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ESTATE FEE SIMPLE [2 records]

Record 1 2012-12-18

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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

El dominio propiamente dicho o propiedad; el dominio directo y a la vez útil sobre una cosa.

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Record 2 2012-12-18

English

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

An estate in fee simple is the greatest interest and property in land the law allows. It is a freehold estate of inheritance. (Cartwright, 1972, p. 328).

OBS

The estate in fee simple is of uncertain duration, a characteristic of all freehold estates. It comes to an end on the death of the owner intestate and without heirs, when it escheats to the Crown. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 99).

French

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

domaine en fief simple; fief simple : termes normalisés 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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