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LEGAL POSITION [48 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
  • Rights and Freedoms
DEF

The conduct of legal proceedings according to established principles and rules which safeguard the position of the individual charged.

CONT

The concept of due process is rooted in English common law and expressed in "Magna Carta", Art. 39 (1215), whereby the King promised that ’No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed ... except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land’. This was later interpreted to require trial by jury.

CONT

"Due process" is an imprecise and elastic term, the meaning of which varies with time and place. Basically, it suggests fundamental fairness and tries to apply that concept to all parts of the criminal process. The breadth of the concept depends upon the subjective view of the American courts, particularly the United States Supreme Court. In the last twenty years "due process" has included protections against self-incrimination, coerced confessions, illegal searches, denial of counsel or jury trial and unregulated eavesdropping. In the American system a judicial finding that law enforcement officials have offended due process will result in a complete exclusion of the impugned evidence and will usually result in the acquittal of the accused.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif
  • Droits et libertés
OBS

Notion corollaire à celle de la primauté du droit, «q.v.», à savoir que les gouvernements sont tenus de respecter les droits fondamentaux des citoyens et les principes de justice naturelle dans l'application du droit, à défaut de quoi une décision administrative pourra se voir annulée par un tribunal à la demande du citoyen concerné. Les principes de justice naturelle en question sont : (1) le droit du citoyen d'être entendu et, (2) l'obligation pour le tribunal ou l'autorité compétente d'être impartiale, ce qui implique notamment la prohibition de toute forme de discrimination et l'égalité de traitement de tous.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho administrativo
  • Derechos y Libertades
OBS

debido procedimiento legal: reproducido del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 2 2024-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

A game tree is a representation of the possibilities of two players in a game, like chess. At the top of the tree is the current game position, and each arc out represents a legal move for the first player. In turn, these lead to new positions and new outgoing arcs that are the legal moves for the second player. These arcs and positions can continue until each sequence leads to the end of the game.

CONT

As is usual for game trees, the tree is drawn inverted with the root at the top. In the tree every node has as its immediate descendants - its offspring nodes - all the nodes which are reachable in one legal node.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Procesamiento por computadora de datos lingüísticos
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
  • Inteligencia artificial
CONT

Un árbol de juego es una representación gráfica que muestra una situación estratégica como una secuencia de movimientos, más que como una lista de opciones de pago simultáneas como en una matriz de pagos. En este, los nodos representan puntos de decisión para los jugadores, mientras que las ramas emergentes de cada nodo representan las posibles acciones disponibles. El final de cada rama, conocido como nodo terminal, se asocia con un resultado específico o pago para cada jugador.

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Record 3 2017-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
CONT

Looking at the legal scope of [Part VII] of the OLA [Official Languages Act] the [Federal] Court said it agreed with the position taken by the Commissioner of official Languages, namely that section 42 of the OLA expressly commits federal institutions to implementing the federal government's policy in section 41 of the OLA.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
CONT

Examinant la portée juridique de la partie VII de la LLO [Loi sur les langues officielles], la Cour [fédérale] s'est dite d'accord avec la position de la commissaire aux langues officielles selon laquelle l'article 42 de la LLO engage expressément les institutions fédérales à la mise en œuvre de l'engagement du gouvernement fédéral énoncé à l'article 41 de la LLO.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Property Law (civil law)
CONT

A servitude arises either from the natural position of the property, or from the law, or it is established by the act of man. Both natural and legal servitudes are created by law alone. Conventional servitudes are created by a written agreement between property owners.

CONT

Natural servitudes arise from the geographical lay of the land, e.g., since water flows downhill, the lower land must receive the water (rain, snow, stream) coming from the higher neighbouring land.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
DEF

[...] celles qui dérivent de la situation des lieux.

OBS

Ainsi, la servitude d'écoulement des eaux provenant des fonds supérieurs, les obligations relatives au bornage et à la clôture des propriétés.

