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INCORPOREAL PERSONAL PROPERTY [5 records]

Record 1 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 2 2013-02-19

English

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

Personal property is also divisible into corporeal personal property... and incorporeal personal property, which consists of such rights as personal annuities, stocks, shares, patents and copyrights.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1356)

French

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

bien personnel incorporel : 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 2012-11-14

English

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

If chattels personal are considered according to their physical characteristics, they may be divided into(1) corporeal chattels, "i. e. ", those which have an actual physical existence; tangible objects, such as money in specie, furniture, cattle, ships, timber, and minerals when severed from the land;(2) incorporeal chattels....("Goodeve, Personal Property" 1937, p. 10)

French

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

chatel corporel : 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 2012-11-14

English

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

Personal property is also divisible into corporeal personal property, which includes movable and tangible things, such as animals, ships, furniture, merchandise, etc. ;and incorporeal personal property...(Jowitt, p. 1356)

French

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

bien personnel corporel : 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 2012-10-03

English

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

To assign generally means to transfer property, especially personal estate ...

OBS

In its more special sense, to assign is to transfer personal estate, or chattels real, or certain rights in real or personal estate. The term is especially applied to leases, terms of years, and life interests in land or personal property, and to choses in action, and incorporeal chattels. The word "assign" is the proper technical operative word...(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 146)

French

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

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

Spanish

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