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LEGAL LIFE [39 records]

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Record 1 2026-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
CONT

Denunciatory sentences convey a message of social disapprobation, with the will of society expressed through the severity of the legal punishment. The seriousness of the crime is central to denunciation; there is little need to denounce shoplifting(although there may be a need to prevent such behaviour) but great necessity to denounce the intentional taking of human life(hence the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
CONT

Les peines exemplaires représentent une «déclaration collective [...] que la conduite du contrevenant doit être punie parce qu'elle a porté atteinte au code des valeurs fondamentales de notre société», et le besoin de dénonciation est intimement lié à la gravité de l'infraction. Lorsque les conséquences de l'infraction contreviennent manifestement au «code des valeurs fondamentales» des Canadiens et des Canadiennes, et appellent une forte condamnation, notre Cour fait preuve d'une plus grande déférence à l'égard du Parlement lorsqu'il édicte une peine minimale obligatoire.

OBS

sentence exemplaire : Le mot sentence n’a pas le même sens en français et en anglais. La désignation anglaise «sentence» signifie le plus souvent peine, châtiment, punition, sanction, tandis que la sentence est une décision (comme la sentence arbitrale), un jugement, une condamnation. La peine est la sanction encourue, alors que la sentence est la décision de justice qui condamne à une peine.

Spanish

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Record 2 2026-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Aboriginal Law
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

[At] the time of apprehension, child and family services consented to the child remaining with the primary caregiver as a kinship placement, not because she was a blood relation or biological kin to the child, but on the basis of the legal definition of kinship established by the caregiver having already developed a significant relationship with the child, perhaps the most significant relationship at that point in the child's life.

Key term(s)
  • kinship-care placement

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit autochtone
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

placement chez un proche; placement chez une proche : désignations normalisées par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

... the law of obligations is simply "everyday life translated into legal equations. "This branch of private law regulates the social relations necessary to the satisfaction of vital human needs. What is an "obligation" in this particular sense? It can be defined as a legal relationship between two persons "by virtue of which one of them, the debtor, is bound [to] another, the creditor, to perform a prestation. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
CONT

Droit des obligations. Or l'obligation […] est un rapport de droit entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, en vertu duquel l'une d'elles, appelée le débiteur, est tenue envers une autre, appelée le créancier, d'exécuter une prestation qui consiste à faire ou ne pas faire quelque chose. On pourrait aussi bien la définir comme un rapport de droit entre deux personnes, en vertu duquel l'une d'elle (le créancier) est en droit d'exiger quelque chose de l'autre (le débiteur).

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security
  • Water Transport
CONT

A muster drill is a mandatory safety exercise with the objective to familiarize all guests and crew with the location(muster station) where they are to assemble in the unlikely event of an emergency, as well as additional safety information. The assembly muster drill is an international... requirement that is enforced by the [United States] Coast Guard, as well as all other port state authorities, depending on the port. Current legal requirements for conducting a muster of passengers are found in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea(SOLAS) and mandate that a muster for embarking passengers occur before departure, or after departure from port.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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Record 5 2022-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Laws and Regulations (Canadian)
  • Real Estate
OBS

[The] Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights... will include : banning blind bidding[;] establishing a legal right to a home inspection[;] ensuring banks and lenders offer mortgage deferrals for up to 6 months in the event of job loss or other major life event...

OBS

Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights: bill announced in the 2022 federal budget.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements fédéraux canadiens
  • Immobilier
OBS

[La] Charte des droits des acheteurs d'une propriété [...] couvrira : l'interdiction des offres à l'aveugle[;] l'instauration d'un droit légal à l'inspection technique des propriétés[;] l'assurance que les banques et les prêteurs offrent un report d'hypothèque pouvant se prolonger jusqu'à six mois en cas de perte d'emploi ou d'autre événement perturbateur majeur [...]

OBS

Charte des droits des acheteurs d'une propriété : charte annoncée dans le budget fédéral de 2022.

Spanish

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Record 6 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 7 2016-05-31

English

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

Another problem involving the use of words is the question of "conditional assault". If one person points a gun at another and says, "Your money or your life!", it might be argued that it is not assault because the plaintiff may avoid any harm by complying with the condition and parting with his money. It could be contended that the requirement of immediacy is absent. Such an argument is fallacious, however, for one cannot impose conditions upon another, when one has no legal right to do so. It would be otherwise of a landowner said to a trespasser, "Get off my land or I’ll throw you off, "for in such a case, the landowner is only threatening to do what he is entitled to do anyway.