OBS

Les articles 501 à 505 du Code civil de la province de Québec qui traitent de servitudes naturelles, sont précédés par le titre "Des servitudes qui dérivent de la situation des lieux".

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

Legal detriment to promisee means that promisee changed his legal position, or assumed duties or liabilities not theretofore imposed on him on reliance of actions of promisor.

French

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

désavantage de droit : 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 6 2015-04-30

English

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

The language employed by the members of the court in this case is the language of estoppel. The judges all refer to the principal' s holding out the agent, of apparent authority to contract as he did, of making him an ostensible principal. It is suggested, however, that another way of looking at this case is by saying that once a man is put into a position of manager of a business which normally or usually carries with it the power to transact certain kinds of legal acts, then such a manager has authority to do whatever is so normal or usual.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

An unconscionable transaction is one in which no right-minded person would ever make, and no fair-minded person would ever accept. To prove an unconscionable transaction one must prove that : 1. the bargain was made without regard to one's future 2. there was an inequality in the bargaining position of the two parties.(Managing the Law : The Legal Aspects of Doing Business, McInnes et al. p 116).

CONT

The First Nation relies on La Forest J’s reference in this case to Morrison v. Coast Finance Ltd... in which the factors of an unconscionable transaction ...

OBS

Alexis First Nation Inquiry TransAlta Utilities Rights of Way Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

La Première Nation se fonde sur la mention que fait le juge La Forest de la décision Morrison c. Coast Finance Ltd. [...] dans laquelle sont décrit les facteurs d'une transaction déraisonnable [...]

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication de la Première Nation d'Alexis relative aux emprises accordées à TransAlta Utilities (Mars 2003).

Key term(s)
  • transaction exorbitante
  • marché exorbitant

Spanish

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Record 8 2014-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

On December 13, 1996, Pamela Keating... wrote to Mr Slavik indicating that DIAND(Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) "expects to receive a preliminary legal opinion from the Department of Justice by the end of April, 1997, "after which the government would need some time to determine its preliminary position on the claim.

OBS

Alexis First Nation Inquiry TransAlta Utilities Right of Way Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

Le 13 décembre 1996, Pamela Keating [...] écrit à Me Slavik et indique que le MAINC (ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien) «s'attend à recevoir une opinion juridique préliminaire du ministère de la Justice avant la fin d'avril 1997», après quoi le gouvernement aura besoin d'un certain temps pour établir sa position préliminaire sur cette revendication.

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication de la Première Nation d'Alexis relative aux emprises accordées à TransAlta Utilities (Mars 2003).

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 10 2014-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Labour Law
  • Social Law
CONT

To refuse jurisdiction to hear this Complaint... This is not a tenable legal position as we point out later in these reasons when discussing jurisdiction over remedy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Droit du travail
  • Droit social

Spanish

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Record 11 2013-07-31

English

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

The obligation of proving facts. (L.B. Curzon,) A Dictionary of Law, 1979

CONT

In the Common law, burden of proof is the obligation to prove allegations which are presented in a legal action. More colloquially, burden of proof refers to an obligation in a particular context to defend a position against a prima facie other position.

OBS

The term "burden of proof" is commonly used to describe either or both of the following two concepts ... (a) Burden of Adducing Evidence of Evidential Burden (b) Burden of Persuasion or Legal Burden (Fed./Prov. Task Force, p. 19)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

charge de la preuve; fardeau de la preuve : 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).

OBS

burden of proof : Terme générique. Certains emploient aussi «burden of proof» dans un sens spécifique correspondant à «burden of persuasion», en opposition avec «burden of evidence» («burden of producing evidence»).

Spanish

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Record 12 2013-06-10

English

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

Comparison of Registered and Unregistered Systems. We may now compare the position of a purchaser of the legal fee simple of Blackacre under the two systems of conveyancing. Under both systems he must satisfy himself on two separate matters; firstly, that the vendor is entitled to convey the fee simple, and, secondly, that there are no incumbrances in favour of third parties which will continue to bind the land after the conveyance.(Cheshire, 11th ed., 1972, p. 109).

