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Dec 20, 2006 16:53
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French term
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Libre Defaillant / Libre Present
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Court hearing
At the start of the document, details of where and when the hearing has taken place and detailing that it is the public prosecutor against the various accused persons. There is a list of the four accused, under the first three it states- just on its own - after detailing their names, date/place of birth, civil status, etc...
LIBRE DEFAILLANT
and under one of them
LIBRE PRESENT
I understand that the "defaillant" relates to the defendant not appearing in court and the "present" obviously means they turned up! But combined with the "libre" I'm not sure how to translate it/understand the sense of libre here, other than free....Any ideas
LIBRE DEFAILLANT
and under one of them
LIBRE PRESENT
I understand that the "defaillant" relates to the defendant not appearing in court and the "present" obviously means they turned up! But combined with the "libre" I'm not sure how to translate it/understand the sense of libre here, other than free....Any ideas
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| 4 | in the community |
Bourth (X)
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| 2 | defaulter/present |
Gad Kohenov
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defaulter/present
One is present in the court the other is a defaulter. As for libre maybe it means "liberte surveillee"? which is conditional release or on probation.
I hope this is of any help to you.
I hope this is of any help to you.
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: guessing really doesn't work for legal docs. we can all guess at what they mean but it's usually best to know for sure.
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in the community
I'm sure there is better legalistic term, but I would understand this to mean that the defendants were "in the community", as opposed to being incarcerated prior to their court appearance - which would be why one of them is "défaillant".
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I can think of legal words for what "libre" is not - in custody, detained - but not their opposites. "On bail" might work, but we don't know if any bail was ever set. And of course "at large" is what the person "défaillant" is now.
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I think the following suggest that it is a fair guess:
nul l'ordre de remise en liberté de Michel Kilo qui n'a pu se présenter libre à son procès", poursuit l'organisation de défense de liberté de la presse. ...
www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-29136057@7-37,0.html
Si le journaliste doit être interrogé dans le cadre de cette affaire, il doit pouvoir se présenter libre devant le juge. Nous avions eu l’occasion, déjà, ...
www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7116
Bové cherche à se présenter libre, sans se faire prendre par les gendarmes. A son arrivée, les gendarmes l'arrêtent donc et il se fait prendre en photo au ...
www.fdesouche.com/index.php?2006/05/28/219-qui-est-jose-bov...
mais Tandju Colak pourra néanmoins se présenter libre, au mois de septembre, devant la Cour suprême turque pour une toute nouvelle affaire de voiture ...
www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/1993-08-31/1993-08-31-683184
Dernièrement, on avait vu l'homme se présenter libre à la cour d'appel, mais c'était dans le cadre d'un congé pénitentiaire. Aujourd'hui, nous avons appris ...
www.dhnet.be/dhinfos/article.phtml?id=140134
Julien Bellanger et Karim Kebili, interpellés lundi matin à Estrées-Saint-Denis dans le cadre d'une enquête sur un trafic de stupéfiants attendront leur procès en prison.
C'est ce qu'a décidé hier matin le tribunal de Compiègne.
Le troisième homme interpellé en début de semaine dans cette même affaire pourra, quant à lui, se présenter libre à la barre du tribunal jeudi 21 décembre...
www.fmcradio.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3810
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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2006-12-22 01:28:18 GMT)
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I've always associated "bail" with payment of money, but it appears that is a "bail bond". "On bail" may be it.
"bail - Release from custody of a person accused of crime before trial, or of a person convicted of a crime, pending appeal or sentence ... Bail must be granted unless there is reason to believe that the accused would abscond, commit further offences while on bail, or interfere with the course of justice"
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Note added at 36 mins (2006-12-20 17:30:17 GMT)
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I can think of legal words for what "libre" is not - in custody, detained - but not their opposites. "On bail" might work, but we don't know if any bail was ever set. And of course "at large" is what the person "défaillant" is now.
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Note added at 1 hr (2006-12-20 18:08:44 GMT)
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I think the following suggest that it is a fair guess:
nul l'ordre de remise en liberté de Michel Kilo qui n'a pu se présenter libre à son procès", poursuit l'organisation de défense de liberté de la presse. ...
www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-29136057@7-37,0.html
Si le journaliste doit être interrogé dans le cadre de cette affaire, il doit pouvoir se présenter libre devant le juge. Nous avions eu l’occasion, déjà, ...
www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7116
Bové cherche à se présenter libre, sans se faire prendre par les gendarmes. A son arrivée, les gendarmes l'arrêtent donc et il se fait prendre en photo au ...
www.fdesouche.com/index.php?2006/05/28/219-qui-est-jose-bov...
mais Tandju Colak pourra néanmoins se présenter libre, au mois de septembre, devant la Cour suprême turque pour une toute nouvelle affaire de voiture ...
www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/1993-08-31/1993-08-31-683184
Dernièrement, on avait vu l'homme se présenter libre à la cour d'appel, mais c'était dans le cadre d'un congé pénitentiaire. Aujourd'hui, nous avons appris ...
www.dhnet.be/dhinfos/article.phtml?id=140134
Julien Bellanger et Karim Kebili, interpellés lundi matin à Estrées-Saint-Denis dans le cadre d'une enquête sur un trafic de stupéfiants attendront leur procès en prison.
C'est ce qu'a décidé hier matin le tribunal de Compiègne.
Le troisième homme interpellé en début de semaine dans cette même affaire pourra, quant à lui, se présenter libre à la barre du tribunal jeudi 21 décembre...
www.fmcradio.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3810
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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2006-12-22 01:28:18 GMT)
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I've always associated "bail" with payment of money, but it appears that is a "bail bond". "On bail" may be it.
"bail - Release from custody of a person accused of crime before trial, or of a person convicted of a crime, pending appeal or sentence ... Bail must be granted unless there is reason to believe that the accused would abscond, commit further offences while on bail, or interfere with the course of justice"
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: free on bail is what comes to mind but there is no point in guessing. Asker may have to check with client to verify what they mean, unless there is more context elsewhere in the doc.
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