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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

loss of consortium : In many Canadian provinces, loss of consortium is an obsolete legal recourse where a spouse can claim damages to the person by whose fault he or she was deprived of the companionship of their spouse.  3, record 1, English, - loss%20of%20companionship

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Au Québec, le néologisme «perte de compagnonnage» renvoie au cas où l'un des conjoints réclame une indemnité pour «la privation temporaire ou permanente des services, de l'affection, de l'amour et des relations sexuelles, à la suite de l'incapacité physique ou mentale subie par l'autre».  1, record 1, French, - perte%20de%20compagnonnage

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

An ex gratia payment is a voluntary payment made... by an organization to an individual for damages or claims.... There is no legal liability for the organization to make such a payment. Different from legally enforced payments, ex gratia payments are made with an expression of goodwill.  3, record 2, English, - ex%20gratia%20payment

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Paiement ex gratia désigne un paiement effectué lorsqu'il n'y a aucune obligation légale, mais que l'obligation morale justifie le paiement.  4, record 2, French, - paiement%20%C3%A0%20titre%20gracieux

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[Pago] que efectúa el asegurador sin estar obligado a hacerlo a tenor del contrato de seguro.  1, record 2, Spanish, - pago%20%5C%22ex%2Dgratia%5C%22

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Normalmente se persigue con ello evitar los gastos excesivos que se producirían al tener que demostrar judicialmente, o de modo análogo, la improcedencia de dicho pago, cuyo importe no compensaría la cuantía de aquellos gastos.  1, record 2, Spanish, - pago%20%5C%22ex%2Dgratia%5C%22

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 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... "  2, record 3, English, - direct%20consequence

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 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..."  2, record 3, French, - cons%C3%A9quence%20directe

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

conséquence directe : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  3, record 3, French, - cons%C3%A9quence%20directe

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The limitations on and exclusions of liability for damages under section 9 apply regardless of whether the liability is based on breach of contract, tort(including negligence), strict or product liability, hidden defects, breach of warranty, or any other legal duty...  2, record 4, English, - breach%20of%20warranty

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Les limitations et exonérations de responsabilité concernant les dommages et intérêts décrites à l'article 9, s'appliquent indépendamment du fait que la responsabilité est basée ou non sur une infraction au contrat, un acte délictuel (y compris un acte de négligence), la responsabilité stricte ou du fait du produit, des vices cachés, une rupture de garantie, ou toute autre obligation légale [...]  3, record 4, French, - violation%20de%20garantie

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

violation de garantie : terme tiré du mini-lexique «Protection du consommateur» et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.  4, record 4, French, - violation%20de%20garantie

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A form of action in English law, derived from the action on the case (q.v.) taking its name from and based on the fiction that the defendant had found (trouvé) goods and then converted them to his own use. It is now called the action of conversion  5, record 5, English, - action%20for%20conversion

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 CONT

In order to maintain an action for conversion, the plaintiff must have been either in actual possession or entitled to immediate possession of the goods, at the time when the conversion was committed.  6, record 5, English, - action%20for%20conversion

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

An action for conversion is still commonly called an action of trover.  7, record 5, English, - action%20for%20conversion

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 OBS

trover and conversion : Originally the action was brought for damages against one who had found and refused to give up the goods of the plaintiff on demand; this refusal constituted ’conversion’... ;hence the action was called trover and conversion. Later, the finding became a legal fiction, and it was only necessary to prove the ownership and detention of the goods.  4, record 5, English, - action%20for%20conversion

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

action pour détournement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 5, French, - action%20pour%20d%C3%A9tournement

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

At common law, an action for damages resulting from an intentional injury to person or property, esp. if by violent means; trespass to the plaintiff's person, as in illegal assault, battery, wounding, or imprisonment, when not under color of legal process, or when the battery, wounding, or imprisonment was in the first instance lawful, but unnecessary violence was used or the imprisonment continued after the process had ceased to be lawful.  2, record 6, English, - trespass%20vi%20et%20armis

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

trespass vi et armis : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 6, French, - trespass%20vi%20et%20armis

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT

consortium : marital association-used chiefly in a legal action for damages for injury to a spouse or for alienation of a spouse's affections(loss of consortium).  2, record 7, English, - loss%20of%20consortium

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

perte de consortium : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 7, French, - perte%20de%20consortium

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO), a normalisé l'équivalent «perte de consortium» dans le cadre de ses travaux en droit de la famille (2011). Cette décision a pour effet d'invalider l'équivalent précédemment retenu dans le dossier CTDJ délits 11, à savoir «privation de la compagnie conjugale».  2, record 7, French, - perte%20de%20consortium

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 CONT

There are two basic legal remedies involved in a situation of non-closing [of transaction]-namely an action for damages and an action for specific performance.  2, record 8, English, - action%20for%20specific%20performance

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

In legal use, to be concerned only with damages.  1, record 9, English, - sound%20in%20damages

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Sounding in damages. An action which is brought to recover damages, as apposed to an action for debt. For the plaintiff to succeed he must prove he suffered some damage.  2, record 9, English, - sound%20in%20damages

