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TORT [100 records]

Record 1 2025-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... the plaintiff suffers harm, which has two causes in fact(but-for causes) : the original wrongdoer's negligence and the intervening party's(last wrongdoer's) tort. The original wrongdoer is sometimes the sole defendant.... The question is : Under what circumstances will the last wrongdoer's intervening tort cut off the original wrongdoer's liability?

Key term(s)
  • last wrong doer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Insurance
DEF

... someone who gives false information or presents something in a misleading way to another person.

CONT

A fraudulent misrepresentation amounts to the tort of deceit, for which the injured party will receive damages from the misrepresentor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Assurances
OBS

assertion : Proposition, de forme affirmative ou négative, qu'on avance et qu'on donne comme vraie.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
DEF

The theory and practice of monetary credit, banking, and promotion operations in the most comprehensive sense. It includes money, credit, banking, securities, investment, speculation, foreign exchange, promotion, reorganization, underwriting, brokerage, trusts, etc.

OBS

finance : 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

finance; fin: designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
DEF

Ensemble des activités reliées aux affaires d'argent et de placement d'argent, notamment les activités d'investissement, les activités de financement, les activités boursières, les activités bancaires et les activités de crédit.

OBS

finance; fin : désignations d’usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Trade
CONT

The limitations on and exclusions of liability for damages under section 9 apply regardless of whether the liability is based on breach of contract, tort(including negligence), strict or product liability, hidden defects, breach of warranty, or any other legal duty...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Commerce
CONT

Les limitations et exonérations de responsabilité concernant les dommages et intérêts décrites à l'article 9, s'appliquent indépendamment du fait que la responsabilité est basée ou non sur une infraction au contrat, un acte délictuel (y compris un acte de négligence), la responsabilité stricte ou du fait du produit, des vices cachés, une rupture de garantie, ou toute autre obligation légale [...]

OBS

violation de garantie : terme tiré du mini-lexique «Protection du consommateur» et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

An increase in the number of shares of a class of capital stock, with no change in the total dollar amount of the class, but with a converse reduction in the par or stated value of each of the shares.

OBS

A specified number of new shares is issued in exchange for one old share.

OBS

stock split-up; split-up : terms 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.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Opération qui consiste à remplacer chaque action en circulation d'une catégorie donnée par un nombre déterminé de nouvelles actions de la même catégorie, multipliant ainsi le nombre d'actions en circulation de la catégorie concernée.

OBS

Cette procédure a également pour conséquence le fractionnement de son cours de bourse dans les mêmes proportions. Elle permet ainsi une diffusion plus large du titre.

OBS

division : terme publié au Journal officiel de France du 22 septembre 2000.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
DEF

Emisión de acciones nuevas que se distribuye a los accionistas sin incrementar su capital total.

CONT

El [...] desdoblamiento de acciones consiste en multiplicar el número de acciones por un determinado factor, reduciendo el valor nominal de las mismas. No supone, por lo tanto, aportación alguna a la sociedad. El capital social y el neto patrimonial permanecen invariables y lo único que aumenta es el número de acciones en circulación.

CONT

El objeto de una pulverización de las acciones consiste en reducir el precio promedio de cotización de las acciones para promover su venta.

OBS

desdoblamiento de acciones: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda el término "desdoblamiento" como alternativa al anglicismo "split".

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Record 6 2017-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Private Law
DEF

... the avoiding of the consequences of a wrong(whether tort or breach of contract)... minimization of the damages after the injury has occurred, by the plaintiff exercising reasonable diligence and ordinary care.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit privé
CONT

Certains tribunaux n'autorisent pas l'exclusion ni la limitation des dommages spécifiques, indirects ou accessoires, ni les limites à la durée de la garantie. Par conséquent, les exclusions et les limitations décrites ci-dessus ne s'appliquent pas forcément à tous.

Key term(s)
  • minimisation
  • atténuation

Spanish

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Record 7 2017-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
  • Labour Law
CONT

Wrongful dismissal is one of several terms used by a variety of jurisdictions to refer, essentially, to the same cause of action : a claim in breach of contract or in tort for the ending of an employment contract by an employer, for some unlawful reason.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
  • Droit du travail

Spanish

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Record 8 2017-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
CONT

... when account must be taken of conduct by more actors than a single plaintiff and single defendant; of different degrees of blameworthiness; of the effects on parties with derivative claims; or different tort claims(e. g. strict liability, negligence and intent) against different defendants in the same case. Apportionment of liability applies to all claims(including law suits and settlements) for death, personal injury(including emotional distress or consortium), or physical damage to tangible property damage, regardless of the basis of liability.

Key term(s)
  • liability apportionment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)

Spanish

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Record 9 2017-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Defendants found liable for intentional torts may be ordered to pay punitive or exemplary damages in addition to the special and general damages payable in ordinary tort cases. Such damages, which have also been described as "vindictive", "penal", "aggravated" and "retributory", are awarded in cases of high-handed, malicious, or contemptuous conduct, in order to punish the defendant for the wrong and to make an example of him in order to deter others from committing such torts.

