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BARE RIGHT [10 records]

Record 1 2017-08-23

English

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

Holder of the bare ownership.

OBS

bare ownership :Right of ownership of a person whose ownership is dismembered by a right of usufruct, use or habitation.

French

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

Propriétaire d'un bien sur lequel une autre personne a un «droit d'usufruit», «un droit d'usage» ou «un droit d'habitation».

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-05-05

English

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

The bare lease does not vest any estate in the lessee, but only gives him a right of entry, which is called his interest in the term, or interesse termini.

CONT

The proviso was only apt to protect a bare lease for less than three years, and was not apt to protect a further term which would only be granted if the tenant exercised an option created by the instrument which also created the lease.

French

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

Bail de location et option d'achat. Le premier est un simple bail de la régie du logement pour une période de 1 an où le montant du loyer comprend les taxes municipales et scolaires. En plus, Accès-Proprio mettra de côté chaque mois des crédits mensuels qui seront remis au couple lors de leur achat.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
DEF

Act or process of building up a complete unit (as a motor vehicle) using parts already in themselves finished manufactured products.

CONT

Starting with a bare chassis, components are attached successively as the growing assemblage moves along the conveyor.... An intricate system of production scheduling and control ensures that the right body type and colour, trim, engine and optional equipment arrive together for assembly, for a number of individual assembly combinations are on the line simultaneously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes
DEF

Opération qui consiste à assembler les éléments mécaniques d'une automobile (moteur et suspension) à la carrosserie.

CONT

L'avantage du convoyeur double rail est de permettre [...] d'utiliser des sections élévatrices (notamment pour le poste de coiffage ou la dépose de voitures finies).

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-04-15

English

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

An expectancy or chance is a mere hope, unfounded in any limitation, provision, trust, or legal act whatever; such as the hope which an heir apparent has of succeeding to the ancestor's estate. This is sometimes said to be a bare or mere possibility, and, at other times, less than a possibility. It is a possibility in the popular sense of the term. But it is less than a possibility in the specific sense of the term possibility. For, it is no right at all, in contemplation of law, even by possibility; because, in the case of a mere expectancy, nothing has been done to create an obligation in any event; and where there is no obligation, there can be no right....(Fearne, 10th ed., 1844, pp. 23-24)

French

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

expectative : 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 5 2013-04-08

English

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

A bare chance or expectation of acquiring a property or succeeding to an estate in the future, but without any present right in or to it which the law would recognize as an estate or interest.(Black, 5th, p. 1049)

OBS

(W)hat is termed a bare or mere possibility signifies nothing more than an expectancy, which is specifically applied to a mere hope of succession, unfounded in any limitation, provision, trust, or legal act whatever; such as the hope which an heir apparent or presumptive has of succeeding to the ancestor’s estate. ("Words and Phrases/U.S.", Vol. 33, p. 114)

French

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

simple possibilité : 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 2013-03-15

English

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

The essential difference between legal and equitable rights is best understood by comparing absolute ownership with trusts....(A) t this point it is only necessary to appreciate that trusts were unenforceable at common law. If land was conveyed to A in fee simple upon trust for B in fee simple, the common law courts regarded A as absolute owner and would not recognise any rights in B. But the Chancellor would enforce trusts, as matters of conscience, and compel A to hold the land on B's behalf and to allow B to enjoy it. In such a case A is the "legal owner", B is the "equitable owner". The land is vested in A, but since he is trustee of it he is not the beneficial owner : he has only the "bare legal estate", and the beneficial interest belongs to B. Now legal ownership confers rights "in rem", rights of property in the land itself, which can be enforced against anyone. Equitable ownership conferred at first only a right "in personam", a right to compel the trustee personally to perform his trust.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 113).

French

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

propriété en common law : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

Where only a bare right to enjoy exists, the property is said to be in action, and the chattels are called incorporeal.(Halsbury, 3rd ed., Vol. 29, p. 359).

French

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

chatel 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 8 2013-01-23

English

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

A right expected to mature in the future ... but conditional rather than absolute. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 510)

OBS

The distinction is between an interest that has arisen and one that has not arisen and may never arise, but in regard to which there is a remote possibility that the event upon which it depends will occur; the latter is not an interest or right, but is nothing more than a bare expectation of a future right. Hence, a person having nothing more than that has no right of action, such as the right to sue for preservation of the property concerned.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, pp. 374-5)

French

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

droit futur : 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 9 2012-10-09

English

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

Although at first the "cestui que use" was regarded as merely having a right to compel the feoffees to uses to carry out their duties, the rights of the "cestui que use" were so extensive that it was soon recognized that he had an estate in the land. The legal estate(the bare legal ownership) was in the feoffees to uses, the equitable estate(the beneficial right of enjoyment) in the "cestui que use"...(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 153).

French

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

droit de jouissance bénéficiaire : 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 10 2012-10-05

English

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

The "jus mereum", or mere right of property, without either possession or even the right of possession. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed. 1969, p. 794)

OBS

"Right" is used by the old writers on real property law in the technical sense of a right which an owner of land had when he had been disseised, so that he had only the right of recovering possession either by entry or action. His estate was then said to be turned to a right....(I) f(he) further suffered a certain time to elapse, or had judgment given against him in a possessory action, he could no longer recover by possessory action, but only by an action on the right, meaning the right of ownership as opposed to the right to possession. Hence his estate was said to be turned to a mere, bare or naked right.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1583)

French

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

Acception stricte en droit des biens.

OBS

simple droit : 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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