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LEGAL GROUND [15 records]

Record 1 2015-10-29

English

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

... statutes imposing an obligation of care for the safety of a particular class of persons may be intended to protect them against their own inability to protect themselves ...

OBS

One person who has harmed another is legally liable to him on the ground of negligence only if the court holds that the defendant had in the circumstances owed the plaintiff a legal duty of care, not to have done or allowed to happen the acts which caused the harm, and had in the circumstances failed to implement the duty by not taking the kind and standard of care and precautions required by law.

French

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

Relativement à une réclamation fondée sur la négligence, la question du consentement éclairé à un traitement est concomitante de l'obligation de diligence du médecin.

OBS

obligation de diligence : 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 2 2015-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Penal Law
CONT

Where there is a real issue, on the ground of insanity, as to the fitness of an accused to stand his trial, the prosecution has the legal burden of satisfying the court on a balance of probabilities that the accused is fit to stand his trial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit pénal
CONT

Quand est soulevée la question de savoir si l'accusé, pour cause d'aliénation mentale, est capable de subir son procès, la poursuite a le fardeau d'établir, au moyen d'une preuve prépondérante, que celui-ci en est capable.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-06-17

English

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

(Conditions) are lawful or unlawful: ... the latter when they are such as the law will not allow to be made. (Black, 5th ed., 1979, p. 266).

OBS

"Unlawful" and "illegal" are generally used as synonymous terms, but a distinction is occasionally drawn between them; "unlawful", as applied to promises, agreements, considerations and the like, is sometimes used to denote that they are ineffectual in law because they involve acts which although not illegal(that is to say, positively forbidden), are disapproved of by the law, and are therefore not recognized as a ground of legal rights, either because they are immoral, or because they are against public policy....(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1834).

French

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

condition illicite : 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 2013-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws and Legal Documents
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
DEF

A legal document issued by the local government authorizing disposition. The permit may authorize ground burial, cremation...

CONT

Certificate of burial ... (1) A coroner investigating a death must, as soon as reasonably possible, issue a certificate authorising the disposal of human remains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois et documents juridiques
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
DEF

Un document légal émis par le gouvernement autorisant l'enterrement. Le permis peut autoriser l'enterrement, la crémation, la mise en mausolée.

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

Literally, a crop in the process of growth, an unmatured crop. But a disputed term in legal parlance. Some authorities hold that a growing crop may be either above or below the surface of the soil, while other authorities hold that a crop is not a growing crop unless it shows above ground, and that underground sprouts do not constitute such a crop. Again, some authorities hold that a crop is growing from the time the seed is planted until the harvest, while other authorities hold that a matured, ungathered crop is not growing. Whether grass in a pasture is a growing crop is also a controverted question.(Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 538)

French

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

récolte en cours de croissance : 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 6 2012-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction
DEF

The unpaved ground beside a road at or near road level, often of rough grass, but forming part of the legal highway.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction des voies de circulation
OBS

Bas-côté : Partie de l'accotement d'une route accessible aux piétons.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

The Tenth Five-Year Plan(2002-2007), which is also Nepal' s PRSP [Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper], recommends preparing land use policies and guidelines to implement a new land ceiling(the amount of land one individual may own). It establishes a land bank to help the poor acquire land, arbitrate resettlement problems associated with bonded labourers, and prepare the legal ground for promotion of contractual and cooperative farming systems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Le dixième plan quinquennal (2002-2007), qui constitue aussi le Document de stratégie pour la réduction de la pauvreté du Népal (DSRP), préconise l’élaboration de politiques et directives relatives à l’utilisation des sols en vue d’appliquer un nouveau plafond foncier (la superficie que peut posséder un individu). Il établit une banque de crédit agricole pour aider les plus démunis à acquérir des terres, arbitre les problèmes liés aux travailleurs asservis pour dettes, et prépare le terrain juridique pour la promotion de systèmes d’affermage contractuels et coopératifs.

Spanish

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Record 8 2009-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agriculture - General
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

It establishes a land bank to help the poor acquire land, arbitrate resettlement problems associated with bonded labourers, and prepare the legal ground for promotion of contractual and cooperative farming systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Agriculture - Généralités
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Il établit une banque de crédit agricole pour aider les plus démunis à acquérir des terres, arbitre les problèmes liés aux travailleurs asservis pour dettes, et prépare le terrain juridique pour la promotion de systèmes d'affermage contractuels et coopératifs.

Spanish

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Record 9 2009-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agriculture - General
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

It establishes a land bank to help the poor acquire land, arbitrate resettlement problems associated with bonded labourers, and prepare the legal ground for promotion of contractual and cooperative farming systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Agriculture - Généralités
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Il établit une banque de crédit agricole pour aider les plus démunis à acquérir des terres, arbitre les problèmes liés aux travailleurs asservis pour dettes, et prépare le terrain juridique pour la promotion de systèmes d'affermage contractuels et coopératifs.

Spanish

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Record 10 2008-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Customer Relations
  • Airfields
CONT

Our last Language Rights Report reviewed legal action taken by the Commissioner against Air Canada regarding ground services at Pearson and Halifax airports, in-flight services at Air Ontario, and the applicability of Part IV of the OLA [Official Languages Act] to Air Canada subsidiaries...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations avec la clientèle
  • Aérodromes
CONT

[Comme] les services au sol vont en s'améliorant au fil des mois, le transport aérien connaîtra bientôt un progrès sensible, cette fois à l'entière disposition des passagers.

Spanish

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Record 11 2005-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
CONT

A defendant may, at any time before the action is set down for trial, apply to the court to have the action stayed or dismissed on the ground that... the plaintiff does not have legal capacity to commence or continue the action...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
Key term(s)
  • contenance

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-05-11

English

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

The term "land", in its legal signification, includes any ground, soil or earth, such as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes and heath; houses and other buildings upon it; the air space above it, and all mines and minerals beneath it. It also includes anything fixed to the land, as well as growing trees and crops, except those which, broadly speaking, are produced in the year by the labour of the year.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 262)

French

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

Acceptions juridiques étendues. Dans ses extensions juridiques variables, le terme [land] englobe, selon le cas, par exemple, terrain et bâtiments/terrain, bâtiments et droits qui s'y attachent, etc.

OBS

bien-fonds; fonds; terre; fonds de terre; terrain : termes normalisés 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 13 2002-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Air Safety
  • Airfields
CONT

On July 22, 1991, two airport ground transportation inspectors observed the accused's vehicle parked unattended at the curb of the arrivals level. Both inspectors had prior regulation enforcement experience with the accused. While the duties of these inspectors include the enforcement of airport regulations, they are not peace officers and, when carrying out enforcement duties, their legal powers are those of the ordinary citizen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
  • Aérodromes
CONT

La sécurité en vol ça commence au sol [...]. Ces nouveaux moyens comprennent : L'achat, l'installation et l'exploitation aux aéroports de systèmes perfectionnés de détection des explosifs, et l'étude d'autres technologies de pointe en matière de sûreté; la création d'une nouvelle administration canadienne de la sûreté du transport aérien chargée du contrôle au préembarquement et de plusieurs autres services clés de sûreté de l'aviation; l'augmentation du nombre d'inspecteurs de sécurité au sol et l'amélioration immédiate des méthodes de contrôle aux aéroports; l'affectation d'agents armés de la GRC à bord de certains vols [...]

Spanish

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Record 14 1990-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Civil Liability (civil law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit de la responsabilité civile (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 15 1986-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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