French

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

Les défendeurs déclarés responsables de délits intentionnels peuvent être tenus de payer des dommages-intérêts exemplaires ou punitifs, en plus des dommages-intérêts spéciaux et généraux normalement accordés à l'issue de poursuites en responsabilité délictuelle. Ces dommages-intérêts sont accordés dans des cas de conduite tyrannique, malveillante ou méprisante, pour punir le défendeur et en faire un exemple qui servira à dissuader d'autres personnes de commettre les mêmes délits.

Spanish

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Record 10 2017-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Both the negligent manufacturer and the negligent intervenor are now usually held jointly liable. In Grant v. Sun Shipping, the negligent omission of an intermediary to inspect the work of the defendant did not dissolve the latter’s duty to the plaintiff; rather, both were held responsible as concurrent tortfeasors.

French

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

L'on tient maintenant responsables tant le fabricant que le tiers intervenant négligents. Dans l'affaire Grant v. Shipping, le défaut par un intermédiaire négligent d'inspecter le travail de la défenderesse n'a pas eu pour effet d'écarter le devoir de celle-ci envers le demandeur; les deux ont plutôt été responsables à titre d'auteurs communs du délit.

Spanish

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Record 11 2017-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

Doctrine of "mitigation of damages"... imposes on party injured by breach of contract or tort duty to exercise reasonable diligence and ordinary care in attempting to minimize his damages, or avoid aggravating the injury, after breach or injury has been inflicted and care and diligence required of him is the same as that which would be used by man of ordinary prudence under like circumstances.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 12 2017-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
OBS

tort law system : term extracted from the “Glossaire de l'économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

régime juridique de responsabilité délictuelle ou quasi délictuelle : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 13 2017-01-25

English

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

Pecuniary compensation payable by one person to another for injury, loss or damage caused by the one to the other by breach of legal duty, normally by breach of contract or commission of tort.

OBS

damage(s): the word "damage," meaning "loss, injury, or deterioration," is to be distinguished from its plural, - damages - which means "a compensation in money for a loss or damage."

OBS

In the following sentence, the two terms are correctly used: "After actual damage is shown it is unnecessary to show its money extent to sustain a judgment for exemplary damages."

OBS

damages: term reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
DEF

Compensation pécuniaire versée à la victime d'un délit civil ou d'une rupture de contrat en réparation du dommage qu'elle a subi.

OBS

dommages et intérêts : Somme [...] qui est en principe calculée de manière à compenser la perte subie par le créancier [...] et le gain dont il est privé [...]; suivant la tradition, c'est à ces deux éléments du dommage que se rapporteraient respectivement les deux termes de l'expression composée : dommages et intérêts.

OBS

dommages-intérêts : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
DEF

Evaluación en dinero de la totalidad del daño resarcible, que el responsable debe satisfacer a favor del damnificado.

OBS

indemnización de daños y perjuicios; resarcimiento de daños y perjuicios: Expresiones 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 14 2017-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Finance
DEF

The shadow, hidden, subterranean, irregular economy where goods and services - some legal, some illegal - are produced but not reported.

CONT

... taxes assessed as a result of targeting the underground economy ...

OBS

A lesser black market.

OBS

underground economy : 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

underground economy; grey economy; black economy: terms extracted from the “Glossaire de l’économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Finances
DEF

Ensemble constitué par les activités domestiques, la petite production directement autoconsommée, l'entraide familiale, les services de voisinage, le troc et le travail noir sous toutes ses formes.

CONT

[...] impôts payés par suite du ciblage de l'économie clandestine [...]

OBS

économie clandestine : terme en usage à Revenu Canada [maintenant l'Agence du revenu du Canada].

OBS

économie clandestine : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
  • Finanzas
DEF

... parte de la actividad económica ... que no entra en los circuitos estadísticos y fiscales. Las causas de ello son, fundamentalmente, el propósito de eludir la presión fiscal, la seguridad social, las reglamentaciones laborales, etc...

OBS

economía sumergida: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Key term(s)
  • economía oculta
  • economía encubierta
  • economía negra
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Record 15 2017-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Real Estate
DEF

A mortgage that allows the interest charges on a loan to increase or decrease automatically with change with a predetermined index.

OBS

adjustable-rate mortgage : 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

adjustable rate mortgage; ARM: term and abbreviation extracted from the “Glossaire de l’économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Immobilier
DEF

Prêt hypothécaire dont le taux d'intérêt suit les fluctuations du marché monétaire, et change au maximum une fois par mois. Le versement mensuel ne varie pas. Toutefois, la partie du versement appliquée au principal varie en fonction de la fluctuation du taux d'intérêt (s'il y a lieu).

