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BENEFICIAL ENJOYMENT [3 records]

Record 1 2012-11-30

English

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

The wrongful putting out of him who is actually seised of a freehold; the act of wrongfully depriving a person of the seisin of land, rents, or other hereditaments, as where a man not having a right of entry on certain lands or tenements enters on them and ousts him who has the freehold or does not permit the possessor to enjoy, or makes his enjoyment less beneficial, although he does not expel him altogether....(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 627).

Key term(s)
  • disseisen

French

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

dessaisine : 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 2012-10-09

English

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

Although at first the "cestui que use" was regarded as merely having a right to compel the feoffees to uses to carry out their duties, the rights of the "cestui que use" were so extensive that it was soon recognized that he had an estate in the land. The legal estate(the bare legal ownership) was in the feoffees to uses, the equitable estate(the beneficial right of enjoyment) in the "cestui que use"...(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 153).

French

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

droit de jouissance bénéficiaire : 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 2012-10-09

English

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

Beneficial ownership is the right to the enjoyment of a thing as contrasted with the... nominal ownership.(Osborn's, 6th ed., 1976, p. 243).

CONT

Nominal and beneficial ownership occur where two persons are owners in respect of one thing, although one of them either cannot derive any benefit from it at all, or has only exactly defined rights over it, while the other has the real benefit of the thing. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, pp. 1301-2).

French

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

propriété bénéficiaire : 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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