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Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

"The presence or absence of reasonable anticipation of damage determines the legal quality of the act as negligent or innocent. If it be thus determined to be negligent or innocent, then the question whether particular damages are recoverable depends only on the answer to the question whether they are the direct consequence of the act... "  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - direct%20consequence

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

"Le fait qu'on puisse ou non raisonnablement prévoir un dommage permet de déterminer si l'acte constitue ou non une négligence sur le plan juridique. Si l'on en vient à la conclusion qu'il y a eu négligence, le demandeur pourra obtenir réparation à l'égard de dommages donnés s'ils sont la conséquence directe de l'acte en question..."  2, fiche 1, Français, - cons%C3%A9quence%20directe

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

conséquence directe : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  3, fiche 1, Français, - cons%C3%A9quence%20directe

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[The Negligence Act of Ontario] further stipulates that "If it is not practicable to determine the respective degree of fault or negligence as between any parties to an action, such parties shall be deemed to be equally at fault or negligent. "If the action is tried by a jury, it is for them to determine the degree of fault or negligence as a question of fact. If it is a trial by judge alone, "apportionment of fault is primarily and properly a matter within the discretion of the trial judge... "(and) "except in a strong and exceptional case, an appellate Court will not feel free to substitute its apportionment of fault for that made by the trial Judge, unless there has been palpable and demonstrable error in appreciation of the legal principles to be applied or misapprehension of the facts by the trial Judge. "  1, fiche 2, Anglais, - apportionment%20of%20fault

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Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A composite liability was imposed in a recent case on an organization for the acts of several servants, none of whom individually could be proved culpable. The defendant's buyer made a misrepresentation in reliance on information supplied to him by the accountant based on inadequate data. The latter was not liable because he had made no representation to the plaintiff, nor was the former because he was not negligent in passing it on. Yet their firm was held responsible, not vicariously, but presumably for breach of its personal duty of care.  1, fiche 3, Anglais, - composite%20liability

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Responsabilité attribuée à un groupe, mais non aux individus qui le composent.  2, fiche 3, Français, - responsabilit%C3%A9%20collective

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Fiche 4,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

High-speed pursuit may be justified in certain circumstances : for example, in the apprehension of a driver who is imperiling the lives of motorists or pedestrians through negligent or dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.  1, fiche 4, Anglais, - high%2Dspeed%20pursuit

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Fiche 5,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

If there was a negligence in the construction of the wall, and its fall could be attributed to some negligent act of commission or omission in the process of construction, it is very clear that the party liable for the resulting damage would be the contractor.  3, fiche 5, Anglais, - negligent%20act%20of%20commission

Fiche 5,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

négligence de commission; négligence par commission; acte de négligence par commission : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 5, Français, - n%C3%A9gligence%20de%20commission

Fiche 5,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 6,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Liberty to act on an expectation of non-negligence in others ceases as soon as there are indications that they are, or are likely to be, acting imprudently. The ever present possibility of negligent behaviour demands constant scruting in every direction whence danger may loom....  2, fiche 6, Anglais, - negligent%20behaviour

Fiche 6,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

comportement négligent : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 6, Français, - comportement%20n%C3%A9gligent

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Fiche 7,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... Any negligent tortfeasor who negligently failed to protect the plaintiff from the intentional tortfeasor will be jointly and severally liable for the portion of the intentional tortfeasor's fault.  2, fiche 7, Anglais, - negligent%20tortfeasor

Fiche 7,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

auteur négligent de délit; auteure négligente de délit : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 7, Français, - auteur%20n%C3%A9gligent%20de%20d%C3%A9lit

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Fiche 8,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A negligent misrepresentation is one made carelessly and with no reasonable grounds for believing it to be true.  2, fiche 8, Anglais, - negligent%20misrepresentation

Fiche 8,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 OBS

assertion négligente et inexacte : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 8, Français, - assertion%20n%C3%A9gligente%20et%20inexacte

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Fiche 9,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Liability under Rylands v. Fletcher is excluded, if the escape was due to the deliberate act of a stranger which could not reasonably have been anticipated.... To be a defence, the stranger's interference must have been "a conscious act of volition", deliberate or intentional, and not merely negligent, because it appears that the owner of a dangerous thing is bound to guard others against the negligence of third parties(Fleming, The Law of Torts, 5e éd., p. 331)  2, fiche 9, Anglais, - stranger