OBS

prêt hypothécaire à taux révisable : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
  • Bienes raíces
DEF

Préstamo que periódicamente se adapta al tipo de interés de los índices marcados por los bancos centrales de cada país.

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Record 16 2016-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Private Law
OBS

The Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association is a plaintiff-oriented organization dedicated to obtaining legal redress for those who have suffered injury or injustice, and to preserving the rights of the injured to full and fair compensation.... APTLA speaks with one voice on matters of concern to plaintiff-oriented lawyers and their clients. APTLA was formed with three fundamental purposes in mind : to form a network of like thinking trial lawyers who would share among its members their wealth of knowledge and experiences; to work to preserve innocent victims’ rights to tort recovery and to directly oppose tort recovery restrictions and work to correct the erosion of rights around the region; and, to establish first class skill-sharpening legal education programs which are inspirational, highly relevant, and impart to plaintiff trial lawyers skills and information directly related to their practices.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Droit privé

Spanish

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Record 17 2016-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
OBS

délit de commercialisation trompeuse : terme tiré du Mini-lexique de la propriété intellectuelle, particulièrement les brevets et les marques de commerce et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 18 2016-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

An assault considered as a tort and not as a crime.

OBS

An assault for which the assailant is liable in a civil action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

voies de fait civiles : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • voie de fait civile

Spanish

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Record 19 2016-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Civil Liability (civil law)
CONT

A properly pleaded tort claim identifies the particular nominate tort alleged and sets out the material facts needed to satisfy the elements of that tort.

OBS

In civil law, what is generally defined by common law as torts, is recognized as civil liability and called a delict.

Key term(s)
  • claim in tort
  • claim in delict

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit de la responsabilité civile (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 20 2016-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Délit civil reconnu pour cause de transgression d'une disposition législative, généralement pénale, sanctionnant un comportement fautif.

Spanish

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Record 21 2016-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Liability for damages-Any defendant who is a direct participant acting with specific intent to Commit a tort...(a) against an alien shall be liable for damages to that alien or to any person who may be a claimant in an action for the wrongful death of that alien.

French

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

Normalement, la rupture de contrat n'est pas un délit civil, mais un contrat peut créer une situation qui fournit l'occasion de commettre un délit civil.

Spanish

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Record 22 2016-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The general rule is that where damage is suffered by any person as a result of a tort, any tortfeasor liable in respect of that damage may recover contribution from any other tortfeasor who is, or would if sued have been, liable in respect of the same damage, whether as joint tortfeasor or otherwise. There must, first of all be a common liability in tort. This precludes contribution between one liable in contract and another in tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 23 2016-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... the essence of conspiracy is mutual consent to a common purpose ...

CONT

A tort is imputed to several persons as joint tortfeasors in at least three instances, viz. agency, vicarious liability and concerted action... As regards the third, the critical element in that those participating in the commission of the tort must have acted in furtherance of a common design. There must be "concerted action to a common end"...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 24 2016-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... the clearest instance of concurrent torts is one where the injury in question would not have occurred but for both torts: where, if only one had been committed, the injury would not have occurred at all.

OBS

The study mainly concerns the position of the rules of concurrent torts in tort law, but it also deals with their position in the law of obligation in general and their relationship to the criminal law rules governing complicity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Délits civils qui concourent au même préjudice.

OBS

délits civils concurrents; délits concurrents : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 25 2016-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Molien... found sufficient assurance of the validity of a claim of emotional distress in the nature of the cause of action for negligent misdiagnosis, predicated as it was upon a false imputation of syphilis, which by statute constitutes slander per se, an intentional tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 26 2016-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

Action that has been planned, arranged, adjusted, agreed on and settled between parties acting together pursuant to some design or scheme.

CONT

A tort is imputed to several persons as joint tortfeasors in at least three instances, viz, agency, vicarious liability and concerted action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 27 2016-05-24

English

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

The liability of two or more wrongdoers whose conduct has combined to produce one and the same injury.

OBS

In this sense, the term designates the tort liability of two or more individuals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Responsabilité qui concourt avec celle d'autres personnes à un même préjudice. Elle peut être conjointe ou indépendante.

OBS

coresponsabilité : 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 28 2016-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Infants may be excused from liability for intentional torts if they are incapable of forming the specific intent required to commit the tort in question, but they will be held liable if they are capable.

French

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

Les mineurs sont dégagés de la responsabilité des délits intentionnels s'ils sont incapables de former l'intention spécifique nécessaire pour commettre le délit en question, mais ils seront tenus responsables s'ils en sont capables.

Spanish

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Record 29 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

Bond issued for the purpose of providing funds to retire; a bond previously issued either to effect a reduction in interest rate ... or to replace a bond about to mature. ... To make clear the purpose of a refunding issue, it is advisable to clarify the title by adding a word descriptive of such purpose refunding water bonds or refunding first mortgage bonds.

