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WRONGFUL POSSESSION [8 records]

Record 1 2015-08-07

English

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

Wrongful possession is where a person takes possession of property to which he is not entitled, so that the possession and the right of possession are in one person, and the right to possession in another.(Jowitt, p. 1389)

French

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

Le terme désigne généralement le droit qui découle de la possession de fait.

OBS

droit 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 2 2015-02-24

English

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

The modes of acquisition(of possession) are two in number, namely taking and delivery. Taking is the acquisition of possession without the consent of the previous possessor. The thing taken may or may not have been already in the possession of some one else, and in either case the taking of it may be either rightful or wrongful.(Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12e éd., 1966, p. 287)

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 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 4 2012-12-11

English

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

The mixed action at common law to recover the possession of land(which is real), and damages for costs for the wrongful withholding of the land(which are personal). Formerly, an action brought for this purpose in any of the superior courts of common law was called an action of ejectment, but now it is called an action for the recovery of land.(Jowitt, p. 684)

French

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

action pour cause d'expulsion : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Rights and Freedoms
CONT

Detainer. The act(or the juridical fact) of withholding from a lawfully entitled person the possession of land or goods, or the restraint of a person's personal liberty against his or her will; detention. The wrongful keeping of a person's goods is called an unlawful detainer although the original taking may have been lawful.

CONT

Forcible detention is committed when a person armed with a dangerous weapon "holds an individual hostage without lawful authority for the purposes of obtaining performance by a third person of demands made by the person holding the hostage."

CONT

Every person is guilty of a forcible detainer who either: ... (1) by force or by menaces and threats of violence unlawfully holds and keeps the possession of any real property or mining claim, whether the same was acquired peaceably or otherwise ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droits et libertés
CONT

[...] le code pénal érigé en infraction pénale le fait de maintenir une personne en détention par la force. En vertu de cette disposition, le fait de placer en détention, d'arrêter ou d'enlever une personne afin de la priver de protection légale pour une longue durée sur les ordres ou avec l'appui ou le consentement de l'État [...]

OBS

Ici, il s'agit de la détention d'une personne contre son gré par une autre armée ou non. Il ne faut pas confondre cette notion à l'autre fiche.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Derechos y Libertades
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Record 6 2005-12-21

English

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

The wrongful dispossession or exclusion of a person from property, usually associated with the acts of a co-tenant that exclude other co-tenants from their legal right to share possession.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Legal Actions
DEF

... an action for the wrongful detention of personal property.

CONT

"A continuing cause of action which accrues at the date of the wrongful refusal to deliver up goods and continues until the delivery up of the goods or judgment in the action for detinue. "...(It) is the proper action to bring if the plaintiff wishes to recover possession of his goods, and not merely their value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Actions en justice
DEF

Action permettant de recouvrer la possession d'un bien personnel, avec ou sans dommages-intérêts.

Key term(s)
  • action pour détention illicite
  • action en restitution ou en revendication mobilière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
  • Acciones judiciales
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Record 8 1993-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Investment
CONT

A person against whom the transfer of a security is wrongful for any reason, including the person's incapacity, may, against anyone except a bona fide purchaser, reclaim possession of the security or obtain possession of any new security evidencing all or part of the same rights;.... [Bank Act].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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