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LEGAL TRANSACTION [29 records]

Record 1 2026-02-19

English

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

Undivided co-ownership exists when more than one person owns the same home. No legal transaction is required. For example, undivided co-ownership can be formed from an inheritance. In an undivided co-ownership, each co-owner has a share over the entire property. There is no "private portion" like in a condo. In other words, everybody has the same rights to all parts of the property.

French

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

La quote-part étant ni droit ni objet de droit, elle est une quantité, une mesure. Elle est issue du fractionnement des intérêts dans le titre de propriété et non pas de la division du droit ou de la division matérielle (physique) ou intellectuelle de l'objet. Lorsqu'un indivisaire agit pour sa part, il agit dans la mesure de ses intérêts dans la propriété du bien.

Spanish

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Record 2 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Negotiable Instruments (Commercial Law)
  • Banking
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A legal action taken in confirming the refusal of a party to accept its obligation to a transaction or an order.

OBS

protest: term and definition standardized by ISO in 1993.

Key term(s)
  • protest for dishonor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Effets de commerce (Droit)
  • Banque
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Acte authentique par lequel le porteur d'un effet de commerce fait constater que le tiré ne l'a pas accepté ou qu'il ne l'a pas payé à l'échéance.

OBS

protêt : terme normalisé par l'ISO en 1993.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos negociables (Derecho mercantil)
  • Operaciones bancarias
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Declaración formal efectuada por notario, a requerimiento del tenedor de un pagaré o cheque, para hacer constar la falta de aceptación o la falta de pago a su vencimiento, para que no se perjudiquen los derechos y acciones entre las personas que han intervenido en el giro o en sus endosos.

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Record 3 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
  • Courts
DEF

A holiday established by legal authority and marked by restrictions on work and transaction of official business.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
  • Tribunaux
DEF

Jour de fête civile ou religieuse fixé par la loi, et pendant lequel le travail est généralement suspendu.

OBS

congé férié : Le terme «congé férié» est une impropriété, car c'est le jour qui est férié, et non le congé.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
  • Tribunales
DEF

Día no laborable a causa de una celebración eclesiástica o civil.

OBS

fiesta: designación y definición extraídas del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 4 2024-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
  • Real Estate
CONT

A real estate lawyer is a legal professional specializing in matters related to property law. Their primary role is to provide comprehensive legal guidance and representation throughout the various stages of a real estate transaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
  • Immobilier
CONT

Un avocat spécialisé en immobilier est un professionnel agréé qui traite des transactions et des documents juridiques au nom des acheteurs et des vendeurs de propriétés.

Spanish

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Record 5 2023-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Business and Administrative Documents
  • Military Law
  • International Law
DEF

An item containing information, in any medium, created or received, and maintained as evidence and information by NATO, in pursuit of legal obligations, and to document NATO missions, NATO decision-making processes or transaction of business.

OBS

NATO record: designation and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
  • Droit militaire
  • Droit international
DEF

Ressource informationnelle, quel qu'en soit le support, qui est créée ou reçue et conservée à titre de preuve et d'information par l'OTAN dans l'exercice de ses obligations juridiques et qui rend compte des missions, des procédures décisionnelles [ou] des activités de l'organisation.

OBS

document OTAN : désignation et définition normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-07-22

English

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

In the case of chattels, such a postponement [of payment or delivery] does not prevent the property or ownership from passing from the seller to the buyer, provided that the thing sold is existent and ascertained, and that the contract of sale fulfils the legal requisites and therefore the "sale" is complete as soon as the contract has been entered into : such a transaction is called a bargain and sale or an executed contract of sale, although the contract has not been performed.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
DEF

Any transaction whereby one economic unit unites with or obtains control over another economic unit regardless of the legal avenue by which such control is obtained and regardless of the form of the economic unit emerging from the transaction.

OBS

A conglomerate business combination involves economic units operating in widely different industries. A horizontal business combination involves economic units whose products are similar. A vertical business combination involves economic units where the output from one can be used as input for the other.

OBS

merger. Loosely, any business combination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
DEF

Opération par laquelle une entreprise s'unit à une autre ou plusieurs autres entreprises ou s'assure le contrôle de l'actif d'une ou de plusieurs autres entreprises.

