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UNSOUNDNESS [5 records]

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Record 1 2015-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

An insane person. One incapable from unsoundness of mind to control himself or his affairs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-09-09

English

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

Unsoundness of mind, lunacy, idiocy, imbecility. Inability to transact the ordinary affairs of life, to understand their nature and effect, and exercise the will in relation to them.

OBS

A person who has been adjudged to be mentally incompetent has no legal capacity and can only act through his guardian or Committee.

French

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

Inhabilité (à témoigner) fondée sur l'incapacité mentale.

OBS

inhabilité d'ordre mental : 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 2012-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

... a condition found in the horse either caused by an accident to the animal, a result of a disease, or inherited and this condition interferes with the horses’ ability to work.

CONT

Many unsoundnesses are blemishes as well. Certain unsoundnesses are referred to as hereditary on account of their marked tendency to reappear in succeeding generations. It is interesting to note that of 19 common unsoundnesses of the horse, 15 of them are known or thought to be hereditary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
  • Maladies des animaux
DEF

Défectuosité acquise, consécutive au travail ou accidentelle, qui déforme un membre et déprécie l'animal sur le plan de l'esthétique comme sur celui du service qu'on peut en attendre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina veterinaria
  • Enfermedades de los animales
DEF

Defecto físico o psíquico, por lo común importante y de carácter hereditario.

Key term(s)
  • defecto
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Record 4 1996-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

noisy respiration in a horse caused by paralysis of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve and atrophy of the muscles of the arytenoid cartilage on that side, occurring only during exercise and constituting an unsoundness in the horse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
CONT

Le cornage, chez le cheval, est le plus fréquemment causé par la paralysie du nerf récurrent [...] qui dilate la glotte.

OBS

Vice rédhibitoire affectant la respiration d'un cheval.

OBS

Les six vices rédhibitoires qui s'appliquent à l'achat de chevaux de sang sont la boiterie, l'immobilité, la fluxion périodique des yeux, le tic (crib biting), l'emphysème pulmonaire et le cornage chronique. On désigne l'ensemble par le sigle B.I.F.T.E.C. qui est composé des lettres initiales de chacun des vices en question.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
  • Taxation
CONT

Unsoundness of the tax.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
  • Fiscalité
CONT

Vice de conception de l'impôt.

OBS

Hansard 1924, page 2668.

Spanish

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