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LEGAL INQUIRY [6 records]

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Record 1 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

The legal collection and analysis of information regarding the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of business competitors, conducted by using information databases and other "open sources" and through ethical inquiry. [...] Competitive intelligence is a crucial part of the emerging knowledge economy. By analyzing rivals’ moves, CI allows companies to anticipate market developments rather than merely react to them.

CONT

Companies and industries prosper through improvements in competitiveness, leveraging core competencies, and competitive intelligence is at the core of the objective of improving competitive advantage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
DEF

Recherche, traitement et diffusion (en vue de leur exploitation) de renseignements relatifs à la concurrence.

OBS

Terme publié au Journal officiel du 14 août 1998.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-10-17

English

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

Notice of certain facts that may be discovered by diligence or inquiry into a public record; a legal presumption that a person is responsible for knowing these facts. The proper recording of a document gives constructive notice to the world of the document's existence and contents. Possession of property also imparts constructive notice of the rights of the party in possession. Examples of rights of parties in possession would be rights under an unrecorded deed, contract for deed, lease-option, and rights of adverse possession. Constructive notice is also referred to as legal notice, in contrast to actual notice, which is express or direct knowledge acquired in the course of a transaction.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 100).

French

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

connaissance de droit : 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 3 2005-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
CONT

Co-inventor: One of two or more inventors working together on a single invention. A [name] listed on a patent must have made an essential contribution to the invention.

CONT

... the other inventors or their legal representatives may make application, and a patent may be granted in the name of the inventors who make the application, on satisfying the Commissioner that the joint inventor has refused to make application or that his whereabouts cannot be ascertained after diligent inquiry.

Key term(s)
  • coinventor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
CONT

Un individu peut être considéré comme co-inventeur s'il se contente de suggérer une idée quant au résultat à accomplir sans offrir les solutions pour y parvenir.

CONT

... les autres inventeurs ou leur représentant légal peuvent soumettre une demande, et un brevet peut être accordé au nom des inventeurs qui font la demande, si le commissaire est convaincu que l'inventeur conjoint a refusé de soumettre une demande ou que le lieu où il se trouve ne peut être déterminée après une enquête diligente.

OBS

La vedette anglaise et ses équivalents proviennent de la Loi sur les brevets, L.R. (1985), chapitre P-4, art. 31(1) et des Règles sur les brevets, C.R.C., chapitre 1 250, art. 62.

Key term(s)
  • co-auteur d'une invention

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

In conducting an inquiry, the judge is not bound by any legal or technical rules of evidence...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
  • Droit de la preuve
CONT

L'enquêteur n'est pas lié par les règles juridiques ou techniques de présentation de la preuve.

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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