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FREE TENANT [5 records]

Record 1 2015-10-23

English

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

A free tenant,... was less a servant and more an independent contractor; either he had a set task which he carried out in the way he thought best, or he merely paid a fixed rent in money or in kind.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-19

English

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

The main type of unfree tenancy was villenage, initially a modified form of servitude. Whereas the mark of free tenants was that their services were always predetermined, in unfree tenure they were not; the unfree tenant never knew what he might be called to do for his lord.

OBS

unfree tenant : historical term.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (civil law)
  • Phraseology
OBS

Franc aleu. In French feudal law, an allod; a free inheritance; or an estate held free of any services except such as were due to the sovereign.

OBS

Roturier : In old French and Canadian law. A free tenant of land on services exigible either in money or in kind. A free commoner; one who held of a superior, but could have no inferior below him

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
  • Phraséologie
OBS

Loi citée : Loi concernant les seigneuries.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-04-26

English

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

A tenure by which an estate is held in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life. (Oxford, 1933)

CONT

Freehold tenure is the sum of the rights and duties which constitute the relation of a free tenant to his lord.(Digby and Harrison, p. 49)

French

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

Acception spécifique : le terme fait référence à la «tenure».

OBS

tenure franche : 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 5 2012-11-30

English

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

The principle of free alienability soon reasserted itself, however, and various disentailing methods were devised to permit the tenant in tail in possession to bar the entail and to obtain a fee simple. These included the warranty, the fine and the common recovery. The most effective of these, the common recovery, was confirmed by the courts in Taltarums's Case in 1472. Both the fine and common recovery were in common use until they were replaced in the 19th century by the simple statutory method of the disentailing assurance.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 28)

French

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

Le terme s'emploie aussi dans son acception métonymique.

OBS

translation libératrice de fief taillé : 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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