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UNTRUE STATEMENT [9 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
CONT

[The] supplier acknowledges the consequences of making an untrue statement in the bid documents which may include : disqualification of the business from participating in current and future government contracts; and/or termination of any contract awarded pursuant to the underrepresented status...

OBS

bid document: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • bid documents

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

Le fournisseur reconnaît les conséquences d'une fausse déclaration dans les documents d'appel d'offres, qui peuvent inclure : la disqualification de l'entreprise de la participation aux contrats gouvernementaux actuels et futurs; et/ou la résiliation de tout contrat attribué en vertu du statut de fournisseur sous-représenté [...]

OBS

document d'appel d'offres : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • documents d'appel d'offres

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-01-18

English

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

An untrue statement of fact made in the honest belief that it is true.

OBS

This term denotes misrepresentation that is neither fraudulent or negligent.

French

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

S'entend d'une assertion inexacte, mais ni frauduleuse ni négligente.

OBS

assertion inexacte faite innocemment : 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 5 2014-01-23

English

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

No person shall, with the intention of affecting the results of an election, knowingly make or publish any false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of a candidate or prospective candidate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
CONT

Il est interdit de faire ou de publier sciemment une fausse déclaration concernant la réputation ou la conduite personnelle d'un candidat ou d'une personne qui désire se porter candidat avec l'intention d'influencer les résultats de l'élection.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
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Record 6 2013-07-29

English

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

The failure of a party to speak after another party's assertion of fact that, if untrue, would naturally compel a person to deny the statement.

OBS

If a statement is made by another person in the presence of a party to the action, containing assertions of facts which, if untrue, the party would under all the circumstances naturally be expected to deny, his failure to speak has traditionally been receivable against him as an admission.(McCormick, p. 652)

French

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

aveu résultant du silence : 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 7 2010-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

An order issued by a regulatory body or court suspending the sale of a security until specified remedial action has been taken by the seller.

OBS

Such an order is usually the consequence of the finding, after a hearing, that the registration statement contains an untrue or misleading statement of fact; the order ceases to be operative and the registration becomes effective when the registration statement has been amended to meet the [regulatory body's or court's] objections.

Key term(s)
  • cease-trading order

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Mesure par laquelle les autorités de réglementation des valeurs mobilières interdisent à une ou plusieurs personnes d'effectuer des opérations sur les valeurs d'un émetteur lorsque la personne, le groupe ou l'émetteur lui-même se trouve en situation irrégulière par rapport aux obligations que lui impose la loi.

OBS

On dit de celui qui est visé par cette mesure qu'il est «interdit d'opérations».

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-09-10

English

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

A statement or assertion known to be untrue and intended to deceive.

CONT

Not all falsehoods calculated to injure are defamatory: defamation is confined to only those that strike at character or reputation.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 1993-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

If a form of proxy, management proxy circular or dissident's proxy circular contains an untrue statement of a material fact... an interested person or the Superintendent may apply to a court and the court may make any order it thinks fit.... [Bank Act].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

En cas de faux renseignements sur un fait important [...] dans un formulaire de procuration ou dans une circulaire émanant de la direction ou d'un opposant, le tribunal peut, à la demande de tout intéressé ou du surintendant, prendre par ordonnance toute mesure qu'il juge utile [...] [Loi sur les banques].

Spanish

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