Fiche 9,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

étranger, étrangère : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 9, Français, - %C3%A9tranger

Fiche 9,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 10,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Neglect of duty does not cease by repetition to be neglect of duty. Similarly, no amount of repetition of a careless practice will make it any less careless. The negligent driver is not any less negligent by reason of being ubiquitous.  2, fiche 10, Anglais, - careless%20practice

Fiche 10,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La fréquence n'enlève pas à la négligence son caractère de négligence. De la même façon, la répétition d'une pratique imprudente ne saurait lui ôter son caractère d'imprudence, quelle qu'en soit la fréquence. Un conducteur négligent n'est pas moins négligent parce que son attitude est très répandue.  2, fiche 10, Français, - pratique%20imprudente

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS

pratique imprudente : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  3, fiche 10, Français, - pratique%20imprudente

Fiche 10,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 11,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Causation... Once negligent conduct is shown(a breach of the standard of care owed a foreseeable plaintiff), the plaintiff must still show that the conduct was the cause of this injury. For liability to be present, plaintiff must show both actual cause and proximate cause.  2, fiche 11, Anglais, - actual%20cause

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Actual : something real, or actually existing, as opposed to something merely possible, presumptive, implied, or constructive.  3, fiche 11, Anglais, - actual%20cause

Fiche 11,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

cause réelle : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 11, Français, - cause%20r%C3%A9elle

Fiche 11,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 12,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 DEF

An unlawful interference with one’s person ...  2, fiche 12, Anglais, - trespass%20to%20the%20person

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Trespass to the person comprises assault, assault and battery and wrongful imprisonment. The act may be intentional or negligent but must be committed against the will of the plaintiff.  3, fiche 12, Anglais, - trespass%20to%20the%20person

Fiche 12,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

atteinte directe à la personne : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 12, Français, - atteinte%20directe%20%C3%A0%20la%20personne

Fiche 12,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 13,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

... proviso generally has a narrower sense than provision(=a contractual term). In DRAFTING, a proviso is either a clause that is inserted in a legal or formal document and that makes some condition, stipulation, exception, or limitation, or a clause upon whose observance the operation or validity of the instrument depends. E. g., "When there is no accuracy or promptitude, the company should answer for all injury resulting, subject to the proviso that the injury must be the natural and direct consequence of the negligent act. "…(A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, 2nd Ed., p. 710.)  2, fiche 13, Anglais, - proviso%20for%20defeasance

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 2 OBS

[defeasance] A condition upon the fulfillment of which a deed or other instrument isdefeated or made void; a contractual provision containing such a condition. – Alsotermed defeasance clause. (Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th Ed., p. 449.)  2, fiche 13, Anglais, - proviso%20for%20defeasance

Fiche 13,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

disposition restrictive portant anéantissement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l’accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 13, Français, - disposition%20restrictive%20portant%20an%C3%A9antissement

Fiche 13,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 14,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Crises, supposed or real, are often the occasion of a decision which at the time was not the best; hence, the "agony of the moment" doctrine by which sometimes a motorist, faced with an emergency beyond his experience, escapes liability for what would in other circumstances be considered a negligent act.  1, fiche 14, Anglais, - agony%20of%20the%20moment%20doctrine

Fiche 14,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Lors des situations d'urgence, réelles ou supposées, on prend fréquemment une décision qui se révèle par la suite ne pas avoir été la meilleure; on a donc élaboré la «règle de la situation d'urgence» selon laquelle un automobiliste qui fait face à une situation dépassant ses capacités et son expérience n'est pas tenu responsable pour un acte qui, en d'autres circonstances, serait considéré comme un acte de négligence.  1, fiche 14, Français, - r%C3%A8gle%20de%20la%20situation%20d%27urgence

Fiche 14,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 15,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The omission of one to perform a duty resting upon him. The neglect or failure on the part of a public officer to do and perform a duty or duties laid on him as such by virtue of his office or required of him by law.  3, fiche 15, Anglais, - neglect%20of%20duty

