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ALIENATION SUBINFEUDATION [3 records]

Record 1 2013-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

As subinfeudation, it would appear, has never been possible in Ontario, all alienations are, therefore, by way of substitution. The early method of alienation provided by the common law was feoffment with livery of seisin.(Mendes da Costa & Balfour, 1982, p. 359)

French

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

fieffement par livrée de saisine : 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 2012-10-23

English

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

The Statute "Quia Emptores" forbade alienation by subinfeudation and removed all restraints on alienation by substitution of an estate in fee simple that had previously existed. The statute is in force in all the common law jurisdictions of Canada.... the statute has been described as a pillar of real property law, for it still operates, whenever a person sells his land, to put the purchaser in the vendor's place.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 114)

OBS

The alternative to subinfeudation was substitution. B might grant to C not by creating a new tenure but by letting C step into his shoes so that C became, and B ceased to be, tenant of A. (Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 30

Key term(s)
  • substitution alienation

French

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

aliénation par substitution : 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 3 2012-09-14

English

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

Prior to("Quia Emptores") the number of subtenures had greatly increased by the process of subinfeudation. By this process a tenant, instead of alienating his land outright for a capital sum, created a new tenurial relationship between himself and another whereby the other person became his tenant of the land in return for a perpetual grant or service. The new tenant might create a further subtenure and in theory the process could go on "ad infinitum". "Quia Emptores" accomplished two important objectives. In the first place it abolished alienation by subinfeudation and secondly, it endorsed the principle of alienation by substitution.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 23)

French

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

aliénation par sous-inféodation : 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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