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EVICTION TITLE PARAMOUNT [3 records]

Record 1 2013-01-14

English

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

The eviction of a tenant by one whose title is superior to that of the landlord. (Ballentine, p. 424)

French

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

éviction par titre prépondérant : 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 2012-08-15

English

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

"Actual eviction" refers to the physical dispossession of the tenant from the premises. This may occur by a reentry by the landlord and the physical expulsion of the tenant; expulsion by legal proceedings(such as ejectment), or by a reentry made by a third party under a claim of title which is paramount or superior to the landlord's title(a so-called eviction by title paramount).(The Arnold Encyclopedia of Real Estate, 1978, p. 276).

French

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

éviction de fait : 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 2004-05-04

English

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

The tenant is not liable for rent accruing due after he has been evicted from the premises either by the landlord, or by a person lawfully claiming by title paramount, so long as the eviction continues.(27 Halsbury, 4th ed., par. 236).

French

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

Le verbe correspondant «evict» peut se rendre en français par «expulser»

Key term(s)
  • évincer

Spanish

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