OBS

To be precise, the term redemption bonds should be reserved for issues supplanting those called for redemption, whereas the term refunding bonds should be reserved for those supplanting maturing issues.

OBS

refunding bond : 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.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

Conversion d'emprunts ou de rentes. Opération consistant à substituer à un emprunt antérieur un nouvel emprunt comportant des clauses différentes soit de taux d'intérêt, d'échéance de remboursement, de garanties ou d'avantages fiscaux ou particuliers.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
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Record 30 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

A situation whereby dealers can gain a profit from a temporary difference between two currencies in terms of a third currency. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995].

OBS

arbitration of exchange : 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.

Key term(s)
  • arbitrage in exchange

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Inversiones
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Record 31 2016-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

Refers to the liability of a party in both tort and contract for a same act or omission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

S'agissant de la coexistence de responsabilité délictuelle et contractuelle d'une partie pour le même acte ou la même omission.

OBS

responsabilité alternative : 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 32 2016-01-18

English

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

A plaintiff otherwise entitled to tort recovery may be denied it on the ground of voluntary assumption of risk. In other words, if volenti non fit injuria or consent is present, an action for negligence will fail, just as it does in the intentional tort area. This is so because "no act is actionable as a tort at the suit of any person who has expressly or impliedly assented to it".

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le demandeur qui aurait par ailleurs le droit de recouvrer des dommages-intérêts peut perdre ce droit s'il y a acceptation volontaire du risque. En d'autres termes, s'il y a volenti non fit injuria, c'est-à-dire consentement, l'action en dommages-intérêts sera rejetée au même titre que lorsqu'il y a délit intentionnel. Il en est ainsi parce que "nul ne peut poursuivre l'auteur d'un délit s'il a expressément ou implicitement consenti à ce qu'il commette l'acte qui constitue le délit".

OBS

acceptation volontaire du risque; acceptation du risque : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 33 2016-01-18

English

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

The unforeseeable plaintiff. The equivocation between the various elements of liability in general and of duty and legal cause in particular has already been noted. There is, undoubtedly a certain, but not necessarily complete, overlap between these concepts which, in the tort of negligence, can make it difficult to separate two apparently different questions : whether the defendant has breached a duty owed to the plaintiff and, secondly, if he has, whether a particular item of damage is recoverable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

victime imprévisible : 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 34 2016-01-18

English

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

A negligent tort is one where the defendant, as a reasonable person, should have foreseen that his conduct involved a foreseeable risk....

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

risque prévisible : 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 35 2016-01-18

English

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

For purposes of the common-law tort of fraudulent misrepresentation, such may be either an affirmative misrepresentation or a failure to disclose a material fact when a duty to disclose that fact has arisen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

fausse assertion : 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 36 2016-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

... conduct falling below the standard established for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. This standard of conduct is ordinarily measured by what the reasonable man of ordinary prudence would do in the circumstances.

OBS

The tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

négligence : 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 37 2015-11-18

English

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

It is a tort actionable on proof of damage for a person without justification to induce a breach of a contract subsisting between other persons.

OBS

The notion is different from that of advising a breach of contract.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

Notion différente de celle de conseiller à quelqu'un de rompre ou de violer son contrat.

OBS

Le verbe correspondant «induce» peut se rendre par «inciter» (qqn à rompre ou à violer son contrat)».

OBS

incitation à rupture de contrat; incitation à violation de contrat : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 38 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

A victim of a criminal assault might prefer to sue his attacker in tort rather than call the police, because the former course may provide him with some monetary gain while the latter will not. Further, such an aggrieved person may wish to take some action against his aggressor, but he may not want him to end up in jail.

French

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

La victime de voies de fait criminelles peut préférer intenter une poursuite en s'appuyant sur le droit de la responsabilité délictuelle plutôt que d'appeler la police, parce que ce choix peut lui procurer un avantage pécuniaire, ce qui ne serait pas le cas s'il s'agissait d'une poursuite fondée sur le droit criminel. La victime peut vouloir poursuivre son agresseur, mais ne veut pas nécessairement que celui-ci aille en prison.

