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LEGAL AGENT [20 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
DEF

Person who receives a power of representation by virtue of a mandate.

OBS

"advocate", "legal counsel", "member of the bar", "attorney": person entered on the Roll.

OBS

The term advocate is today the title of counsel in Scotland ...

OBS

advocate: of a civil law jurisdiction.

OBS

Reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos and from Law Terminology with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

mandataire : Projet de loi cité : The Powers of Attorney Act, Bill 3, (3rd reading), 4th Session, 31st Legislature (Man.), page 1.

OBS

«avocat», «conseiller juridique», «membre du Barreau», «procureur» : quiconque est inscrit au Tableau.

OBS

«Advocate» est l'avocat en Écosse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización de la profesión (Derecho)
CONT

En la mayoría de los países de habla inglesa se emplean los términos lawyer o attorney (llamado igualmente attorney-at-law en los Estados Unidos) para referirse a los letrados o abogados en general [...]. En Inglaterra y Gales la profesión tiene dos ramas: la de los barristers y la de los solicitors [...]. Los solicitors son letrados cuya función principal es asesorar a sus clientes en la solución de los problemas jurídicos que tengan [...]. Los barristers o barristers-at-law son la élite de la profesión, ya que gozan del monopolio o derecho exclusivo para ejercer la abogacía ante los tribunales superiores de Inglaterra y Gales [...]

OBS

abogado: Reproducido del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos y de Law Terminology con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 2 2015-04-30

English

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

The language employed by the members of the court in this case is the language of estoppel. The judges all refer to the principal' s holding out the agent, of apparent authority to contract as he did, of making him an ostensible principal. It is suggested, however, that another way of looking at this case is by saying that once a man is put into a position of manager of a business which normally or usually carries with it the power to transact certain kinds of legal acts, then such a manager has authority to do whatever is so normal or usual.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-08-15

English

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

One which exists where there(is) either :(a) an "actual delivery", consisting in giving to the bailee or his agent the real possession of the chattel, or(b) a "constructive delivery", consisting of any of those acts which, although not truly comprising real possession of the goods transferred, have been held by legal construction equivalent to acts of real delivery.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 129).

French

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

baillement de fait : 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 4 2012-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Legislature (Constitutional Law)
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
  • Public Service
DEF

To give official authority to; delegate legal power to.

CONT

To give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means : I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.

OBS

Although it is a contemporary buzzword, the word "empower" is not new, having arisen in the mid-17th century with the legalistic meaning "to invest with authority, authorize." Shortly thereafter it began to be used with an infinitive in a more general way meaning "to enable or permit."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir législatif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Fonction publique
DEF

Donner la possibilité légale, l'autorisation de faire quelque chose, par un accord explicite.

OBS

On a constaté que le verbe «empower» peut se traduire selon le contexte par : autoriser; habiliter; mandater (donner mandat à);déléguer (donner pouvoir à), etc. On a remarqué dans le domaine juridique, le verbe «habiliter» est employé dans le sens de «habiliter à faire quelque chose». Cependant, le verbe «autoriser» peut être utilisé dans le sens de «autoriser à faire quelque chose» dans les domaines juridique, administratif et politique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Poder legislativo (Derecho constitucional)
  • Poder ejecutivo (Derecho constitucional)
  • Función pública
DEF

Otorgar poder a favor de otra persona para su representación en juicio o para otros actos.

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Record 5 2011-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
OBS

Filing an Application. The effective date of an application is when a completed application form including attachments and filing fee have been provided to the Plant Breeders’ Rights Office(PBRO). The effective date will be used to determine the priority date of applications when varieties under examination are indistinguishable. The following information is to be provided to the PBRO : Completed application form and fee. Description of the origin and breeding history of the variety. Statement of uniformity and stability. Distinctness statement. Methods for maintaining the variety. Sample of propagating material(where applicable). Authorization of agent(where applicable). Evidence establishing that the Applicant is the legal representative(where applicable).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
CONT

La demande du certificat d’obtention végétale présentée à l’autorité compétente conformément aux dispositions de la présente loi confère les droits suivants : la priorité pour obtenir le certificat d’obtention de la variété en cas de multiplication des demandes à son sujet; la cession de la demande à des tiers; la protection provisoire de la variété contre la contrefaçon; l’exploitation de la variété objet de la demande.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción vegetal
  • Derecho de propiedad industrial e intelectual
CONT

La solicitud de certificado de obtención vegetal presentada a las autoridades competentes conforme a las disposiciones de la presente Ley confiere los derechos siguientes: prioridad para obtener el certificado de obtención de la variedad en caso de que se presenten varias solicitudes relativas a la misma; cesión de la solicitud a terceros; protección provisional de la variedad contra la falsificación; explotación de la variedad objeto de la solicitud.

