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FREEHOLD ESTATE [40 records]

Record 1 2016-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Trusts (common law)
DEF

An interest created by cutting short one freehold estate in favor of another(not the grantor) as may occur in estates subject to a condition subsequent if certain events occur.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des fiducies (common law)
OBS

intérêt mouvant : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-08-24

English

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

An estate held at the will of the lord, as distinguished from a freehold.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-02-21

English

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

A freehold estate for the life of the grantee or some other person.(Ballentine, p. 500)

CONT

Estates of mere freehold (are) those estates which, though entitling the tenant to seisin of the land when they vested in possession and so being estates of freehold, did not descend to the heir on intestacy. The chief ones were life estates and estates "pur autre vie." [Hargreaves, 4th ed., 1963, p. 81].

French

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

domaine franc non héréditaire : 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 4 2014-02-21

English

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

Those interests in land designated as "real property" are also referred to as "freehold interests. "When any such freehold interest is or may become possessory it is a "freehold estate. "["Restatement of the Law of Property, "p. 22].

OBS

Freehold... is applied to interests in land in two senses, either to denote the quality of an estate, or to denote the tenure by which the land is held.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 834)

French

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

intérêt 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 5 2013-06-25

English

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

When it is a present right of having the possession whenever it may become vacant by the determination of a preceding chattel interest, or whenever it may become vacant by the determination of a preceding freehold estate, or at some other future time to which only the possession is postponed; in each of these cases, the estate is said to be vested in right or interest.(Fearne, 10th ed., 1844, p. 27)

French

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

dévolu en 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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Record 6 2013-06-11

English

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

Land or real property which is held of another by any tenure. (Oxford, 1933).

OBS

The word "tenement" is not restricted to lands and other matters which are the subject of tenure. Everything in which a man can have an estate of freehold, and which is connected with land or savours of the realty, is a tenement. Thus the word includes not only land, as the corporeal subject formerly of inheritance, but also all rights which... would have been heritable issuing out of land, or concerning, or annexed to, or exercisable over, land, although they do not lie in tenure....(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 264).

French

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

Dans un emploi non proprement juridique le terme «tenement» peut aussi désigner une maison, un immeuble. Dans diverses expressions composées («riparian tenement», «dominant tenement», «ervient tenement» et «landlocked tenement»), le terme «tenement» est rendu par «fonds».

OBS

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 7 2013-06-10

English

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

A less than freehold estate in which the property is leased for a definite, fixed period of time be it for 60 days, any fraction of a year, ten years and so on.(Reilly, 1977, p. 425).

French

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

Terme polyvalent qui peut viser à la fois «tenancy for a term of years» et «yearly tenancy».

OBS

Acception de base, générique : vise le fait de «tenir» un bien (ou, plus exactement, un «domaine», etc., sur celui-ci), de même que la relation ainsi établie. Le terme peut faire référence indifféremment à une freehold tenancy (tenancy in fee simple, life tenancy, etc.), à une leasehold tenancy ou à l'une et l'autre à la fois. Un équivalent bâti avec le terme «propriété» a aussi été retenu pour les droits se rattachant à l'une des formes de freehold tenancy, etc.

OBS

tenance à durée déterminée : 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 8 2013-05-29

English

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

The connecting link between tenure and the second important feudal concept, the doctrine of estates, was seisin. Seisin means possession, but it refers only to possession of an estate of freehold in land of freehold tenure. Thus, for example, a landlord will always have the seisin whereas the tenant under a lease is regarded as merely having possession.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 25).

CONT

Seisin is opposed (1) to possession which, in its technical sense, is only applied to leaseholds and other personal property; and (2) to occupation, which signifies actual possession. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1627).

Key term(s)
  • seizin

French

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

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 9 2013-05-15

English

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

A future estate in real property created by operation of law when a grantor conveys a lesser estate than he or she has. The residue left in the grantor is called a reversion which commences in possession in the future upon the end of a particular estate granted or devised, whether it be freehold or less than freehold.(Reilly, 1977, p. 374).

CONT

A reversion means properly the residue of an estate left in the grantor to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted by him. But it is frequently, though improperly, used so as to include any future estate, whether in reversion or remainder. (Mozledy and Whiteley, 10th, p. 418)

French

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

Le terme «reversion» et son équivalent français désignent à la fois la «réversion» en tant que droit et le mécanisme de la réversion.