OBS

victime : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 39 2015-11-03

English

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

imputed negligence : In some situations, the innocent victim of a concurrent tort, instead of being able to pursue both tortfeasors, may have the negligence of one imputed to him(because of a special relation between them) so as to impair his recovery against the other just as if he had been guilty of contributory negligence himself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

négligence imputée : 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 40 2015-11-03

English

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

... any intentional wrong [e.g.] assault, battery, defamation, illegally invading a person’s privacy, or intentionally inflicting emotional distress on another person.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

délit civil volontaire; délit volontaire : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 41 2015-11-03

English

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

[The] sanctioning [of] an individual tort feasor in order to discourage him and others from repeating undesirable actions.(Solomon, M., Robert, Feldthusen, P., Bruce, Mills J., Stephen, Cases and Material on the Law of Torts, Toronto : Carswell Student Edition, 1982, p. 16)

CONT

Although the primary function of tort law is to compensate injured victims, some feel it also acts as deterrence.(Cohl, Karen, Tort Law, Toronto : I. P. I. Publishing Ltd., 1982, p. 19)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Sanction pour le coupable qui aura pour effet de décourager celui-ci de se placer de nouveau dans la même situation. (Linden, M., Allen, La Responsabilité Civile Délictuelle, Quatrième Édition, Cowansville : Yvon Blais Inc., 1988, p. 7)

OBS

dissuasion : 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 42 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A tort that establishes a cause of action for one spouse to sue a third party for damages for misconduct that enticed away the marital partner and in that way alienated the affections of the one spouse for the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

détournement d'affection : 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 43 2015-11-03

English

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

The violation of the right to be left alone, that is, to be free from unwarranted publicity and to live without unwarranted interference by the public in matters with which the public is not necessarily concerned.

OBS

[The] invasion of privacy :... may constitute an actionable tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Acte qui viole l'intimité d'une personne et qui lui cause préjudice.

OBS

On rencontre aussi la forme plus descriptive «atteinte à l'intimité de la vie privée»

OBS

atteinte à la vie privée : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 44 2015-11-02

English

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

A requirement that one who seeks to recover damages by reason of a breach of contract or another's tort exercise reasonable diligence and care to avoid aggravating the injury or increasing the damages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

limitation des dommages; limitation du préjudice : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 45 2015-11-02

English

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

The tort of initiating a criminal process by making a charge against a person before a judicial officer or tribunal, not only unjustifiably but maliciously and without reasonable or probable cause, resulting in actual damage to the complainer, save where the charge endangers his reputation or person, when damage is implied.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

poursuite malveillante : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

On rencontre aussi «poursuite abusive».

Spanish

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Record 46 2015-11-02

English

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

Both a common law crime and a tort, consists in unlawfully and either intentionally or recklessly restraining another's freedom of movement from a particular place, which may be a house, or hotel, or vehicle and need not be a prison. It must be a total restraint for a time, however short, not merely a partial restriction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Détention illégale d'une personne.

OBS

séquestration : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 47 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

A legal wrong that will not sustain a lawsuit because no harm resulted from it.

CONT

... there are cases in which behaviour is actionable as a tort, although it has been the cause of no damage at all(injuria sine damno). Torts are of two kinds-namely, those which are actionable per se, and those which are actionable only on proof of actual damage resulting from them.

French

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

atteinte sans dommage : 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 48 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
DEF

In the law of tort, the notion that one's liability is limited to results proximately caused by his conduct or omission.

CONT

remoteness of damage : A party causing a tort is liable only if some harmful consequence of the kind which happened should have been foreseen as liable to result, and he is liable only for the reasonably foreseeable, or possibility for the direct, consequences of his wrongful conduct, not necessarily for all that has actually followed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
OBS

éloignement du dommage; éloignement du préjudice : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 49 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Chief Justice Culliton, after observing rather enigmatically that "nervous shock... is a substantive tort", concluded that the plaintiff did "not prove that the shock which she experienced... was one which the defendant... ought, as a reasonable person, to have foreseen as a result of her conduct". This principle of non-liability has been invariably followed since.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

règle de la non-responsabilité : : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO). 2

Spanish

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Record 50 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

délit civil de négligence; délit de négligence : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 51 2015-10-29

English

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

At common law, an action to recover damages that are not the immediate result of a wrongful act but rather a later consequence.

OBS

This action was the precursor to a variety of modern-day tort claims, including negligence, nuisance, and business torts.

OBS

Historical term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

trespass on the case : 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 52 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

recours délictuel : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles.

Spanish

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Record 53 2015-10-29

English

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

In tort law, a legally sanctioned obligation the breach of which results in the liability of the person owing the duty.

CONT

Negligence is no source of liability, unless the law exacts a "duty" in the circumstances to observe care. "Duty" may therefore be defined as an obligation, recognized by law, to conform to a particular standard of conduct, for the protection of others against unreasonable risks.

OBS

Duty used in its narrow sense.

OBS

It describes here a duty, the breach of which constitutes a tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

Sens strict. On emploie ce terme surtout lorsque l'obligation est à caractère moral ou social.

OBS

devoir : 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 54 2015-10-29

English

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

Obligation to take some action to prevent harm to another and for failure of which there may or may not be liability in tort depending upon the circumstances and the relationship of the parties to each other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

obligation d'agir : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 55 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
OBS

This term refers to the physical invasion of land rather than the tort that may result from it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

«Intrusion», terme ambivalent, a ici le sens large d'une pénétration sur le terrain d'autrui, sans connotation délictuelle.

