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LEGAL JUSTIFICATION [9 records]

Record 1 2025-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
  • National and International Security
DEF

An action by a law enforcement officer to examine or investigate a person's body, belongings, vehicle, or home without having the proper legal authority or justification...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
DEF

Action menée par un agent d'application de la loi pour examiner ou inspecter le corps, les effets personnels, le véhicule ou le domicile d'une personne sans disposer de l'autorisation légale ou de la justification appropriée […]

OBS

perquisition illégale : désignation tirée du mini-lexique «Espionnage, trahison et haute trahison» et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Law of Evidence
  • Rules of Court
CONT

Historically, different rationales were advanced to support and justify the "rule of spousal incompetency, "some of which have been overcome in the more modern era with the legal recognition of spouses as being two separate entities. However, two rationales have survived to this day.... The first justification for the rule is that it promotes conjugal confidences and protects marital harmony. The second is that the rule prevents "the indignity of conscripting an accused's spouse to participate in the accused's own prosecution. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

Au cours de l’histoire, différentes raisons ont été avancées pour appuyer et justifier la «règle de l’inhabilité du conjoint à témoigner», dont certaines ne tiennent plus depuis que le droit moderne a reconnu les conjoints comme des entités distinctes. Deux de ces justifications subsistent néanmoins aujourd’hui. [...] La première justification de cette règle est qu’elle favorise les confidences entre époux et protège l’harmonie conjugale. La seconde est qu’elle empêche «l’indignité d’avoir à forcer le conjoint d’une personne accusée à participer aux poursuites dirigées contre l’accusé».

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-02-24

English

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

That contract involved, in my view, an obligation on the part of Devon Lumber to use its best effort to fill as expeditiously as possible those purchase orders received by it from East Coast. I am satisfied that until May 17 that obligation had been met. But there could be no legal justification for Mr. Gill' s on that day, merely because East Coast indicated that it would claim a charge-back, unilaterally renouncing his company's further then-standing obligations. His doing so amounted, in my opinion, to at least a technical breach of his agreement with East Coast.(Recueil des arrêts du Nouveau-Brunswick, Maritime Law Book, 90 R. N.-B(2e) 291, à la p. 311)

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-05-30

English

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

An intentional, wrongful act performed against another without legal justification or excuse.

French

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

[...] les dommages-intérêts "exemplaires" ou punitifs pourraient être accordés dans les cas où il s'agit d'un "acte malveillant ou intentionnel" ou lorsqu'il est nécessaire de montrer au contrevenant que les délits ne paient pas."

OBS

acte malveillant : 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 5 2010-07-05

English

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

Malicious.-An act done maliciously is one that is wrongful and performed willfully or intentionally, and without legal justification.

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 6 2004-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Regulations and Standards (Food)
DEF

Any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health.

OBS

This is essentially a marketing term, the meaning of which has never been clear. There is no legal basis and no evident objective justification for the term, which implies a superiority over foods not so described. So-called health foods fall into four main categories. [Internet Food Science].

OBS

Usually plural. Often includes both natural and organic foods.

Key term(s)
  • health foods

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Alimentation)
DEF

Aliment qui, dans le cadre d'un régime équilibré, soit améliore certaines fonctions de l'organisme, soit réduit le risque de certaines maladies.

Key term(s)
  • aliments de santé
  • aliments santé

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
OBS

Malice in law is not necessarily personal hate or ill will, but it is that state of mind which is reckless of law and of the legal rights of the citizen... A condition of mind which prompts a person to do a wrongful act wilfully, that is, on purpose, to the injury of another, or to do intentionally a wrongful act toward another without justification or excuse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

Malice : intention de nuire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 8 2002-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Military Law
DEF

An honest belief in a state of facts which, if it existed, would furnish a legal justification or excuse for the act.

OBS

For example, a person who takes possession of property in the belief that it is his own, is not guilty of stealing even though his belief may be mistaken. (Art 103. 46)

Key term(s)
  • color of right

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit militaire
DEF

Conviction d'un état de choses qui, s'il existait, fournirait un motif valable ou une excuse pour l'acte en question.

OBS

Par exemple, quiconque s'empare d'un bien, croyant qu'il lui appartient, n'est pas coupable de vol, bien qu'il puisse avoir tort de le croire. (Art 103. 46)

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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