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FOSSE CLOTURE [5 records]

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Record 1 2026-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

The joint ownership of a construction erected on the boundary of two contiguous properties.

OBS

Although the term "common ownership" is sometimes used as a synonym, its use is criticized by some authors. As such, some authors use the French term "mitoyenneté" instead.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
CONT

La mitoyenneté s’entend de la copropriété indivise d’un bien qui sert de séparation entre deux immeubles contigus, généralement matérialisée par un mur, une clôture, un fossé ou une haie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fences and Enclosures

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enceintes et clôtures
DEF

Ouverture pratiquée dans un mur de clôture pour prolonger ou ouvrir une perspective.

DEF

Ancien terme désignant une interruption ménagée dans un mur de clôture, en général dans l'axe d’une allée de propriété, pour prolonger sa perspective. Cette ouverture est coupée par un fossé, dit saut-de-loup.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Air Transport
DEF

An opening in a fence, designed to let people and vehicles through but hinder cattle, horses, or deer, the surface being made of metal tubes, often revolving, or rails, bars, etc. laid crosswise.

CONT

Deer do not use cattle gates due to poor footing on the structure; their hooves slide between the pipes if they attempt to pass over it.

OBS

Cattle gates have been used at airports to prevent deer from entering through gates that must remain open for vehicle traffic.

OBS

Document consulted: "Evaluation of the efficacy of various deer exclusion devices and deterrent techniques for use at airport", prepared by LGL Limited, environmental research associates, for the Aerodrome Safety Branch of Transport Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des animaux
  • Transport aérien
DEF

Type de barrière laissant passer les véhicules, mais interdisant le passage des bestiaux.

CONT

[La barrière à bétail] est une sorte de grille formée d’un cadre en acier de la même largeur que le passage, [...] auquel sont fixés des tubes d’acier [...] disposés parallèlement à la clôture. Cette grille est posée à plat au niveau du sol, au-dessus d’une fosse rectangulaire creusée à l'endroit du passage. [...] Les cerfs ne peuvent franchir les barrières canadiennes car ils sont incapables de prendre pied sur la grille; leurs sabots glissent sur les tubes.

OBS

La barrière canadienne est utilisée autour de certains aéroports afin d’empêcher les cerfs d’entrer sur le terrain.

OBS

Document consulté : «Évaluation de divers moyens de lutte contre les cerfs aux aéroports», élaboré par la firme LGL Limited, environmental research associates, pour le compte de la Direction de la sécurité des aérodromes de Transports Canada. Traduction de Lorraine Léonard.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fences and Enclosures
DEF

A retaining wall, fence, or hedge hidden from view in a ditch; often used to improve the view from a house or main building while keeping out livestock.

DEF

A barrier in the form of a trench, particularly one used in country houses built in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, to prevent livestock from crossing into the garden.

CONT

The use of the ha-ha, or sunken fence, to create and at the same time conceal the physical division between garden and contiguous park grounds (a division needed to keep grazing animals out of the garden) was a major step in the creation of the new, "natural" garden. Walpole explains the purpose of the visual unification: The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prime regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enceintes et clôtures
DEF

Large fossé que l’on creuse souvent à la lisière d’un parc ou d’un jardin pour fermer le passage sans masquer la vue.

CONT

Kent imagina, pour prolonger la perspective et inclure tout un paysage dans un jardin, un nouveau genre de clôture, baptisé le "ha-ha", pour exprimer la surprise qu'il cause. C'était un fossé doublé d’une palissade en contre-bas et infranchissable, mais qui avait le mérite d’être invisible, et de ne pas rompre la continuité des lignes.

OBS

Pluriel : sauts-de-loup.

Spanish

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Record 5 1988-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fences and Enclosures
DEF

A stream or ditch that forms a boundary [as of a field].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enceintes et clôtures
OBS

Sur le modèle de «mur de clôture».

Spanish

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