French

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

Un autre problème relié aux paroles est celui des «voies de fait conditionnelles». Si un individu braque une arme sur quelqu'un en lui disant : «la bourse ou la vie!», on pourrait soutenir qu'il n'y a pas de voies de fait parce que le demandeur peut éviter tout préjudice en se soumettant à la condition et en se défaisant de son argent. On pourrait soutenir que le caractère d'imminence est absent, mais cet argument est faux car personne ne peut, sans justification, imposer des conditions à une autre personne. La situation serait différente si un propriétaire disait à un intrus «Si vous ne déguerpissez pas, je vous expulserai moi-même!», puisque, dans ce cas, le propriétaire menace seulement de faire ce qu'il a le droit de faire de toute façon.

OBS

voies de fait conditionnelles : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • voie de fait conditionnelle

Spanish

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Record 8 2016-05-12

English

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

The interest of a beneficial owner or beneficiary, as contrasted with a nominal or bare legal owner .... [Jowitt, p. 205.]

CONT

In the absence of a contrary provision in the settlement, a tenant for life has no power to mortgage or charge the legal estate for his own benefit. If he wishes to raise money for his own use, he can of course do so by mortgaging his beneficial interest, consisting of his life interest, entail or whatever interest he has.(Megarry and Wade, p. 339)

French

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

intérêt bénéficiaire : 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 9 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Scientific Research
DEF

... an interdisciplinary research area concerned with all moral and ethical aspects of technology in society.

CONT

Technoethics denotes a broad range of ethical issues revolving around technology-from specific areas of focus affecting professionals working with technology to broader social, ethical, and legal issues concerning the role of technology in society and everyday life.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Recherche scientifique
DEF

[...] domaine de recherche interdisciplinaire qui étudie tous les aspects éthiques et moraux de la technologie dans la société.

Spanish

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Record 10 2013-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Insurance Companies
OBS

Legal title : The Equitable Life Insurance Company of Canada.

OBS

Registered trademarks: Equitable Life of Canada; Equitable Life; Equitable.

OBS

Information obtained from the organization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Sociétés mutualistes et d'assurance
OBS

Titre légal : L'Équitable Compagnie d'Assurance-Vie du Canada.

OBS

Marques de commerce déposées : Assurance vie Équitable du Canada; Assurance vie Équitable; L'Équitable.

OBS

Information obtenue auprès de l'organisme.

Spanish

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Record 11 2013-06-25

English

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

The word, heirs, is necessary in the grant or donation in order to make a fee, or inheritance. For if land be given to a man for ever, or to him and his assigns for ever, this vests in him but an estate for life.... [This rule] does not extend to devises by will; in which, as they were introduced at the time when the feodal rigor was apace wearing out, a more liberal construction is allowed : and therefore by a devise to a man for ever, or to one and his assigns for ever, or to one in fee-simple, the devisee hath an estate of inheritance; for the intention of the devisor is sufficiently plain from the words of perpetuity annexed, though be hath omitted the legal words of inheritance. But if the devise be to a man and his assigns, without annexing words of perpetuity, there the devisee shall take only an estate for life; for it does not appear the devisor intended any more....(Blackstone, Book II, p. 107-108)

OBS

words of perpetuity: term used in the plural in this context.

French

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

termes de perpétuité : 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).

OBS

termes de perpétuité : terme utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 12 2013-06-10

English

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

[A]ny person having a tenancy.

CONT

The owner in fee is no less, in legal contemplation, a tenant, than the man who occupies under him, since the definition of tenant is one that holds or possesses lands, or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, years, or at will, and often includes a tenant at sufferance.(Cartwright, 1972, pp. 918-919).

OBS

In its proper use, "tenant" connotes either estate or tenure. Every person who has an estate in land is a tenant; thus, a person who has an estate in fee simple is a tenant in fee simple, and a person who has an interest in joint tenancy is a joint tenant. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed. 1977, p. 1749).

French

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

Acception générique de même type que celle de «tenancy». Le français «tenant», générique, qui désigne en définitive le titulaire de certains droits sur un bien, est remplacé dans certains composés par «titulaire».

OBS

tenant; tenante : 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 2013-03-15

English

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

At common law... a legal contingent remainder failed altogether unless it vested during the continuance, or at the determination, of the preceding particular estate. A single legal contingent remainder was accordingly bound to vest if at all, during or at the end of a life in being, and so could not offerred the perpetuity rule.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 248)

French

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

résidu éventuel en common law : 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 14 2013-03-15

English

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

A legal jointure is defined as a competent livelihood of freehold to the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently after the death of the husband for the life of the wife at least, and might be made before or after marriage.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 190).

