omission or default

omission or default

Canada Business Corporations Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44

217. ...
(k) after notice has been given to all interested parties, an order relieving a liquidator from any omission or default on such terms as the court thinks fit and confirming any act of the liquidator;

The linguistic versions differ as to content. The terms "omission or default" used in the English version have a meaning that is narrower than the term "faute" used in the French version. The term "manquement" is now used in most recently adopted legislation referring to the same concept in the context of liquidation of corporations.

In the French version, "fautes" is replaced by "manquements".

(Amendment to the French version only)

217. ...
k) sur avis à tous les intéressés, de décharger le liquidateur de ses manquements, selon les modalités que le tribunal estime pertinentes, et de confirmer ses actes;

Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 3, S.C. 2011, c. 21, s. 62(2).