Index of Terms
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- Abandonment
- Abatement
- Abridgment
- Absolute discharge
- Absolute jurisdiction offence
- Absolute liability
- Absolute state immunity
- Abuse of process
- Accession
- Accident
- Account of profits
- Accountability
- Accretion
- Accused
- Acquiescence
- Acquittal
- Act
- Act of God
- Actio per quod consortium amisit
- Actio per quod servitium amisit
- Action
- Action on the case
- Actionable per se
- Actus reus
- Address of Parliament
- Adjournment
- Adjudicative facts
- Adoption
- Adoptionist
- Adult
- Adult detention
- Adult sentence
- Adversarial
- Affidavit
- Affiliated corporations
- Affirmation
- Affirmative action
- Agency costs
- Agency shop provision
- Aggravated damages
- Aggrieved
- Agreement
- Aid and abet
- Alias
- Alien
- Allege
- Alternative measures
- Alternative minimum tax (AMT)
- Alternative vote
- Amalgamation
- Amicus curiae
- AMT
- Ancillary powers doctrine
- Animal rights
- Animal welfare
- Ankus
- Annexation
- Annual meeting
- Anticipation
- Anticipatory self-defence
- Anton Piller order
- Appeal
- Appearance notice
- Appellant
- Appellate court
- Applicant
- Application
- Application for judicial review
- Archipelagic state
- Archipelagic waters
- Armed attack
- Arm's length
- Arraignment
- Arrest
- Arrest warrant
- Articles of Association
- Articles of Incorporation
- Assault
- Assignment
- Assignor estoppel
- Associated enterprises
- At pleasure
- Attempt
- Attendance order
- Attorney General
- Attributability
- Audi alteram partem
- Auditor
- Auditor General
- Authentication
- Authorized capital
- Automatism
- Autrefois acquit
- Autrefois convict
- Average tax rate
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- Bag limit
- Bail
- Bail de novo
- Bail hearing
- Bail review
- Bail verification
- Bail violation
- Bailment
- Balance of probabilities
- Baseline
- Battery
- Bay
- Beast wagon
- Bench warrant
- Bench warrant with discretion
- Berne
- Berne Convention
- Beyond a reasonable doubt
- Bias
- Bilateral treaty
- Bill
- Bill C-32
- Binding intent
- Black
- Blog
- Bluebook
- Bond
- Boolean operators
- Bootleg
- Branch
- Branch profits tax
- Breach of confidence
- Broiler
- Burden of proof
- By-laws
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- Cabinet
- Cabinet confidence
- Cabinet solidarity
- Calvo clause
- Canada Gazette
- Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
- Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC)
- CanLII
- Capital
- Capital cost allowance (CCA)
- Capital gain
- Capital gains tax
- Capital impairment test
- Case
- Case comment
- Case management
- Case name
- Catchwords
- Caucus
- Causation
- Cause in fact
- Cause of action
- Caution
- CCA
- Certiorari
- Cession
- Cestui que use
- Cgk
- Challenge for cause
- Change of venue
- Chapeau
- Charge
- Charge document
- Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Charterparty
- Chattel
- Chief Electoral Officer
- Child
- CIF
- CIPO
- Circle sentencing
- Citation
- Civil law
- Civil mental health care system
- Civil search warrant
- Claim date
- Claimant
- Class action
- Class of shares
- Clean hands
- Clean slate doctrine
- Clearance
- Closed shop provision
- Closely held corporation
- Co-ownership
- Collateral
- Collateral attack
- Collective security
- Collective self-defence, right of
- Colonized people
- Colony
- Coming into force
- Commercial expression
- Commissioner of Canada Elections
- Commissioner of Lobbying
- Common heritage of humankind
- Common heritage of mankind
- Common law
- Community programs
- Community service
- Community service order
- Community supervision
- Company
- Compensatory damages
- Compensatory mortality
- Competent authority
- Competent lawyer
- Complainant
- Concession contract
- Concurrent sentence
- Conditional discharge
- Conditional sentence
- Conditional supervision
- Conditions of probation
- Conference
- Confidence vote
- Confidentiality
- Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
- Conflict of laws
- Conquest
- Consent
- Consent to be bound
- Consolidated Revenue Fund
- Conspiracy
- Constating documents
- Constitution Act, 1867
- Constitution/Constitutional Law
- Constitution of Canada
- Constitutional "principle"