French

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

provision en common law de l'épouse : 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 15 2013-03-15

English

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

A life estate which comes into existence without any act of the parties, such as that which springs from courtesy or dower. (Cartwright, 1972, p. 547).

French

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

domaine viager par effet de la loi; domaine viager légal : 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 16 2013-03-15

English

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

Previously it was possible to create a legal life interest in leasehold land by will, but no entail in leasehold could be created at all.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 136).

French

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

intérêt viager en common law : 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 17 2013-03-15

English

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

French

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

intérêt viager légal : 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 18 2013-03-15

English

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

There are legal life tenancies, such as dower consummate after assignment, and curtesy, as well as conventional tenancies, such as those created by the parties as distinguished from by operation of law.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 548).

French

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

tenance viagère légale : 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 19 2013-03-15

English

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

Theoretically, it would, no doubt, be possible, by careful contractual terms, to give the possessor rights of use and disposal during his lifetime to the extent of the interest he could have enjoyed were a legal estate for life in the chattel possible, but that is a matter quite different from the grant of an estate....(Crossley Vaines, 5th ed., 1973, p. 44).

French

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

domaine viager en common law : 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 20 2013-02-01

English

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

The dwelling house and the adjoining land where the head of the family dwells; the home farm. The fixed residence of the family, with the land, usual and customary appurtenances, and buildings surrounding the main house. Technically, and under the modern homestead laws, an artificial estate in land, devised to protect the possession and enjoyment of the owner against the claims of his creditors, by withdrawing the property from execution and forced sale, so long as the land is occupied as a home. (Black, 6th ed., 1990, p. 734).

CONT

In the western provinces, dower and curtesy in the historical legal sense have been abolished and replaced with an equivalent life estate in certain lands of the deceased spouse, referred to as his or her "homestead". This term is variously defined in the several provinces, but generally, it includes the matrimonial home together with adjoining land.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 212)

French

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

propriété familiale : 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 21 2013-01-28

English

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

Curtesy was the right of a husband to an estate for his life, expectant on the death of his wife, in the entirety of land and hereditaments of the wife of which she was seised for an estate of inheritance, subject to his having had issue by her born alive who were capable of inheriting the property from her. (Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 319).

OBS

In addition to the life estate created by the act of a person, there are the legal life estates, that is, those created by operation of law. These are curtesy and dower.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 29).

OBS

courtesy: In Scotslan ...

French

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

bénéfice du veuf : 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 22 2012-12-12

English

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

An interest in... property, which lasts for the life of the holder of the estate and which is equitable, as contrasted with legal, in its creation, as in the case of a beneficiary of a trust, who has a life estate under the trust.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 483).

French

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

domaine viager 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).

Spanish

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Record 23 2012-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Dower at common law was the right of a wife on surviving her husband to an estate for her life in one-third of the freehold estates of inheritance of which her deceased husband was solely seised at any time during the marriage and which her issue by him might possibly have inherited. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 175).

CONT

The legal right or interest... that a wife acquires in the property her husband held or acquired anytime during their marriage. During the husband's life, the dower is an expectant, or inchoate, interest which does not actually become a legal estate(called consummate dower) until the husband's death.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 146).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

douaire : 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 24 2012-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (civil law)
CONT

A curator to a person of full age is the legal representative of a person who is totally and permanently incapacitated and, consequently, needs to be represented in the performance of all acts regarding his or her life.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (droit civil)
DEF

Représentant légal d'une personne [majeure] inapte de façon totale et permanente et qui, par conséquent, a besoin d'être représentée dans tous les actes de sa vie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de familia (derecho civil)
DEF

Representante legal de una persona que necesita ser representada en todos los actos de su vida ya que es inapta de manera total y permanente.

OBS

El tribunal instituye una curaduría cuando haya establecido que la incapacidad del mayor de edad para cuidarse a sí mismo y a administrar sus bienes es total y permanente, y que tiene necesidad de ser representado en el ejercicio de sus derechos civiles.

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Record 25 2010-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

The patient’s or surrogate’s directive regarding end-of-life choices.

