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LEGAL QUESTION [34 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-03

English

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

"The presence or absence of reasonable anticipation of damage determines the legal quality of the act as negligent or innocent. If it be thus determined to be negligent or innocent, then the question whether particular damages are recoverable depends only on the answer to the question whether they are the direct consequence of the act... "

French

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

"Le fait qu'on puisse ou non raisonnablement prévoir un dommage permet de déterminer si l'acte constitue ou non une négligence sur le plan juridique. Si l'on en vient à la conclusion qu'il y a eu négligence, le demandeur pourra obtenir réparation à l'égard de dommages donnés s'ils sont la conséquence directe de l'acte en question..."

OBS

conséquence directe : 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 2 2017-02-21

English

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

[The Negligence Act of Ontario] further stipulates that "If it is not practicable to determine the respective degree of fault or negligence as between any parties to an action, such parties shall be deemed to be equally at fault or negligent. "If the action is tried by a jury, it is for them to determine the degree of fault or negligence as a question of fact. If it is a trial by judge alone, "apportionment of fault is primarily and properly a matter within the discretion of the trial judge... "(and) "except in a strong and exceptional case, an appellate Court will not feel free to substitute its apportionment of fault for that made by the trial Judge, unless there has been palpable and demonstrable error in appreciation of the legal principles to be applied or misapprehension of the facts by the trial Judge. "

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 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 4 2015-11-13

English

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

Value is often used as an abbreviation for "valuable consideration," especially in the phrases "purchaser for value," "holder for value," etc. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1849).

OBS

Value may consist of spiritual or aesthetic qualities, or in utility in use, or in the amount of money or other goods which could be obtained in exchange for the thing in question. In legal contexts, the last is the sense usually relevant, in such phrases as "holder for value" or "purchaser for value, "in each of which "value" means "having paid a reasonable equivalent in money. "[Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, p. 1270].

French

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

Ce syntagme figure dans diverses expressions telles que «purchaser for valuable consideration, bailment for valuable consideration», etc., et s'oppose aux adjectifs «gratuitous» et «voluntary» rendus par «à titre gratuit» ou «gratuit».

OBS

On veillera à éviter l'emploi de la locution «contre valeur» qui est un calque de l'anglais.

OBS

à titre onéreux : 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 5 2015-10-30

English

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

[A] succession of events [that] links an act or legal cause with a result or damage.

CONT

... it has been a long-standing judicial technique to isolate certain intervening forces which, in combination with the defendant's, default, precipitate or aggravate the plaintiff's injury. The question then arises whether the original wrongdoer is to be held for loss contributed to by the external force or whether, in the favoured legal vernacular, it "snapped the chain of causation".

French

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

chaîne causale : 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 2014-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

In his covering letter, he advised that, in the event that no answer on acceptance or rejection of the claim was forthcoming from Canada, he would add an additional legal question regarding Canada's duty to negotiate in good faith under the Specific Claims Policy.

OBS

Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry Coldwater-Narrows Reservation Surrender Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

Dans sa lettre d'accompagnement, [il] précise que, faute de réponse du Canada concernant l'acceptation ou le rejet de la revendication, il est d'avis d'ajouter une question juridique additionnelle relativement au devoir qui incombe au Canada de négocier de bonne foi, en vertu de la Politique des revendications.

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication du Conseil tripartite des Chippewas concernant la cession de la réserve de Coldwater-Narrows (Mars 2003).

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

... he would add an additional legal question regarding Canada's duty to negotiate in good faith under the Specific Claims Policy.

OBS

Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry Coldwater-Narrows Reservation Surrender Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

[...] il est d'avis d'ajouter une question juridique additionnelle relativement au devoir qui incombe au Canada de négocier de bonne foi, en vertu de la Politique des revendications.

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication du Conseil tripartite des Chippewas concernant la cession de la réserve de Coldwater-Narrows (Mars 2003).

Spanish

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Record 8 2014-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Rules of Court
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Règles de procédure
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho probatorio
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
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Record 9 2013-04-23

English

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

Possession(is) a legal concept of variable meaning, the word being used in different contexts with different meanings. It denotes a kind of relationship between a person and some object of property, real or personal. It is sometimes used as meaning merely physical control or detention, without any question of legal right. Secondly, it may mean legal possession which will be recognized and protected by law....(Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, pp. 970-1).

