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BENEFICE VEUF [2 records]

Record 1 2014-02-21

English

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

Tenancy by the curtesy ... is a husband's life estate in his deceased wife's undisposed of real property.... (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 150)

CONT

To entitle a husband to a tenancy by the curtesy, the requisites were a valid marriage, seisin of the wife, issue capable of inheriting and death of the wife. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 207)

French

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

tenance du veuf; bénéfice du veuf : 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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Record 2 2013-01-28

English

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

Curtesy was the right of a husband to an estate for his life, expectant on the death of his wife, in the entirety of land and hereditaments of the wife of which she was seised for an estate of inheritance, subject to his having had issue by her born alive who were capable of inheriting the property from her. (Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 319).

OBS

In addition to the life estate created by the act of a person, there are the legal life estates, that is, those created by operation of law. These are curtesy and dower. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 29).

OBS

courtesy: In Scotslan ...

French

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

bénéfice du veuf : 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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