OBS

réversion : 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 2013-05-15

English

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

A reversion may be created by the owner of any estate, and the reversionary interest will be the same estate that the transferor held....(W) here a life tenant grants an estate for years, he will have a reversion for life, and this is so even though the lease be for a long term, such as 999 years, for in the eyes of the law a lease is a lesser estate than a freehold.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 376)

French

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

réversion viagère : 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 2013-05-06

English

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

Real estate is a technical term and is generally to be construed in its technical sense. It comprises all freehold(and formerly copyhold) lands, tenements and hereditaments, but not leasehold interests.... "Real estate" includes, also, any rights in land, such as a rentcharge, which admit of being limited in the same manner as freehold estates or interests.(39 Hals., 4th, p. 214)

CONT

As the common law developed, real property came to mean that form of property which could be specifically recovered by a real action if possession were lost. Only freeholdings of land were thus recoverable in the realty. (Crossley Vaines, 5th, p. 6)

OBS

The terms "real property, ""realty" and "real estate" are quasi-synonyms. "Real property" and "real estate" serve for distinct technical classifications. Originally, the use of the term "property" itself was confined to cases where the right included possession. The term "real property, "as opposed to "personal property, "was used to denote land and things attached to land so as to become part of it, as well as rights in the land which endure for a life. The term "real estate, "as opposed to "personal estate, "comprised all freehold(and formerly copyhold) lands, tenements and hereditaments(except leasehold interests) that a person owned, and also included any rights in land which could be limited in the same manner as freehold estates or interests. In modern usage, all three terms refer to the same object, comprising corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments.

French

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

biens réels : terme de classification; sens collectif.

OBS

biens réels : 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 2013-04-26

English

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

If a use is limited as a remainder, it must take effect as and be supported by a preceding estate of freehold.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 420).

French

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

domaine précédent : 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 13 2013-04-23

English

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

All objects and rights which are capable of ownership except freehold estates in land and incorporeal hereditaments issuing thereout, or exercisable within the same. (Ballentine, p. 942)

OBS

The terms "personal property, ""personalty" and "personal estate" are quasi-synonyms. Although the terms "personal property"(or "personalty") and "personal estate" refer to the same concept, they serve for distinct technical classifications. "Personal property" and "personalty, "as opposed to "real property" and "realty, "refer to all forms of property other than freehold estates and interests in land and its appurtenances, for which no action layed to compel restitution from a wrongful taker, but only a personal action for damages. As to the term "estate, "it denotes all property that a person owns, divided into "real estate" and "personal estate, "which originally included goods and chattels of a personal kind.

French

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

biens personnels : terme de classification; sens collectif.

OBS

biens personnels : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 14 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 15 2013-04-08

English

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

The term is almost invariably used in a narrower sense, in contradistinction as well to contingent remainder, as to immediate devises, so as to denote "such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels, as the law admits in the case of a will, though contrary to the rules of limitation in conveyances at common law", or, in other words, to denote limitations of springing interests, limitations of interest by way of conditional limitation, and quasi remainders after a life interest in personal estate... (Fearne, p. 33)

CONT

Every devise of a future interest, which is not preceded by an estate of freehold, created by the same will(whether consisting of one or more testamentary papers), or which, being so preceded, is limited to take effect before or after, and not at the expiration of such prior estate of freehold, is an executory devise.(Jarman, p. 1420)

French

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

Acception restreinte. Dans les équivalents normalisés, l'élément «non réalisé» se voit attribuer une vocation technique selon laquelle il désigne ce qui est à réaliser. Cas d'emploi du second équivalent : a) le terme est qualifié par l'indication de la chose ou de la catégorie léguée; b) la référence spécifique aux biens réels ressortira de quelque autre façon sans qu'il soit nécessaire de l'exprimer; c) le terme anglais se présente dans le doublet «executory devise(s), bequest(s) or (and) legacy(ies)».

OBS

legs de biens réels non réalisés; legs non réalisé : termes normalisés 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 16 2013-03-18

English

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

An estate in real property in which the tenant has a freehold interest for his life or for the life of another("pur autre vie").(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 834).