OBS

intrusion : 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 56 2015-10-29

English

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

A... tort... where the defendant, as a reasonable person, should have foreseen that his conduct involved a foreseeable risk, though falling short of substantial certainty that such a result would ensue.

OBS

Must be distinguished from tort of negligence which is a nominate tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

délit commis par négligence : 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 57 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

The adjustment of accident losses is today, for most significant purposes, regulated by the concept of negligence. Yet, as an independent basis of tort liability, it is of very recent creation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
OBS

responsabilité délictuelle; responsabilité civile délictuelle : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 58 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

délit civil conjoint; délit conjoint : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 59 2015-10-29

English

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

... tort... in which the wrongdoer either desires to bring about a result which is an injury to another, or believes that the result is substantially certain to follow from what he does.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

délit civil intentionnel; délit intentionnel : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 60 2015-10-29

English

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

One who commits a tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

auteur de délit; auteure de délit : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 61 2015-10-29

English

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

... the undertaking of a contractual duty to one person, far from excluding, may well engender a tort duty owed to another, if failure to exercise due care in carrying out the promised performance poses a risk of injury to that other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

obligation délictuelle : 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 62 2015-10-29

English

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

An act which gives rise to a right of action, being a wrongful act or injury consisting in the infringement of a right created otherwise than by a contract.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

délit civil; délit : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 63 2015-10-29

English

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

To date, several nominate torts have evolved which have been used for these purposes [compensation, psychological gratification, etc.], but liability for intentional conduct has not been limited to these alone

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Jusqu'à présent plusieurs délits nommés ont été utilisés pour atteindre ces fins [dédommagement, satisfaction psychologique], mais la responsabilité attachée à un acte intentionnel n'a pas été limitée à ces délits seulement

OBS

délit civil nommé; délit nommé : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 64 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The word tort comes from le Latin term torquere, which means "twisted or wrong. "The English common law recognized no separate legal action in tort. Instead, the British legal system afforded litigants two central avenues of redress : trespass for direct injuries, and actions "on the case" for indirect injuries. Gradually, the common law recognized other civil actions, including defamation, libel, and slander.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

action en responsabilité délictuelle; action en responsabilité civile délictuelle : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 65 2015-10-29

English

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

A branch of the law of obligations, where the legal obligations to refrain from harm to another, and, if, harm is done, to repair it or compensate for it are imposed not by agreement, but independently of agreement by force of the general law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

En droit de la responsabilité délictuelle, une règle fondamentale veut que le demandeur prouve deux choses. D'abord, il doit prouver que le défendeur a manqué à une obligation envers lui. Ensuite, le demandeur doit prouver que le manquement a causé la perte dont il veut être indemnisé.

OBS

droit de la responsabilité délictuelle; droit de la responsabilité civile délictuelle : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 66 2015-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The plaintiff was under an obligation to mitigate its damages and if the pilot had left the aircraft at the defendant's premises after the first incident, that action might have been described as "anticipatory mitigation. "By negligently taking the aircraft up, the pilot created a situation where the damage occurred because of the inadequate shock cords installed by the defendant. Those circumstances permitted apportionment whether the action was brought in contract or tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

Le terme «anticipé» signifie ce qui est fait en prévision de quelque chose.

Spanish

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Record 67 2015-09-17

English

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

A security interest in personal property does not attach to a commercial tort claim, and thus does not take precedence over a subsequent lien for attorney fees...

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

privilège de rang postérieur : 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 68 2015-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

... whether we like it or not, the law, which only Parliament can change, requires proof of fault causing damage as the basis of liability in tort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
Key term(s)
  • fondement de la responsabilité civile délictuelle

Spanish

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Record 69 2015-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Penal Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

In a few circumstances the breach of a criminal statute itself creates an action in tort.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 70 2015-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Legal Actions
OBS

The action of assumpsit was a means of making contracts enforceable under common law by conceiving the breach of a promise as a tort. This was necessary, because before the rise of assumpsit contracts were not enforceable unless proved by deed.

Key term(s)
  • assumpsit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Actions en justice
DEF

Action en justice reconnue par les tribunaux de common law et offrant un recours contre le manquement à une promesse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Acciones judiciales
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Record 71 2015-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

Voluntary sexual intercourse between a spouse and any person other than his wife or her husband while the marriage exists.

OBS

In divorce proceedings, adultery committed by the spouse against whom the proceeding is brought may constitute proof that the marriage has irretrievably broken down.

OBS

adultery; advowtry : adultery was formerly a tort actionable by a writ of trespass in an action for criminal conversation, which lay against one who had committed adultery with the plaintiff's wife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
DEF

Rapport sexuel consensuel d'une personne mariée avec une autre que son conjoint.

OBS

L'adultère de l'un des conjoints est considéré comme un fait permettant d'établir l'échec du mariage dans le cadre du divorce.

