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FREEHOLD INTEREST [26 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 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 3 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 4 2013-06-14

English

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

Time-sharing condominiums may be based on either the freehold or leasehold condominium concept, with the additional factor that a purchaser's interest in the unit and the common elements is limited to a particular time period... and may also be for a limited number of years.(Burns & McLellan, 1981, p. 6).

French

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

condominium à temps partagé : 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 2013-05-15

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 6 2013-05-10

English

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

A fifth method of conveying was the lease and release. The lease for a term of years, since it was not a freehold, was usually made by deed. In order to perfect his interest, the lessee did, however, have to enter on the land, for otherwise the deed gave him only an "interesse termini", or interest in the term. Once the tenant had gone into possession, he was capable of taking a release, that is, the landlord could release the reversion to him by deed and the two interests would merge so as to give the tenant the fee simple and the seisin.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 34)

French

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

délaissement : 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 2013-04-08

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 8 2013-04-03

English

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

From mediaeval times the essential part of the feoffment by which a freehold interest in land was created or transferred. It consisted in putting the donee in possession of the land, evidenced by handing over some symbols thereof, and leaving the land vacant.(Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, p. 773)

French

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

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 9 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 10 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 11 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 12 2013-03-08

English

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

A fifth method of conveying was the lease and release. The lease for a term of years, since it was not a freehold, was usually made by deed. In order to perfect his interest, the lessee did, however, have to enter on the land, for otherwise the deed gave him only an "interesse termini", or interest in the term. Once the tenant had gone into possession, he was capable of taking a release, that is, the landlord could release the reversion to him by deed and the two interests would merge so as to give the tenant the fee simple and the seisin.... In England the feoffment with livery as well as the other old forms of conveyance, the bargain and sale and the lease and release, have been abolished. The latter two forms of conveyance, provided they are by deed, are still possible in Canadian jurisdictions which have legislation similar to Ontario's, since that legislation only deals with feoffment by livery.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, pp. 34 et 96)

French

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

bail-délaissement : 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 2013-03-05

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 14 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 15 2013-01-28

English

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

"Chattels" means goods and chattels capable of complete transfer by delivery, and includes when separately assigned or charged, fixtures and growing crops; but does not include chattel interests in real property or fixtures when assigned together with a freehold or leasehold interest in any land or building to which they are affixed, or growing crops when assigned with any interest in the land on which they grow, or a ship or vessel registered under the laws of Canada or any share in such ship or vessel, or shares or interests in the stock, funds or securities of a government, or in the capital of a corporation, or book debts or other choses in action.(R. S. N. B., 1973, c. C-25, s. 1).

OBS

goods and chattels: term usually used in the plural.

French

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

objets et chatels : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

OBS

objets et chatels : 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 16 2013-01-23

English

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

Leasehold condominiums are unique in that the developer does not own the land which is being developed as a condominium project. A "purchaser" of a unit acquires a unit lease and an undivided interest in the leasehold only.... This is in contrast to freehold condominiums in which the unit owners own their unit in fee simple and are tenants in common of the common elements.(Burns & McLellan, 1981, p. 4).

French

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

condominium 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 17 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 18 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 19 2012-12-12

English

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

The act of entering something upon a roll or record. The recording of a deed. (Ballentine, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 405).

CONT

By the "Statute of Enrolments", 1535,... every bargain and sale of a freehold interest was required to be enrolled in Chancery within six months after its date.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 702).

Key term(s)
  • enrollment

French

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

inscription au rôle : 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 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 21 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 22 2012-11-05

English

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

Any kind of property which, having regard either to the subject-matter or the quantity of interest therein, is not freehold.

CONT

The distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, "personal chattels," denoting movable property and "chattels real," which concern or savour of the realty ...

French

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

Tout bien qui confère à son propriétaire un intérêt inférieur au domaine franc.

OBS

Dans l'usage, les termes «chatel» et «bien personnel» sont employés de façon interchangeable en ce sens. Tous les biens qui ne pouvaient pas donner lieu à une action réelle à l'époque médiévale sont qualifiés de biens personnels. À cette époque, le bétail («chattel») étant le principal bien personnel qui composait le patrimoine, le terme «chattel» en est donc venu, par extension, à désigner les biens personnels.

OBS

chatel : 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 2012-10-17

English

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

An executory interest is the seisin, property, or ownership, or a portion thereof, of the measure of freehold, not yet acquired by the person who is said to have such executory interest, but appointed by the terms of a grant or devise to be acquired by and to reside in him in a certain or contingent event. And when such event is certain, the interest is a certain executory interest(;) when the event is contingent, the interest is a contingent executory interest.(Fearne, 10th ed. 1844, pp. 28-29)

French

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

intérêt éventuel non réalisé : 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 24 2011-12-12

English

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

to go in upon lands as a formal act....

CONT

A fifth method of conveying was the lease and release. The lease for a term of years, since it was not a freehold, was usually made by deed. In order to perfect his interest, the lessee did, however, have to enter on the land, for otherwise the deed gave him only an interesse termini, or interest in the term.

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

A distinguer de : re-enter

OBS

Terme qui présente un complément d'information utile ou un apparentement avec le terme en vedette : entry

OBS

Acception stricte en droit des biens

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Record 25 2005-12-22

English

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

Power expressed or implied in will or trust agreement permitting the trustee to retain certain or all of the investments comprising the trust property at inception, even though they may not be of a type suitable for new investments made by the trustee.

CONT

Power to retain or purchase as an authorized investment any freehold or leasehold property or any interest or share therein of whatever nature proportion...

French

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

[...] le fiduciaire a le pouvoir de conserver en espèces ou de liquider, à son entière discrétion, des éléments d'actif du fonds en fiducie d'un montant suffisant pour acquitter les frais et débours susmentionnés ainsi que les impôts, intérêts ou pénalités qui peuvent être payables au titre de la fiducie établie en vertu des présentes

Spanish

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Record 26 2004-05-18

English

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

In this section, "Crown grant" means a grant of freehold or leasehold interest in unpatented public lands or of an easement in or over unpatented public lands made under this or any other Act.(R. S. O. 1989, c. 413, s. 36(1]

French

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

unpatented : Acception abstraite dérivée de «patent» (n.). Le verbe correspondant «patent» peut se rendre en français par «concéder par patente» ou «patenter». Il en est de même des adjectifs «patented» et «unpatended», qualifiant un bien-fonds, qui peuvent se rendre en français par «(non) concédé par patente» et par «(non) patenté».

Spanish

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