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French to English translations [PRO] Environment & Ecology
French term or phrase:secteur de délaissement
A technological risk prevention plan has been drafted in respect of a chemical platform. The agreement I'm translating (a finance agreement) contains the following sentence: 'Les scénarii d’accident retenus pour la définition du périmètre d’étude du P.P.R.T. de la plate-forme chimique de xxx, dont l’élaboration a été prescrite par arrêté préfectoral du .. décembre 2011, conduisent à délimiter des **secteurs de délaissement* et d’expropriation très étendus, d’un coût financier très élevé'. I am stuck on both 'secteurs' but will post a separate question if anyone is able to help me on that one too. Thanks very much in advance!
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3D policy police combinée 3-D (TT) A.E.R.F. Practitioners' Award ... www.actuaries.ca/members/lexicon/lexta.html - Translate this page
1 août 2007 – ... LGA); abandonment clause: clause de délaissement (TT); abnormal ...... (RL); assessment of the risk: évaluation du risque, opinion du risque, ...
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3D policy police combinée 3-D (TT) A.E.R.F. Practitioners' Award ... www.actuaries.ca/members/lexicon/lexta.html - Translate this page
1 août 2007 – ... LGA); abandonment clause: clause de délaissement (TT); abnormal ...... (RL); assessment of the risk: évaluation du risque, opinion du risque, ...
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Explanation: First off, what's droit de délaissement >/i>?
Le droit de délaissement régi par le code de l’urbanisme confère au propriétaire d’un bâtiment ou partie de bâtiment situé dans le secteur de délaissement, la possibilité d’exiger l’acquisition de ce bien par la personne publique qui a institué ce droit, à un prix fixé à l’amiable ou par le juge de l’expropriation. http://www.ggm.drire.gouv.fr/environnement/projetHC/PPRT/SAR...
This is very similar to "inverse condemnation" and might be called "recognition of right to inverse condemnation" if there is not better term. Otherwise just "inverse condemnation" should work.
So, what is "inverse condemnation"?
Let's say the government builds a new motorway in my area. They expropriate landowners to acquire the footprint required for the project. Close to the new motorway I operate a retirement home which hitherto has enjoyed all the peace and quiet of the countryside.
If I consider that the motorway is harmful to my business because people will no longer want to live in my establishment, i can take legal action called "inverse condemnation" against the government, demanding that they purchase my property at its real (pre-motorway) value.
Délaissement is a recognition by the government that might be entitled to compensation (under the same rules as expropriation) if I am not content with the situation. But if I am happy to stay put, they are happy to let me.
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INVERSE CONDEMNATION is a term used in the law to describe a situation in which the government takes private property but fails to pay the compensation required by the 5th Amendment of Constitution. In some states the term also includes damaging of property as well as taking it. In order to be compensated, the owner must then sue the government. In such cases the owner is the plaintiff and that is why the action is called inverse – the order of parties is reversed, as compared to the usual procedure in direct condemnation where the government is the plaintiff who sues a defendant-owner to take his or her property.
The taking can be physical (e.g., land seizure, flooding, retention of possession after a lease to the government expires, deprivation of access, removal of ground support) or it can be a regulatory taking (when regulations are so onerous that they MAKE THE REGULATED PROPERTY UNUSABLE BY ITS OWNER FOR ANY REASONABLE OR ECONOMICALLY VIABLE PURPOSE). The latter is the most controversial form of inverse condemnation. It is considered to occur when the regulation of the property's use is so severe that it goes "too far," as Justice Holmes put it in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922), and deprives the owner of the property's value, utility or marketability, denying him or her the benefits of property ownership thus accomplishing a constitutionally forbidden de facto taking without compensation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_condemnation
INVERSE CONDEMNATION is a lawsuit brought by a property owner seeking compensation for land taken for a public use by a government entity with eminent domain powers. Eminent domain is the taking of private land for public use with payment of compensation by a government entity. Inverse condemnation actions are usually brought when the government has limited use of private land to an extent that the value of that land is greatly reduced, or where the government has allowed the public to make use of private land.
Inverse condemnation may be a direct, physical taking of or interference with real or personal property by a public entity. For example, INVERSE CONDEMNATION LIABILITY HAS BEEN FOUND DUE TO FLOODING, ESCAPING SEWAGE, INTERFERENCE WITH LAND STABILITY, IMPAIRMENT OF ACCESS, OR NOISE FROM OVERFLYING AIRCRAFT.
A claim of inverse condemnation may also arise from a “regulatory taking.” In such cases, a governemnt regulation is claimed to amount to a taking or damaging of property, such as overrly restrictive zoning regulations, denial of building or demolition permits, and burdensome conditions placed on development. http://definitions.uslegal.com/i/inverse-condemnation/
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