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FREE TENURE [12 records]

Record 1 2024-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Parliamentary Language
OBS

The Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan-The state legislative power branch organ is a unicameral parliament that has 125 MPs [members of parliament]. The MPs are elected as based on the majority electoral system by free, private and confidential vote reliant on the general, equitable and immediate suffrage. The tenure of a Milli Majlis convocation is 5 years.

Key term(s)
  • Milli Mejlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Milli Mejlis of the Azerbaijan Republic
  • Milli Mejlis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Education (General)
OBS

The goals of the association are : to promote the interests and the welfare of all of its members and to uphold their dignity in the workplace; to represent its members in employer-employee relations, and, in particular, to bargain collectively on their behalf, including, but not limited to, negotiating policies and working conditions on matters such as hiring, firing, salaries, fringe benefits, pensions, promotion, tenure, leaves, grievances, and the uniformity and consistency of job classifications; to promote the professional development and career advancement of all of its members, and, in particular, to advocate for a working environment free from discrimination and harassment; to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression; and to promote education, research, and creative and other activities within the University; to seek the fullest representation of all of its members in the operation of the University, to provide a means of communication among them, and to communicate on their behalf with other members of the University community and relevant groups external to the University, as appropriate; and to provide a democratic form of government within the Association which allows equal voice to all voting members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)
Key term(s)
  • Association des Professeures de Bishop's University
  • Association des Professeurs de Bishop's University

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Agriculture - General
CONT

Another type of free tenure was socage, primarily customary socage, the principal service of which was usually agricultural in nature, such as performing so many days’ ploughing each year for the lord.

OBS

Socage, the great residuary tenure, was any free tenure that did not fall within the definition of knight-service, serjeanty, or frankalmoin.

OBS

Historical; no longer current in law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

Le terme «socage coutumier» n'est plus courant en droit des biens.

Spanish

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Record 4 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 5 2015-02-10

English

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

In feudal and old English law, a species of tenure in which the services to be rendered were certain and determinate, but were of a base or servile nature; i. e., not suitable to a man of free and honorable rank.

OBS

[Villein socage] was also called "privileged villeinage," to distinguish it from "pure villeinage," in which the services were not certain, but the tenant was obliged to do whatever he was commanded.

OBS

Historical term; no longer current in law.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-05-17

English

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

a tenure

OBS

All lands, the tenure of which has been commuted... into a tenure in free and common soccage...

French

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

une tenure

OBS

Tous biens-fonds dont la tenure a été commuée [...] en celle de franc et commun soccage [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-05-17

English

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

Such deed of commutation, which shall be to all intents equivalent to a grant of such land from the Crown, shall declare that the tenure of such land is forever commuted by such release into that of free and common soccage from the date thereof.

French

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

L'acte de commutation qui équivaut, à toutes fins quelconques, à une concession du fonds par la couronne, doit déclarer que ce fonds sera commué en vertu de telle décharge pour toujours en la tenure de franc et commun soccage, à compter de la date dudit acte.

Spanish

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Record 8 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 9 2013-04-15

English

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

A free tenement, freeholding, or freehold. Used to denote both the tenure and the estate.(Black's, 5th, p. 594).

Key term(s)
  • franktenement
  • frnak-tenement

French

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

franc-tènement : 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 10 2013-04-08

English

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

Any estate of inheritance or for life, in either a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, existing in, or arising from, real property of free tenure.(Ballentine, p. 499)

OBS

Legal estates in land of freehold tenure were divisible with reference to their quantity, or the extreme limit of their duration, into estates of freehold or less than freehold. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 723)

French

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

domaine franc : 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 11 2013-01-22

English

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

It is a fact that free and common socage has been and is the only freehold tenure operative in the common law provinces.(Laskin, Revised Edition, 1964, p. 26).

French

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

franc et commun socage : 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 12 2013-01-08

English

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

Free socage was of two kinds, socage in capite and common socage, but the former has been abolished. Common free socage is the modern ordinary freehold tenure.

French

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

socage commun : Qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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