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... even a common practice may itself be condemned as negligent if fraught with obvious risks. "Neglect of duty does not cease by repetition to be neglect of duty", for in the final analysis the standard of reasonable care is measured by what ought ordinarily to be done rather than what is ordinarily done.  2, fiche 15, Anglais, - neglect%20of%20duty

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Fiche 16,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The different treatment accorded to inevitable accident and unavoidable mistake could be superficially explained on the ground that... [the courts] found little authority standing in the way of transforming trespass into a remedy requiring proof of intentional or negligent wrongdoing.  1, fiche 16, Anglais, - negligent%20wrongdoing

Fiche 16,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 OBS

agissements négligents : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.  2, fiche 16, Français, - agissements%20n%C3%A9gligents

Fiche 16,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 17,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Defamatory words are statements that, in the eyes of a reasonable person, discredit the plaintiff. Speaking of the "reasonable man," Canadian courts have said: "He is a person of normal intelligence who makes prudence a guide to his conduct. He does nothing that a prudent man would not do and does not omit to do anything a prudent man would do."  3, fiche 17, Anglais, - defamatory%20utterance

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 1 OBS

defamatory words: term usually used in plural in this context.  4, fiche 17, Anglais, - defamatory%20utterance

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Defamation-the utterance of a false statement that harms the reputation of another. Although most state laws require that a defamatory statement be made with knowledge of its falsehood, in some jurisdictions a cause of action exists for negligent defamation.  5, fiche 17, Anglais, - defamatory%20utterance

Fiche 17,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Des propos diffamatoires tenus devant un groupe de personnes partageant une même communauté d'intérêts est considéré comme privé (par exemple, lors d'un comité d'entreprise).  2, fiche 17, Français, - propos%20diffamatoires

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 1 OBS

propos diffamatoires : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.  3, fiche 17, Français, - propos%20diffamatoires

Fiche 17,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 18,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Culpable homicide that is not murder or infanticide is manslaughter.  2, fiche 18, Anglais, - manslaughter

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Term used in the Criminal Code.  3, fiche 18, Anglais, - manslaughter

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Generally unlawful homicide which cannot be classified as murder, as where X kills Y as a result of grossly negligent conduct.  4, fiche 18, Anglais, - manslaughter

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 3 OBS

May be classified as (1) voluntary, manslaughter because the accused succesfully pleads diminished responsibility or provocation; (2) involuntary, as where the actus reus of homicide is unaccompanied by malice aforethought, resulting from an act performed with criminal negligence.  4, fiche 18, Anglais, - manslaughter

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 4 OBS

manslaughter: Term, context and observations reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  5, fiche 18, Anglais, - manslaughter

Fiche 18,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 1 CONT

L'homicide coupable qui n'est pas un meurtre ni un infanticide constitue un homicide involontaire coupable.  4, fiche 18, Français, - homicide%20involontaire%20coupable

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Le terme «homicide involontaire coupable» a remplacé «homicide involontaire» dans le Code criminel.  2, fiche 18, Français, - homicide%20involontaire%20coupable

Fiche 18,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Es "voluntary" (voluntario) cuando se dan circunstancias atenuantes como la provocación o la capacidad mental disminuida, e "involuntary" (involuntario) cuando sobreviene durante la realización de una conducta, lícita o delictiva, pero sin observar la necesaria cautela o reunir la competencia necesaria.  2, fiche 18, Espagnol, - homicidio%20involuntario

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 1 OBS

En Inglaterra, el "manslaughter" consiste en matar a otro ilegítimamente sin intención, definición amplia que comprende el homicidio cometido con dolo eventual y el causado por imprudencia temeraria.  2, fiche 18, Espagnol, - homicidio%20involuntario

Record number: 18, Textual support number: 2 OBS

homicidio involuntario; homicidio por imprudencia; homicidio por negligencia: Expresiones, contexto y observaciones reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.  3, fiche 18, Espagnol, - homicidio%20involuntario

Fiche 19,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 19, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Eventually... it fell to the House of Lords in Hedley Byrne v. Heller, to set the law upon a new course by recognizing that negligent misrepresentation might well be actionable as breach of a tortious duty of care.  1, fiche 19, Anglais, - tortious%20duty%20of%20care

