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KIND LOSS [19 records]

Record 1 2025-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

Loss or damage done to, or sustained by, any person or thing.

CONT

harm : Detriment of any kind; the term embraces damage and loss.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Règles de procédure
DEF

Un effet nuisible.

OBS

Recommandation du Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
  • Reglamento procesal
OBS

daño y perjuicio: Términos reproducidos del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 2 2016-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
CONT

The determination of the amount of loss under the policy depends on the type of risk that has occurred. Where the loss results from expropriatory action or inability to re-export, the amount of loss will be the lesser of the agreed value of the equipment on the date the risk occurred or the cost of replacing the insured equipment with equipment of like kind and quality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
CONT

Montant du sinistre. La valeur du sinistre est établie en fonction du type de sinistre survenu. Si le sinistre est attribuable à des mesures d'expropriation ou à une impossibilité de réexporter, le montant du sinistre sera égal au moindre de la valeur convenue de l'équipement à la valeur convenue de l'équipement à la date de survenance du risque ou du coût de remplacement de l'équipement par de l'équipement de type et de qualité équivalents.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-11-02

English

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

Monetary damages which may be awarded in compensation for general damage or the kind or harm and loss which naturally and normally follows from the wrong and which does not need to be specifically pleaded and proved, as in cases of personal injuries for pain and suffering, loss or limbs and damage to health.

OBS

general damages; damages at large: terms used in the plural.

French

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

dommages-intérêts généraux: terme utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

dommages-intérêts généraux : 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 2015-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slaughterhouses
CONT

Traditionally the purpose of stunning is to render the animal unconscious(and thus insensible to pain) but not to actually kill it. Death is caused by loss of blood following sticking. This kind of stunning is called(in the case of electrical stunning) head-only stunning. Inherent within it is the danger that it is reversible, i. e. animals may regain consciousness before death occurs, which will result in very considerable suffering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Abattoirs
DEF

Dans un abattoir, anesthésie par électrocution pratiquée sur les porcs avant égorgement.

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-06-26

English

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

The damages in an action for breach of promise of marriage are not measured by any fixed standard.... They may be of a vindictive and uncertain kind, not merely to repay the plaintiff for temporal loss but also to punish the defendant in an exemplary manner.

OBS

In context, the shorter forms "action for breach of promise" and "breach of promise action" are sometimes used.

French

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

Le demandeur dans une action pour rupture de promesse de mariage ne peut avoir gain de cause que si son témoignage est corroboré par une autre preuve substantielle à l'appui de la promesse.

OBS

action pour rupture de promesse de mariage : 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 6 2015-05-26

English

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

It was of little moment whether trespassory harm or nuisance was occasioned by intentional or negligent misconduct, so long as the primitive requirements of causation were satisfied and the loss was of a kind for which the law was prepared to grant redress in accordance with the prevailing standards of a socially and economically undeveloped community.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

Substantial damage to the state of mind of a person suffered through the means of one or more of the senses for which a plaintiff can have a cause of action in tort as physical injury.

CONT

A plaintiff in an action of negligence cannot recover damages for a "shock" however grievous, which was no more than an immediate emotional response to a distressing experience, sudden, severe, and saddening. It is, however, today a known medical fact that severe emotional distress can be the starting point of a lasting disorder of mind or body, some form of psycho-neurosis or a psychosomatic illness. For that ... damages may be had.

OBS

The phrase "nervous shock"... is no longer in favour; it is now preferable to refer to this kind of loss as "psychiatric damage", which includes all relevant forms of mental illness, neurosis and personality change.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
CONT

La jurisprudence québécoise à plusieurs reprises s'est posé le problème de l'indemnisation du choc nerveux. Peut-on par exemple compenser un conjoint ou un parent pour le choc nerveux qu'il subit à la suite de la vue ou de l'annonce de l'accident subi par quelqu'un de sa famille? Les décisions à cet égard semblent partagées.

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-04-26

English

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

(I) n its more specific sense it is that kind of contingent benefit which is neither the object of a limitation, like an executory interest, nor is founded on any loss or recoverable seisin, like a writ of entry.(Words and Phrases/U. S., Vol. 33, p. 114).

French

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

possibilité : 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 9 2012-04-25

English

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

The phrase "nervous shock"... is no longer in favour; it is now preferable to refer to this kind of loss as "psychiatric damage", which includes "all relevant forms of mental illness, neurosis and personality change. "

French

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

Plutôt que de tenter de séparer les diverses causes de la maladie, les [cours de l'Ontario et du Royaume-Uni] affirment que la responsabilité sera imputée à l'auteur de l'acte délictueux pour l'ensemble du préjudice psychiatrique si le délit est la cause ou a contribué au préjudice.

OBS

dommage psychiatrique; préjudice psychiatrique : 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 10 2007-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Acoustics (Physics)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
CONT

Coincidence effect. When a plane wave strikes a thin partition at an angle, there are alternating high and low pressure zones along the partition that cause it to flex sinusoidally. This flexural wave propagates along the surface of the wall. At some frequency, there is a kind of resonance and the wall becomes transparent to the wave. This causes a marked decrease in the transmission loss over what is expected from the mass law; it can be 10-15 dB.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acoustique (Physique)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
CONT

Quand une onde rencontre une paroi avec une [...] incidence oblique et une fréquence particulière, la paroi vibre et se déforme en flexion. Si la célérité des ondes de torsion de la paroi rejoint la célérité du son dans l'air, il se produit une perte d'isolement. Le phénomène n'est pas confiné à une seule fréquence. Au delà de la fréquence critique, les pertes d'isolement sont essentiellement liées à l'effet de coïncidence.

