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WRONGFUL TAKING [3 records]

Record 1 2015-10-29

English

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

... an unlawful disturbance of the possession of goods by seizure or removal of them, or by a direct act causing damage to them.

CONT

Another variety of trespass vi et armis is trespass de bonis asportatis, for the wrongful taking of chattels.

OBS

Historical term for "trespass to chattels"; "trespass to goods"; "trespass to personal property".

French

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

trespass de bonis asportatis : 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 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 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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