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Record 1 2013-04-18

English

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

An offer once made is not revoked until the person to whom the offer is made is actually notified of the revocation thereof before he has accepted the offer. No formal notice of the revocation is necessary and a subsequent sale or contract for sale of the property to another party, the actual knowledge of the prior offeree, will constitute "a revocation" of the prior offer, but the mere recording of the deed, under a statute which makes the recording of a deed constructive notice to subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers, is not of itself notice of the revocation of an offer of sale made to a prior offeree.(91 C. J. S., p. 286)

French

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

Par extension métonymique, le terme désigne aussi le document consignant l'offre. Le syntagme verbal correspondant "offer for sale" peut se rendre en français par «offrir en vente».

OBS

offre de vente : 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 2 2012-10-17

English

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

Notice of certain facts that may be discovered by diligence or inquiry into a public record; a legal presumption that a person is responsible for knowing these facts. The proper recording of a document gives constructive notice to the world of the document's existence and contents. Possession of property also imparts constructive notice of the rights of the party in possession. Examples of rights of parties in possession would be rights under an unrecorded deed, contract for deed, lease-option, and rights of adverse possession. Constructive notice is also referred to as legal notice, in contrast to actual notice, which is express or direct knowledge acquired in the course of a transaction.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 100).

French

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

connaissance de droit : 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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