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MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY [12 records]

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Record 1 2021-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Indigenous Sociology
OBS

The Program supports First Nations in developing their own community-specific matrimonial real property laws, and provides targeted training and awareness activities to law enforcement officers and members of the judiciary.

Key term(s)
  • Matrimonial Real Property Implementation Support Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Sociologie des Autochtones
OBS

Financement pour promouvoir activement la sensibilisation à la Loi sur les foyers familiaux situés dans les réserves et les droits ou intérêts matrimoniaux (la Loi) et fournir aux personnes vivant dans les réserves les outils nécessaires pour comprendre et exercer les droits et les protections qui leur sont offerts, y compris les règles fédérales provisoires et le mécanisme législatif des Premières Nations inclus dans la Loi.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas federales (Gobierno canadiense)
  • Sociología indígena
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Record 2 2020-08-07

English

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

Family law is critical to most Canadians as it governs relationships between spouses, and between parents and their children. In family law, marriage and divorce fall under federal jurisdiction but most other issues, including adoption and matrimonial property disputes, fall under provincial laws that vary widely.

French

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

droit de la famille; droit familial : désignations normalisées par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... the type of constructive trust apparently advocated by Lord Diplock in Gissing v. Gissin to resolve matrimonial and cohabitation property disputes was the detrimental reliance constructive trust. That trust is imposed when one person relies to her or his detriment on the undertaking or promise of another who holds title to the property in respect of which the undertaking or promise is made. This is the type of constructive trust that has long been used to redress fraud and other inequitable conduct.... The detrimental reliance constructive trust is... based upon the parties’ common intention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial and Territorial Laws and Regulations (Canadian)
  • Family Law (common law)
OBS

The Family Property Act: short title.

OBS

An Act respecting the Possession and Distribution of Property between Spouses: long title.

OBS

"The Matrimonial Property Act, 1997" does not refer to a former version of "The Family Property Act" that has been repealed, rather it is the former title of the latter Act.

OBS

The Matrimonial Property Act is repealed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements provinciaux et territoriaux canadiens
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

Certaines lois et certains règlements de la Saskatchewan sont traduits. Les versions française et anglaise des lois et règlements de la Saskatchewan édictés, imprimés et publiés en français et en anglais ont également force de loi.

OBS

Loi sur les biens familiaux : titre abrégé.

OBS

Loi concernant la possession et la répartition de biens entre conjoints : titre intégral.

OBS

«Loi de 1997 sur les biens matrimoniaux» ne désigne pas une ancienne version de la «Loi sur les biens familiaux» qui a été abrogée; il s'agit plutôt de l'ancien titre de celle-ci.

OBS

The Matrimonial Property Act est abrogée.

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-07-08

English

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

Because these expenditures were prior to the wedding... they do not form matrimonial debt, nor do the pre-nuptial gifts form matrimonial property...

French

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

Donation faite aux époux ou à l'un d'eux avant la célébration du mariage.

OBS

donation prénuptiale : 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 6 2011-09-28

English

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

judicial separation as to property : Either spouse may obtain separation as to property when the application of the rules of the matrimonial regime appears to be contrary to the interests of that spouse or of the family.

OBS

judicial separation as to property : Separation as to property judicially obtained entails dissolution of the matrimonial regime and puts the spouses in the situation of those who are conventionally separate as to property. Between spouses, the effects of the separation are retroactive to the day of the application unless the court makes them retroactive to the date on which the spouses ceased to live together.

OBS

judicial separation as to property: Expression and observations reproduced from sections 488 and 489 of the Civil Code of Québec.

Key term(s)
  • separation as property

French

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

La séparation de biens peut être poursuivie par l'un ou l'autre des époux lorsque l'application des règles du régime matrimonial se révèle contraire à ses intérêts ou à ceux de la famille.

OBS

séparation judiciaire de biens : La séparation de biens prononcée en justice emporte dissolution du régime matrimonial et place les époux dans la situation de ceux qui sont conventionnellement séparés de biens. Entre les époux, les effets de la séparation remontent au jour de la demande, à moins que le tribunal ne les fasse remonter à la date où les époux ont cessé de faire vie commune.

OBS

séparation judiciaire de biens : Expression et observations reproduites des articles 488 et 489 du Code civil du Québec.

