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Record 1 2006-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The appellants argued that the definitions of "family status" and "marital status" imply a legislative intent to restrict these grounds to complaints based on a person's "absolute status", i.e., the mere fact of being married, single, etc., or the fact of being in a certain type of family, and do not extend to complaints based on the particular identity of family members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Les appelants soutiennent qu'il ressort des définitions d'« état familial » et d'« état matrimonial » que le législateur entendait que ces motifs s'appliquent uniquement à la discrimination fondée sur l'état familial ou matrimonial « au sens absolu » -- c'est-à-dire le simple fait d'être marié, célibataire, etc., ou le fait d'appartenir à un certain type de famille -- et ne visent pas à la discrimination fondée sur l'identité d'un membre de la famille en particulier.

Spanish

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