French

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

possession : 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 2013-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

Literally, a crop in the process of growth, an unmatured crop. But a disputed term in legal parlance. Some authorities hold that a growing crop may be either above or below the surface of the soil, while other authorities hold that a crop is not a growing crop unless it shows above ground, and that underground sprouts do not constitute such a crop. Again, some authorities hold that a crop is growing from the time the seed is planted until the harvest, while other authorities hold that a matured, ungathered crop is not growing. Whether grass in a pasture is a growing crop is also a controverted question.(Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 538)

French

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

récolte en cours de croissance : 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 11 2012-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Laws and Legal Documents
CONT

A mixed question of law and fact occurs when the facts are established, the rule of law is undisputed, and the issue is whether the facts satisfy the legal rule. The term ’mixed question of law and fact’ refers to questions about the application of a rule or standard to the particular facts of the case.

OBS

An offender who is found to be a dangerous offender under this Part may appeal to the court of appeal against that finding on any ground of law or fact or mixed law and fact.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Lois et documents juridiques
CONT

Le délinquant déclaré délinquant dangereux sous l'autorité de la présente partie peut interjeter appel d'une telle déclaration à la cour d'appel sur toute question de droit ou de fait ou toute question mixte de droit et de fait.

Spanish

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Record 12 2010-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

The investigation and determination by a court of the legal validity of an act, decision, instrument or transaction, of a question of "vires", jurisdiction, concerning an obligation to observe the rules of natural justice or "act fairly", or concerning principles which should be observed when statutory discretion is exercised. S. A. DeSmith, "Judicial Review of Administrative Action", 4th ed., by J. M. Evans(London : Stevens, 1980) at 26.

Key term(s)
  • control by the courts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
DEF

Poder de un tribunal de declarar anticonstitucionales los actos del poder legislativo.

CONT

La revisión judicial se interpreta de diversas formas [...] En aquellos sistemas legales que cuentan con un Tribunal Constitucional y una constitución por escrito, este concepto incluye frecuentemente el poder de un tribunal de revisar la constitucionalidad de una ley o de un acto oficial llevado a cabo por un empleado o agente gubernamental. El tribunal tiene la potestad de revocar dicha ley, anular el acto del poder ejecutivo u ordenar a un funcionario público que se conduzca de cierta forma si estima que la ley o el acto en cuestión son inconstitucionales. En el Reino Unido, se refiere a la potestad de los tribunales de declarar que las acciones de los entes gubernamentales son contrarias a la ley o que violan la Convención Europea de Derechos Humanos [...]

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Record 13 2010-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Rights and Freedoms
OBS

Strasbourg, April 4th 1996.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Droits et libertés

Spanish

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Record 14 2009-10-27

English

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

The question then arises whether the original wrongdoer is to be held for loss contributed to by the external force of whether, in the favoured legal vernacular, it "snapped the chain of causation".

French

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

Spanish

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Record 15 2006-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Legal Actions
DEF

The optional joinder of parties if(1) their claims or the claims asserted against them are asserted jointly, severally, or in respect of the same transaction or occurrence, and(2) any legal or factual question common to all of them will arise.

CONT

Permissive joinder. All persons may join in one action as plaintiffs if they assert any right to relief jointly, severally, or in the alternative in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any question of law or fact common to all these persons will arise in the action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

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Record 16 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

The question is whether the verdicts are supportable on any theory of the evidence consistent with the legal instructions given by the trial judge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

La question est de savoir si les verdicts peuvent s'appuyer sur une théorie de la preuve compatible avec les directives juridiques données par le juge du procès.

OBS

directive juridique: terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 17 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

The question is whether the verdicts are supportable on any theory of the evidence consistent with the legal instructions given by the trial judge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

La question est de savoir si les verdicts peuvent s'appuyer sur une théorie de la preuve compatible avec les directives juridiques données par le juge du procès.

Spanish

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Record 18 2006-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
DEF

Legal neighbourhood is "restricted" to "persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
DEF

Mon prochain en droit est «restreint» aux «personnes qui sont touchées de si près et si directement par mon acte que je devrais raisonnablement prévoir qu'elles seront ainsi touchées lorsque je réfléchis aux actes ou omissions qui sont mis en question».