- Constitutional convention
- Constitutional exemption
- Consular protection
- Consultant lobbyist
- Consumer surplus
- Consumption taxes
- Contempt of court
- Contemptuous (derisory) damages
- Contextual analysis
- Contiguity, principle of
- Contiguous zone
- Contingency fee lobbyist
- Contingency payment
- Continuing trespass
- Continuity, principle of
- Contracting party
- Contribution
- Contributory negligence
- Controlled foreign affiliate
- Convention
- Conventional damages
- Conventional international law
- Conversion
- Conviction
- Cookies
- Copyright
- Copyright Board
- Corporate governance
- Corporate tax
- Corporation
- Corroborating evidence
- Counselling
- Count
- Counterclaim
- Countermeasures
- Court mental health worker
- Court of Appeal
- Court of criminal jurisdiction
- Courts/Judiciary
- CPIC
- Credit method
- Criminal Code
- Criminal justice system
- Criminal record
- Criminal responsibility
- Criminalization
- Cross-border transactions
- Crown
- Crown attorney
- Crown brief
- Crown election
- Crown prosecutor
- Cruelty
- Cull
- Curative proviso
- Curtilage
- Custody
- Custody and supervision
- Customary international law
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- Damages
- Dangerous offender
- De minimis non curat lex
- De novo hearing
- De-snood
- Debeak
- Debenture
- Declaration
- Declaratory proceedings
- Decolonization
- Deep seabed
- Deep web
- Defamation
- Defence counsel
- Defendant
- Deference
- Deferred custody and supervision
- Deferred taxes
- Dehorn
- Deinstitutionalization
- Delayed declaration of invalidity
- Delegated legislation
- Delinquent
- Denunciation
- Dependent agent
- Deponent
- Derisory damages
- Detention
- Determinate
- Deterrence
- Dialogue
- Dictionaries, legal
- Diplomatic immunity
- Diplomatic protection
- Direct attack
- Direct indictment
- Directly affected
- Director
- Directors' resolutions
- Disbursements
- Discharge
- Discharge possible date
- Disclaimer
- Disclosure
- Discovery
- Discretionary bench warrant
- Disease of the mind
- Disposition
- Dissection
- Dissent and appraisal right
- Dissident proxy circular
- Dissolution
- Distress
- Distress damage feasant
- Distributing corporation
- Diversion
- Dividends
- Division of powers
- Divisional Court
- DNA Warrant
- Domestic affairs
- Domestic law
- Domestic legal system
- Domesticated
- Downer
- Dual procedure offence
- Dualism
- Due diligence
- Due process
- Duress
- Duty counsel
- Duty of care
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- Easement
- Economic double taxation
- Effects doctrine
- Ejusdem generis
- Election
- Election advertising
- Election by the accused
- Election by the Crown
- Election expense
- Electoral district
- Electoral district association
- Electronic footprint
- Employee
- Employer-provided health and dental benefits
- Enforcement jurisdiction
- Enjoin
- Enterprise liability
- Entrapment
- Equality
- Equitable rights
- Equity, Equitable rights
- Erga omnes
- Error of law on the face of the record
- Espousal of claim
- Estate
- Estoppel
- Estrada doctrine
- EU
- European Economic Community
- European Patent Convention (EPC)
- European Union
- Evocation
- Ex debito justitiae
- Ex parte
- Ex parte injunction
- Ex relator
- Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
- Examination for discovery
- Excise tax
- Exclusion of evidence
- Exclusive economic zone
- Exclusive jurisdiction offence
- Exemplary damages
- Exemption method
- Exemption with progression
- Exhaustion of local remedies
- Exigible
- Expert evidence
- Expressio unius est exclusio alternius
- Expression
- Expunge
- Extirpated
- Extradition
- Extrajudicial measures
- Extrajudicial sanctions
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- Factum
- False imprisonment
- Family group conference
- Family income
- Family trusts
- Fault element
- Federal Court of Canada
- Federalism
- Federalism review
- Feral
- Fiduciary
- Fiduciary duty
- Field
- FILAC
- Fingerprint classification
- First generation human rights
- First-party insurance
- Fisheries zone
- Fitness to stand trial
- Flag state
- Flat tax
- Flow-through share
- Force majeure
- Foreign affiliate
- Foreign trusts
- Forensic
- Forensic psychiatrist
- Forensic system
