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ASSIGNMENT FUTURE PROPERTY [1 record]

Record 1 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

In such a case what purports to be an assignment is nothing more than an agreement to assign, under which even in equity nothing is capable of passing until the subject-matter comes into present existence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Le cédant ne peut céder que les biens dont il est propriétaire; il peut, toutefois, céder des biens futurs, mais la cession n'a effet à l'égard de ces biens qu'à compter du moment où il en devient propriétaire.

Spanish

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