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OPPOSING PARTY [22 records]

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Record 1 2021-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
OBS

The party campaigns on the promotion of direct democracy, protection of Canadian heritage and environmental sustainability, while opposing urban sprawl onto farmland, big business and unionization. The party's proposed health care plan would "give individuals more responsibility over their own health care"; however, it would not support a two-tier health care system. If elected, the party would hold a referendum on the French Language Services Act and halt all multicultural funding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
DEF

A claim for relief asserted against an opposing party after an original claim has been made...

CONT

Counterclaims are litigated between opposing parties to the principal action.

CONT

A counterclaim is a kind of cross-demand.

Key term(s)
  • counter-claim
  • counter-suit
  • counter-action
  • crossaction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Acciones judiciales
DEF

Acción o pretensión que formula el demandado en contra del demandante al contestar la demanda y que se decide en el mismo proceso.

OBS

contrademanda: Expresión y definición reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 3 2015-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Rules of Court
CONT

At Common Law joinder of issue occurs when one party pleads that an allegation is true and opposing party denies it, such that both parties are accepting that the particular issue is in dispute.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

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

Aclaración del punto que fundamenta el litigio.

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Record 4 2015-05-27

English

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

Under rules practice, a party asserting a claim to relief as an original claim, counter-claim, cross claim or third party claim may join as many claims as he has against an opposing party whether they are legal or equitable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

jonction des demandes : terme recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile 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 2015-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Rules of Court
CONT

When a judge rules that a witness's testimony has been attacked as recent fabrication, the opposing party has, in effect, accused the witness for some reason of having made up his testimony after the event, whether to mislead the court or otherwise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

La théorie exceptionnelle de l'allégation prévisible de fabrication récente de preuve semble avoir été conçue principalement pour contourner la règle établie par les tribunaux canadiens [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

The pre-trial exchange of an expert report as a condition precedent to its admissibility is not, strictly, a "discovery" device, since the party must exchange only those reports on which he intends to rely at trial. Nevertheless, it curtails unnecessary surprise and lawyers’ "’poker-playing’ habits of keeping their best cards up their sleeves. "It allows an opposing counsel to prepare for cross-examination and an opposing expert to prepare to testify concerning the opinions expressed in the report. So, it produces better cross-examination and rebuttal testimony.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-02-11

English

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

One which is capable of being disclaimed at the option of one of the parties, e.g., a contract induced by misrepresentation.

CONT

A voidable contract is a legally enforceable agreement, but it may be traited as never having been binding on a party who was suffering from some legal disability or was a victim of fraud at the time of its execution. The contract is not void unless and until the party chooses to treat it as such by opposing its enforcement.

French

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

Un contrat est nul s'il est dépourvu de tout effet juridique. Un contrat annulable est un contrat qui peut être annulé au gré de l'une des parties.

Spanish

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Record 8 2014-05-16

English

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

To set down a matter for trial, the following documents have to be filed : 1) Request for Setting Down Action for Trial; 2) Set-down Bundle; and 3) Request for Hearing Dates(where hearing fees are payable). After filing of the above, the setting down party had to serve on the opposing party a Notification of Setting Down Action within 24 hours.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
OBS

Le mot «contentieux» est l'adjectif tiré du langage administratif, caractérisant une procédure destinée à faire juger un litige entre un usager d'un service public et l’État. En procédure civile le mot désigne toute procédure destinée à faire juger par un tribunal de la recevabilité et du bien-fondé des prétentions opposant une ou plusieurs personnes à une ou plusieurs autres.

Key term(s)
  • mettre au rôle un litige
  • inscrire au rôle un litige

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

A formal waiver of proof that relieves an opposing party from having to prove the admitted fact and bars the party who made the admission from disputing it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
DEF

Aveu qui est fait en présence du juge ou dans le cadre du déroulement d'un procés en cours.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho probatorio
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Record 10 2013-08-09

English

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

Evidence offered to disprove or contradict the evidence presented by an opposing party.(Black's, 2004, p. 599)

CONT

Rebuttal evidence is introduced in the rebutting party’s answering case; it is not adduced, e.g., through cross-examination during the case-in-chief of the party to be rebutted. (Black’s, 2004, p. 599)

French

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

contre-preuve : terme polyvalent pouvant désigner soit une phase de l'administration de la preuve, soit le simple fait de présenter une preuve contraire. Dans le premier cas, il peut y avoir lieu de qualifier l'équivalent selon le contexte («contre-preuve du demandeur»), «... du défendeur», etc., ou «contre-preuve en réponse», «... en réplique», etc., suivant l'usage français du lieu considéré en matière de procédure).

OBS

contre-preuve : 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 2013-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Rules of Court
DEF

A party who is on the opposite side in a legal action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

partie adverse : 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 12 2013-02-12

English

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

As a general rule the evidence of user necessary to induce the court to presume a lost modern grant must be stronger than that upon which the court will presume a grant upon immemorial user, for where the party opposing the claim shows that the user did not at one time exist, the presumption of a modern grant becomes a more violent inference than the presumption of an ancient grant based upon immemorial user.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 14, p. 46)

French

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

usage immémorial : 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 13 2012-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Parliamentary Language
DEF

A person who changes his or her political party or principles; a person who goes over to the opposing side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
DEF

[Personne] qui abandonne son parti ou son groupe pour en ralier un autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
CONT

La actual campaña electoral es el reino del pastelero, la feria de los voltearepas, el bazar de los chaqueteros, el carrusel de los tránsfugas. Difícilmente se hallará en la historia latinoamericana un elenco comparable que haya sacado provecho de tan distintos grupos políticos, que haya saltado de partido en partido con tanta desvergüenza y que carezca tan palmariamente de convicciones estables.

