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FREEHOLD TENANCY [5 records]

Record 1 2013-06-19

English

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

Leasehold ownership exists where one person(the tenant or lessee) is given :(a) exclusive possession of land by another(the landlord or lessor),(b) with the intention that he should hold it as a tenant and not in some other capacity,(c) for a determinate period of time less than that held by the landlord himself.(T) he tenure of the leaseholder is still of vital importance. It is this relationship, represented in the terms of the lease or tenancy agreement, which determines the continuing rights and obligations of the parties. Although it is still common, and correct, for lawyers to talk of freehold tenants, tenants in fee simple, etc., the layman normally understands the word tenant to mean the leasehold tenant; and the expression "landlord and tenant" is invariably used even by lawyers to mean leasehold ownership.(Harwood, 1975, p. 81).

French

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

propriété 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 2 2013-05-29

English

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

The distinction which is more significant than the distinction between freehold and leasehold ownership is the distinction between the long and the short lease. For most purposes a 999-year lease may be indistinguishable from freehold ownership; a weekly tenancy is much less valuable and its value will depend on the degree of security available. In the case of a 999-year lease the whole of the capital value more or less has been transferred to the tenant. In the case of a weekly tenancy-apart from his security-the tenant is receiving nothing but the present use of the property and the capital value remains in the landlord.(Harwood, 1975, p. 499).

French

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

Ne pas confondre avec «short form of lease» qui désigne le bail abrégé dont les effets juridiques sont régis par voie législative.

OBS

bail à court terme : 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 2013-03-18

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 4 2013-01-31

English

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

If... the landlord is the freehold owner of a large block of flats which he has let, as a whole, to a head tenant who has failed to perform his obligations under his tenancy, the landlord may wish... to preserve the sub-tenancies of the individual flats.(Forfeiture of Tenancies, 1985, p. 99)

French

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

locataire principal : 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 2012-12-04

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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