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PARALLEL LAW [12 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
DEF

A form of check not employed in the United States but extensively used in England where it is recognized by law. Crossing is of two kinds, general and special. General crossing consists of drawing two parallel or transverse lines across the face of a check without the addition of any words.... If the name of the bank or banker is added in a crossing, however, the check... is known as a special crossing. When a check is crossed, generally the bank on which it is drawn may not pay it to any other party than to a bank, and when it is crossed specially, to no other than the banker specified in the crossing.

OBS

crossed check: term and text reproduced from The Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance, Tenth Edition (1993), by Glenn G. Munn, F.L. Garcia and Charles J. Woelfel, with the permission of the copyright holder, The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. In no event shall McGraw-Hill have any liability to any party for special, incidental, tort, or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this material.

OBS

crossed cheque: term reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
DEF

Chèque au recto duquel le tireur ou porteur a tracé deux barres parallèles dans le but d'en subordonner le paiement à l'intervention d'une banque ou d'un établissement assimilé.

OBS

En cas de perte, le chèque barré ne peut être encaissé que par l'intermédiaire d'un compte bancaire. Le tireur peut, en outre, inscrire entre les barres le nom de l'établissement bancaire qui seul pourra toucher le chèque. Dans certains pays, les formules de chèques pouvant être délivrées avec un «prébarrement», les chèques non barrés sont devenus l'exception. Par contre, le chèque barré n'est pas utilisé en Amérique du Nord.

OBS

chèque barré : terme extrait du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduit avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Key term(s)
  • chèque à barrement

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Operaciones bancarias
DEF

Aquel en que se trazan dos líneas paralelas en el anverso y que, por esa circunstancia sólo puede ser cobrado por una institución bancaria. El cruzamiento es general cuando no se consigna entre las líneas el nombre de un banco determinado y es especial en caso contrario.

OBS

talón cruzado: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2012-10-24

English

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

The parallel doctrine of extinguishment relates to the situation where one person owns both an estate in land and a collateral right attached to that estate. Such collateral rights include mortgages, charges, easements, profits à prendre and restrictive covenants.((1986) 10 Adelaide Law Review, p. 427).

French

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

droit accessoire : 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 2011-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Armour
  • Field Artillery
DEF

The Law of burning by parallel layers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arme blindée
  • Artillerie de campagne
DEF

Loi de combustion en couches parallèles.

OBS

Terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie de l'Artillerie royale canadienne et par le Sous-comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Special Education
  • Legal System
OBS

Established at the Dalhousie Law School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

OBS

The Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute became an independent parallel official Commonwealth NGO in 1998. It is incorporated as a Charity under the laws of Nova Scotia Canada. The Institute's office is located in Room 306 of Dalhousie Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The work of the Institute is carried out throughout the world in cooperation with local and regional judges’ and magistrates’ associations and bodies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Éducation spéciale
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

Établi à la Dalhousie Law School, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Nouvelle-Écosse).

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Environment
OBS

The Kativik Environmental Advisory Committee(KEAC), which is to be consulted on any proposed law and regulation concerning environmental protection in the territory governed by the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and north of the 55th parallel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Environnement
OBS

Le comité consultatif de l'environnement Kativik (CCEK) est consulté par les gouvernements du Québec et du Canada et par les municipalités nordiques, à titre d'interlocuteur privilégié et officiel, lorsqu'ils élaborent des lois et des règlements concernant la protection de l'environnement et du milieu social dans le territoire régi par la Convention de la Baie-James et du Nord québécois (CBJNQ) et situé au nord du 55e parallèle. Le CCEK a notamment pour fonction de surveiller, par l'échange de points de vue et de renseignements, l'application du chapitre 23 de la CBJNQ.

