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FUTURE ESTATE [30 records]

Record 1 2019-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Real Estate
CONT

A lease purchase is a written agreement between a landlord and tenant giving the tenant an option to purchase the property at some future point in time. The nature of this type of real estate transaction can vary a great deal because virtually all the terms of a lease purchase are negotiable.

French

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

Convention financière de longue durée, en vertu de laquelle une société spécialisée (bailleur) met à la disposition d'un utilisateur (preneur), moyennant un loyer (souvent indexé), un immeuble à usage professionnel, avec promesse unilatérale de vente à l'expiration du bail et suivant des modalités diverses [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
  • Bienes raíces
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Record 2 2018-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
  • Investment
DEF

A parcel of land that currently has no buildings (or improvements) on it.

OBS

Vacant lots can be an opportunity for real estate investors who are interested in building an in-fill home on the land, or even for people who want to hold the land because the property may appreciate in the future.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Terrain sur lequel aucune construction n'a encore été érigée et que l'on détient le plus souvent à titre de placement.

CONT

Lorsqu'un terrain vacant est situé à moins de 50 mètres d'une propriété, on observe que la valeur de la propriété va diminuer [...]

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 2013-06-21

English

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

Devises are contingent or vested; that is, after the death of the testator. Contingent, when the vesting of any estate in the devisee is made to depend upon some future event.... But, when the future event is referred to merely to determine the time at which the devisee shall come into the use of the estate, this does not hinder the vesting of the estate at the death of the testator.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 407)

French

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

«Legs dévolu» est ici la forme elliptique de «legs dévolu de biens réels».

OBS

Cas d'emploi du terme legs dévolu : a) le terme est qualifié par l'indication de la chose ou de la catégorie léguée; b) la référence spécifique aux biens personnels ressortira de quelque autre façon sans qu'il soit nécessaire de l'exprimer; c) le terme anglais se présente dans le doublet vested bequest(s) or (and) devise(s) ou dans le groupe vested bequest(s), devise(s) or (and) legacy(ies). Le terme peut également revêtir une acception large.

OBS

legs dévolu de biens réels; legs dévolu : 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 5 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 6 2013-04-26

English

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

A possibility of reverter is the interest that remains in the grantor, or in the heirs of the testator, who has conveyed or devised a determinable fee simple. It is a possibility that the grantor or the testator's heirs will reacquire the fee, that is, a vested interest, in the future. Thus, it is a mere possibility and not an estate or interest in land.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 381).

French

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

possibilité de retour : 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 2013-04-26

English

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

The immediate or present possession and use of an estate or property, as distinguished from such as is postponed to a future time.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1065).

French

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

jouissance actuelle : 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 2013-04-15

English

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

Extinguishment. The term has, in the law, no fixed, uniform and universal meaning, but varies with the subject matter to which it is applied; but usually it connotes the end of a thing, precluding the existence of future life therein, and has been defined generally as meaning a complete wiping out, destruction, or annihilation, and not a mere suspension; the destruction or cancellation of a right, power, contract, or estate; a discharge by operation of law; a termination; and, more specifically, as the annihilation or extinction of a right by its being consolidated with a greater or more extensive right; the extinction of a charge or equity by its passing into the hands of the owner of the lands charged; and it has been sometimes used in the sense of payment.("Corpus Juris Secundum", Vol. 35, p. 352)

OBS

(extinguishment; extinction:) Both words are nouns corresponding to the verb "to extinguish". If there is differentiation, it is that extinguishment refers to the process, and extinction to the resultant state. Extinguishment means in law "the cessation or cancellation of some right or interest". (Garner, 1987, p. 235)

French

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

extinction : 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 2013-04-08

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 10 2013-04-08

English

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

A bare chance or expectation of acquiring a property or succeeding to an estate in the future, but without any present right in or to it which the law would recognize as an estate or interest.(Black, 5th, p. 1049)

OBS

(W)hat is termed a bare or mere possibility signifies nothing more than an expectancy, which is specifically applied to a mere hope of succession, unfounded in any limitation, provision, trust, or legal act whatever; such as the hope which an heir apparent or presumptive has of succeeding to the ancestor’s estate. ("Words and Phrases/U.S.", Vol. 33, p. 114)

French

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

simple possibilité : 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 2013-03-08

English

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

A lease may be defined as a grant of the right to possession of the leased premises for a specified period of time commencing either immediately or at some ascertainable date in the future and ending at some point thereafter. A transaction is characterized as a lease rather than a grant when the owner or the grantor of the interest retains a "reversionary interest". In other words, possession of the leased premises reverts to the lessor on the termination of the lease. In order for the transaction to be characterized as a lease rather than a licence, the lessee's possession of the leased premises must be exclusive. If ultimate possession and control remain with the lessor, a licence rather than a lease will exist....("Real Estate and Landlord and Tenant", 1983-1984, p. 334)

French

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

L'équivalent «bail» s'emploie aussi pour rendre le sens métonymique de «lease», désignant le document qui constate la cession à bail.

OBS

bail, location 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 2013-03-05

English

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

An estate intervening(between) the interest giving a right of present possession and the remote future interest, the effect of which is to prevent a merger of such present and future interests to create a fee simple.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 492)

French

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

domaine intermédiaire : 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 2013-02-20

English

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

A part payment on the purchase price of property which has been sold under an agreement that the unpaid balance of the purchase price shall be paid on specified future dates; also applies to a part payment on a debt, e. g., a note or tax assessment.("The Arnold Encyclopedia of Real Estate", 1978, p. 43).