OBS

L'adultère était autrefois à l'origine d'un délit connu également sous le nom de conversation criminelle («criminal conversation»), lequel permettait au mari d'intenter une action judiciaire contre l'homme avec lequel son épouse avait commis l'adultère.

OBS

adultère : 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 72 2015-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

A concept in tort law that states that if a defendant intends harm to A but harms B instead, the intent is said to be transferred to the harm befalling the actual victim, as far as the defendant's liability to be in tort is concerned. This is only a "fiction", or a legal conclusion, created in order to accomplish the desired result in terms of liability.

OBS

... Not only can intention be transferred from one person to another, it can also be shifted from one intentional tort to another. For example, if one person intends to batter another, but misses and merely frightens him, there is sufficient intention present to constitute an assault, even though a battery and not an assault was desired.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

L'intention peut non seulement être transposée d'une personne à une autre, mais elle peut aussi l'être d'un délit intentionnel à un autre. Par exemple, si une personne a l'intention de frapper une autre personne, qu'elle rate sa cible et ne réussit qu'à effrayer sa victime, son intention suffit à fonder des voies de fait, malgré qu'elle portait sur un acte de violence.

Spanish

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Record 73 2015-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 74 2015-06-25

English

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

A tort by one spouse against the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

délit matrimonial : 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 75 2015-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Real Estate
DEF

Rents and profits obtained from the land by one who is in unlawful possession of the land and who holds it against the true owner.

CONT

Profits derived from land whilst the possession of it has been improperly withheld : that is, the yearly value of the premises. Mesne profits are the rents and profits which a trespasser has, or might have, received or made during his occupation of the premises, and which therefore he must pay over to the true owner as compensation for the tort which he has committed.

OBS

mesne profits: term usually used in the plural in this context.

Key term(s)
  • mesne profit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Immobilier
DEF

Bénéfices obtenus pendant qu'une personne occupait illégitimement les lieux d'une autre personne.

OBS

bénéfices intermédiaires : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • bénéfice intermédiaire

Spanish

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Record 76 2015-06-10

English

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

The tort of international infliction of emotional distress consists of intentional, outrageous conduct which results in infliction of mental suffering in an extreme form, and resembles an ancient predecessor-assault.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 77 2015-06-10

English

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

There is probably no rigid distinction between paid and gratuitous agents for this purpose. The fact that the agent is paid is taken into consideration, along with other circumstances, in determining the degree of the care and skill to be expected of him; but even a gratuitous agent may be liable in tort for acting negligently.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 78 2015-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The issue is whether a born alive child has the legal capacity to commence a tort action against his mother for prenatal injuries sustained as a result of her alleged negligent driving.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 79 2015-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... there are three theories of detterence that contribute to the accident prevention role of tort law : specific deterrence, general deterrence and market deterrence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 80 2015-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Insurance
CONT

... in a tort action a plaintiff often recovers damages for loss of expectations, such as for loss of earnings suffered as a result of personal injury, or of damage to a profit-earning thing. But these expectations exist quite independently of the tortious conduct which impairs them. In a contractual action the defendant is liable for the loss of expectations created by the very contract for breach of which the action is brought.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Assurances

Spanish

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Record 81 2015-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

One involving or consisting in an injury to the person or to the reputation or feelings ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 82 2015-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

Substantial damage to the state of mind of a person suffered through the means of one or more of the senses for which a plaintiff can have a cause of action in tort as physical injury.

CONT

A plaintiff in an action of negligence cannot recover damages for a "shock" however grievous, which was no more than an immediate emotional response to a distressing experience, sudden, severe, and saddening. It is, however, today a known medical fact that severe emotional distress can be the starting point of a lasting disorder of mind or body, some form of psycho-neurosis or a psychosomatic illness. For that ... damages may be had.

OBS

The phrase "nervous shock" ... is no longer in favour; it is now preferable to refer to this kind of loss as "psychiatric damage", which includes all relevant forms of mental illness, neurosis and personality change.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
CONT

La jurisprudence québécoise à plusieurs reprises s'est posé le problème de l'indemnisation du choc nerveux. Peut-on par exemple compenser un conjoint ou un parent pour le choc nerveux qu'il subit à la suite de la vue ou de l'annonce de l'accident subi par quelqu'un de sa famille? Les décisions à cet égard semblent partagées.

Spanish

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Record 83 2015-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

One of the basic heads of damages in contract and tort. Now a term of art with no precise difference between pain on the one hand and suffering on the other. It has been suggested that pain is the immediately felt effect on the nerves and brain as a consequence of some lesion or injury to part of the body, while suffering is distress that is not felt directly as being connected with any bodily condition. It includes fright at the time of injury, fear of future incapacity, possible death, insanity or inability to make a living.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

souffrances et douleurs : terme emprunté au droit civil.

