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CONCURRENT POSSESSION [6 records]

Record 1 2014-02-21

English

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

Concurrent ownership, where several persons are entitled to the thing at the same time, takes the form either of co-ownership, or of nominal and beneficial ownership. Co-ownership occurs where several persons are entitled to the possession, user and benefit of one thing, "pro indiviso, "no one being entitled to any specific part of it, and the right of user of each being subject to a similar right in the others; as in the case of joint tenancy and tenancy in common. Nominal and beneficial ownership occurs where two persons are owners in respect of one thing, although one of them either cannot derive any benefit from it at all, or has only exactly defined rights over it, while the other has the real benefit of the thing....(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, pp. 1301-2)

OBS

Concurrent ownership of chattels personal may be either joint or in common, and in this respect resembles concurrent interests in real estate.... [Halsbury, 4th ed., 1982, Vol. 35, p. 637].

French

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

[Le terme copropriété], plus spécifique, ne peut s'employer que pour désigner la propriété simultanée et au même titre (sous le régime de tenance conjointe, de tenance commune, etc.).

OBS

propriété concurrente; copropriété : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-04-19

English

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

Several and concurrent ownership must... be distinguished. The owner of an interest in land may be entitled to possession either alone or in conjunction with other persons, and in both cases he may be entitled to take possession either now or at some time in the future. If he is entitled in his own right without having any other person joined with him in point of interest, he is said to hold in severalty; but where he and other persons have simultaneous interests in the land, they are said to hold concurrently, or in co-ownership, and to have concurrent interests. In other words, land may be the subject of several, that is, separate ownership, or of co-ownership.(Cheshire, 12th, p. 210)

French

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

propriété individuelle : 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 2013-03-05

English

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

The owner of an interest in land may be entitled to possession either alone or in conjunction with other persons, and in both cases he may be entitled to take possession either now or at some time in the future. If he is entitled in his own right without having any other person joined with him in point of interest, he is said to hold in severalty; but where he and other persons have simultaneous interests in the land, they are said to hold concurrently, or in co-ownership, and to have concurrent interests.(Cheshire's, 12th ed., 1976, p. 210).

French

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

intérêt individuel : 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 2012-10-15

English

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

A concurrent lease, provided it is made by deed, operates as a lease of the reversion upon the existing term. If the concurrent term is equal to or exceeds the residue of the existing term, the concurrent lessee is entitled to the rent for the whole of such residue, and afterwards to possession for the remainder(if any) of his own term.(Hill and Redman, 1976, p. 181)

French

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

titulaire de bail concomitant : 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 2012-10-15

English

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

Where two or more persons are concurrent owners of the same property each ordinarily has both the possession and the right to possession of the whole contemporaneously with the others. Hence one of two co-owners cannot ordinarily maintain an action against the other for the common chattel while it is in the other's possession.(Halsbury, 4th ed., 1982, Vol. 35, p. 622)

French

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

propriétaire concurrent; copropriétaire : termes normalisés 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 2012-10-15

English

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

A possession of premises held by two or more persons jointly, as by tenants in common, coparceners, partners, and the like. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 677)

CONT

If two or more persons share actual or constructive possession of a thing, possession is joint. (Black’s, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1047)

French

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

possession concurrente; copossession : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

Le terme désigne le fait de posséder simultanément, sans référence au régime juridique (joint tenancy, tenancy in common, etc.) qui sous-entend cette possession.

Spanish

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