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QUESTION FONDAMENTALE [7 records]

Filter results by subject field Alphabetical list of terms

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2013-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
OBS

Inheritance. Real property or personal property that is received by heirs. A nontechnical meaning of inheritance includes property passed by will. Although federal estate tax may have to be paid on the estate itself, the recipient is not subject to federal income tax on the inheritance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
CONT

Parler de la transmission successorale revient à annoncer le prélude de l'appropriation privée par les héritiers des biens du de cujus. Ce problème de la transmission soulève une question fondamentale. Est-ce que celui qui a la vocation de devenir héritier doit recevoir nécessairement un bien de la succession?

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
  • Legal System
  • Environmental Law
  • Protection of Farm Animals
DEF

A value theory and commitment that extends basic human protection in law and practice to animals.

OBS

The Animal Rights Movement goes beyond the humane treatment movement of earlier times. Animal rights advocates work for human reforms, but also advocates vegetarianism and in some cases veganism (eating no animal parts or products). Animal rights activists aim to end human exploitation and mistreatment of animals and see animals as having a certain level of sentience and with inherent rights that should ne protected by laws.

OBS

animal rights: rarely used in the singular (animal right); usually used in the plural, as a collective term.

OBS

Related concept: animal law [in French: "droit animal"], a combination of statutory and case law in which the nature—legal, social or biological—of animals is an important factor.

Key term(s)
  • animal right

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit environnemental
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Le mouvement [...] pour les droits des animaux ne s’occupe pas seulement de protection animale et de lois pour la protection animale, mais il met aussi en question l'acception fondamentale de notre représentation du monde : Pourquoi les humains seraient-ils plus importants que les animaux non humains ?

CONT

Le bien-être humain doit-il avoir préséance sur les droits des animaux? Y a-t-il une limite au transfert de gènes interespèces?

OBS

droits des animaux : terme très rarement au singulier (droit des animaux); utilisé au pluriel, comme collectif.

OBS

Notion apparentée : droit animal (en anglais : « animal law »), qui se rapporte à ce qui est exigible ou permis par conformité à une règle précise, formulée, comme une loi ou un règlement, en prenant en compte les animaux.

Key term(s)
  • droit des animaux

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Federalism
OBS

Liberal Party of Canada. Message from Paul Martin, fundamental question of the 2004 election campaign.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Fédéralisme
OBS

Parti libéral du Canada. Message de Paul Martin, question fondamentale lors de la campagne électorale 2004.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
  • Corporate Management (General)
OBS

Source(s): Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims, April 1999.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
OBS

Négociation des revendications territoriales.

OBS

Source(s) : Politique sur les revendications territoriales globales et état des revendications, avril 1999.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

Using Interactive Computer Programs in Teaching Higher Concepts Skills....

French

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

On parle souvent, à propos d’E. A. O. [enseignement assisté par ordinateur], de «programmes interactifs». Shavaun M. Wall pose à ce sujet une question fondamentale :«la technologie informatique permettra-t-elle de mettre l'accent dans le processus d’apprentissage plus sur l'apprenant que sur le programme?»

Spanish

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