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Vocabulary III: Mag 2 S1: Contract law Flashcards

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1
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Valider, signer

A

To execute

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  • Contrat exécuté

- Contrat à exécuter

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  • executed contract

- executory contract

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Gratuit

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Gratuitous

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Promesse/promettre

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promise

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  • Promettant

- Bénéficiaire de la promesse

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  • Promisor

- Promisee

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Contracter avec quelqu’un

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To enter into a contract with someone

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En vertu des clauses du contrat

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Pursuant to the provisions/terms of the contract

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Un accord

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An agreement

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Rédiger un contrat

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To draft a contract

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Révocation de l’offre

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Revocation of the offer

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Caducité de l’offre

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Lapse of offer

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contre-proposition

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Counter-offer

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13
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Invitation à entrer en pourparlers

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Invitation to treat

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  • Offrant

- Destinataire de l’offre

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  • Offeror

- Offeree

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déduit

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inferred

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16
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Théorie de l’émission

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Postal acceptance rule

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Retirer son acceptation

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To recall the acceptation

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Acceptation implicite

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Acceptance by conduct

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Règle de l’équivalence des termes de l’offre et de l’acceptation

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Mirror-image rule

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Acceptation sans réserve

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Unqualified acceptation

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Contrepartie

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Consideration

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Un acte authentique/notarié

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A deed

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Exécutoire

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Enforceable

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Empêcher

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To estop

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Contrepartie parfaite

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Executed consideration

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Contrepartie promissoire

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Executory consideration

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Incité

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Induced

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Empêcher

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To estop, to prevent, to preclude

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Principe d’interdiction de se contredire au détriment d’autrui

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Promissory estoppel

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S’engager à

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To undertake

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La contrepartie doit émaner du bénéficiaire de la promesse

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Consideration must move from the promisee

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Moyennant la somme de

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In consideration for the sum of

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Etre étayé par une contrepartie valable

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To be supported by good consideration

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Etre sain d’esprit

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To be compos mentis, to be of sound mind

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Accord familial

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Domestic agreement

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  • Présomption irréfragable

- Présomption simple

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  • Irrebuttable presumption

- Rebuttable presumption

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Réfuter

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To rebut

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38
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Effet relatif des contrats

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Privity of contract

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39
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Préposé

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Agent

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Commettant

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Principal

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Céder/ une cession

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To assign/ an assignment

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  • Cédant

- Cessionnaire

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  • The assignor

- The assignee

43
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Agir pour le compte de quelqu’un

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To act on behalf of someone

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Un déséquilibre

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A discrepancy

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Faire partie du contrat

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To form part of the contract

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Le contrat doit être interprété comme signifiant que

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The contract must be construed as meaning that

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Indiquer les termes de l’accord

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To set out the terms of the agreement

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Offre soumis à condition suspensive

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Offer subject to …

49
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Nul et non avenu

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Null and void

50
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Une suggestion

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An allegation

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Un mandat

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A proxy

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Prendre les mesures nécessaires

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To take the necessary steps

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Les sommes restant dues

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Outstanding moneys

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De plein droit

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As of right

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Renversement de présomption

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Reversal of presumption

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Résoudre, annuler, invalider un contract

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Avoid a contract

Set aside a contract

57
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Clause de non concurrence

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Clause in restraint of trade

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Clause de sauvegarde

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Severability clause
= clause included in the contract usually by the stronger party which is supposed to protect the validity of the contract, even if there is stg wrong about it

59
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Clause d’exonération de responsabilité

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Exemption clause

60
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Mauvaise exécution contractuelle

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Defective performance

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Eteindre/extinction

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Discharge

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Exécution partielle

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Partial/part performance

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Vice (affectant/susceptible d’affecter la validité d’un contrat)

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vitiating factor

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Action en nullité pour violence

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An action to set aside for duress

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Présenter au tribunal une demande de condamnation du défendeur à payer au demandeur des DI pour rupture de contrat

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To seek from the court an order that the defendant pay the claimant damages for breach of contract

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Demander des DI au titre des divers chefs de préjudice subis

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To seek damages as compensation for the various heads of damage sustained

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Erreur sur la nature du contrat/erreur menant à une absence de consensualisme

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Cross-purposes mistake

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Erreur commune “vice du consentement”

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Common mistake/ identical mistake/ mutual mistake/ shared mistake

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Erreur obstacle

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Fundamental mistake

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Idée erronée, malentendu

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Misconception

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Erreur sur la personne/erreur sur l’identité du cocontractant

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Mistake as to the identity (of the other party)

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Erreur sur la qualité/ erreur sur la substance

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Mistake as to quality

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Erreur sur l’existence de la chose objet du contrat

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Mistake as to the existence of the subject matter

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Mal comprendre

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Misunderstand

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Fonctionnel

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Operative

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Précéder

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Precede

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Rectification : equitable remedy allowing the correction of a contractual document which does not accurately express the intention of the parties

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Rectification

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Comprendre quelqu’un de travers

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To be at cross-purposes with someone

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Se tromper sur quelque chose

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To be labouring under a misunderstanding about stg

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Contester qqch

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To call stg into question

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Faire une distinction subtile entre deux concepts

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To draw a fine distinction between 2 concepts

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Passible d’une action en justice

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Actionable

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Contrat basé sur la bonne foi

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Contract of utmost good faith

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Communiquer

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Disclose

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Fausse assertion

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False statement

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Motivation

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Inducement

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Fait pertinent

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Material fact

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Assertion

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Representation

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Assertion tacite

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Representation by conduct

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Boniment

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Sales talk

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Contribuer à qqch

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To play a part in stg

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Contraindre

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To coerce

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Obliger

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To compel

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Une contrainte

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A compulsion, a coercion

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Violence

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DUress

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Exercer

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To exert

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Dol, manoeuvres dolosives

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Undue influence

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