Key term(s)
  • séparation des biens

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
OBS

La separación de bienes obtenida judicialmente implica la disolución del régimen matrimonial y pone a los esposos en la situación de quienes hayan hecho convencionalmente la separación de sus bienes. Entre los esposos, los efectos de la separación son retroactivos al día de la solicitud, a menos que el tribunal no los haga retroactivos a la fecha en que los esposos hayan dejado de hacer vida en común.

OBS

La separación de bienes puede ser solicitada por cualquiera de los esposos cuando la aplicación de las reglas del régimen matrimonial se revele contraria a sus intereses o a los de la familia.

OBS

separación judicial de los bienes: Expresión y observaciones traducidas de los artículos 488 y 489 del Código Civil de Quebec. El C.C.Q. fue traducido según la versión de 1999-2000.

Key term(s)
  • separación de bienes
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Record 7 2010-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

Property of a spouse that, because it is linked to marriage as a joint economic endeavour, is susceptible of division or partition between the spouses at the dissolution of a shared property matrimonial regime.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
DEF

Bien acquis par un époux durant le régime et qui, parce qu'il est lié au mariage en tant qu'entreprise économique commune, est susceptible de division ou de partage à la dissolution d'un régime matrimonial communautaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
  • Derecho de propiedad (derecho civil)
DEF

[Bienes] adquiridos por el marido o la mujer, o por ambos, durante la sociedad conyugal, en virtud de título que no los haga privativos del adquiriente, sino partibles por mitad.

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Record 8 2007-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Courts
OBS

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia(including the Family Division) is the highest trial court in the province, with broad authority to try a wide range of civil and serious criminal matters; exclusive authority to hold jury trials, and hear appeals(on summary convictions) from certain criminal trials and from tribunals, to try murder cases(except for Young Offenders), to grant divorce and matrimonial property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 9 2001-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
CONT

None of the Shareholders shall mortgage, charge, hypothecate or encumber any of the shares of the Company owned by them, beneficially or otherwise, except as may be required by a Canadian Chartered Bank in connection with the establishment and maintenance of a line of credit for the Company with such Bank, without the consent in writing of the other Shareholders.

CONT

... and the Wife acknowledges that she is not entitled to encumber the assets of the said Company or the shares thereof in any way with the registration of a Certificate of Lis Pendens pursuant to the Matrimonial Property Act, or otherwise.

Key term(s)
  • encumber shares
  • encumbering a share
  • encumbering shares
  • incumber a share
  • incumber shares

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

[. . .] elle reconnaît ne pas avoir le droit de grever d'une charge quelconque les actifs de ladite compagnie ou les actions de celle-ci par l'enregistrement d'un certificat de lis pendens en vertu du Matrimonial Property Act ou autrement.

Key term(s)
  • grever d'une charge des actions
  • grever une action
  • grever des actions

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-03-14

English

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

If [someone is] married in a jurisdiction which has a matrimonial property regime, [he] may not be able to dispose of all [his] assets by Will. Furthermore, if [he has] entered into a valid marriage contract, this contract may prohibit [his] disposing of [his] spouse's share of any assets which are to be shared.

French

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

D'après l'ancien droit anglais, la femme mariée ne pouvait disposer de ses meubles par testament comme ne possédant pas de personnalité civile indépendante de celle de son conjoint.

Spanish

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Record 11 2001-03-13

English

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

The new Family Law Reform Bill... gives the wife greater property rights but the right to, for instance, one-half of the matrimonial assets does not arise unless and until the marriage breaks down. Otherwise, all assets in her husband's name are his to dispose of by Will.

French

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

Pour disposer par testament, il faut, lors de l'établissement de cet acte, être sain d'esprit, et posséder toute sa mémoire et son intelligence.

Spanish

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Record 12 1994-07-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
  • Social Law
OBS

"... the husband on his entry into the marriage contributed land and machinery which had a greater value... than the market value he got credit at the date of the marriage;... Those assets... formed the capital base from which the parties were able to accumulate the large holdings they eventually acquired. For that reason the distribution of matrimonial property should be weighted in the husband's favour. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
  • Droit social
OBS

Source(s) : Farr C. Farr, Cour suprême 3 mai 1984, juge McIntyre, page 4; [1984] 1 R.C.S. page 255.

Spanish

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