CONT

A ’do not resuscitate’(DNR) decision entails complex medical, legal and ethical issues. The effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) varies according to the nature of the underlying clinical condition. Other issues which influence a DNR decision include the patients’ wishes, the nature of the underlying illness, the relatives’ wishes and expected future quality of life.... a ’do not resuscitate’ decision [is] considered appropriate if CPR is not expected to restart a patient's heart and breathing, if there are no benefits to be gained from restarting the patient's heart and breathing and if the expected benefits are outweighed by the burdens.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
CONT

La décision de ne pas réanimer consiste à établir que, dans le cas où surviendrait une aggravation ou un arrêt cardio-respiratoire, aucune prise en charge invasive ne sera entreprise. Cette décision impose de maintenir les traitements mis en place lors de la décision, mais propose de ne pas utiliser les mesures habituelles de réanimation si le patient présente un épisode de décompensation (arrêt cardiaque par exemple). Elle constitue une mesure de limite préventive de thérapeutiques. L'option du confort et de la poursuite des soins est choisie.

CONT

La décision de ne pas réanimer se fonde sur une estimation du risque vital immédiat et du risque de séquelles graves pour l'enfant, en prenant en compte le souhait des parents qui ont été le mieux informés possible.

Spanish

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Record 26 2009-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Insurance
  • Employment Benefits
DEF

... securities that have the qualities prescribed by regulatory authority for investment by organizations such as life and other insurance companies, trust and loan companies, and pension funds.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Assurances
  • Avantages sociaux
DEF

valeurs de premier ordre. Valeurs répondant aux conditions prescrites par une autorité de réglementation pour les placements effectués par certaines entités comme les compagnies d'assurance, les sociétés de fiducie et de prêt et les caisses de retraite.

OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 27 2006-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
CONT

The subjects of law in any legal system are not necessarily identical in their nature or in the extent of their rights, and their nature depends upon the needs of the community. Throughout its history, the development of international law has been influenced by the requirements of international life, and the progressive increase in the collective activities of States has already given rise to instances of action upon the international plane by certain entities which are not States.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
CONT

[Le particulier] est sujet de droit; à ce titre, il a acquis en naissant [...] la personnalité juridique. Il est précisément sujet de droit civil, titulaire de droits subjectifs quant on considère qu'il est doté de droits primordiaux, fondamentaux [et] de libertés.

Spanish

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Record 28 2005-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
DEF

The process of putting personal, social(including financial and legal), and spiritual affairs in order, giving of gifts(for example, personal treasures, money, etc.), creation of a legacy, reminiscence, and saying goodbye in preparation for death. This usually occurs close to the end of a person's life.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
OBS

tâches de fin de vie : terme proposé par un médecin francophone de Montréal et retenu par le réseau Entraide Traduction Santé.

Key term(s)
  • tâche de fin de vie

Spanish

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Record 29 2005-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Health Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Every one is under a legal duty(a) as a parent, foster parent, guardian or head of a family, to provide necessaries of life for a child under the age of sixteen years;(b) to provide necessaries of life to their spouse or common-law partner; and(c) to provide necessaries of life to a person under his charge if that person(i) is unable, by reason of detention, age, illness, mental disorder or other cause, to withdraw himself from that charge, and(ii) is unable to provide himself with necessaries of life.

CONT

Neglect might be a contravention of the Criminal Code section that imposes a duty to provide the necessities of life to a person under one’s charge if that person is unable by virtue of age, illness or any other cause to care for him or herself.

CONT

Parents have a legal duty to provide necessities of life to their child under the age of 16 years.

CONT

An example of a legal duty that might lead to a charge of criminal negligence would be the duty to provide the necessaries of life imposed by the Criminal Code.

Key term(s)
  • duty to provide necessities

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit de la santé
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

L'article 215 [du Code criminel] impose aux parents ou aux gardiens l'obligation de fournir les choses nécessaires à l'existence des enfants de moins de 16 ans.

OBS

La jurisprudence a interprété [l'article 215 du Code criminel] comme susceptible de s'appliquer à la situation où un membre du personnel médical néglige ou refuse de fournir des soins médicaux à une personne, à condition que toutes les autres conditions de l'infraction soient également remplie, notamment que cette personne soit inapte à prendre soin d'elle-même. Le médecin qui négligerait d'administrer un traitement à une personne inconsciente pourrait donc, dans certaines circonstances, être passible de poursuites [...]

Key term(s)
  • devoir de fournir les choses nécessaires
  • obligation de fournir les choses nécessaires
  • devoir de fournir les choses nécessaires à la vie

Spanish

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Record 30 2005-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Health Law
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

The protection of human life is a fundamental value for all modern legal systems. Law, whatever its specific variations and particular cultural, political or social context recognizes this value to various degrees by forbidding homicide and punishing acts which constitute a danger or serious threat to the lives of other human beings.

