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Record 1 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Causal connection is apt to prove more troublesome when the alleged cause of the injury ... consists in the failure to act and proof is required that the doing of the act would have prevented that injury.

CONT

... it is important to recall that a causal relation must exist not just between the injury and the relevant act or omission, but specifically between the injury and that aspect of the conduct which is wrongful.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

lien de causalité: terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Phraséologie

Spanish

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Record 3 1989-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
OBS

Canada Diseases Weekly Report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
OBS

Rapport hebdomadaire des maladies au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
OBS

See "causal chaining", "causal-chain completion".

OBS

Some links are definitional, other links capture heuristic knowledge, such as "work causes cuffs to be shiny". Relationships like these enrich the network by providing additional paths.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Caduceus saura prendre une vue synthétique des problèmes posés par le malade, grâce à une représentation des liens causals et hiérarchiques entre les pathologies.

OBS

Terme utilisé en sémiotique littéraire pour la représentation des liens entre les nodes d'un arbre narratif. Voir l'article de Mary-Laure Ryan dans Revue des Sciences Humaines 1986-1, no 201, pp 59-77.

Spanish

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