French

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

On peut aussi employer l'équivalent «système des transports fonciers» lorsqu'il s'agit plus particulièrement des éléments matériels constitutifs du «system».

OBS

régime des transports fonciers : 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).

Key term(s)
  • système des transports fonciers

Spanish

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Record 13 2013-04-18

English

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

It is essential to an understanding of legal surveying to appreciate that, at common law, the first creation of a boundary or the demarcation of the extent of rights or ownership in land is absolute and will remain in its original unaltered position for all time. This statement is, however, beguilingly simple. Having said that an original boundary is unalterable, we must also appreciate that the retracement of an original boundary is an exercise in the assessment of evidence.("Law Society of Upper Canada, Real Estate and Landlord and Tenant", 1986-87, p. 95).

French

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

limite primitive : 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 2013-01-23

English

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

The position reached by the common law was that estates of freehold represented real property law in the strict sense of that term, and as such were subject to all the consequences of feudal tenure; while on the other hand leaseholds(together with some other rights in land) were not so subject, and for this reason were neither affected by the incidents of feudalism, nor governed by the same legal rules as freeholds.(Cheshire's, 12th ed., p. 39).

French

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

gavelkind : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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Record 15 2013-01-18

English

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

The position reached by the common law was that estates of freehold represented real property law in the strict sense of that term, and as such were subject to all the consequences of feudal tenure; while on the other hand leaseholds(together with some other rights in land) were not so subject, and for this reason were neither affected by the incidents of feudalism, nor governed by the same legal rules as freeholds.(Cheshire's, 12th ed., p. 39).

French

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

tenure féodale : 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 16 2012-12-03

English

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

In English law, a promise is not, as a general rule, binding as a contract unless it is either made under seal or supported by some "consideration". The purpose of the doctrine of consideration is to put some legal limit on the enforceability of agreements even where they are intended to be legally binding and are not vitiated by some factor such as mistake, misrepresentation, duress or illegality.... The present position therefore is that English law limits the enforceability of agreements not under seal by reference to a complex and multifarious body of rules known as "the doctrine of consideration. "(Chitty on Contracts, 26th ed., 1989, Vol I, pp. 105-106).

French

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

doctrine de la contrepartie : 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 2012-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Language Teaching
  • Military Training
OBS

The goal of the Official Languages Program Transformation Model is to ensure that National Defence personnel are led, trained, administered and supported in their official language of choice, which will position the Defence Team to more effectively support its foreign and domestic operations while better meeting its legal official languages obligations.

Key term(s)
  • Official Languages Programme Transformation Model

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Enseignement des langues
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
OBS

Le but du Modèle de transformation du Programme des langues officielles de la Défense nationale est d’établir un système qui veillera à ce que l’effectif de la Défense nationale soit mené, formé, géré et appuyé dans la langue officielle de son choix et qui mettra l’Équipe de la défense en posture d’appuyer plus efficacement les opérations de la Défense - au pays et à l’étranger - tout en répondant aux obligations juridiques en matière de langues officielles.

Spanish

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Record 18 2012-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
DEF

The process whereby employees who are members of a bargaining unit are identified as performing duties which are essential to the safety or security of the public; these employees are prohibited from striking, notwithstanding that their bargaining unit is in a legal strike position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
DEF

Processus par lequel des employés membres d'une unité de négociation sont identifiés comme remplissant des fonctions essentielles à la sécurité du public. Ces employés ne peuvent faire la grève, même si leur unité de négociation peut faire la grève légalement.

Spanish

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Record 19 2012-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

The education requirement is a four year college degree. Firms sometime request several years of experience in a similar position. Firms want specialists to know the litigation application software used for legal work.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

Alors que beaucoup coupent dans les budgets et effectifs, [la firme] annonce l’acquisition d’un nouveau logiciel de soutien au litige et de gestion documentaire.

Spanish

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Record 20 2012-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
CONT

Legal Affairs and the Internal Market proposes a more conciliatory position with regard to business interests, weakening the initial proposal for a directive.

