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LEGAL DISABILITY [17 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Pensions and Annuities
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
  • Military (General)
OBS

The Bureau of Pensions Advocates is a nation-wide organization of lawyers within Veterans Affairs Canada that provides free legal advice and representation for reviews and appeals related to claims for disability benefits.

OBS

Legal title: Bureau of Pension Advocates.

OBS

Bureau of Pensions Advocates Canada: Applied title for the purposes of the Federal Identity Program (FIP).

Key term(s)
  • Bureau of Pension Advocates

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Pensions et rentes
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
  • Militaire (Généralités)
OBS

Le Bureau de services juridiques des pensions est un organisme national d'avocats au sein d'Anciens Combattants Canada qui offre gratuitement des conseils et une représentation juridiques pour les révisions et appels liés aux demandes de prestations d'invalidité.

OBS

Appellation légale : Bureau de services juridiques des pensions.

OBS

Bureau de services juridiques des pensions Canada : Titre d'usage aux fins du Programme de symbolisation fédérale (PSF).

Key term(s)
  • Bureau de services juridiques de pension

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités federales (canadienses)
  • Pensiones y rentas
  • Seguridad social y seguro de desempleo
  • Militar (Generalidades)
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Record 2 2018-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Actuarial Practice
  • Life Insurance
CONT

Most traditional actuarial disciplines fall into two main categories : life and non-life. Life actuaries, which include health and pension actuaries, primarily deal with mortality risk, morbidity risk, and investment risk. Products prominent in their work include life insurance, annuities, pensions, short and long term disability insurance, health insurance, health savings accounts, and long-term care insurance... Non-life actuaries, also known as property and casualty or general insurance actuaries, deal with both physical and legal risks that affect people or their property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Actuariat
  • Assurance sur la vie

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Private Law
DEF

The lack of legal power, ability or competence to enter into a legal contract, e.g. an infant, a bankrupt. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estado de las personas (Derecho privado)
  • Derecho privado
DEF

Carencia de aptitud legal para ejercer derechos y contraer obligaciones.

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Record 4 2015-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Visual Disorders
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
CONT

"Legal blindness" is a term that is used to define loss of vision that is so severe that a person can be considered "blind" for such purposes as insurance or disability benefits without having total loss of vision.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles de la vision
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Acuité visuelle de 1/10 et moins.

OBS

cécité au sens de la loi : expression proposée par les juristes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trastornos de la visión
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
DEF

Visión menor de 1/10 o menos en el mejor ojo y con la mejor corrección.

OBS

No confundir con ceguera total.

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Record 5 2015-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

An individual who has a sustained and severe physical limitation or disorder, a disabling condition or a condition that could lead to a disability.

OBS

plural form : persons with a severe physical disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Personne qui souffre de troubles ou de limitations physiques graves et persistants ou d'une affection débilitante ou entraînant une invalidité.

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-02-11

English

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

One which is capable of being disclaimed at the option of one of the parties, e.g., a contract induced by misrepresentation.

CONT

A voidable contract is a legally enforceable agreement, but it may be traited as never having been binding on a party who was suffering from some legal disability or was a victim of fraud at the time of its execution. The contract is not void unless and until the party chooses to treat it as such by opposing its enforcement.

French

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

Un contrat est nul s'il est dépourvu de tout effet juridique. Un contrat annulable est un contrat qui peut être annulé au gré de l'une des parties.

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-02-21

English

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

... a disability whereby a party is precluded from alleging or proving in legal proceedings that a fact is otherwise than it has been made to appear by the matter giving rise to that disability.(Halsbury, 3rd ed., Vol. 15, p. 168).

OBS

"Estoppe," says Lord Coke, "cometh of the French word "estoupe," from whence the English word stopped; and it is called an estoppel or conclusion, because a man’s own act or acceptance stoppeth or closeth up his mouth to allege or plead the truth." Estoppel may also be defined to be a legal result or "conclusion" arising from an admission which has either been actually made, or which the law presumes to have been made, and which is binding on all persons whom it affects. Or we may adopt the definition of estoppel given by Bramwell, L.J., as follows: "An estoppel may be said to exist where a person is compelled to admit that to be true which is not true, and to act upon a theory which is contrary to the truth. This formula nearly approaches a correct definition of estoppel." (Everest & Strode’s, 3rd ed., 1923, p. 1).