CONT

A tenancy for life is a freehold estate or tenancy but is not an estate of inheritance as is a fee simple. It is held of the immediate reversioner and reverts to him on the death of the tenant or the person for whose life the tenancy was held.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 235)

French

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

tenance viagère; propriété viagère : termes normalisés 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 17 2013-03-13

English

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

The wide language of the "Statute of Wills" was held to override the rule that a freehold estate could not be created in a chattel interest in land. Consequently, it became possible to give a life interest in leasehold land by will, though not by conveyance "inter vivos".(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 161)

French

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

fonds à bail; terre à bail : termes normalisés 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 18 2013-03-13

English

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

Leaseholds have, however, been regarded primarily as being a form of estate, and in hte classification of tenures and estates, it is among the latter that leaseholds appear. (Riddall, 3rd, p. 31)

CONT

Estates may be classified as freehold estates, and estates less than freehold or leasehold estates. The characteristic of a freehold estate is that its duration is uncertain. A leasehold estate, on the other hand, is an estate of certain duration or of a duration that is capable of being rendered certain.(Mendes da Costa and Balfour, p. 353)

French

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

domaine à bail : 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 19 2013-03-13

English

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

[Leasehold interest] generally referred to as a term of years, arises where land has been demised, i. e. leased, to a man for a definite number of years. It thus lacks the requirement of an uncertain duration, and though the period for which it is to last may be very great, as for instance 999 years, yet it is not a freehold estate, and in the eye of the law is a smaller interest than a life estate.(Cheshire's 12th ed., 1972, p. 38)

OBS

A freehold estate(a fee simple or a life estate) is an interest in land for an uncertain duration. All other interests are less than freehold, and include leasehold interests, such as an estate for years or an estate at will. Not all interests in land are estates.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 167)

French

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

intérêt à bail : 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 20 2013-03-06

English

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

At common law, if land were granted or devised to two or more persons for the same estate, whether freehold or otherwise, without words indicating how they were to take, it was presumed that they took as joint tenants.(I) f the limitation were to them... for a term of years, they took as... joint lessees.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 789).

French

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

preneur conjoint : 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).

OBS

Acception juridique stricte qui vise le preneur soumis au régime de tenance conjointe.

Spanish

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Record 21 2013-03-05

English

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

Where the intermediate limitation did not create a present vested estate of freehold but merely a contingent interest..., merger occurred, but the two estates separated to let in the intervening interest as soon as it vested.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 63)

French

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

intérêt interposé : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dan s le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 22 2013-03-05

English

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

A freehold estate(a fee simple or a life estate) is an interest in land for an uncertain duration. All other interests are less than freehold, and include leasehold interests, such as an estate for years or an estate at will. Not all interests in land are estates.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 167).

French

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

intérêt non 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 23 2013-02-06

English

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

The Statute of "Quia Emptores" abolished rent service arising upon a conveyance in fee simple, by prohibiting subinfeudations. A ground rent in its pure form is a rent reserved to himself and his heirs by the grantor of a freehold estate in land, out of the land itself. It is not granted like an annuity or a rent charge, but is reserved out of a conveyance of the land in fee. It is a separate and distinct estate in itself and is held to be real estate with the usual characteristics of an estate in fee simple. The holder of a ground rent proper has an estate in the land itself, for the ground rent is a rent service and the grantor has a reversion. The right of distress is an incident of ground rent proper.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 805)

French

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

rente-charge : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre 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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Record 24 2013-01-23

English

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

A freehold estate in fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple determinable or defeasible, and estates in fee tail.(Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 500).

CONT

Freeholds of inheritance are estates which may devolve upon successors (heirs) ad infinitum. (Cheshire, 11th, p. 33)

French

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

domaine franc héréditaire : 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 25 2013-01-23

English

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

A freehold lease is a lease for life or lives, where an immediate estate passes before entry.(Williams & Rhodes, 5th ed., 1983, p. 3-63)

French

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

bail franc; location à bail franche : termes normalisés 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 26 2013-01-23

English

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

The same word(freehold) is used sometimes to express the quality of the tenure, and sometimes the quantity of the estate.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 41)

French

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

propriété franche : acception générique désignant à la fois la tenure et le domaine.

OBS

propriété 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 27 2013-01-18

English

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

(T) he person to whom a freehold estate in land is conveyed by feoffment....(Garner, 1987, p. 240)

French

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

fieffé; fieffée : termes normalisés 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 28 2013-01-18

English

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

The tenant in fee tail... held a freehold estate of inheritance limited to himself and the heirs of his body.(Adkin's Landlord and Tenant, p. 17)

French

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

tenant en fief taillé; propriétaire en fief taillé : termes normalisés 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 29 2012-12-18

English

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

An estate in fee simple is the greatest interest and property in land the law allows. It is a freehold estate of inheritance.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 328).

OBS

The estate in fee simple is of uncertain duration, a characteristic of all freehold estates. It comes to an end on the death of the owner intestate and without heirs, when it escheats to the Crown.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 99).

French

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

domaine en fief simple; fief simple : termes normalisés 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 30 2012-12-12

English

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

An entailing especially of lands: a setting of an estate tail. (Webster’s, 1976).