Spanish

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Record 19 2006-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seminar Titles
  • International Law
OBS

The Hague, 22-14 June 1981.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de séminaires
  • Droit international

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de seminarios
  • Derecho internacional
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Record 20 2006-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The General Assembly or the Security Council may request the International court of justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

La cour peut donner un avis consultatif. (Charte des Nations Unies, Statut de la cour internationale, article 65)

CONT

Le Comité de demande de réformation du jugement prie la Cour internationale de justice de donner un avis consultatif sur les questions suivantes [...]

Spanish

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Record 21 2005-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
CONT

... I have attempted to set forth the legal background relevant to the question whether a court may, or in this case, ought to authorize consent to non-therapeutic sterilization.

Key term(s)
  • consent to nontherapeutic sterilization

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
CONT

Le consentement à la stérilisation non thérapeutique d'une personne atteinte de déficience mentale [ ... ] relève-t-il [de la compétence parens patriae]?

Key term(s)
  • consentement à la stérilisation non-thérapeutique

Spanish

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Record 22 2005-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
CONT

A signed consent form has undoubted evidentiary value and is a specific legal requirement in many situations. However, when an informed consent is called into question, a doctor's note on the record may be of equal or even greater usefulness for defence purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
CONT

Le formulaire constitue simplement une confirmation écrite que des explications ont été données et que le malade a accepté ce qui lui était proposé. Un formulaire de consentement signé sera d'assez peu de valeur plus tard si le malade peut convaincre le tribunal que les explications fournies ont été insuffisantes ou, pis, absentes.

Spanish

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Record 23 2004-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Legal System
DEF

The doctrine recognized in some legal systems that a decision by a court of competent jurisdiction on a point of law becomes not merely a guide but an authority to be followed by all other courts of equal or inferior jurisdiction in all cases involving the same question, until said decision is reversed or overruled by a court of superior jurisdiction. In other words, when once a point of law has been settled by a decision, a precedent is thereby formed which is not afterwards to be departed from.

OBS

... decisions of international courts or tribunals do not constitute precedents in the technical sense of "stare decisis" in the common law; but they have weighty, persuasive effect.

OBS

The principle for reliance on decided cases.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

stare decisis : Premier membre de l'adage latin «stare decisis et non quieta movere» : s'en tenir à ce qui a été décidé et ne pas bouleverser ce qui est établi. Expression de la règle appliquée dans les pays anglo-saxons, d'après laquelle les principes de droit posés par une décision judiciaire ont force obligatoire, tant qu'ils n'ont pas été abandonnés par une décision ultérieure, émanant d'une juridiction supérieure ou de même rang.

OBS

stamus decisis : nous nous en tenons aux décisions déjà rendues.

OBS

Le respect des décisions des tribunaux supérieurs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
  • Régimen jurídico
DEF

[Principio que obliga a] considerar vinculantes las decisiones judiciales anteriores.

OBS

El principio "stare decisis" significa que a un caso posterior debe aplicarse la solución del precedente si rigen los mismos puntos, reglas o principios ya que se emplea el método comparativo e inductivo para determinar la similitud entre ambos casos y el grado de aplicabilidad de la solución anterior al conflicto actual.

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Record 24 2004-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Source : Formule 2.1, Règle 301.1 des Règles de la Cour fédérale

OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 25 2004-09-09

English

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

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

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

Source : Formule 2.1, Règle 301.1 des Règles de la Cour fédérale

OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 26 2003-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • Foreign Trade
  • Customs and Excise
  • International Relations
DEF

Answer to a question put to the International Court of Justice by organs of the United Nations or Specialized Agencies authorized to make such a request.

OBS

Term also used by Revenue Canada, Customs.

OBS

advisory opinion : The International Court of Justice is empowered to render advisory opinions, that is views on any legal question, at the request of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Security Council or other bodies authorized to do so.

OBS

Reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Douanes et accise
  • Relations internationales
OBS

Terme également utilisé par Revenu Canada, Douanes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho internacional público
  • Comercio exterior
  • Aduana e impuestos internos
  • Relaciones internacionales
OBS

Término utilizado por la Corte Internacional de Justicia (C.I.J.).