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Fiche 20,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 20, Textual support number: 1 OBS

implied assumption of risk : More radical has been the transformation of the defence(of voluntary assumption of risk) in situations where there is no express agreement to modify the ordinary duty relation between the parties. Nineteenth century theory had readily endorsed the proposition that one who encountered a known danger tacitly assumed the risk of an accident, content to absolve anyone responsible for it even if he turned out to be negligent.  1, fiche 20, Anglais, - implied%20assumption%20of%20risk

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Fiche 21,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 21, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A chiropractor who fails to obtain a patient's informed consent may be held liable for battery(an unauthorized touching of the patient) or, more likely, for negligence(the negligent failure to make proper disclosure to the patient).  2, fiche 21, Anglais, - proper%20disclosure

Fiche 21,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 21, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[ ... ] l'authenticité du consentement à un traitement médical est fonction de la divulgation adéquate des risques qu'il comporte [ ... ]  2, fiche 21, Français, - divulgation%20ad%C3%A9quate

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Fiche 22,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 22, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Statutes intended to protect would-be rescuers (e.g. at an accident scene) from liability, in the case that their efforts lead to further injury or damage.  3, fiche 22, Anglais, - good%20Samaritan%20legislation

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... all of the United States and many Canadian provinces have some form of Good Samaritan legislation.  2, fiche 22, Anglais, - good%20Samaritan%20legislation

Record number: 22, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Many of the Good Samaritan statutes require as a condition of immunity, whole or partial, that the physician or other person act in "good faith."  2, fiche 22, Anglais, - good%20Samaritan%20legislation

Record number: 22, Textual support number: 1 OBS

In some jurisdictions, rescuers cannot be found liable unless they are grossly negligent.  3, fiche 22, Anglais, - good%20Samaritan%20legislation

Fiche 22,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 22, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[...] catégorie de lois qui protègent les personnes qui par générosité se portent au secours d'une personne en détresse sans attendre de compensation en retour.  2, fiche 22, Français, - lois%20du%20bon%20samaritain

Record number: 22, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Ces lois tendent à fournir une protection [...] au personnel médical et secouriste lorsque ceux-ci se portent volontairement au secours d'un accidenté.  2, fiche 22, Français, - lois%20du%20bon%20samaritain

Record number: 22, Textual support number: 2 OBS

lois du bon samaritain : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.  3, fiche 22, Français, - lois%20du%20bon%20samaritain

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Fiche 23,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 23, Textual support number: 1 CONT

It is generally accepted in England that doctors have a duty to exercise reasonable care with their patients. This duty extends not only to examination, diagnosis and treatment, but also to the provision of appropriate information. In determining whether a medical practitioner has breached his or her duty of care to a patient, the courts of England had generally applied the Bolam principle, by which a doctor would not be found to be negligent if he or she acted in accordance with the practice accepted at the time as proper by a responsible body of medical opinion...  2, fiche 23, Anglais, - Bolam%20principle

Fiche 23,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 23, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Il n'existe pas d'obligation légale d'informer en l'absence d'une relation particulière. Le devoir de confidentialité du médecin existe en vertu de la Common Law. Le devoir de divulguer est sujet au principe Bolam selon lequel un médecin ne fait pas preuve de négligence s'il agit en conformité avec une pratique actuellement acceptée par un organisme responsable de donner une opinion médicale.  1, fiche 23, Français, - principe%20Bolam

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Fiche 24,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 24, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... the owner-driver was held liable to a child who fell through some defective floorboards and was run over, on the ground that the cause of the accident was not the negligent driving but the dangerous floorboards, for which the owner was responsible as the occupier of the automobile. Mr. Justice Aylesworth stated that "the statute does not provide an exemption from common law liability upon the owner of defective premises or in this case defective chattels, where injury arises from that defect known or which ought to be known to the owner of the chattel and when the person injured has been invited to enter into or on the chattel. "  1, fiche 24, Anglais, - defective%20chattel

