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RIGHT POSSESSION [5 records]

Record 1 2016-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone
OBS

droit de possession : terme tiré du Mini-lexique du droit des autochtones et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-08-07

English

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

A person having actual possession is presumed to have the right of property and is accordingly entitled to have his possession protected unless anyone can prove a superior title. Even if he has no right to possession, he is entitled as against a stranger or a wrongdoer to have the rights and remedies of a person entitled to possession. ("Oxford Companion to Law", 1980, p. 971).

French

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

droit à la possession : 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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Record 3 2015-08-07

English

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

Wrongful possession is where a person takes possession of property to which he is not entitled, so that the possession and the right of possession are in one person, and the right to possession in another. (Jowitt, p. 1389)

French

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

Le terme désigne généralement le droit qui découle de la possession de fait.

OBS

droit de possession : 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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Record 4 1994-06-13

English

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

as opposed to a right in expectancy

French

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

par opposition à un droit à naître

Spanish

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Record 5 1988-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances

Spanish

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