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Record 14 2011-08-10

English

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

For Not Obeying a Discovery Order... prohibiting the disobedient party from supporting or opposing designated claims or defenses, or from introducing designated matters in evidence...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

Partie en défaut : terme recommandé par le Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile.

Spanish

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Record 15 2006-12-19

English

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

A set form of words by which either party accepts or joins in a legal issue; especially, the plaintiff's acceptance of the opposing of the defendant's issue of law.

CONT

When a demurrer is offered by one party, the adverse party joins with him in demurrer and the answer which he makes is called a joinder in demurrer. But this is a mere formality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

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Record 16 2006-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Decorations
  • Ceremonial and Traditions (Military)
OBS

The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army of the United States after 6 December 1941, distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy; or while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décorations militaires
  • Cérémonial et traditions (Militaire)
OBS

La Bronze Star Medal (Médaille de l'étoile de bronze) est une décoration des armées des États-Unis. Elle est la quatrième plus haute distinction pour bravoure, héroisme et mérite. La médaille est attribuée à toute personne qui, participant dans ou avec l'armée des États-Unis après le 6 décembre 1941, s'est distingué(e) par des actions héroïques.

Key term(s)
  • Médaille de l'étoile de bronze

Spanish

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Record 17 2005-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • International Relations
OBS

The United Secretariat of the Fourth International(USFI) is a Trotskyist international organisation. Its major section is the Revolutionary Communist League in France. The USFI was created in 1963 by the merger of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International(ISFI) and the U. S. Socialist Workers Party together with its factional allies, constituting a large minority of the International Committee of the Fourth International(ICFI). These groups had been on opposing sides of the split in the Fourth International in 1953. The SWP had always been viewed as the organisation in the ICFI closest to the ISFI, and the key factor in the rapproachment was their shared positive perspective on the Cuban Revolution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 18 2005-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining
DEF

An opposing offer made in collective bargaining following an offer or proposal by the other party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conventions collectives et négociations
DEF

Proposition faite par une des parties à une négociation collective en réponse à une proposition déjà présentée par une autre partie.

OBS

Pluriel : des contre-propositions, des contrepropositions.

OBS

contreproposition : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 19 2004-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
DEF

All expenditures incurred during an election period for the purpose of promoting or opposing directly or indirectly, the election of a candidate or that of the candidates of a party(Political Process Financing Act, N. B.).

OBS

Statutes cited: Canada Elections Act, The Election Finances Act (Man.), Political Process Financing Act (N.B.).

Key term(s)
  • campaign expenditure
  • election expenses
  • campaign expenses

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
DEF

Toutes les dépenses engagées pendant une période électorale pour favoriser ou défavoriser, directement ou indirectement, l'élection d'un candidat ou celle des candidats d'un parti (Loi sur le financement de l'activité politique, N.-B.).

OBS

Lois citées : dépenses électorales - Loi sur le financement des campagnes électorales (Man.), Loi sur le financement de l'activité politique (N.-B.), Loi électorale (Qué.); dépenses d'élection - Loi électorale du Canada.

Key term(s)
  • dépenses électorales
  • dépenses d'élection

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
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Record 20 2003-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
DEF

One having opposing parties; contested, as distinguished from an "ex parte" hearing or proceeding. One of which the party seeking relief has given legal notice to the other party, and afforded the latter an opportunity to contest it.

OBS

"Adversary", which can act as both noun and adjective, is the legal term used in phrases such as an "adversary relationship". E.g., "The need to develop all relevant facts in the adversary system is both fundamental and comprehensive." "Adversarial" is not listed in any dictionary, though it is fairly common in place of the adjective "adversary". E.g., "Rarely does this type of adversarial ("read adversary") relationship exist between school authorities and pupils." ... In some contexts, "adversarial" connotes animosity (adversarial conferences), whereas "adversary" is a neutral, clinical word... "Adversarial" may develop a differentiation in sense that will justify its existence; until that time, it is best avoided.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
DEF

Procédure dans laquelle le demandeur et le défendeur ont déposé des conclusions.

OBS

Contradictoire : [...] s'oppose parfois à «par défaut» et à «réputé contradictoire».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Seguridad social y seguro de desempleo
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Record 21 2003-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Rules of Court
CONT

Any other party to the proceeding may, within ten(10) days after service of a petition for review, file an answer supporting or opposing Commission review.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

[...] le délai minimum de signification d'une requête pour mesures provisoires [...] passe de cinq à dix jours précédant la date de sa présentation.

Spanish

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Record 22 2000-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Sales (Marketing)
DEF

Fee charged by an intermediary in an... operation for identifying and promoting the interest of the opposing party, even though they may not be the principal intermediary and may or may not participate in final negotiations.

OBS

finder’s fee: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Vente
DEF

Rémunération attribuée à un établissement financier ou à une personne qui met en rapport les parties intéressées à la conclusion d'une opération, par exemple un placement de valeurs ou en prêt hypothécaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
  • Ventas (Comercialización)
DEF

Honorarios que cobra un intermediario en una operación [...] por identificar y promover el interés de la otra parte, aunque no sea el intermediario principal o no participe directamente en la negociación final.

OBS

honorarios de localización: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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