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INCORPOREAL POSSESSION [7 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 2013-04-18

English

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

[D] ispossession, a wrong or injury which may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carrying with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament, and obliges him who has a right to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession and damage for the injury sustained. An ouster may be either rightful or wrongful. A wrongful ouster is a disseisin.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1296).

French

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

privation de possession : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

Strictly the term "corporeal" applies to the land itself, whereas rights in the land are incorporeal; but this is not in accordance with legal usage, and a right in the land, if accompanied by possession, is regarded as corporeal, whereas partial rights which do not entitle the owner of them to possession are regarded as incorporeal.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 261).

French

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

droit 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 4 2012-11-21

English

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

(A) deed whereby property is granted. (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 576)

CONT

At common law, an incorporeal hereditament(and an estate in fee simple in remainder or reversion) was conveyed by deed of grant. Its nature was such that it was intangible and, therefore, not capable of transfer by delivery of possession.(Mendes da Costa & Balfour, 1982, p. 361)

French

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

Le second équivalent «acte de concession» est la forme elliptique du premier «acte formaliste de concession». Il ne s'emploiera que lorsque la référence à la spécificité juridique du deed n'est pas en cause ou lorsque cette spécificité ressort d'une autre manière du contexte d'emploi.

OBS

acte formaliste de concession; acte de concession : 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 2012-11-14

English

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

Strictly the term "corporeal" applies to the land itself, whereas rights in the land are incorporeal; but this is not in accordance with legal usage, and a right in the land, if accompanied by possession, is regarded as corporeal, whereas partial rights which do not entitle the owner of them to possession are regarded as incorporeal.(39 Hals., 4th, p. 261)

French

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

droit 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 6 2012-11-14

English

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

"Hereditaments" (is) used in a general sense to include both the corporeal things, such as houses and land, and the rights which arise out of them. Where these rights extend to the exclusive possession of the thing which is the subject of property, they are called corporeal hereditaments, a term which is used to denote both the thing itself and the right of property in the thing. (Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 27, p. 104).

OBS

Strictly the term "corporeal" applies to the land itself, whereas rights in the land are incorporeal, but this is not in accordance with legal usage, and a right in the land, if accompanied by possession, is regarded as corporeal, whereas partial rights which do not entitle the owner of them to possession are regarded as incorporeal. Rights in land, whether corporeal or incorporeal, are described by the words "tenements" and "hereditaments"....(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 261).

French

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

héritage 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 7 2004-05-18

English

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

The possibility of distraining is the mark of rent, and so it cannot be reserved out of incorporeal hereditaments, inasmuch as the landlord cannot distrain upon these; but it may be reserved out of a remainder or reversion, as the landlord can distrain when the property falls into possession.(27 Halsbury, 4th ed., par. 211).

French

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

réserver sur; se réserver sur : termes normalisés 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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