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LEGAL PRIVILEGE [13 records]

Record 1 2024-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
  • Commercial Law
CONT

Every patent granted under [the Patent Act] shall contain the title or name of the invention, with a reference to the specification, and shall, subject to this Act, grant to the patentee and the patentee's legal representatives for the term of the patent, from the granting of the patent, the exclusive right, privilege and liberty of making, constructing and using the invention and selling it to others to be used, subject to adjudication in respect thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction.

Key term(s)
  • owner of a patent
  • holder of a patent

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Droit commercial
CONT

Tout brevet accordé en vertu de la [Loi sur les brevets] contient le titre ou le nom de l'invention avec renvoi au mémoire descriptif et accorde, sous réserve des autres dispositions de la présente loi, au breveté et à ses représentants légaux, pour la durée du brevet à compter de la date où il a été accordé, le droit, la faculté et le privilège exclusif de fabriquer, construire, exploiter et vendre à d'autres, pour qu'ils l'exploitent, l'objet de l'invention, sauf jugement en l'espèce par un tribunal compétent.

OBS

brevetaire : désignation proposée par certains auteurs mais dont l'usage est vieilli.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Patentes de invención (Derecho)
  • Derecho mercantil
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Record 2 2015-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Official Documents
  • Real Estate
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A personal, unassignable, and ordinarily revocable, privilege conferred either by writing or parol for the doing of one or more acts on land without possessing any estate therein, thereby rendering legal an act or acts which otherwise would be trespasses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents officiels
  • Immobilier
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Law of Evidence
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Wigmore... framed the modern principle of privilege for solicitor-client communications, as follows : Where legal advice of any kind is sought from a professional legal adviser in his capacity as such, the communications relating to the purpose made in confidence by the client are at his instance permanently protected from disclosures by himself or by the legal adviser, except the protection be waived.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-06-26

English

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

Legal authority may furnish a defence to intentional tort liability.... Although most of the cases deal with the alleged misdeeds of police officers during the course of making arrests, this privilege is also available to parents, school teachers, shipmasters, and others who forcibly discipline children or crew members under their control.

French

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

L'autorisation légale peut aussi constituer une défense dans des cas de responsabilité délictuelle intentionnelle. [...] Bien que la plupart des causes concernent des méfaits reprochés à des agents de police dans le cours d'arrestations, ce privilège peut être invoqué par les parents, les enseignants, les capitaines de navires, et les autres personnes qui punissent par la force des enfants ou des membres d'équipage qui sont sous leur contrôle.

OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 5 2013-09-30

English

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

Ordinarily a privilege is held by a person, who can assert or waive it. (Fed./Prov. Task Force, p. 446)

OBS

[Legal professional privilege] may... be waived by the client(though not by the solicitor), either expressly or impliedly-e. g. by the client being examined by his counsel as to the privileged matter.... Similarly the privilege is waived if a copy of the privilege document is sent to the opposing side.(Phipson, 13th ed., 1982, p. 305)

French

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

renoncer à un privilège : 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 2013-09-30

English

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

A failure by the holder to assert the [marital communications] privilege by objection, or a voluntary revelation by the holder of the communication, or of a material part, is a waiver. (McCormick, p. 170)

OBS

Legal professional privilege may always be waived by the client, although a waiver with regard to conversations does not entail a waiver with regard to documents.... Nor is a waiver of the privilege attaching to medical reports to be inferred from the acceptance of the opposite party's unconditional production of his medical report.(Cross, p. 288-9)

French

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

abandon de privilège : 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 7 2013-09-06

English

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

A psychiatrist witness refused to answer questions put by the husband's counsel about what the wife had told him during professional consultation.... After stating that no legal privilege existed in the circumstances, the trial judge refused to order the witness to answer....(Schiff, Evidence in the Litigation Process, 1978, p. 1014).

French

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

privilège juridique : 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 8 2013-07-30

English

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

Legal Professional Privilege. In civil and criminal cases, confidential communications passing between a client and his legal adviser need not be given in evidence by the client and, without the client's consent, may not be given in evidence by the legal adviser in a judicial proceeding if made either-(1) to enable the client to obtain, or the adviser to give, legal advice; or(2) with reference to litigation that is actually taking place or was in the contemplation of the client.... the rationale of... legal professional privilege... is not the protection of confidentiality as such, but the additional fact that legal advice is exclusively concerned "with rights and liabilities enforceable in law, i. e. in the ultimate resort by litigation in the courts or in some administrative tribunal. "(Cross, p. 282-283).

OBS

In law of evidence, client’s privilege [means] to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications between he and his attorney.

French

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

secret professionnel de l'avocat : privilège du secret professionnel de l'avocat : 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 9 2012-11-19

English

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

[Customary] rights differ from easements in that they are exercisable by all who are included within the custom, independently of ownership of a dominant tenement. They differ from public rights in that they are exercisable only by members of some local community, not by members of the public generally.

CONT

The "Constitution Act", 1982, s. 22, preserves "any legal or customary right or privilege acquired or enjoyed before or after... with respect to any language that is not English or French".

French

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

L'article 22 de la «Loi constitutionnelle de 1982» préserve les «droits et privilèges, antérieurs ou postérieurs... et découlant de la loi ou de la coutume, des langues autres que le français et l'anglais.

OBS

droit coutumier : 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 10 2004-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rural Law
  • Silviculture
DEF

The legal right or privilege of pasturing swine in a wood or forest(as in medieval England).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit rural
  • Sylviculture
DEF

[Droit ancien] Droit que l'on payait au propriétaire d'une forêt pour y mettre des porcs à la glandée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho agrario
  • Silvicultura
DEF

Aprovechamiento de los frutos de las cupulíferas por los cerdos a pie de árbol.

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Record 11 1999-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal System
OBS

The Constitution Act, 1982, s. 22, preserves "any legal or customary right or privilege acquired or enjoyed before or after... with respect to many language that is not English or French.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

L'article 22 de la loi constitutionnelle de 1982 préserve les «droits et privilèges, antérieurs ou postérieurs [...] et découlant le la loi ou de la coutume, des langues autres que le français et l'anglais».

Spanish

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Record 12 1996-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
  • Translation (General)
CONT

... the audio visual reproduction of debates in Parliament being the reproduction of a legal occurrence and an occasion of absolute privilege, its publication in toto would carry absolute privilege.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Comme la reproduction audio-visuelle des débats du Parlement se trouve la reproduction d'une activité judiciaire et une situation d'immunité absolue, sa publication intégrale devrait aussi bénéficier d'une immunité absolue.

Spanish

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Record 13 1995-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel

Spanish

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