OBS

Según el artículo 65 del Estatuto de la Corte Internacional de Justicia, la Corte podrá emitir opiniones consultivas respecto de cualquier cuestión solicitud de cualquier organismo autorizado para ello por la Naciones Unidas.

OBS

Reproducido del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 27 2002-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Amount in arrears.

CONT

The United States is substantially in arrears in its payment of amounts the United Nations General Assembly has assessed against it for the UN budget and for UN peace keeping. The Question arises whether there are any legal consequences for a failure to pay such assessments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
PHR

Loyer arriéré; dividende arriéré.

CONT

Compte en souffrance.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
  • Fraseología de los lenguajes especializados
CONT

monto en mora.

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Record 28 2000-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Source : R. v. Généreux, le juge en chef Lamer, 1992, R.C.S., p. 282.

OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 29 1999-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

The compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice depends upon a prior declaration of acceptance under Article 36(2) of the Statute, which reads :"The states parties to the present Statute may at any time declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other state accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes concerning : a) the interpretation of a treaty; b) any question of international law; c) the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation; d) the nature or extent of the reparation to be made for the breach of an international obligation. "Although this jurisdiction is generally referred to as "compulsory"..., it is only compulsory once the declaration is made and within the limits of that declaration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
OBS

La compétence de la CIJ [Cour internationale de Justice] est définie à l'Article 36, par. 1 et 2 du Statut de la Cour, comme suit : 1) La compétence de la Cour s'étend à toutes les affaires que les parties lui soumettront, ainsi qu'à tous les cas spécialement prévus dans la Charte des Nations Unies ou dans les traités et conventions en vigueur.

OBS

Reproduit de la Liste provisoire de termes juridiques se rapportant aux travaux de la Commission du droit international avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

OBS

La juridiction ou compétence obligatoire est exercée non pas par arbitrage mais par une juridiction internationale comme la C.I.J.

Spanish

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Record 30 1999-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Law
CONT

The equality of states is a general principle of international law. It is a necessary corollary of the concepts of sovereignty and independence of states. However, it is only the legal equality, or equality before the law, which is in question. States are of course not equal in fact. The general consequence is that each state is entitled to equal treatment under the law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international
DEF

Expression employée pour énoncer l'idée qu'en vertu du droit des gens et sous réserve des obligations conventionnelles qu'ils auraient acceptées, les États ont tous la même aptitude, d'une part à acquérir et exercer des droits, d'autre part à assumer et exécuter des obligations.

Spanish

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Record 31 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
Key term(s)
  • humanitarian law question

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 32 1987-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

It is a much disputed question in the teaching of legal authorities and in the jurisprudence of the principal countries whether the doctrine of litispendance, the object of which is to prevent the possibility of conflicting judgments, can be invoked in international relations, in the sense that the judges of one State should, in the absence of a treaty, refuse to entertain any suit already pending before the courts of another State, exactly as they would be found to do if an action on the same subject had at some previous time been brought in due form before another court of their own country.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

Situation qui se présente quand le différend porté devant un tribunal compétent pour en connaître est pendant devant un autre tribunal également compétent.

CONT

"C'est une question vivement controversée dans la doctrine des auteurs et dans la jurisprudence des principaux Etats, que celle de savoir si la litispendance, qui a pour objet de prévenir un conflit de choses jugées, peut être invoquée dans les rapports internationaux, en ce sens que les juges d'un État devraient refuser de connaître, en l'absence d'un traité, de toute affaire déjà pendante devant un tribunal étranger, exactement comme ils auraient le devoir de le faire si un tribunal national avait été, à une époque antérieure, régulièrement saisi de la même affaire.

Spanish

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Record 33 1983-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
OBS

for "garbage day" : Since the APWA has defined the term "garbage" as food waste only, "garbage day" should be used in technical or legal texts only when the day in question has been set aside for the collection of food waste.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets

Spanish

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Record 34 1983-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

advisory jurisdiction. Under the Charter of the United Nations, the General Assembly and the Security Council are entitled to request the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

Pouvoir conféré à un organe juridictionnel, spécialement à la Cour internationale de justice (...) de donner sur une question juridique, à la demande de tout organe qualifié à cet effet, un avis, sans effet obligatoire, destiné à éclairer l'organe qui l'a sollicité.

Spanish

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