OBS

A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers.[1] Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners.

Key term(s)
  • business interest

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
CONT

Le rapport de la commission juridique propose une position plus conciliante à l'égard des intérêts des entreprises en affaiblissant la proposition initiale de directive.

OBS

Dans ce contexte, il s'agit des activités économiques d'une entreprise ou d'une société. Il ne font pas le confondre avec la notion «intérêts commerciaux» qui se traduit aussi par «business interests».

Key term(s)
  • intérêt d'une entreprise

Spanish

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Record 21 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

The state of a woman being deserted by the father of her child.

OBS

She was concerned about her position as a deserted mother but also as one without even the status of or legal position of deserted wife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Mère ayant subi l'abandon par le père de son enfant.

Spanish

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Record 22 2010-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • War and Peace (International Law)
DEF

... the legal status of a state that asserts a position of nonparticipation in respect to a war existing between other states. It is not merely abstinence from war. It is a relationship involving rights and duties on the part of neutrals toward belligerents and on the part of belligerents toward neutrals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
DEF

Situation juridique et politique d'un État qui, en présence d'une guerre entre deux ou plusieurs autres États, reste en dehors de cette guerre, s'abstenant d'assister l'un ou l'autre des belligérants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Relaciones internacionales
  • Guerra y paz (Derecho internacional)
CONT

Suiza es, efectivamente, un Estado neutral desde 1515, un estatus que fue reconocido en la Paz de Westfalia en 1648, por primera vez oficialmente declarado en 1674 y reiterado en 1815 por las potencias europeas en el Congreso de Viena, que veían en la neutralidad helvética un elemento importante del nuevo equilibrio europeo.

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Record 23 2009-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of the Sea
DEF

Particulary in contracts, what a prudent person would believe and act upon if told something by another.

CONT

A legal principle that when an individual represents a material fact to another who alters his position in reasonable reliance on the representation, the first may not deny that the condition or facts exists

OBS

The one who relied can recover damages for the costs of his/her actions or demand performance if the reliance was "reasonable".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit de la mer

Spanish

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Record 24 2009-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

[An] individual who is not in a fixed and permanent employment relationship but carry out individual commissions (usually not immediate succession) on the basis of contracts for services.

OBS

In this situation, the freelance is free to choose whether or not to accept a particular commission, but he or she has no automatic legal entitlement to be granted such commissions. Freelances are not in a position of personal subordination to the person commissioning their services and are therefore not employees, but in certain circumstances they may be classed as persons treated in law as similar to employee.

Key term(s)
  • free lancer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Personne qui est rémunérée à la pige.

OBS

Pluriel : free lances. L'adjectif est par contre invariable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 25 2008-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
CONT

The Chiltern Hundreds are motable as a legal fiction, owning to a quirk of British Parliamentary law. A Crown Steward was appointed to maintain law and order in the area, but the position's duties ceased to be required in the 16th century, and the holder ceased to gain any benefits during the 17th century. The position has since been used as a procedural device to allow redignation from the House of Commons.

OBS

To take the Chiltern-Hundreds: to resign as a Member of Parliament.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
CONT

Un membre des Communes ne peut donner sa démission. On y supplée par la déclaration qu'il accepte d'être gardien des Chiltern-Hundreds (petit domaine royal), office purement nominal. L'acceptation de cet emploi prétendu oblige à une réélection à laquelle ne se présente pas la démissionnaire.

OBS

Accepter les Chiltern-Hundreds : démissionner comme membre du Parlement.

Spanish

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Record 26 2008-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
DEF

The financial statements of a parent company and one or more of its subsidiaries, combined so as to ignore the separate legal identities of the corporations and show the financial position and operating results of the group as one economic unit.

