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LIFE SUSPENSION [5 records]

Record 1 2017-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

In the design of the Menai suspension bridge... Telford used chains of wrought-iron links.... The chains, laid out full length, were then towed across the waterway and hoisted into place; and the deck was suspended beneath them.... Another chain suspension bridge that had a long life was a span over the Danube, Budapest, Hungary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
CONT

Les ponts suspendus avec câbles en chaînes ou barres à œil se sont tout d'abord développés en Angleterre et en Amérique. Les câbles en chaînes ont été remplacés par des câbles en fils de fer parallèles vers le début du XIXe siècle.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-04-15

English

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

Extinguishment. The term has, in the law, no fixed, uniform and universal meaning, but varies with the subject matter to which it is applied; but usually it connotes the end of a thing, precluding the existence of future life therein, and has been defined generally as meaning a complete wiping out, destruction, or annihilation, and not a mere suspension; the destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate; a discharge by operation of law; a termination; and, more specifically, as the annihilation or extinction of a right by its being consolidated with a greater or more extensive right; the extinction of a charge or equity by its passing into the hands of the owner of the lands charged; and it has been sometimes used in the sense of payment.("Corpus Juris Secundum", Vol. 35, p. 352)

OBS

(extinguishment; extinction:) Both words are nouns corresponding to the verb "to extinguish". If there is differentiation, it is that extinguishment refers to the process, and extinction to the resultant state. Extinguishment means in law "the cessation or cancellation of some right or interest". (Garner, 1987, p. 235)

French

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

extinction : 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 3 1999-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
CONT

dormancy : A condition in the life of organisms or their parts(sometimes termed the resting stage=rest) when a tissue predisposed to proliferate does not do so, there being a temporary suspension of visible growth and development.... In plants the suspension may be imposed dormancy, due to unfavourable, external, environmental conditions, e. g. drought or frost...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
CONT

dormance : Repos temporaire apparent de l'activité de croissance d'un organisme ou d'une partie d'organisme dont les tissus sont en état de reprendre leur croissance. [...] Pour les plantes, ce suspens peut être une dormance imposée par des conditions de milieu défavorables, par ex. la sécheresse, le froid [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Plant Biology
CONT

dormancy : A condition in the life of organisms or their parts(sometimes termed the resting stage=rest) when a tissue predisposed to proliferate does not do so, there being a temporary suspension of visible growth and development.... In plants the suspension may be imposed dormancy, due to unfavourable, external, environmental conditions, e. g. drought or frost; or physiological dormancy due to unfavourable, internal physiological conditions...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Biologie végétale
CONT

dormance : Repos temporaire apparent de l'activité de croissance d'un organisme ou d'une partie d'organisme dont les tissus sont en état de reprendre leur croissance. Pour les plantes, ce suspens peut être une dormance imposée par des conditions de milieu défavorables, par ex. la sécheresse, le froid; ou une dormance physiologique dûe à des conditions internes défavorables, physiologiques ou autres [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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