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Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
OBS

An instrument of incorporation; a document giving certain rights and privileges contingent upon the fulfilment of related obligations ... the term "municipal charter" signifies the creative act, general or special, setting up the municipal corporation together with all other laws and constitutional provisions privileges, liabilities, and immunities of the municipal corporation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
OBS

Écrit émanant de l'État et qui fait foi des pouvoirs et des droits d’une compagnie. Un des actes constitutifs de compagnie [...] le substantif «charte» [et] l'expression «lettres patentes» ne sont plus employés en France. Ce sont des termes de droit monarchique [...] Le Canada étant un pays monarchique, «charte» et «lettres patentes» continuent d’y avoir droit de cité. «Acte constitutif» correspondrait peut-être mieux que ces deux termes, cependant, aux réalités contemporaines.

OBS

Le législateur au fédéral et en Ontario rend «corporation» par «personne morale» mais celui du Nouveau-Brunswick et du Manitoba privilégie l’homographe français «corporation».

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-09-03

English

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

A verbal declaration of a testamentary character by a person in extremis before a sufficient number of witnesses and subsequently reduced to writing. In case of soldiers and other members of the Armed, Forces, a will made by a member thereof under circumstances in which it is presumed he would not be able to have a proper will drawn and witnessed, the court will accept the same as a will even though it does not conform to all the formalities of a will.

CONT

In the case of an oral, sometimes called a nuncupative, will the courts must be satisfied as to the exact words used, or at least as to their substance, and that it was the deceased's intention to make a disposition on his death.

OBS

... in Canada most Provinces have made writing and a signature a requirement ... but some other Provinces allow for nuncupative or oral wills of servicemen (including mariners and seamen).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
DEF

[...] testament fait par simple déclaration devant témoins et suivant les formes légales.

CONT

Dans les pays de droit écrit en France et suivant la latitude des lois romaines, l'on pouvait tester de diverses manières qui n’ étaient pas reconnues dans la France coutumière [...] l'on fait surtout ici allusion au testament mystique et au testament nuncupatif. Ces formes ne nous ayant pas été transmises, il n’ y en avait anciennement pas d’autres au Canada que l'authentique et l'olographe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (common law)
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Record 3 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel

Spanish

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