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MATRIMONIAL HOME [4 records]

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Record 1 2015-07-25

English

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

A husband, at common law, is under a duty to maintain his wife and to provide a roof over her head. A wife has a right to cohabit with her husband in the matrimonial home or to be provided with suitable alternative accommodation, so long as she is not guilty of matrimonial misconduct.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

droit à la cohabitation : 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 2013-02-01

English

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

The dwelling house and the adjoining land where the head of the family dwells; the home farm. The fixed residence of the family, with the land, usual and customary appurtenances, and buildings surrounding the main house. Technically, and under the modern homestead laws, an artificial estate in land, devised to protect the possession and enjoyment of the owner against the claims of his creditors, by withdrawing the property from execution and forced sale, so long as the land is occupied as a home. (Black, 6th ed., 1990, p. 734).

CONT

In the western provinces, dower and curtesy in the historical legal sense have been abolished and replaced with an equivalent life estate in certain lands of the deceased spouse, referred to as his or her "homestead". This term is variously defined in the several provinces, but generally, it includes the matrimonial home together with adjoining land.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 212)

French

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

propriété familiale : 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 2003-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Recovery... was once denied to a wife whose husband expelled her from the matrimonial home in consequence of a slanderous reflection on her morals....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 4 1995-11-17

English

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

of right to possession of matrimonial home

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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