is subsequently followed by a final order called decree absolute. Ordinarily, a period of three months should elapse between the pronouncement of the decree nisi and the decree absolute...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Droit de la famille (droit civil)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
  • Derecho de familia (derecho civil)
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Record 12 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A specific stance or location of a person on a tennis court determined by a given situation, or by extension, location of a part of the hand on a tennis racquet.

OBS

The Spanish term "puesto" is only used in contexts relating to one's location on a tennis court. The term "posición" is more generic; hence it may be used for instance in reference to one's hand on the shaft of a racquet.

CONT

Always consider the returns which will be most likely from the serve you are attempting so that you can cover the right angle and get to the correct position on the court.

PHR

Advantageous, balanced, beginning, body, center, choked-up, commanding, court, Eastern forehand, firm-footed, fixed-wrist, hitting, ideal, ideal volley (IVP), mid-court, off-center, racket-face, ready, up-and-down, volley, waiting, well-balanced, wrist position.

PHR

To assume, gain, recover a position. To run to a position. To get back, slide, stroll position. To defend, maintain, retain one’e position. To be out of position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

La position de départ [du service] : Il existe plusieurs variations possibles. Que l'on pense à [John] McEnroe (position très fermée) ou à [Boris] Becker (position très ouverte).

PHR

Position agressive, d'attente, décalée, de départ, nonchalante, (non) stratégique, stressante.

PHR

Justesse de sa position.

PHR

S'emparer d'une position (d'attaque).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

Antónimo: (ser) descolocado.

CONT

Passing-shot [cuando está] en buena posición.

CONT

En caso de cruce, su compañero deberá permutar su puesto.

PHR

Una posición «semi de lado».

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Record 13 2012-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Any stroke that for some reason is replayed without penalty. In an average game, only two types of let are encountered : 1) when called solely in respect of a service that one service only shall be replayed; 2) when called under any other circumstance, the point shall be replayed. For instance, a serve that nicks the top of the net, then bounces in the proper service court is to be replayed. By extension, also a call made by the umpire or by one of the players to indicate that a point should be replayed because of a stray ball rolling across the court. Sometimes the term "let" is mistakenly referred to as a "net serve". A "let" is also played if, for instance, the receiver of a service is not ready to start; if one player involuntarily hinders his opponent; or if a player is hindered in playing by an external agency.

CONT

Service lets. If, during t he serving process a let is called because the ball served touched the top of the net and fell in the service area, that serve, and that serve only is taken over again.

OBS

Caution: If the ball touches the net on a service, the net judge will call "net", or sometimes "filet"(French Open). The umpire, however, will call "let", since "let" is the official call he must make. This distinction is not always upheld in social play, where informally one hears the following expressions: "two", "take two", or "play two", i.e. take two serves since the first one touched the net (and landed in), "play one", "take one", "second serve", i.e. first serve touched the net and landed out. Moreover, for precision, the term "let" is sometimes qualified: service let.

PHR

To call, claim, play a let.

PHR

Service let.

PHR

Let call.

Key term(s)
  • service let

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup ou service à rejouer.

CONT

Le let au service. Si la balle de service touche le filet et retombe en jeu, on ne rejoue que ce service. Dans tous les autres cas, le let implique la reprise du point.

CONT

[...] l'arbitre de chaise [...] est assisté de dix personnes, sans compter le juge de faute de pied et celui au filet chargé d'annoncer les balles let ou celles passant à travers ou sous le filet.

OBS

[...] l'arbitre [...] ordonne de rejouer le point quand un joueur a été gêné dans l'exécution d'un coup pour une raison indépendante de sa volonté; [... ou quand une] balle d'engagement, tombée dans la surface après avoir touché le filet, est à rejouer. [...]

OBS

«Let» : mot anglais prononcé par l'arbitre pour indiquer qu'un point est à rejouer, parce que la balle a touché le filet ou pour toute autre raison.

OBS

On ne dit «net» qu'à propos d'une balle de service qui touche la bande du filet. Mais le fait de rejouer le point est appelé un «let». Normalement, c'est le juge de filet qui dit «filet» ou «net» et l'arbitre ordonne un «let». S'il n'y a pas de juge de filet, l'arbitre devrait annoncer «net-let». Habituellement, il se contente de dire «let». Dans tous les cas autres que le service où il faut rejouer un point, la balle est annoncée «let». Voir aussi «net», «filet», ou «balle net».

PHR

Annoncer, jouer, réclamer let.

Key term(s)
  • let au service
  • nul

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

Un punto que se vuelve a jugar.

CONT

[...] cuando la jugada se declare nula con respecto únicamente a un servicio, solamente se volverá a jugar este servicio.

CONT

El saque deberá ser considerado nulo (let).

CONT

En caso de pelota nula, la jugada no cuenta para nada y el que saca deberá servir de nuevo, pero una pelota nula no invalida una falta precedente.

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Record 14 2011-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A point lost as a result of one’s player’s mistake during a rally, e.g. hitting the ball out or into the net (failed return), rather than the other player’s good shot.

OBS

A "fault" is an infraction of the rules of tennis. For instance, by failing to place a serve within the service court in two tries constitutes a service fault or "double fault"; if a ball sails beyond the boundary line, an official will call out "fault"(and not error). An "error" is a more subjective term used to denote any mistake committed by a player that causes him or her to lose the point. Note however that the term "error" is used in statistics, e. g. number of unforced errors. The generic term "mistake" is non-specific to tennis.

PHR

Careless, costly, flawless, loose, nagging, sprayed, uncharacteristic, unforced error.

PHR

Flurry, marging, rash of errors. Marging for errors.

PHR

To be prone to errors. To draw errors. To rack up errors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Point gagné à cause d'une erreur évidente plutôt qu'à cause de l'habilité du joueur.

PHR

Erreur grossière, manifeste.

PHR

Marge d'erreur.

PHR

Match cousu d'erreurs.

PHR

Accumuler des erreurs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] había jugado con un margen mínimo de errores ya con una efectividad casi del 100%.

PHR

Error corriente, no forzado, mayúsculo, de posición.

PHR

Errores que se irán acumulando.

PHR

Cometer, corregir, descubrir un error.

PHR

Sucesión de errores.

PHR

Analizar sus errores.

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Record 15 2010-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
DEF

A court before which an action is first brought for trial, as contrasted with an appellate court; ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
DEF

Juridiction du premier degré de l'ordre judiciaire statuant à juge unique [...] qui relève en appel de la cour d'appel dans le ressort de laquelle elle est établie et dont le service est assuré par des magistrats du tribunal de grande instance, compétente pour statuer en premier et dernier ressort ou à charge d'appel suivant les distinctions de la loi, sur toutes les affaires que celle-ci lui attribue [...]

OBS

[...] la loi distingue deux degrés de juridictions : les tribunaux de première instance et la cour d'appel [...] toute décision rendue en première instance frappée d'appel est soumise à la cour d'appel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tribunales
OBS

Corrientemente, en la tramitación de un juicio se pueden dar dos instancias: una primera, que va desde su iniciación hasta la primera sentencia que lo resuelve; y una segunda, desde la interposición del recurso de apelación hasta la sentencia que en ella se pronuncie.

OBS

tribunal de primera instancia: Expresión y observación reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 16 1999-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
DEF

the court of equity which was presided over by the Lord Chancellor, assisted by the Master of the Rolls and judges of first instance known as Vice-Chancellors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 17 1995-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

the main court of a castle, for instance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 18 1994-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 20 1985-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction

Spanish

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Record 21 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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