- Forms and precedents
- Fractional share
- Franchise
- Fraud
- Freedom
- Freelancer
- Frontier incident
- Full powers
- Fully paid and non-assessable shares
- Fundamental change of circumstances
- Fundamental justice
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- ICT Right
- Impartial
- Impeach
- Implementation
- Implementational duties
- Implied authorization
- Implied bill of rights
- Implied exclusion rule
- Imputability
- In camera
- In force
- In-house lobbyist
- In personam
- In rem
- In specie
- Income
- Income testing
- Incorporation
- Incorporationist
- Indemnification
- Indemnity
- Independence
- Indeterminate
- Indictable offence
- Indictment
- Indivisible damage
- Inducement to breach a contract
- Industrial design
- Industrial school
- Information
- Information Commissioner
- Informational duties
- Infringement
- Injunction
- Injurious falsehood
- Innocent passage, right of
- Input tax credits
- Integrated Circuit Topography Right
- Intellectual property
- Intensive rehabilitative custody and supervision
- Intensive support and supervision
- Intention
- Inter alia
- Inter vivos
- Intergovernmental organization
- Interim or interlocutory relief
- Interlocutory relief
- Intermittent sentence
- Internal affairs
- Internal law/legal system
- Internal waters
- International claim
- International Court of Justice
- International Law Commission (ILC)
- International legal person
- International minimum standard
- International organization
- International strait
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Intertemporal rule
- Intervener
- Intoxication
- Intra-jurisdictional
- Invalidity
- Investigative detention
- Investment income
- Investment tax credit
- Inviolability
- Invisible web
- Invitee
- Irrefragable
- Isobath
- ISP
- Issue estoppel
- Issued capital
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- Joinder
- Joint and several liability
- Joint submission
- Joint venture
- Judicial activism
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- Judicial decisions
- Judicial history
- Judicial independence
- Judicial interim release
- Judicial notice
- Judicial precedent
- Judicial restraint
- Judicial review
- Judicial treatment
- Jure gestionis
- Jure imperii
- Juridical double taxation
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction-conferring
- Jurisdictional immunity
- Jury
- Jury array
- Jus ad bellum
- Jus cogens
- Jus in bello
- Jus sanguinis
- Jus solis
- Jus tertii
- Justice
- Justice of the peace
- Juvenile delinquent
- Juvenile Delinquents Act
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- Law-making treaty
- Law of nations
- Layer
- LCSH
- LCT
- League of Nations
- Legal aid
- Legal citation
- Legalese
- Legislative facts
- Legislative override
- Legitimate expectation
- Letters patent
- Lex ferenda
- Lex lata
- LexisNexis Quicklaw
- Liability insurance
- Libel
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
- Licence
- Licensee estoppel
- Lieutenant governor in council
- Limitation
- Limitation of action
- Limitations of benefits
- Limited liability partnership
- Limited partnership
- Liquidation
- Lis pendens
- Listservs
- Litigation
- Local customary international law
- Local law/legal system
- Locus standi
- Loss carryovers
- LSVCC
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- Malice
- Malicious prosecution
- Management proxy circular
- Mandamus
- Mandatory parole
- Manual of Patent Office Practice
- Manual of Patent Office Practice
- Manufacturing and Processing (M&P) Tax Credit
- Mareva injunction
- Marginal tax rate
- Market deterrence
- Material breach
- McGill Guide
- Measure
- Memorandum and articles of association
- Mens rea
- Mental disorder
- Mental disorder or insanity defence
- Mental element
- Mental Health Act
- Mental health court
- Mental health court support worker
- Mental health diversion
- Mentally disordered accused
- Mere frontier incident
- Mesne profits
- Metropolitan power
- Minimal impairment
- Minister of state
- Ministerial responsibility
- Ministry
- Minute book
- Misappropriation
- Misappropriation of personality
- Miscarriage of justice
- Misfeasance
- Misfeasance in public office
- Mitigation of loss
- Monism
- Mootness
- MOPOP
- Moral innocence