Key term(s)
  • installment

French

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

versement : 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 14 2013-02-19

English

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

The right, or expectation of a future right, that a wife has in real estate, of which her husband has become seized, while he is still living, such right becoming consummate as her dower if he dies leaving her surviving and she has not previously released her interest.(Ballentine, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

Key term(s)
  • inchoate right to dower

French

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

droit de douaire virtuel : 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 2013-01-23

English

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

A future interest is an interest in property in which the right to possession or enjoyment of the property is postponed to a future time. Nevertheless, it is a presently existing interest in the property and it is thus part of the total ownership of the property. The fact that a future interest is a presently existing interest implies that it confers present, as well as future, rights and obligations. (Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 335)

CONT

A doctrine of estates which measured interests in land in terms of duration and recognized that interests could arise successively as segments of an ultimate estate in fee simple invited the working out of a law of future interests. "A future interest may be described as an interest in land or other things in which the privilege of possession or of enjoyment is future and not present. It should be emphasized that the interest is an existing interest from the time of its creation, and is looked upon as a part of the total ownership of land or other thing which is its subject matter. "(Laskin, 1964, p. 327)

French

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

intérêt futur : 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

A "future estate" is an estate limited to commence in possession at a future day, either without the intervention of a precedent estate or on the determination, by lapse of time or otherwise, of a precedent estate created at the same time.(Words and Phrases/U. S., pp. 868-9)

French

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

domaine futur : 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 2013-01-14

English

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

An estate which is to vest in possession at a future time(Cartwright, 1972, p. 343; Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 434)

CONT

Executory estates (are) interest(s) which depend for their enjoyment on some subsequent event or contingency. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 749)

French

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

Dans l'équivalent normalisé, l'élément «non réalisé» se voit attribuer un sens particulier qui vise ce qui ne prend effet que dans le futur.

OBS

domaine 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 18 2012-12-18

English

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

Because enjoyment is postponed in a future interest, the interest is sometimes called an "estate in expectancy". This term is somewhat misleading in that it is applied both to future interests which are vested, and to contingent interests, or interests which are not vested.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 336).

French

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

domaine en expectative : 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 2012-12-18

English

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

A future interest in real estate created at the same time and by the same instrument as another estate, and limited to arise immediately upon the termination of the prior estate.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 405)

French

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

domaine résiduel : 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 2012-12-18

English

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

The residue of an estate left by operation of law in the grantor or his heirs, or in the heirs of a testator, commencing in possession on the determination of a particular estate granted or devised.... It is a vested interest or estate, in as much as person entitled to it has a fixed right to future enjoyment.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1186).

French

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

domaine de 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 21 2012-12-18

English

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

English common law is unique in that it recognizes no absolute or allodial ownership of lands. Instead it recognizes estates or interests in land. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 6).

OBS

It is the concept of seisin which links the abstract concept of the estate with the physical thing, the land. The person who has the seisin, or who is entitled to it in the future, has an estate in the land.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 26)

French

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

domaine foncier : 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 22 2012-12-12

English

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

(The) right of re-entry(is) the future interest left in the transferor of property who transfers an estate on condition subsequent. If the condition is broken, the transferor has the right and the power to terminate the estate.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 418)

French

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

droit de rentrée : 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 2012-12-05

English

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

[A power of appointment] is a power created or reserved by a person(known as the donor of the power) enabling another person(known as the donee of the power) to designate, within the limits prescribed by the donor, the transferees of the property or their shares.(Schwartz, "Future Interests and Estate Planning", 1965, p. 343

French

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

dépositaire de pouvoir : 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 2012-12-05

English

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

Power of appointment-It is a power created or reserved by a person(known as the donor of the power) enabling another person(known as the donee of the power) to designate, within the limits prescribed by the donor, the transferees of the property or their shares.(Schwartz, "Future Interests and Estate Planning", 1965, p. 343)

French

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

auteur de pouvoir; auteure de pouvoir : 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 25 2012-10-17

English

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

Devises are contingent or vested; that is, after the death of the testator. Contingent, when the vesting of any estate in the devisee is made to depend upon some future event, in which case, if the event never occur, or until it does occur, no estate vests under the devise.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 407)

French

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

legs éventuel de biens réels; legs éventuel : 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 2012-09-14

English

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

A contract for a lease is an agreement enforceable in law whereby one party agrees to grant and another to take a lease. The expressions "contract for lease" and "agreement for lease" are usually interchangeable, but "contract for lease" is to be preferred as being more definite, agreement frequently meaning one of many stipulations in a contract. A contract for a lease is to be distinguished from a lease, because a lease is actually a conveyance of an estate in land, whereas a contract for a lease is merely an agreement that such a conveyance shall be entered into at a future date.(Woodfall, 27th, p. 132)

French

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

contrat à fin de 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 27 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 28 2002-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations and Associations (Admin.)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

Deferred gifts are part of your will or estate plans. They are set up now but the funds are only available for use in the future.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et associations (Admin.)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
CONT

Les dons différés s'inscrivent dans votre testament ou votre plan successoral. Ces dons sont établis maintenant, mais ils ne seront disponibles que dans l'avenir.

Spanish

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Record 29 2001-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
OBS

estate in reversion : A future estate under which a grantor obtains a present right to a future interest in property that the grantor conveys to another : usually the residue of a life estate.

French

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

«domaine de réversion» est l'équivalent de «estate in reversion» normalisé dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

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Record 30 1987-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

This freezing technique is used most commonly in a family context called an "estate freeze" to facilitate transfer of future growth of a company from father to a child avoiding capital gain tax on the father's death.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Le gel des avoirs contrôlés par une personne-clé à l'intérieur d'une société.

Spanish

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