OBS

estoppel: So spelled; the word is sometimes misspelled "estoppal" ...

French

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

Principe de droit en vertu duquel une personne est irrecevable à revenir sur des déclarations ou à désavouer une attitude antérieure alors que ce changement pourrait porter préjudice à une autre personne qui s'était basée légitimement sur ces déclarations ou sur cette attitude.

OBS

préclusion : 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 8 2012-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

ARCH Disability Law Centre, as a specialty legal clinic with a provincial mandate, undertakes to achieve this vision by : ensuring our work has Ontario wide impact focusing on, identifying and removing systemic barriers; addressing issues that have an impact on low income people with disabilities, including the root causes of poverty; empowering people with disabilities; being recognized as experts in the law as it affects people with disabilities; addressing the heightened disadvantage, marginalization and exclusion faced by people with disabilities by reason of factors such as gender, race, age, language, economic status and sexual orientation.

Key term(s)
  • Advocacy Resource Center for the Handicapped

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Droits et libertés
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

plural form : persons with an intellectual disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

déficient intellectuel; handicapé intellectuel : On privilégie de plus en plus les autres équivalents qui mettent l'accent sur la personne au lieu de sa déficience.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Disabled Sports
  • Sports (General)
DEF

... the process by which each sport categorizes athletes into their appropriate competition class based on their functional ability as determined by each sport in order to ensure equitable competition.

CONT

Classification is neither intended to be comprehensive nor to be all encompassing. Classification is not by definition inclusive, it is exclusive. Therefore, there is no legal liability to classify everybody. To say someone is not eligible or not classifiable is not to say they are not disabled. The severity of the disability is not in doubt, but some disabilities do not fit into the classification system(Chair IPC [International Paralympic Committee] Classification Committee 2000).

OBS

There are twelve classes for athletes with a physical disability (eight for the standing position and four for the sitting position) and three for athletes with a visual impairment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports adaptés
  • Sports (Généralités)
CONT

Dans un souci d’équité, une classification des athlètes est effectuée par un personnel médical et technique spécialisé. [Les spécialistes] sont en charge d’évaluer l’impact de l’infirmité sur le sport. Un système de classification est appliqué à chaque sport, en fonction de leurs spécificités et aux conséquences du handicap sur la performance de l’athlète. Cette classification permet de garantir que les athlètes concourant dans une même catégorie ont des aptitudes fonctionnelles identiques.

CONT

[...] on a recours à un système de classification des athlètes qui nous permet de les évaluer sur le plan fonctionnel et de leur attribuer une catégorie au sein de laquelle leurs déficiences seront similaires sur le plan fonctionnel à celles des autres membres de la même catégorie. Le processus de classification est assuré par une équipe qui constitue de professionnels médicaux, tel des physiothérapeutes, et des professionnels de sport technique.

OBS

Il existe douze classes pour les athlètes ayant un handicap physique (huit pour la position debout et quatre pour la position assise) et trois pour les athlètes ayant une déficience visuelle.

Spanish

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Record 11 2003-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

Someone suffering from defects in the muscles, nerves, or centres that produce movement.

OBS

plural form : persons with a motor disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

Key term(s)
  • motor handicapped person

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 12 2002-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
  • Labour and Employment
  • Federal Administration
CONT

Persons with developmental disabilities may experience slow intellectual development in areas such as learning, reasoning, and memory. Developmental disabilities are caused by conditions that hinder or interfere with the developing brain before, during or shortly after birth, or in early childhood.

OBS

Employment equity.

OBS

plural form : persons with a developmental disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
  • Travail et emploi
  • Administration fédérale
CONT

La meilleure façon de s'y prendre pour recruter des personnes compétentes ayant des troubles du développement est de s'adresser à des organismes qui représentent ces personnes et leur fournissent des services.

OBS

Équité en emploi.

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

disability: A lack of the ability to function normally, physically or mentally;

OBS

plural form : persons with a severe intellectual disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 16 2000-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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Record 17 2000-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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