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REALTY [2 records]

Record 1 2020-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

[The] land, buildings, and anything attached to the land.

CONT

In early law, property was deemed "real" if the courts would restore to a dispossessed owner the thing itself[,] and not merely give compensation for the loss ... Consequently, a distinction was made between real property (or "realty"), which could be specifically recovered, and personal property (or "personalty"), which was not thus recoverable. In general, all interests in land are real property, with the exception of leaseholds[,] which are classified as personalty.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
DEF

[...] terreno o cualquier propiedad o mejora localizada en este, como pueden ser casas, jardines, pozos [u otros.]

OBS

bienes raíces; bienes inmuebles; bienes inmobiliarios: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que la expresión "real estate", que puede aludir a un terreno o propiedad física o también al sector inmobiliario, puede traducirse al español como "bienes raíces". [...] Otras opciones también válidas podrían ser "capital inmobiliario" o "bienes inmobiliarios".

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Record 2 2013-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

Real estate is a technical term and is generally to be construed in its technical sense. It comprises all freehold (and formerly copyhold) lands, tenements and hereditaments, but not leasehold interests.... "Real estate" includes, also, any rights in land, such as a rentcharge, which admit of being limited in the same manner as freehold estates or interests. (39 Hals., 4th, p. 214)

CONT

As the common law developed, real property came to mean that form of property which could be specifically recovered by a real action if possession were lost. Only freeholdings of land were thus recoverable in the realty. (Crossley Vaines, 5th, p. 6)

OBS

The terms "real property," "realty" and "real estate" are quasi-synonyms. "Real property" and "real estate" serve for distinct technical classifications. Originally, the use of the term "property" itself was confined to cases where the right included possession. The term "real property," as opposed to "personal property," was used to denote land and things attached to land so as to become part of it, as well as rights in the land which endure for a life. The term "real estate," as opposed to "personal estate," comprised all freehold (and formerly copyhold) lands, tenements and hereditaments (except leasehold interests) that a person owned, and also included any rights in land which could be limited in the same manner as freehold estates or interests. In modern usage, all three terms refer to the same object, comprising corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

biens réels : terme de classification; sens collectif.

OBS

biens réels : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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