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Record 6 2010-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Union Organization
OBS

The Union of Northern Workers(UNW) or the Northwest Territories(NWT) Public Service Association as it was known then, began organizing employees of the new Territorial Government in 1969. In 1988, the Government of Northwest Territories(GNWT) passed the Union of Northern Workers Act which officially changed the name of the organization and recognized the UNW as the bargaining agent for its members working for the government. The UNW is a component(partner) of the Public Service Alliance of Canada(PSAC). The PSAC provides the UNW and its members with some specialized services. They do organizing drives, lobby governments at the federal level, provide legal advice, and representation in arbitrations. The UNW provides direct service to its members, representing them in job appeals, grievances and everyday workplace problems. UNW also prepares bargaining demands for contract negotiations. UNW Service Officers help ensure that the terms and conditions are enforced for each of the 25 Collective Agreements that apply to our UNQ members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Organisation syndicale

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
  • Mental Disorders
CONT

A PAD is a legal document created by a competent person. The purpose of the document is to allow the person to give instructions for future mental health treatment or appoint an agent to make future decisions about mental health treatment. The document is used when the person who created the document experiences acute episodes of psychiatric illness and becomes unable to make or communicate decisions about treatment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents juridiques
  • Troubles mentaux

Spanish

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Record 8 2009-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 9 2009-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
CONT

The Agent Affairs Program, created in 1996, established a framework to strengthen the Department's ability to manage Legal Agents. The overall objective of the Program is to provide functional direction over contracting for legal services with a view to enhancing the stewardship of public resources and securing improved value for money.

Key term(s)
  • Agent Affairs Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
CONT

Le Programme des mandataires, établi en 1996, a établi un cadre pour renforcer la capacité du Ministère de gérer les mandataires. Le Programme a pour objectif général d'établir l'orientation fonctionnelle des marchés de services juridiques en vue de rehausser la qualité de la gestion et d'optimiser l'utilisation des ressources publiques.

Spanish

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Record 10 2009-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

The Terms and Conditions of Appointment of Legal Agents"... which governs appointment of both standing and ad hoc legal agents, contains a guideline indicating that the agent should raise significant legal issues(e. g. an interpretation or conclusion of law) with the Agent Supervisor...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

L'Unité de coordination des mandataires a également, suite à Beaulac, entrepris une révision des Conditions de nomination pour mandataires.

Spanish

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Record 11 2007-11-15

English

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

Performed by an illegal support agent or an intelligence officer attached to the legal residency; to provide the legal residency with "backstopped" information to be used in the cover and legend of an illegal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
  • Renseignement (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Federal Administration
OBS

In recognition of the need for overall functional direction over legal agents, a National Agent Affairs Program was established in 1996. In support of the reasonable demands of effectiveness, efficiency and economy, the ultimate goal of the Program is to provide the Department with a framework to strengthen its ability to administer and manage legal agent activities in such a way as to ensure the provision of quality legal service while containing the associated costs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Administration fédérale
OBS

Par suite de la reconnaissance du besoin d'assurer une orientation fonctionnelle générale aux mandataires, un programme national des mandataires a été mis sur pied en 1996. Pour répondre aux demandes raisonnables visant l'obtention de services juridiques efficaces, efficients et économiques, le but ultime du Programme est de fournir au Ministère un cadre qui lui permet de renforcer sa capacité d'administrer et de gérer les activités juridiques des mandataires de manière à assurer la prestation de services juridiques de qualité et à endiguer les coûts connexes.

Spanish

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Record 13 2007-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Rules of Court
OBS

The Litigation Practice Management Centre supports the Assistant Deputy Attorney General(Civil) in the delivery of litigation services by in-house counsel and legal agents. As such, this group looks after the development and management of the civil component of the Agent Affairs Program and provides operational support in relation to the appointment and remuneration of civil legal agents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

Le Centre de gestion de la pratique du contentieux des affaires civiles permet au sous-procureur général adjoint (contentieux des affaires civiles) de s'acquitter de ses fonctions en fournissant des services de contentieux assurés par ses propres avocats et par des mandataires. Il s'occupe à ce titre du développement et de la gestion du volet civil du Programme des mandataires et fournit du soutien opérationnel à l'égard de la nomination et de la rémunération des mandataires.