Fiche 24,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 24, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[...] le conducteur propriétaire a été tenu responsable envers un enfant qui était tombé au travers d'un plancher défectueux et avait été écrasé, au motif non que l'accident était dû à sa négligence mais que le plancher était dangereux, et qu'il était responsable à titre d'occupant de l'automobile. Le juge Aylesworth a déclaré que «la loi ne soustrait pas le propriétaire de lieux défectueux ou, en l'occurrence, de biens mobiliers défectueux, à la responsabilité que lui impose la common law, lorsque les blessures sont dues aux vices que le propriétaire du bien connaissait ou aurait dû connaître, et que la personne blessée a été invitée à pénétrer dans ou sur le bien en question».  3, fiche 24, Français, - chatel%20d%C3%A9fectueux

Record number: 24, Textual support number: 1 OBS

[...] à l'occasion de la normalisation du Droit des biens, le gouvernement fédéral a choisi de laisser les gouvernements provinciaux établir la terminologie en ce domaine de droit privé qui relève de la compétence législative des provinces. Aussi, dans les Lois révisées du Canada de 1985, on retrouve [par ex.] dans la version française «biens meubles» et «biens immeubles» pour rendre «personal property» et «real property» et non les expressions normalisées «biens personnels» et «biens réels.  4, fiche 24, Français, - chatel%20d%C3%A9fectueux

Record number: 24, Textual support number: 2 OBS

«chatel» est l'équivalent de «chattel» normalisé dans le cadre du PAJLO.  1, fiche 24, Français, - chatel%20d%C3%A9fectueux

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Fiche 25,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 25, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The knowledge that one will be denied compensation in whole or in part as a result of one's own negligence should spur one to use caution. This rule may be doubly influential because the negligence of a driver is often imputed to his passengers and his family. Thus, not only is the contributorily negligent actor waiving his own right to recover but he may also impede his friends and relatives from receiving full damages for their injuries.  1, fiche 25, Anglais, - contributorily%20negligent%20actor

Fiche 25,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 25, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Un individu sera davantage porté à faire preuve de prudence s'il sait qu'on lui refusera une indemnité, en totalité ou en partie, dans les cas où les pertes résulteraient de sa propre négligence. Cette règle peut avoir une double influence parce que la négligence du conducteur est souvent étendue à ses passagers et à sa famille, Par conséquent, la victime négligente non seulement renonce à son propre droit à une indemnité, mais peut aussi empêcher ses parents et amis de recevoir une indemnité complète pour leurs blessures.  1, fiche 25, Français, - victime%20n%C3%A9gligente

Record number: 25, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.  2, fiche 25, Français, - victime%20n%C3%A9gligente

Fiche 25,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 26,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 26, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... the owner-driver was held liable to a child who fell through some defective floorboards and was run over, on the ground that the cause of the accident was not the negligent driving but the dangerous floorboards, for which the owner was responsible as the occupier of the automobile. Mr. Justice Aylesworth stated that "the statute does not provide an exemption from common law liability upon the owner of defective premises or in this case defective chattels, where injury arises from that defect known or which ought to be known to the owner of the chattel and when the person injured has been invited to enter into or on the chattel. "  1, fiche 26, Anglais, - defective%20premises

Fiche 26,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 26, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[...] le conducteur propriétaire a été tenu responsable envers un enfant qui était tombé au travers d'un plancher défectueux et avait été écrasé, au motif non que l'accident était dû à sa négligence mais que le plancher était dangereux, et qu'il était responsable à titre d'occupant de l'automobile. Le juge Aylesworth a déclaré que "la loi ne soustrait pas le propriétaire de lieux défectueux ou, en l'occurrence, de biens mobiliers défectueux, à la responsabilité que lui impose la common law, lorsque les blessures sont dues aux vices que le propriétaire du bien connaissait ou aurait dû connaître, et que la personne blessée a été invitée à pénétrer dans ou sur le bien en question.  2, fiche 26, Français, - lieux%20d%C3%A9fectueux

Fiche 26,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 27,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 27, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... since "responsibility" is not synonymous with moral blame-worthiness, a defendant who has been held strictly liable without fault should not necessarily be entitled to a complete indemnity from a negligent wrongdoer. Moreover... there is no specific prohibition against contribution even between intentional tortfeasors....  1, fiche 27, Anglais, - intentional%20tortfeasor

Fiche 27,  Justifications,  Français

Fiche 27,  Justifications,  Espagnol