OBS

Le regroupement peut s'effectuer juridiquement de différentes façons et aboutir soit à la création d'une nouvelle entité qui acquiert l'actif et prend en charge le passif des entreprises regroupées, soit à l'absorption d'une ou de plusieurs entreprises par une entreprise existante. Selon la façon dont le regroupement s'est effectué, il peut constituer soit une «acquisition», soit une «mise en commun d'intérêts».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Consolidación y asociaciones (Finanzas)
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Record 8 2015-11-13

English

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

Once all these matters have been agreed to the satisfaction of the parties, they are said to have reached agreement "subject to contract". The agreement will not be binding until there has been a formal exchange of contracts. This means that, although the parties have agreed in principle and may have spent significant sums of money on legal fees, search fees, fees to the lender, either party may withdraw from the transaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

entente sous réserve de contrat : 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 2015-09-18

English

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

An unsecured transaction is predicated on the borrower's promise to repay the loan or debt to the lender. In the event that the borrower defaults and is foreclosed, the lender is obliged to recoup his loss by pursuing the borrower through legal action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

transaction non garantie : 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 10 2015-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
CONT

There are two basic legal remedies involved in a situation of non-closing [of transaction]-namely an action for damages and an action for specific performance.

Key term(s)
  • specific performance action

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
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Record 11 2015-03-17

English

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

A person is said to be a stranger to a transaction when he takes no part in it, or no part producing any legal effect. Thus a person who is not a party to a deed, contract, etc., is said to be a stranger to it. So when a promise is made to a person, but he has neither taken any trouble or charge upon himself, nor conferred any benefit on the promisor, but the trouble has been sustained or benefit conferred by another, the promisee is said to be a stranger to the consideration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 12 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 13 2014-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Legal Documents
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

The First Nation argues that if, as we have found, the Alexis Band was vulnerable in its dealings with Calgary Power, the legal burden of proof shifts to the more powerful party to establish the providence of the transaction, citing as authority the Supreme Court of Canada's case of Norberg...

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Documents juridiques
  • Droit autochtone
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 14 2013-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

A purchase agreement is a legal document that outlines the terms and conditions connected with a transaction that includes the act of purchasing goods or services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 15 2013-04-22

English

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

A person who takes part in a legal transaction or proceeding is said to be a party to it. Thus, if an agreement, conveyance, lease, or the like, is entered between A and B, they are said to be parties to it;...(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1321).

French

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

partie : 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 2012-10-17

English

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

Notice of certain facts that may be discovered by diligence or inquiry into a public record; a legal presumption that a person is responsible for knowing these facts. The proper recording of a document gives constructive notice to the world of the document's existence and contents. Possession of property also imparts constructive notice of the rights of the party in possession. Examples of rights of parties in possession would be rights under an unrecorded deed, contract for deed, lease-option, and rights of adverse possession. Constructive notice is also referred to as legal notice, in contrast to actual notice, which is express or direct knowledge acquired in the course of a transaction.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 100).

French

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

connaissance de droit : 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 2012-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
CONT

Mauss's aim was to show that exchange in primitive societies was a total social fact because, apart from the simple form of the transaction, generalized exchange touched on many social mechanisms including the religious, economic, judicial, and moral mechanism. A total social fact, according to Mauss, therefore always concerns the whole of society and its institutions : economic, political, religious, legal, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
DEF

[...] phénomène qui met en branle la totalité de la société et de ses institutions.

CONT

[...] dans la théorie du fait social total, la notion de totalité est moins importante que la manière très particulière dont Mauss la conçoit [...] instance privilégiée qu'on peut appréhender au niveau de l'observation, dans des occasions bien déterminées, quand se mettent en branle la totalité de la société et de ses institutions.

Spanish

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Record 18 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 19 2009-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Finance
DEF

In accounting for leases, the costs incurred by the lessor that are directly associated with negotiating and executing a specific leasing transaction, e. g., commissions, legal fees and costs of preparing and processing documents for new leases.

OBS

Compare with "executory costs."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Finances
DEF

Frais directement reliés à la négociation et à la finalisation d'un contrat de location.

OBS

Ces frais comprennent les commissions, les frais juridiques et les coûts qu'entraînent la préparation et la rédaction des documents ayant trait au contrat de location.

Spanish

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Record 20 2007-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Taxation Law
DEF

A person or entity named by another to act on its behalf.

CONT

A nominee is commonly used in a securities transaction to obtain registration and legal ownership of a security.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Droit fiscal
DEF

Personne physique ou morale désignée par une autre pour agir en son nom.