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 2 CONT

When an action is brought, not for the recovery of lands, goods or sums of money ... , but for damages only, as in ... trespass, etc. the action is said to be "sounding in damages".  3, record 9, English, - sound%20in%20damages

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 3 CONT

For damages only, as an action sounding in damages.  4, record 9, English, - sound%20in%20damages

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Options to purchase a legal estate(including options to renew a lease) must be registered in the Land Registry under the "Land Charges Act, "1972, as estate contracts, or they will be void against a purchaser for value(with or without notice), for money or money's worth; but the grantee of the option will be entitled to damages against the grantor if he has put it out of his power to perform the contract. [Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1289].  1, record 10, English, - grantee%20of%20an%20option

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS

preneur d'option : 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).  2, record 10, French, - preneur%20d%27option

Record 10,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A purchaser under contract to buy land had... at common law only a right to damages if his vendor broke the contract. But in equity he had a right to compel his vendor to convey the land itself. This right to specific performance created a right in the land, a species of equitable property right. Therefore, if A agreed to sell land to B,... B was equitable owner from the time of the contract, and could enforce his equitable right to the land against anyone except a "bona fide" purchaser of a legal estate without notice of the contract.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 132)  1, record 11, English, - equitable%20property%20right

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

droit de propriété en equity : 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).  2, record 11, French, - droit%20de%20propri%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20en%20equity

Record 11,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

There is no singular.  2, record 12, English, - legal%20damages

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Dommages-intérêts extrajudiciaires fixés par une disposition de la loi.  1, record 12, French, - dommages%2Dint%C3%A9r%C3%AAts%20l%C3%A9gaux

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

légal : Qui résulte de la loi, soit sans dérogation possible [...], soit sauf stipulation contraire [...]  2, record 12, French, - dommages%2Dint%C3%A9r%C3%AAts%20l%C3%A9gaux

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Il n'y a pas de singulier.  3, record 12, French, - dommages%2Dint%C3%A9r%C3%AAts%20l%C3%A9gaux

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 13,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

contract  1, record 13, English, - enure%20to%20the%20benefit%20of

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 2 OBS

inure: to take effect  3, record 13, English, - enure%20to%20the%20benefit%20of

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 3 OBS

inure; enure. The former is the standard spelling in both legal and nonlegal texts. Inure=(1) to take effect, come into use; or(2) to make accustomed to something unpleasant; habituate. Sense(1) is the sense that usually appears in legal contexts :"The rule is well established that whenever a contract between attorney and client inures to the benefit or advantage of the attorney the court will not only closely scrutinize but will actually change the ordinary rules of evidence to arrive at a determination. "/"The damages must inure to the exclusive benefit of the widow and children. "The noun is ’inurement’.  2, record 13, English, - enure%20to%20the%20benefit%20of

Record 13,  Textual support,  French

Record 13,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 14,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

"compensatory amount" means the amount remaining, after subtracting any taxes, of the amount collected [an amount arising from a legal liability to pay damages which is collected by or in respect of the pensioner] or of the compensation [which is payable to or in respect of the pensioner...  1, record 14, English, - compensatory%20amount

Record 14,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

«montant compensatoire ». Le solde net de tout impôt du montant [découlant d'une obligation légale de payer des dommages-intérêts qui est recouvrée par le pensionné ou à son égard] ou de l'indemnité [qui est payable à celui-ci ou à son égard [...]  1, record 14, French, - montant%20compensatoire

Record 14,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 15,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 CONT

No member of the clergy who performs any marriage ceremony, after banns published or duly dispensed with,... is subject to any action or liability for damages or otherwise by reason of there having been any legal impediment to the marriage...  1, record 15, English, - subject%20to%20liability%20for%20damages

Record 15,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 CONT

L'ecclésiastique qui célèbre un mariage après la publication ou la dispense des bans ou après la délivrance d'une licence[...] ne peut être poursuivi dans une action en justice ou tenu responsable de dommages-intérêts ou autres choses en raison d'un empêchement légal au mariage[...]  1, record 15, French, - tenu%20responsable%20des%20dommages%2Dint%C3%A9r%C3%AAts

Record 15,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 16,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 OBS

To sound: to have as its basis or foundation (usually fol. by "in"). His action sounds in contract.  2, record 16, English, - sounding%20in%20contract

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Sound. This verb has a special legal sense, "to be actionable(in). "E. g., "... In determining whether a cause of action sounds in tort, it makes no difference that liability may be imposed by statute. "/"There is no doubt that an easement may be created by words sounding in covenant. "The OED refers to the expression "sound in damages"(=to be concerned only with damages)... Today the sense has been carried beyond "to be concerned only with", to the meaning set forth at the outset of this entry.  3, record 16, English, - sounding%20in%20contract

Record 16,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Fondé en. Établi sur. "Toutes ces analogies cependant sont fondées en raison." ... (TLFRA, 1971, 8, p. 1052). "Cela est fondé en droit" (PEROB, 1981, p. 803). L'expression "souding in contract" est rendu en français par "fondé en contrat" sur le modèle de "fondé en droit", "fondé en raison", etc. ...  1, record 16, French, - fond%C3%A9%20en%20contrat

Record 16,  Textual support,  Spanish