OBS

Compare with "combined financial statements," "parent company financial statements," "group accounts," "individual financial statements," and "non-consolidated financial statements."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
DEF

Jeu d'états financiers regroupant les éléments d'actif et de passif, les résultats et autres composantes des états financiers individuels des entités comprises dans le périmètre de consolidation, de façon à faire ressortir la situation financière et les résultats du groupe économique que constitue l'ensemble de ces entités, comme s'il s'agissait d'une seule entité.

OBS

L'établissement d'états ou comptes consolidés exige parfois que soient effectués des retraitements de consolidation dont le but est d'obtenir une plus grande homogénéité des comptes et, donc, des documents de synthèse plus significatifs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad general
DEF

Cuentas anuales que presenta un grupo de sociedades, cuando el conjunto formado por las mismas es gobernado desde una dirección común. En su formación deben ser eliminados los créditos y débitos mutuos, así como los beneficios obtenidos por cada sociedad como consecuencia de las operaciones realizadas con otras que sean parte del mismo grupo.

OBS

cuentas consolidadas: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Key term(s)
  • estado financiero consolidado
  • estados financieros consolidados
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Record 27 2005-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

Legal officers of the Regular Force or Reserve Force that are holding a position on the establishment of the Office of the Judge Advocate General(JAG) are, regardless of where they are employed, directly responsible to the JAG for the performance of their duties, except where legal officers are posted to a military trial judge position or employed in the Directorate of Personnel Legal Services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

Les avocats militaires de la force régulière ou de réserve qui occupent un poste établi au tableau d'effectif du Cabinet du juge-avocat général (JAG) relèvent du JAG pour l'accomplissement de leurs fonctions, et ce, peu importe leur lieu d'emploi, sauf lorsque ceux-ci sont affectés à un poste de juge militaire ou employés à la Direction--Service du personnel.

Spanish

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Record 28 2003-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
  • Sales (Marketing)
CONT

There is one class of goods, it seems, in respect of which there may be a sale even though they are not existing at the time of the contract. The legal property in such goods can pass to the buyer without any need to conform to the provisions of the Act relating to the transfer of property. Such goods are those which have "potential existence". The distinction existed at common law between future goods to be manufactured or acquired by the seller, the position with respect to which has been considered above, and future goods in which the seller had what was called "a potential property". Such goods comprehended things which were the natural produce or expected increase of something already owned or possessed by the seller, for example, hay to be grown in a field, wool to be grown on sheep owned by the seller, or milk to be yielded by the seller's cows in the coming month.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
  • Vente

Spanish

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Record 29 2003-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Public Service
DEF

Individual who is, or is deemed to be, employed in the Public Service.

OBS

While terms such as "employee" and "person employed" have legal meanings, the distinction between them may not be understood by prospective candidates. For this reason, when it is intended to restrict the area of selection to "employees" of a particular Public Service organization, it may be preferable to specify that eligibility is limited to persons whose substantive position is within that organization(as a result of a deployment or appointment).

OBS

The terms "employee" and "person employed in the Public Service" are not synonymous. A person employed in the public service is not necessarily an public servant. He or she could be a contract employee, a partner, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Fonction publique
DEF

Individu qui est, ou est réputé être, employé dans la fonction publique.

OBS

Les expressions « fonctionnaires» et «personnes employées» ont des significations sur le plan juridique; la distinction entre elles peut ne pas être comprise par des candidates et candidats éventuels. C'est la raison pour laquelle, lorsqu'on veut restreindre la zone de sélection aux fonctionnaires d'un organisme particulier de la fonction publique, il peut être préférable de spécifier que l'admissibilité est restreinte aux personnes dont le poste d'attache se trouve dans cette organisation (suite à une nomination ou mutation).

OBS

Les termes «fonctionnaire» et «personne employée dans la fonction publique» ne sont pas synonymes. Un employé de la fonction publique n'est pas nécessairement un fonctionnaire. Il peut s'agir d'un contractuel, d'un partenaire, etc.