CONT

Whatever direction the law does take, clearly it must attempt to balance the competing principles of personal autonomy and the protection of human life.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
  • Droit de la santé
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

Le texte voté par la Commission juridique[ ... ] de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies invite «les États à adopter toutes les mesures voulues pour protéger comme il convient la vie humaine dans l'application des sciences de la vie et à interdire toutes les formes de clonage humain dans la mesure où elles seraient incompatibles avec la dignité humaine et la protection de la vie humaine».

Spanish

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Record 31 2002-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
OBS

The Japan Foundation was established in 1972 as a special legal entity under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the purpose of promoting mutual understanding and friendship on the international scene. It was the first specialist organization for international cultural exchange in Japan, and it carries out a broad variety of cultural-exchange programs with personnel exchange as their basic premise, ranging from such academic pursuits as Japanese studies and Japanese-language education to the arts, publication, audio-visual media, sports, and general life culture. Its activities are financed by operation profits on government endowments, aid from the government(including the ODA budget), and funding and donations from the private sector.

OBS

Title reproduced from the document "United Nations and Related Bodies, Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Networks, Systems, Foundations and Similar Institutions", with the authorization of UNESCO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Coopération et développement économiques
OBS

Appellation tirée du document «United Nations and Related Bodies, Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Networks, Systems, Foundations and Similar Institutions», avec l'autorisation de l'UNESCO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales canadienses
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
OBS

Extraido de "United Nations and Related Bodies, Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Networks, Systems, Foundations and Similar Institutions", con la autorización UNESCO.

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Record 32 2000-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
CONT

As with other hazardous wastes, the property owner retains legal responsibility for the complete life cycle of asbestos waste from detection through disposal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Comme à l'égard des autres déchets dangereux, le propriétaire reste légalement responsable de tout le cycle des déchets renfermant de l'amiante, depuis leur détection jusqu'à leur élimination.

Spanish

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Record 33 2000-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
CONT

As with other hazardous wastes, the property owner retains legal responsibility for the complete life cycle of asbestos waste from detection through disposal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Comme à l'égard des autres déchets dangereux, le propriétaire reste légalement responsable de tout le cycle des déchets renfermant de l'amiante, depuis leur détection jusqu'à leur élimination.

Spanish

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Record 34 2000-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Life Insurance
OBS

Legal Title : The Maritime Life Assurance Company. Abridged Title : Maritime Life.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Assurance sur la vie
OBS

Appellation légale : La Maritime, compagnie d'assurance-vie. Titre abrégé : La Maritime.

Spanish

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Record 35 1995-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Annuities (Insurance)
CONT

The first table of the value of a life annuity of which we have any record, called the Ulpian Table(devised by a great Roman jurist, Ulpianus), arose out of the Falcidian Law. This law, enacted in B. C. 40, prevented a testator leaving more than three-quarters of his property to others than his legal heirs. It therefore became necessary to set a value on any legacies which were in the form of annuities payable for a fixed term or for life.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rentes (Assurances)
OBS

Terme employé par les actuaires.

Spanish

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Record 36 1993-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Educational and legal pro-life group concerned with protecting human life at all stages of development. Issues of involvement include abortion and euthanasia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 37 1991-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Insurance
CONT

Elimination of qualitative standards could have an impact on the structure of institutional investment in securities markets because "legal for life" list would be gone. This would affect both trust and insurance companies.

OBS

An investment that a life insurance company is permitted to make. It is included on the Department of Insurance’s list of eligible securities.

OBS

Information provided by the Department of Insurance Canada, Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Assurances
CONT

Une lettre sur les placements admissibles est une lettre dans laquelle le vérificateur fournit au conseiller juridique une assurance à l'égard de certains montants ou ratios financiers particuliers. Cette assurance "aide" le conseiller juridique qui doit déclarer dans le prospectus que les valeurs offertes constituent des placements dans lesquels une société enregistrée ou inscrite au sens de la Loi sur les compagnies d'assurance canadiennes et britanniques (Canada) et d'un certain nombre d'autres lois fédérales et provinciales peut investir ses fonds.

OBS

"placement admissible et vertu de la Loi sur les compagnies d'assurance canadiennes et britanniques" : expression fournie par l'Institut canadien des valeurs mobilières (Montréal).

Spanish

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Record 38 1987-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life Insurance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurance sur la vie

Spanish

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Record 39 1981-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit social

Spanish

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