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VALID CHARACTER [6 records]

Record 1 2015-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

A character or combination of bits that is not valid according to some criteria.

OBS

illegal character: term standardized by CSA International.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
OBS

caractère invalide : terme normalisé par la CSA International.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
DEF

Carácter o combinación de bits que no es aceptada como representación válida por la máquina o por una rutina específica.

OBS

Los caracteres ilegales, por lo general, se detectan y utilizan como señales de malfuncionamiento de la máquina.

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Record 2 2013-05-28

English

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

A rule is a statement in narrower and more rigid terms than a principle, applicable to a limited, and possibly very confined, set of circumstances, such as: an employer must take care that dangerous machinery is adequately fenced. (Walker, Scottish Private Law, v. 1, p. 30)

CONT

The difference between legal principles and legal rules is a logical distinction. Both sets of standards point to particular decisions about legal obligation in particular circumstances, but they differ in the character of the direction they give. Rules are applicable in an all-or-nothing fashion. If the facts a rule stipulates are given, then eigher the rule is valid, in which case the answer it supplies must be accepted, or it is not, in which case it contributes nothing to the decision.(Dworkin, p. 24)

French

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

règle : 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 2006-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Legal Documents
DEF

In a will, this is a sentence or secret character, inserted by the testator, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter should be valid, unless this clause be inserted word for word.

OBS

This is done as a precaution to guard against later wills being extorted by violence, or otherwise improperly obtained. Such a provision is anomalous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Documents juridiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (common law)
  • Documentos jurídicos
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Record 4 2003-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Display Technology
DEF

A cursor on a display screen that can be moved on the display surface without changing or destroying the data displayed on the screen.

CONT

Non-destructive cursor : backspace or forward space by character, field, or record-without having to rekey valid data.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'affichage (Ordinateurs)
DEF

En mode d'affichage VDU, curseur pouvant être déplacé sur l'écran sans effacer ou modifier automatiquement des données sur lesquelles il passe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas de visualización (Computadoras)
OBS

En un dispositivo de visualización, es un cursor que puede moverse dentro de la superficie de visualización, sin cambiar ni destruir los datos mostrados en la pantalla.

OBS

Contrasta con cursor destructivo (destructive cursor).

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Record 5 1992-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 6 1987-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea
  • War and Peace (International Law)
CONT

The transfer of an enemy vessel to a neutral flag, effected before the outbreak of hostilities, is valid, unless it is proved that such transfer was made in order to evade the consequences to which an enemy vessel, as such, is exposed. There is, however, a presumption, of the bill of sale is not on board a vessel which has lots her belligerent nationality less than sixty days before the outbreak of hostilities, that the transfer is void. This presumption may be rebutted. Subject to the provisions respecting transfer to another flag, the neutral or enemy character of a vessel is determined by the flag which she is entitled to fly.

OBS

Art. 55 and 57, Declaration concerning the Laws of War, signed at London, 26 February 1909 (Naval Conference of London).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
DEF

Passage d'un navire d'une nationalité à une autre. Expression employée surtout dans le droit de la guerre maritime pour désigner ce passage résultant de la cession du navire par son propriétaire, sujet belligérant, à un neutre.

Spanish

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