Spanish

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Record 30 2002-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wrestling
DEF

Wrestling. A hold in which the aggressor, in a position above and behind his opponent, bends his opponent's arm at the elbow so that the wrist is near the side either in front or in back and thrusts his own arm under the opponent's forearm and over his shoulder or across the back exerting upward leverage. This hold is legal so long as pressure is not applied parallel to the long axis of the opponent's body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lutte
OBS

[...] quelques prises de lutte gréco-romaine : [...] ramassement d'un bras; [...]

Spanish

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Record 31 2001-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Basketball

French

Domaine(s)
  • Basket-ball

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Básquetbol
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Record 32 1999-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • Emergency Management
OBS

Ottawa: Emergency Preparedness Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Gestion des urgences
OBS

Ottawa : Protection civile Canada.

Spanish

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Record 33 1999-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • Emergency Management
OBS

Ottawa: Emergency Preparedness Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Gestion des urgences
OBS

Ottawa : Protection civile Canada.

Spanish

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Record 34 1998-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Silviculture
DEF

The act of securing the legal position of a reserved forest, particularly a hastily or ill-settled one... by the re-survey, adjustment and adequate demarcation of boundaries, and the clearer definition of forest rights.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Acte qui reconnaît officiellement la condition légale d'une forêt classée par la reconnaissance de ses limites et une reformulation plus éclairée des droits d'usage, etc.

Spanish

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Record 35 1996-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
OBS

Current issue review 91-3E, Research Branch, Library of Parliament, 1992.

OBS

Revised August, 1995. 21 p.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
OBS

Bulletin d'actualité 91-3F, Service de recherche, Bibliothèque du parlement, 1992.

OBS

Révisé août 1995. 24 p.

Spanish

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Record 36 1996-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

The three primary considerations for defining the capital of a bank for purposes of measuring capital adequacy are : its permanence; its being free of mandatory fixed charges against earnings; and its subordinated legal position to the rights of depositors and other creditors of the institution. [Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

La définition des fonds propres d'une banque aux fins des normes de suffisance repose sur trois considérations essentielles: leur permanence; l'absence de frais fixes obligatoires imputables aux bénéfices; leur subordination, en vertu de la loi, aux droits des déposants et des autres créanciers de l'institution. [Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières].

Spanish

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Record 37 1996-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

The three primary considerations for defining the capital of a bank for purposes of measuring capital adequacy are : its permanence; its being free of mandatory fixed charges against earnings; and its subordinated legal position to the rights of depositors and other creditors of the institution. [Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

La définition des fonds propres d'une banque aux fins des normes de suffisance repose sur trois considérations essentielles: leur permanence; l' absence de frais fixes obligatoires imputables aux bénéfices; leur subordination, en vertu de la loi, aux droits des déposants et des autres créanciers de l'institution. [Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières].

Spanish

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Record 38 1995-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
CONT

These clauses are called protective provisions, trust deed restrictions, or covenants by the company. They appear in a legal instrument variously called a trust deed or deed or trust and mortgage in the case of a mortgage bond secured by assets, or a trust indenture in the case of a corporate debenture. They are essentially safeguards placed in the contract to guard against any weakening in the position of the security holder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
CONT

Ces dispositions sont appelées «clauses protectrices», «restrictions de l'acte de fiducie», ou «engagements de la compagnie». Elles sont contenues dans un acte authentique appelé «acte de fiducie» ou «acte de fiducie et d'hypothèque» dans le cas d'obligations hypothécaires garanties par des biens immobiliers, ou simplement «acte de fiducie» dans le cas de débentures de sociétés. Ces dispositions sont essentiellement des garanties contre toute mesure qui pourrait affaiblir la situation du porteur des titres.

Spanish

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Record 39 1993-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Labour Disputes
CONT

Employees belonging to bargaining units that are in a legal strike position(i. e. seven days after receipt of Conciliation Board Report by the Chairman, Public Service Staff Relations Board), will continue to be paid normally until strike activity takes place by members of that bargaining unit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Conflits du travail
CONT

Les employés appartenant à une unité de négociation qui a le droit de déclarer la grève (c.-à-d. sept jours après la remise du rapport du bureau de conciliation au président de la Commission des relations de travail dans la fonction publique) continueront d'être rémunérés selon les procédures normales jusqu'à ce que survienne un conflit de travail auquel participent les membres de cette unité de négociation.