- Moral rights
- Moral schizophrenia
- Moral voluntariness
- Motion
- Multi-lateral treaty
- Municipal law/legal system
- Mutuality
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- NAFTA
- National law/legal system
- National treatment
- Nationality principle
- Natural justice
- Nautical mile
- Necessity
- Negative right
- Negligence
- Neighbouring rights
- Nemo dat quod non habet
- Nemo judex in sua (propria) causa (debet esse)
- Nervous shock
- Net income
- NetLetters
- Neutral citation
- Newly independent state
- No certiorari clause
- No-fault compensation
- NOC proceeding
- Nominal damages
- Non-derogable norm of international law
- Non-intervention, principle of
- Non-pecuniary damages
- Non-resident
- Non-violent offence
- Nonfeasance
- Nonsuit
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Noscitur a sociis
- Note up
- Notwithstanding clause
- Novelty
- Novus actus interveniens
- Nuisance (private)
- Nuisance (public)
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- Oakes test
- Oath
- Obiter dicta
- Objection to reservation
- Objective regime
- Objective territorial principle
- Obligations erga omnes
- Obviousness
- Occupation
- Occupier
- Occupiers' liability
- Occurrence
- Occurrence number
- OECD commentary
- Offence
- Officer
- Officer-in-charge
- Officers of Parliament
- Ombudsman
- Omission
- Online discussion groups
- Ontario Court of Justice
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice
- Opinio juris
- Opinio juris sive necessitatis
- Opinion evidence
- Opposable
- Order-in-Council
- Ordinary resolution
- Originality
- Outstanding charge
- Overbreadth
- Override
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- Pacta sunt servanda
- Par value
- Parallel citation
- Parallel import
- Pardon
- Parens patriae
- Parent
- Parent corporation
- Paris Convention
- Parliament of Canada
- Parliamentary law
- Parliamentary privileges
- Parliamentary secretary
- Parliamentary supremacy
- Parol
- Parole
- Parolee
- Partner
- Partnership
- Party
- Passing off
- Passive personality principle
- Patent
- Patent Appeal Board
- Patent unreasonableness
- Patentee
- Peace bond
- Peace officer
- Pecuniary damages
- Peremptory challenge
- Peremptory norm of international law
- Perjury
- Permanent Court of International Justice
- Permanent establishment
- Permission
- Persistent objector
- Personal expense
- Personal injury
- Personal tax
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Piracy; pirated goods
- Place of incorporation test
- Plaintiff
- Plant Breeder's Right
- Plea
- Plea bargain
- Plea resolution discussion
- Pleadings
- Plebescite
- Police synopsis
- Policy
- Political donation
- Political party
- Portfolio investments
- POSITA
- Positive right
- Possession of chattels
- Possession of land
- Pre-disposition report
- Pre-emptive rights
- Pre-emptive self-defence
- Pre-sentence report
- Preclusive clause
- Preferred indictment
- Preliminary inquiry
- Preliminary or collateral
- Prerogative power
- Prerogative writ
- Prescription
- Prescriptive jurisdiction
- Presumption of conformity with international law
- Presumption of constitutionality
- Presumption of innocence
- Presumptive offence
- Pretium affectionis
- Prima facie
- Primary legal resources
- Prior restraint
- Priority
- Privacy Commissioner
- Private action
- Private bill
- Private company
- Private international law
- Private issuer
- Private member's bill
- Private prosecution
- Privative clause
- Privy Council
- Privy Council Office
- Probation
- Probation officer
- Problem-solving court
- Procedural fairness
- Proclamation
- Production
- Profits
- Progress report
- Prohibited act
- Prohibition
- Promise to appear
- Proportional representation
- Proportionality
- Proportionate liability
- Prorogation
- Prosecution
- Prosecutor
- Prospective relief
- Prospectus
- Protective principle
- Prothonotary
- Protocol
- Provincial court
- Provincial director
- Provocation
- Proxy
- Psychological detention
- Public bill
- Public company
- Public domain
- Public interest standing
- Public international law
- Public prosecution
- Public welfare offence
- Publicist
- Punitive damages
- Purposive approach
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- R.
