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PRECLUS [2 records]

Record 1 2017-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

To stop, bar or impede: to prevent; to preclude.

French

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

Il est recommandé d’employer la graphie «préclus» et «précluse» pour le participe passé du verbe «préclure».

OBS

préclure : 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 2 2015-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
CONT

A waiver, being the intentional relinquishment of a known right, is consensual in nature and is distinguished from an estoppel which is not consensual, but is given effect to defeat the inequitable intent of the party estopped.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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