Spanish

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Record 40 1993-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Service
CONT

The appointment of an employee to a position that the employee occupied immediately prior to its reclassification. A reclassification may occur as a result of a grievance or a classification audit or review. The same legal authority applies whether the position has been reclassified to a lower or a higher level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonction publique
CONT

Nomination sans concours d'un fonctionnaire à un poste qu'il occupait immédiatement avant la reclassification. Une reclassification peut faire suite à un grief, ou à une vérification ou révision de la classification. Les mêmes dispositions législatives s'appliquent qu'il s'agisse d'une reclassification à un niveau inférieur ou supérieur.

Spanish

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Record 41 1993-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Legal System
OBS

outline its legal position with reasons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 42 1992-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transfer of Personnel
CONT

If there is no position available, at the end of the period of statutory priority, there must be a legal termination of employment through either voluntary resignation or lay-off.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilité du personnel
CONT

S'il n'y a pas de poste disponible, à la fin de la période de priorité statutaire, il faut mettre fin à l'emploi comme le stipule la loi, au moyen soit d'une démission volontaire soit d'une mise en disponibilité.

OBS

Termes tirés du Manuel du Conseil du Trésor - Rémunération.

Spanish

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Record 43 1991-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Law
  • Labour Disputes
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit du travail
  • Conflits du travail
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 44 1989-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
DEF

Those elements of bank capital which, although in a subordinate legal position to the rights of depositors and other creditors of the bank, do not have the other required properties of base capital.

OBS

In Canada, "supplementary capital" was formerly called "secondary capital".

OBS

See the section "Guidelines" in CMFCB.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
DEF

Éléments du capital bancaire dont le statut juridique est subordonné aux droits des déposants et autres créanciers de la banque, mais qui ne possèdent pas les autres caractéristiques du capital de base.

OBS

Le «capital supplémentaire» a été antérieurement appelé «capital secondaire» au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 45 1989-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
DEF

Those elements of bank capital which are permanent, free of mandatory fixed charges against earnings and in a subordinate legal position to the rights of depositors and other creditors of the bank.

OBS

In Canada, "base capital" was formerly called "primary capital".

OBS

See the section "Guidelines" in CMFCB.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
DEF

Éléments du capital qui sont permanents, libres de toute imputation obligatoire fixe aux bénéfices et dont le statut juridique est subordonné aux droits des déposants et autres créanciers de la banque.

OBS

Le «capital de base» a été antérieurement appelé «capital primaire» au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 46 1986-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
OBS

to restore the evicted owner to the possession of his property to restore to the legal position to restore to a roof

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
OBS

remettre le propriétaire évincé en possession de son bien (41) remettre dans l'état de droit (41) recherche, remanier à bout (Ramée)

Spanish

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Record 47 1985-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
CONT

Maximum permissible error of accuracy(called «maximum permissible error »in the text, in accordance with the requirements of the Vocabulary of Legal Metrology) : Maximum difference, positive or negative, allowed by regulation between the result of a weighing and the equivalent in standard weights or standard masses of the mass of the load weighed, to begin with the machine being at zero at no-load in the reference position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
CONT

Erreur maximale tolérée de précision (appelée « erreur maximale tolérée » dans le texte, en accord avec les spécifications du Vocabulaire de Métrologie légale) : Différence maximale, en plus ou en moins, réglementairement tolérée entre le résultat d'une pesée et l'équivalent en poids étalons ou masses étalons de la masse de la charge pesée, l'instrument étant préalablement au zéro à charge nulle en position de référence de réglage.

Spanish

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Record 48 1979-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Granite Quarrying
OBS

(Position Analysis Schedule, CLR-126, Legal Advisor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Carrières de granit
OBS

(Service de traduction, Juridique centrale).

Spanish

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