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household weapons

French translation: des armes domestiques

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English term or phrase:household weapons
French translation:des armes domestiques
Entered by: Solen Fillatre

15:18 Feb 4, 2014
English to French translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
English term or phrase: household weapons
About Rwanda genocide. A questionnaire assessing whether a speech constitutes incitement to violence.

SENTENCE: Does the audience have access to resources? Resources should be understood as weapons (military or ***household***), militias, etc.

I am assuming this refers to more crude weapons, like innocuous stuff one can find in one's home and use as a weapon? Like knives maybe?
Solen Fillatre
France
Local time: 16:37
des armes domestiques
Explanation:
Yes, you are right! Any carving knife, for instance, can be a weapon!!

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Note added at 15 mins (2014-02-04 15:34:03 GMT)
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I should use brackets :"des armes domestiques"
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Pierre POUSSIN
France
Local time: 16:37
Grading comment
thank you
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5des armes domestiques
Pierre POUSSIN
4armes par destination
Christian Fournier
4armes civiles
Julien Mulas
4instruments domestiques utilisés comme armes
HERBET Abel
Summary of reference entries provided
made or adapted vs intended
Daryo

  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
des armes domestiques


Explanation:
Yes, you are right! Any carving knife, for instance, can be a weapon!!

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Note added at 15 mins (2014-02-04 15:34:03 GMT)
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I should use brackets :"des armes domestiques"

Pierre POUSSIN
France
Local time: 16:37
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 200
Grading comment
thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Didier Fourcot: Les célèbres machettes
15 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
1 hr
  -> Merci et bonne soirée!
agree  Kévin Bernier
9 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Daryo
12 hrs
  -> Merci!
agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
13 hrs
  -> Merci bien!
neutral  Jocelyne Cuenin: en effet, sans guillemets pour "domestiques", cela passe certainement pour les Canadiens, mais moi, je bute sur cette expression.
22 hrs
  -> Merci!
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
armes par destination


Explanation:
semble être le terme consacré, entre autres pour une machette...


    Reference: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arme_par_destination
Christian Fournier
France
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 42

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jocelyne Cuenin: intéressant avec l'opposition arme par nature.
9 mins
  -> Merci !
disagree  Daryo: la distinction entre "arme par conception" et "arme par usage" n'est pas l'objet de ce texte, la distinction est entre "armes aux mains des militaires" et "armes disponibles à la maison" qu'elles soient des armes par conception, adaptées ou par usage
12 hrs
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
armes civiles


Explanation:
Par opposition aux armes militaires (military).


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arme

http://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/files/directions_services/...

Julien Mulas
France
Local time: 16:37
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PRO pts in category: 21
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
instruments domestiques utilisés comme armes


Explanation:
je pense

HERBET Abel
Local time: 16:37
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Reference comments


12 hrs
Reference: made or adapted vs intended

Reference information:
Possession of an Offensive Weapon

Section 1 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 prohibits the possession in any public place of an offensive weapon without lawful authority or excuse. (Archbold 24-106a.)

The term 'offensive weapon' is defined as: "any article made or adapted for use to causing injury to the person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use".

The courts have been reluctant to find many weapons as falling within the first limb of the definition and reliance should usually be placed upon the second. On that basis, it must be shown that the defendant intended to use the article for causing injury (Archbold 24-115).

Lord Lane, CJ. in R v Simpson (C) (78 Cr. App. R. 115), identified three categories of offensive weapons:

--- those made for causing injury to the person i.e. offensive per se. For examples of weapons that are offensive per se, see Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988, (Stones 8-22745) and case law decisions. (Archbold 24-116). The Criminal Justice Act (1988) (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment) Order 2008 came into force on 6th April 2008 with the effect that a sword with a curved blade of 50cm or more (samurai sword), has been added to the schedule to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988;
--- those adapted for such a purpose;
--- those not so made or adapted, but carried with the intention of causing injury to the person.

In the first two categories, the prosecution does not have to prove that the defendant had the weapon with him for the purpose of inflicting injury: if the jury are sure that the weapon is offensive per se, the defendant will only be acquitted if he establishes lawful authority or reasonable excuse.

[http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/offensive_weapons_knives_...]

Daryo
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 112
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