Spanish

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Record 14 2005-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

One trained and licensed to prepare, manage, and either prosecute or defend a court action as an agent for another and who also gives advice on legal matters that may or may not require court action. Many of the terms listed above may be used interchangeably depending on the jurisdiction. These titles, and the rank and powers attributed to them, vary significantly from province to province and from state to state, thus necessitating a careful check of the pertinent jurisdiction's usage before choosing a term for a legal text. The following trends may be noted. "Lawyer" is a generic term. "Counsel", frequently used in Canada, may be a general term, or may refer more specifically to a lawyer who can plead in court. A "barrister" is a courtroom lawyer as opposed to a "solicitor" who is basically an office lawyer.(In Canada, both of these functions may be carried out by the same person). In some jurisdictions, "attorney" is used as a synonym of "lawyer", but in others, "attorney" becomes synonymous with "solicitor". Moreover, an "attorney-at-law" may sometimes plead in court. "Advocate" is the general word for a lawyer in Roman law jurisdictions(i. e. Quebec).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

Personne qui, régulièrement inscrite à un barreau, conseille en matière juridique ou contentieuse, assiste et représente ses clients en justice. On dit une avocate pour une femme ou un avocat. «Conseil» est rare et ne se dit que d'un avocat qui défend les intérêts d'une personne en dehors de toute action judiciaire. Le terme «avoué», désignant un officier ministériel qui représente les parties devant les tribunaux et fait les actes de procédure, n'est pas employé au Canada.

OBS

avocat : appellation officielle n° 2343-110 de la Classification canadienne descriptive des professions.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Organización de la profesión (Derecho)
DEF

Jurista que se dedica profesionalmente a la defensa de los intereses públicos o privados, ante los tribunales, asumiendo la dirección técnica de dicha defensa y dirigiéndola; su relación con el litigante es la de un contrato de arrendamiento de servicios.

CONT

En la mayoría de los países de habla inglesa se emplean los términos lawyer o attorney (llamado igualmente attorney-at-law en los Estados Unidos) para referirse a los letrados o abogados en general [...]. En Inglaterra y Gales la profesión tiene dos ramas: la de los barristers y la de los solicitors [...]. Los solicitors son letrados cuya función principal es asesorar a sus clientes en la solucíon de los problemas jurídicos que tengan [...]. Los barristers o barristers-at-law son la élite de la profesión, ya que gozan del monopolio o derecho exclusivo para ejercer la abogacía ante los tribunales superiores de Inglaterra y Gales [...]

OBS

abogado: término y contexto reproducidos del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 15 2004-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A legal obligation to deposit funds with the central bank or their agent, in order to obtain permission to import goods. This restriction was imposed in the 1950s, but is no longer operated in the U. K. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
OBS

dépôt à l'importation : OMC.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 16 1996-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Security
DEF

The creditor under a contract of guaranty, being the person to whom the principal debtor is primarily liable and to whom the guarantor is secondarily liable.

OBS

Both "guarantee" and "guarantor" have filled the role of agent noun for the verb "to guarantee". These words have shared the sense "one who makes a guaranty or gives a security, "but today "guarantor" has taken the field, rendering "guarantee" in this sense but a needless variant. Oddly, "guarantee" has been used not only as an equivalent of "guarantor", but also as a passive correlative of it consistently with other forms in-EE. Thus the OED quotes the following specimen of "guarantee"(=a person to whom a "guarantee" is given)/"Guarantors are believed by the "guarantee" being compelled, if one is ready to pay the whole, to sell him the debt of the others. "This use of "guarantee" may be useful in tandem with-or, but the actual occurrences of it in legal prose are rare.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

Celui, celle à qui est due l'exécution d'une obligation et spécialement le paiement d'une somme d'argent.

OBS

Le cautionnement est le contrat par lequel une personne, appelée caution, promet au créancier d'une obligation, d'y satisfaire si le débiteur ne la remplit pas lui-même.

Spanish

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Record 17 1994-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

standing: ... permanent ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

Représentant du Procureur général.

OBS

correspondant : Dans la pratique judiciaire, membre d'une profession auquel le représentant de la même profession ou d'une autre demande d'intervenir dans la même affaire [...] parce qu'il exerce dans un autre ressort (ex. avocat correspondant en province) [...]

OBS

permanent : Investi d'une fonction continue, stable, ordinaire, non d'une mission spéciale, intermittente ou extraordinaire.

Spanish

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Record 18 1994-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Government Contracts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Marchés publics
OBS

Source : Service de gestion des marchés de services juridiques.

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Administrative Structures (Publ. Admin.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Structures de l'administration publique

Spanish

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Record 20 1984-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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