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Sales (Marketing)
CONT

... every modern statutory amendment of the law of sale of goods either opens up a wedge between the law of sale and the law applicable to closely analogous contracts, or it has to be followed by or accompanied by parallel legislation applicable to these other contracts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Vente
Key term(s)
  • droit de la vente
  • droit relatif à la vente

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
CONT

Waves are formed due to the friction of the wind over the water surface. The three main components for wave generation are the wind speed, it's duration and fetch.... How to recognise a swell/wave generating area. On a weather chart there are high and low pressure systems. They are separated by isobars(lines joining places of equal pressure). Buys Ballot's law states :"If you stand with your back to the wind in the northern hemisphere, the low pressure will be on your left. "From this you can deduce the wind flows anticlockwise around a low pressure system and almost parallel to the isobars. The wind near the surface actually flows at an angle of about 15 degrees to the isobars pointing in to the low. The reason for this is that friction with the surface slows the air down and it is this friction which causes waves to form. Assuming you have identified an area of closely packed isobars which are almost straight for 200 miles and the low system is not changing to quickly, you have found a good swell generating area.

CONT

Wave generation area described in terms of fetch length ...

OBS

fetch length: The horizontal distance (in the direction of the wind) over which a wind generates seas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Zone de l'océan sur laquelle les vents, soufflant dans la même direction pendant un temps plus ou moins long avec une force constante, engendrent une mer du vent dont les vagues sortent de l'aire et forment la houle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Meteorología
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
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Record 8 2001-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiological Physics (Theory and Application)
CONT

If a parallel beam of X-rays, wavelength, strikes a set of crystal planes it is reflected from the different planes, interference occurring between X-rays reflected from adjacent planes. Bragg's law states that constructive interference takes place when the difference in pathlength... is equal to an integral number of wavelengths...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique radiologique et applications
DEF

Relation entre la longueur d'onde [...] d'un rayonnement [...] arrivant sur un cristal et la distance [...] séparant deux plans réticulaires consécutifs de ce cristal [...]

Spanish

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Record 9 1998-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
DEF

Successive twinning of three or more individuals according to the same twinning law and with the composition planes parallel. Often revealed by striated surfaces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
CONT

[...] dans le cas des feldspaths plagioclases, où l'on a une série d'individus qui se répètent identiques à eux-mêmes une fois sur deux; dans ce cas plus précis on pourra parler de macles polysynthétiques.

Key term(s)
  • maclage polysynthétique

Spanish

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Record 10 1998-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Optics
  • Computer Mathematics
DEF

"cosine law" : either of two laws of radiation : a : the radiant flux emitted in a given direction from a given small area of a perfectly diffusing surface varies as the cosine of the angle of emission. b : the irradiation by parallel rays falling on a surface varies as the cosine of the angle of incidence.

CONT

The reflection of point sources of light by matte, or diffuse, surfaces (those that scatter light equally in all directions) is modeled by Lambert’s cosine law which states that intensity varies as the cosine of the angle between the direction of the light source and a vector perpendicular to the surface, called the surface normal.

CONT

"cosine emission law" [states that] the energy emitted by a radiating surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle which that direction makes with the normal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
  • Optique
  • Mathématiques informatiques
OBS

Nous n'avons pu l'attester dans les ouvrages généraux et spécialisés de langue française que nous possédons.

Spanish

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Record 11 1984-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

(Fechner) the psychophysical principle that where two stimuli of different intensities are presented to a sense modality, the absolute intensity diminishes, due to sensory adaptation and fatigue, but the ratio of the difference between them remains the same.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux

Spanish

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Record 12 1977-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

"Repeated twinning" of three or more individual crystals according to the same twin law but with the twin axes or twin planes not parallel. Cyclic twinning often results in threefold, fourfold, fivefold, sixfold, or eightfold twins which, if equally developed, would display geometrical symmetry not formed in single crystals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

Les macles polygéminées peuvent être des "macles cycliques", quand plusieurs cristaux collaborent à la macle, tous de la même façon, l'un après l'autre, pour donner naissance à un ensemble fermé, comme la couronne du rutile ou à un ensemble ouvert, comme la macle en zigzag de l'aragonite (...), ou la macle en genou du rutile (...)

Spanish

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