Spanish

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Record 11 2003-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation Insurance
  • Cargo (Water Transport)
DEF

A change in the nature or character of cargo which, in insurance terms, is effectively an actual total loss.

OBS

Loss of specie occurs where the insured property is so damaged that it ceases to be a thing of the kind insured, that is, it changes its specie. An example would be cement which when immersed in seawater becomes concrete.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurance transport
  • Cargaisons (Transport par eau)

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Telecommunications
DEF

In error correction, the loss of many consecutive bits of information, usually because of some flaw in the medium such as a scratch or dirt.

OBS

The distinction is with continuous noise which corrupts data in a different way, requiring a different kind of error correction. In optical memory, most data loss is due to burst errors. The design of an error correction code depends on how often error bursts are likely to occur, and how long the longest burst is likely to be.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Test et débogage
  • Télécommunications

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prueba y depuración
  • Telecomunicaciones
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Record 13 1999-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

In the province of New Brunswick, Social Service, Educational and Mental Health agencies felt that a group of multi-agency, regionally based clinical teams would have the best chance of creating the kind of care plans that would be most acceptable to the youth and his/her family, as well as to the school and community. With these facts in mind, they developed and implemented a provincial system entitled the Youth Treatment Program(YTP). The provincial Youth Treatment Program is geared to serve severely conduct disordered youths(18 years and under) who have experienced loss in family life and have faced difficulties in both school and community settings.

Key term(s)
  • Provincial Youth Treatment Program
  • Youth Treatment Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

Au Nouveau-Brunswick, les organismes de services sociaux, scolaires et de santé mentale étaient d'avis qu'un groupe d'équipes cliniques régionales relevant de plusieurs organismes offriraient d'excellentes possibilités d'élaborer le genre de plans de soins qui apparaîtrait le plus acceptable par les jeunes et leurs familles, l'école et la collectivité. À la lumière de ces constats, ces groupes d'intérêt ont élaboré et mis sur pied un réseau provincial qui s'appelle le Programme de traitement pour jeunes (PTJ). Ce programme s'adresse aux jeunes (de 18 ans et moins) ayant de graves troubles de conduite qui ont vécu une perte dans leur vie familiale et qui éprouvent des difficultés à l'école et dans la collectivité.

Key term(s)
  • Programme provincial de traitement des jeunes

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
  • Sheep Raising
DEF

Maedi is the Icelandic word for dyspnoea, and the disease is a type of pneumonia with a very long incubation period-one to three years or even more. Listlessness and loss of condition-often after stress of some kind-are the first symptoms. An early sign is dyspnoea; after physical exertion the breathing becomes very rapid and shallow. Later, breathing becomes difficult even when the animal is at rest, and death often follows.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
  • Élevage des ovins
DEF

Pneumonie chronique du mouton islandais due vraisemblablement à un virus lent [...] L'incubation est très longue, et peut dépasser 2 ans. La masse des poumons augmente et progresse sans rémission jusqu'à la mort. On tend de nos jours à considérer qu'il s'agit de la formule pulmonaire d'une affection qui sous sa forme nerveuse est appelée visna.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
  • Cría de ganado ovino
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Record 15 1994-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
CONT

Where the loss results from damage, the amount of loss shall be the lesser of the Agreed Value of the insured equipment on the date the risk occurred or the cost of repairing or replacing the insured equipment with equipment of like kind and quality within a reasonable time after the date of loss.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
CONT

Si le sinistre découle de dégâts matériels, le montant du sinistre sera égal au moindre de la valeur convenue de l'équipement à la date de la survenance du risque ou du coût de réparation ou de remplacement de l'équipement par de l'équipement de type et de qualité équivalents dans un délai raisonnable après la date du sinistre.

Spanish

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Record 16 1994-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
CONT

Any amounts received, recovered or realized with respect to the insured equipment, including the fair market value of any recovery in kind, shall be deducted from the exporter's claim for loss.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
CONT

Les demandes d'indemnisation seront diminuées de tous les montants reçus, recouvrés ou réalisés à l'égard de l'équipement assuré ainsi que de la juste valeur marchande d'un recouvrement en nature.

Spanish

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Record 17 1994-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

Any amounts received, recovered or realized with respect to the insured equipment, including the fair market value of any recovery in kind, shall be deducted from the exporter's claim for loss.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
CONT

Les demandes d'indemnisation seront diminuées de tous les montants reçus, recouvrés ou réalisés à l'égard de l'équipement assuré ainsi que de la juste valeur marchande d'un recouvrement en nature.

Spanish

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Record 18 1987-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances

Spanish

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Record 19 1981-09-29

English

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

(...) the amount set forth in the Trade Group Classification is designed to reflect the total loss potential for that particular kind of merchandise(...) and in practice it is customary for the amount stated in the Trade Group Classifications to be used in fixing the amount of insurance to apply.

French

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

le montant indiqué à la Classification du Groupe des Commerces est destiné à refléter la perte totale possible pour ce genre particulier de marchandises (...) et en pratique il est d'usage d'utiliser le montant indiqué aux Classifications du Groupe des Commerces pour établir le montant d'assurance qui s'appliquera.

Spanish

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