OBS

Dans ce sens, le terme anglais [...] est très large et peut comprendre même le mandataire ou le prête-nom.

Spanish

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Record 21 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 22 2004-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
DEF

Pièce écrite ou proposition orale soumise à des formes légales constatant un fait, une convention ou obligation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
DEF

Hecho humano producido por una voluntad consciente, libre y exteriorizada que produce efectos jurídicos.

OBS

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

Key term(s)
  • actos jurídicos
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Record 23 2003-05-08

English

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

Once all these matters have been agreed to the satisfaction of the parties, they are said to have reached agreement "subject to contract". The agreement will not be binding until there has been a formal exchange of contracts. This means that, although the parties have agreed in principle and may have spent significant sums of money on legal fees, search fees, fees to the lender, either party may withdraw from the transaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Fraseología de los lenguajes especializados
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Record 24 2002-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Real Estate
CONT

The offeror's signature on the offer and the departmental representative's signature on the letter of award, together, create a binding contract which emphasizes the legal implications connected to letters of award in the context of a lease transaction.

OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Immobilier
OBS

contrat obligatoire : Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

OBS

La signature de l'offrant et la signature d'un représentant du Ministère sur la lettre d'adjudication, ensemble, créent un engagement contractuel irrévocable qui fait ressortir les répercussions juridiques liées aux lettres d'adjudication dans le contexte d'une transaction menant à la signature d'un bail.

Spanish

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Record 25 2002-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation Law
  • Taxation
DEF

A form of stamp duty applied to certain legal instruments. The duty is based on a percentage of the consideration for the transaction effected by the instrument.

CONT

There are basically two types of duties, ad valorem and fixed duties. An ad valorem duty depends on the quantum of consideration while the fixed duty does not depend on the consideration involved. Documents arising from mergers and acquisition, excluding those exempt from tax, would attract ad valorem duty.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit fiscal
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

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Record 26 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
  • Real Estate
CONT

The offeror's signature on the offer and the departmental representative's signature on the letter of award, together, create a binding contract which emphasizes the legal implications connected to letters of award in the context of a lease transaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents juridiques
  • Immobilier
CONT

La signature de l'offrant et la signature d'un représentant du Ministère sur la lettre d'adjudication, ensemble, créent un engagement contractuel irrévocable qui fait ressortir les répercussions juridiques liées aux lettres d'adjudication dans le contexte d'une transaction menant à la signature d'un bail.

Spanish

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Record 27 2001-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Grain Growing
CONT

A typical grain transaction may begin simply with an exchange of teletype messages or a conversation between a seller and a buyer. However simple its beginnings, each transaction results in a formal legal document of several pages in length.(...) There are five key terms in every grain transaction : quantity, quality, shipping period, price and port(s) of loading or discharge. These are almost always agreed on before any written documents are prepared.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
  • Économie agricole
  • Culture des céréales

Spanish

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Record 28 1999-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
  • Auditing (Accounting)
  • Government Accounting
DEF

An accounting rule which consists of presenting in the financial statements the economic substance of a transaction rather than its legal form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
  • Comptabilité publique
DEF

En comptabilité, principe voulant que les opérations et les faits soient comptabilisés et présentés d'une manière qui exprime leur substance ou la réalité économique qui les sous-tend plutôt que leur forme juridique. En vérification (audit, révision), ce principe oblige le professionnel comptable à s'assurer que l'entité a bien comptabilisé la substance de toutes les opérations et de tous les faits plutôt que tenu compte de leur seule forme.

Spanish

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Record 29 1999-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
DEF

A transaction whereby one economic unit unites with or obtains control over another economic unit regardless of the legal avenue by which such control is obtained... and which involves economic units where the output from one can be used as input for the other.

OBS

Compare with «horizontal business combination».

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
DEF

Regroupement d'entreprises ou d'unités de production qui se situent à des stades différents de l'activité de production, souvent depuis l'acquisition de la matière première et son traitement jusqu'à la vente du produit fini.

OBS

La concentration verticale se produit quand il y a regroupement de plusieurs stades de l'élaboration et de la commercialisation d'un produit. Les extrants d'une unité de production peuvent servir d'intrants pour une autre unité de production. Suivant la position initiale de l'entreprise, on distingue la «concentration verticale en amont» de la «concentration verticale en aval».

Spanish

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