- Rateably
- Ratification
- Rational connection
- Ratione materiae immunity
- Ratione personae immunity
- Reading down
- Reading in
- Reasonable expectation of privacy
- Rebus sic stantibus
- Recall
- Receiver General for Canada
- Recidivism
- Recklessness
- Recognition
- Recognizance
- Record
- Record date
- Redemption
- Reference
- Referendum
- Reformatory
- Refundable tax credit
- Regional customary international law
- Regional human rights
- Registrant
- Registrar
- Regulation
- Regulatory offence
- Reissue
- Relator action or proceeding
- Remand (adjournment)
- Remoteness of damages
- Renunciation
- Reparation
- Replevin
- Res communis
- Res ipsa loquitur
- Res nullius
- Rescission
- Reservation
- Reserve powers
- Resident
- Resolutions
- Respondent
- Responsibility to protect
- Responsible government
- Restitio in integrum
- Restitution
- Restorative justice
- Restrictive state immunity
- Retribution
- Retroactive relief
- Returning officer
- Reverse onus
- Riding
- Right-holder
- Right of collective self-defence
- Right of remuneration
- Right of self-defence
- Right of transit passage
- Right of unilateral humanitarian intervention
- Riparian
- Rome Convention
- Royal assent
- Royal consent
- Royal prerogative
- Royal recommendation
- Royalties
- Rule of law
- Ruminant
- Rylands v. Fletcher (the rule in)
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- Satisfaction
- Scienter action
- Search
- Search and seizure
- Search warrant
- Second generation human rights
- Secondary legal resources
- Section 96 court
- Sector theory
- Securities
- Securities register
- Security Council
- Sed quaere
- Segment
- Self-defence
- Self-defence, right of
- Senate Ethics Officer
- Sentence
- Sentence review
- Sentencing hearing
- Sentience
- Separation of powers
- Series of shares
- Serious violent offence
- Serve
- Service mark
- Several concurrent tortfeasers
- Several liability
- Severance
- Sexual tort claim
- Share
- Shareholder
- Shareholders' resolutions
- Sheriff
- Short-form amalgamation
- Show cause hearing
- Signatory
- Signature
- Single transferrable vote
- Slander
- Small business deduction (SBD)
- Soft law
- Sole proprietorship
- Solicitation of proxies
- SOR
- Sovereignty
- Speaker
- Special customary international law
- Special duty counsel
- Special meeting
- Special resolution
- Speciesism
- Specific intent
- Standard of review
- Standing
- Standing committee
- Standing order
- Stare decisis
- State
- State continuity
- State immunity
- State practice
- State responsibility
- State succession
- Stated capital
- Status offence
- Statute
- Statute of Monopolies
- Statutory appeal
- Statutory instrument
- Statutory Orders and Regulations
- Stay of proceedings
- Strategic alliance
- Strict liability
- Style of cause
- Subject of international law
- Subjective territorial principle
- Subjudice convention
- Subpoena
- Subsidiary
- Sui generis
- Summary conviction offence
- Summons
- Superior court
- Superior court of criminal jurisdiction
- Supervening impossibility of performance
- Supranational
- Surety
- Surtax
- Suspended declaration of invalidity
- Suspended sentence
- Suspension
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- Tariff Preference Levels
- Tax base
- Tax collection agreement
- Tax credit
- Tax deduction
- Tax deferral
- Tax-exempt goods and services
- Tax expenditure
- Tax shelter
- Tax sparing
- Taxable income
- Taxing officer
- Telewarrant
- Temporary suspension of invalidity
- Termination
- Terms of release
- Territorial principle
- Territorial sea
- Testimony
- Theft
- Therapeutic jurisprudence
- Thin capitalization
- Thin capitalization
- Thin-skull rule
- Third generation human rights
- Third-party spending
- Time bomb
- TMO
- Tokyo Round codes
- Tort
- Tortfeasor
- Total income
- Toxic tort
- Trace
- Tracing
- Trade-mark
- Trade-marks Office
- Trade-marks Opposition Board
- Trade-name
- Trade secret
- Trademark
- Trademark
- Training school
- Transformationist
- Transit passage, right of
- Transparent
- Travaux préparatoires
- Treasury Board
- Treatment order
- Treaty
- Trespass
- Trespass ab initio
- Trespass by relation
- Trespass to chattels
- Trespass to land
- Trespasser
- Trier of fact
- TRIPS Agreement
- Trusts
- Twenty-one-year deemed disposition rule
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- UCC
- Ultra vires
- Unanimous shareholders' agreement
- Unbiased
- Under-inclusive law
- Undertaking
- Unfair competition
- Unfit to stand trial
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Uniform Resource Locator
- Unilateral declaration
- Unitary taxation
- United Nations
- United Nations Security Council
- Universal Copyright Convention
- Universal human rights
- Universal principle
- Unlimited liability company
- Unreasonableness
- Unreasonableness simpliciter
- Unreported decision
- URL
- Use
- Usefulness; utility
- Uti possidetis
- Utility
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