DEF

The limitation or destination of a freehold estate or fee to a person and the heirs of his body, or some particular class of such heirs, on the failure of whom it is to revert to the donor or his heir or assign.(Oxford)

French

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

taille : 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 31 2012-12-12

English

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

Entails could exist in freehold land either as legal estates or equitably under a trust, according to whether the grant was direct or whether the legal estate was first put in trustees to hold for an equitable entailed interest in the beneficiaries.(Crossley Vaines, 5th ed., 1973, p. 33).

French

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

intérêt taillé en equity : 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 32 2012-12-12

English

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

The estate "in fee tail", "estate tail", or "fee tail" may be defined as a freehold estate of inheritance limited not to the grantee's heirs general, as in the case of the fee simple, but to the heirs of his body.... The line of heirs is called the entail.(Anger and Honsberget, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 128).

French

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

héritiers du 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).

OBS

héritiers du fief taillé : terme utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 33 2012-12-11

English

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

To create a feoffment, which was an early common law method of conveyancing freehold estate.(Yogis, p. 75)

French

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

fieffer : 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 34 2012-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Dower at common law was the right of a wife on surviving her husband to an estate for her life in one-third of the freehold estates of inheritance of which her deceased husband was solely seised at any time during the marriage and which her issue by him might possibly have inherited.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 175).

CONT

The legal right or interest ... that a wife acquires in the property her husband held or acquired anytime during their marriage. During the husband’s life, the dower is an expectant, or inchoate, interest which does not actually become a legal estate (called consummate dower) until the husband’s death. (Reilly, 2nd, p. 146).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

douaire : 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 35 2012-12-04

English

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

The remaining grand incident of joint-estates is the doctrine of survivorship; by which, when two or more persons are seised of a joint-estate of inheritance for their own lives, or "pur autre vie", or are jointly possessed of any chattel interest, the entire tenancy upon the decease of any of them remains to the survivors, and at length to the last survivor; and he shall be entitled to the whole estate, whatever it be, whether an inheritance or a common freehold only, or even a less estate.(Armour, 2nd ed., 1916, p. 277).

French

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

doctrine du droit de survie : 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 36 2012-12-03

English

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

At common law, a tenant "pur autre vie" could not devise his estate by will and... it could not pass to his heirs by descent. On his death, however, the land did not revert to the grantor... and it did not escheat.... By reason of the rule that the freehold must never be vacant, the estate was completed by means of the doctrine of occupancy. If no one was entitled to enter into occupancy, any person who did enter into possession could hold the land during the life of the "cestui que vie" by right of occupancy....(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 156).

French

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

doctrine de l'occupation : 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 37 2012-11-14

English

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

The rule at common law was that a freehold estate of inheritance could be created in a conveyance "inter vivos"(i. e., a transfer of land between living persons) only by a phrase which included the word "heirs". In no other way could a fee simple or fee tail be created.(Megarry and Wade, p. 51)

French

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

transport entre vifs : 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 38 2012-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
  • Real Estate
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

"Conveyance" is a broad term. Its modern meaning imports an act intended to create in law one or more property interests. Such interest or interests may be created by an instrument called a "deed. "The deed has its roots in ancient law, but in modern times, when one speaks of a deed in connection with a real estate transaction, the deed of conveyance is usually intended, drawn to convey, or transfer, a freehold estate in land.

OBS

conveyance: Acceptation metonymic.

Key term(s)
  • land deed
  • conveyance deed

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Documentos jurídicos
  • Bienes raíces
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
OBS

acto traslativo; acto translaticio: Términos reproducidos de Law Terminology con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 39 2012-08-07

English

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

No abeyance of freehold. Limitations of land operating at common law were subject to the rule that there must always be a tenant of the freehold; in other words, the freehold must never be in abeyance. Consequently, an estate of freehold could not at common law be limited to commence in the future save by way of remainder after a particular estate, and a remainder could not be limited so as to vest in possession at a date later than the determination of the preceding estate.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 327).

French

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

vacance de 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 40 2002-09-26

English

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

Proper to be the subject of alienation ... (Black, 5th ed. 1979, p. 66)

CONT

Originally no estate of freehold was alienable by the tenant without the consent of the lord of whom he held...(Jowitt, 2nd ed. 1977, p. 84)

French

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

Extrait du vocabulaire bilingue de la Common law - Droit des biens - (Terminologie française normalisée dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles).

OBS

À distinguer de : transferable, assignable, negotiable.

OBS

Termes qui présentent un complément d'information utile ou un apparentement avec le terme en vedette : alienability, alienation.

OBS

Antonyme: inalienable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
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