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scintilla juris [1 record]

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Record 1 2013-05-28

English

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

(A) spark (or remnant) of title. (Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. cxvi)

OBS

By this figurative expression was denoted the small particle of interest, which, by a fiction of law, was supposed to remain in a feoffee to uses, sufficient to support contingent uses afterwards coming into existence, and thereby enable the statute of uses to execute them. (Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1207)

French

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

parcelle de droit, scintilla juris : 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).

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