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PAYMENT MADE ERROR [4 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
OBS

Lexique de l'assurance-chômage, Emploi et Immigration Canada, 1992.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

Reception of a thing not due.

CONT

reception of a thing not due : A person who receives a payment made in error, or merely to avoid injury to the person making it while protesting that he owes nothing, is obliged to restore it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
DEF

Réception de l'indu.

CONT

réception de l'indu : Le paiement fait par erreur, ou simplement pour éviter un préjudice à celui qui le fait en protestant qu'il ne doit rien, oblige celui qui l'a reçu à le restituer.

Spanish

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

recepción de lo indebido: El pago hecho por error o simplemente para evitar un perjuicio al que lo hace protestando que no debe nada, obliga a quien lo ha recibido a restituirlo. No obstante, no hay lugar a restitución cuando, a consecuencia del pago, quien ha recibido de buena fe ha perdido por prescripción un derecho, o ha destruido su título, o se ha privado de una garantía, excepto el recurso de quien ha pagado contra el verdadero deudor.

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Record 3 2001-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Real Estate
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The contractor's accounts and records, including its price certification are subject to verification by government audit, at the contracting authority's discretion, before or after payment is made to the contractor under the terms and conditions of the contract. If the said audit demonstrates that the price claimed is an error, the contractor shall make repayment(including interest calculated at the bank rate plus 1. 5% and compounded monthly) to Canada in the amount found to be in excess of the lowest price.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Immobilier
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Les comptes et les relevés de l'entrepreneur, y compris son attestation de prix, pourront être vérifiés par le gouvernement, à la discrétion de l'autorité contractante, avant ou après qu'on ait payé l'entrepreneur en vertu des clauses et des conditions du contrat. Si cette vérification démontre que le prix demandé est erroné, l'entrepreneur devra rembourser au Canada la somme jugée excédentaire par rapport au prix le plus faible (y compris les intérêts calculés au taux bancaire majoré de 1,5 % et composés chaque mois).

Spanish

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Record 4 1990-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • Government Accounting
CONT

... a distinction should be made between a nugatory payment and one that is a constructive loss. The latter term refers to instances where materials are supplied or services rendered but, owing to a change in policy, error in judgment, or other cause, the materials cannot be utilized or the service does not provide the benefit intended.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Comptabilité publique

Spanish

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