OBS

souffrances et douleurs : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel

CONT

La réclamation pour souffrances et douleurs qui soulève tant de problèmes dans certains pays, notamment aux États-Unis, est admise en droit québécois, même si les montants accordés par nos tribunaux sous ce chef sont plus conservateurs que ceux qu'octroient les cours américaines.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
OBS

Lesiones y sufrimientos físicos, psíquicos y morales, tenidos en consideración al valorar la indemnización por daños y perjuicios.

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Record 84 2015-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

An action for mesne profits is an action of trespass brought to recover profits derived from land whilst the possession of it was improperly withheld, that is, the yearly value of the premises. Mesne profits are the rents and profits which a trespasser has, or might have received or made during his occupation of the premises, and which, therefore, he must pay over to the true owner as compensation for the tort which he has committed. A claim for rent is therefore liquidated, while a claim for mesne profits is always unliquidated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
DEF

Action pour recouvrer des bénéfices intermédiaires illégitimes.

Spanish

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Record 85 2015-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Legal Actions
DEF

An action in tort which lies whenever one person, by a knowingly false statement, intentionally induced another to act upon it to his detriment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

Save record 85

Record 86 2015-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 87 2015-03-27

English

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

Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort...

French

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

Selon la source de l'obligation dont la sanction est demandée, l'action en responsabilité est dite contractuelle, extracontractuelle, délictuelle ou quasi délictuelle.

Spanish

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Record 88 2015-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

... a sexual tort will not be considered engendered by the employment unless its motivating emotions were fairly attributable to work-related events or conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 89 2015-03-24

English

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

A landowner's or landholder's tort liability for conditions or activities on the premises.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 90 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The only reason the plaintiff Jane Jones is denied a wrongful death claim... is because she is a member of the arbitrary and irrational classification of mothers whose children suffered injury from a prenatal tort and died therefrom...

Key term(s)
  • pre-natal tort

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 91 2015-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

If the claimant cannot meet the requirements for a presumptively vaccine-related injury, the claimant must prove vaccine-causation under more traditional standards of proof used in tort litigation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 92 2015-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

Tort compensation has undergone a significant development in a number of areas – including the areas of personal injury and vicarious liability.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 93 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 94 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

The Supreme Court held that there was no separate tort of discrimination, nor is there an action based on a breach of a statute. It also held that the plaintiff's remedy was under the Ontario Human Rights Act, rather than at common law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 95 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Rules of Court

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

Le présent pourvoi concerne une injonction interlocutoire empêchant un procès en responsabilité délictuelle devant un tribunal étranger.

Spanish

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Record 96 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Chief Justice Culliton, after observing rather enigmatically that "nervous shock... is a substantive tort", concluded that the plaintiff did "not prove that the shock which she experienced... was one which the defendant... ought, as a reasonable person, to have foreseen as a result of her conduct".

French

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

Le juge en chef Culliton, après avoir assez énigmatiquement affirmé que «le fait d'infliger un choc nerveux...constitue un délit positif», en arriva à la conclusion que la demanderesse n'avait pas «apporté la preuve que le choc qu'elle avait subi...aurait dû raisonnablement être prévu par la partie défenderesse».

Spanish

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Record 97 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

Permitting the trial court to determine, in the course of a tort proceeding, whether an unfair labor practice has occurred would create the danger of inconsistent rulings that this court warned against in Tracy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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Record 98 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Rules of Court
CONT

A tort suit occurs when someone claims to have suffered a loss, without his consent, inflicted by another party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

Save record 98

Record 99 2015-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

A particular tort exists to protect primarily a certain interest of the plaintiff, whether it be the safety of his person, or of his property, the inviolability of his reputation of his economic relationships. As a result of the commission of the tort, the plaintiff suffers damage to an interest other than that which the tort is designed to protect primarily. Can the plaintiff recover in respect of this damage? If he can, it is sometimes graphically said that such damages are parasitic damages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
Key term(s)
  • dommage parasitaire

Spanish

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Record 100 2015-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Eventually, in opposition to Holmes, scholars began to contend that "worthwhile 'social gain’ is achieved by shifting losses from innocent victims". A new rationale for tort law-loss distribution-was devised to reflect these developments and to spur further growth along these lines. According to this theory, accident losses are no longer shifted from one individual to another. Rather, the costs are transferred to industrial enterprises and insured activities which generate most accidents. These activities do not bear these costs themselves but spread them throughout the community via price increases or insurance premiums.

Key term(s)
  • loss spreading

French

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

Contrairement à la théorie de Holmes, les juristes en sont venus peu à peu à soutenir que "le fait de déplacer le fardeau du préjudice subi par une victime innocent procure sans contredit des 'avantages sociaux' notables". Une nouvelle théorie du droit de la responsabilité délictuelle - l'étalement des pertes - fut mise au point pour tenir compte de cette évolution et pour encourager de nouveaux développement dans cette voie.

Spanish

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