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HEIR [100 records]

Record 1 2025-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
CONT

Si le demandeur à l'action en pétition d'hérédité triomphe dans son action, sa qualité d'héritier se trouve établie et il pourra exercer les droits qui en découlent. Se posent alors la question de ses rapports, comme héritier véritable, avec le faux héritier qu'il a évincé — communément appelé l'héritier apparent — ainsi que la question de ses rapports avec les tiers qui auraient pu contracter avec l'héritier apparent.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Honorary Distinctions
  • Etiquette and Protocol
DEF

A title reserved exclusively for the heir apparent to the British throne.

OBS

... honorary titles and titles of nobility are capitalized when they serve as an alternate name such as the Prince of Wales.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres honorifiques et décorations
  • Étiquette et protocole
DEF

Titre britannique porté par le fils aîné du souverain.

OBS

prince de Galles : Les titres de noblesse prennent la minuscule initiale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos honoríficos y condecoraciones
  • Etiqueta y protocolo
DEF

Título británico creado en 1301, que lleva el primogénito del soberano.

OBS

príncipe de Gales: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recuerda que la Ortografía de la lengua española señala que los títulos y cargos se escriben con minúscula inicial.

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Record 3 2023-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Legislature (Constitutional Law)
  • Parliamentary Language
CONT

As heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir législatif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
CONT

Le texte adopté [...] offre aussi la possibilité à un héritier au trône d'épouser un ou une catholique, mais il interdit aux catholiques de devenir roi ou reine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Poder legislativo (Derecho constitucional)
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
CONT

El heredero al trono tradicionalmente ostenta el título de príncipe de Gales, pero no es un título automático.

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Record 4 2023-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law
  • Parliamentary Language
CONT

When the king or queen dies, their heir instantly becomes the new monarch. This is a process called accession... It describes how the successor comes to the throne following a monarch's death. At that very moment, the successor has all the status and authority that they need to be monarch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
CONT

L'accession survient lorsqu'un nouveau souverain hérite du trône au moment du décès du roi ou de la reine qui l'a précédé. Le Roi est devenu automatiquement souverain du Canada après le décès de la reine Elizabeth II. Les membres du Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada se sont rassemblés pour proclamer l'accession au trône du nouveau souverain.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho constitucional
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
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Record 5 2023-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Administration
  • Criminology
CONT

Maximum-security prisons throughout the first half of the 20th century were colloquially known as "big houses. "If one were to think of prisons as having lines of descent, one would say that the "big house" was the primary descendant and heir apparent of the penitenciary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration pénitentiaire
  • Criminologie

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
OBS

Literraly, the absent person will not be the heir.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
Key term(s)
  • absens haeres non erit

Spanish

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Record 7 2017-02-23

English

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

A payment made by an heir of a feudal tenant to the feudal lord for the privilege of succeeding to the ancestor's tenancy.

French

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

Le relief était dû au seigneur lorsque le vassal venait à mourir et que son héritier prenait sa place. La mort du vassal, d'après une fiction légale, faisait tomber le fief; le successeur devait payer pour le relever.

Spanish

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Record 8 2016-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Trusts (common law)
CONT

Assume that A was seized of the fee simple estate in Blackacre, and that A's heir, C, was an infant aged ten years. At common law, upon the death of A, the fee simple estate would pass, by inheritance, to C. As C was an infant, the land would go into wardship and with the land also would go the child. Blackacre would become subject to the onerous feudal incidents of wardship and marriage and, as a result, financial havoc could be wrought upon A's family. To avoid this result, A would make the following disposition of Blackacre by way of a use : A would be the "feoffor to uses", B the "feoffee to uses", and C the "cestui que use". B would undertake to hold the fee simple estate to the use of A until his death and, thereafter, to the use of C, A's heir.

OBS

feoffor to uses : a historical term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des fiducies (common law)
OBS

fieffant à usage d'autrui; fieffante à usage d'autrui : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-03-07

English

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

Where a person dies intestate in respect of property and is survived by a spouse and not survived by issue, the spouse is entitled to the property absolutely. This provision overcomes the "doctrine of the laughing heir", that is, the remote next of kin with whom there had been no contact and who stood to make a windfall under the former legislation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

doctrine : Ensemble de notions qu'on affirme être vraies et par lesquelles on prétend fournir une interprétation des faits, orienter ou diriger l'action.

OBS

héritier : Parent appelé par la loi à recueillir la succession d'un défunt.

OBS

éloigné : Qui est à une certaine distance. (...) Un ancêtre éloigné.

Spanish

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Record 10 2015-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

[The guardian by nature] derived from the "natural tie" of parent and child but was limited in scope to the heir alone. The guardian by nature was first the father and only upon his death the mother. A father was not guardian by nature to daughters, younger sons, or other nonpropertied children because they could not inherit from him.

OBS

guardian by nature: in historical use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

tuteur naturel; tutrice naturelle : sens historique.

OBS

tuteur naturel; tutrice naturelle : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 11 2015-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

The guardianship of a father over his infant heir-apparent of either sex enduring until the heir attains full age.

OBS

guardianship by nature; natural guardianship: in historical use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
DEF

Tutelle de plein droit exercée par le père ou, à son décès, par la mère sur son héritier manifeste durant la minorité de ce dernier.

OBS

tutelle naturelle : sens historique.

OBS

tutelle naturelle : 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 12 2015-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
DEF

The Roman law called a fiduciary heir the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
CONT

Le fiduciaire : le légataire chargé de restituer les biens en vertu d'un fidéicommis.

Spanish

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Record 13 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

Privity of blood exists between an heir and his ancestor(privity in blood inheritable) and between coparceners. That privity was formerly of importance in the law of descent cast.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 14 2015-03-18

English

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

A way of passing on inheritance in some parts of England and elsewhere in the fourteenth century. As opposed to primogeniture, where the estate goes to the eldest son, ultimogeniture leaves everything to the youngest son. The custom was considered "Borough English, "which involved impartible inheritance and it was customary for the heir to take care of his brothers and sisters until they married.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 15 2014-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
CONT

By the brief of inquest one is served or declared heir to his ancestor; and though it may meet with opposition where there are different competitors for the succession, it generally passes of course, and always without the citation of any special defender.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents juridiques
OBS

Il s'agit d'un bref d'enquête en matière de succession. Ce terme est utilisé en Écosse dans le cadre d'une procédure successorale.

Spanish

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Record 16 2014-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

A writ to inspect the body, where a woman feigns to be pregnant, to see whether she is with child. It lies for the heir presumptive to examine a widow suspected to be feigning pregnancy in order to enable a supposititious heir to obtain the estate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit de la preuve
DEF

Procédure introduite en cour par un bref visant à faire constater la grossesse d'une personne qui se déclare porteuse d'un enfant.

Spanish

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Record 17 2014-02-21

English

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

The heir at common law was he to whom his ancestor's lands, etc., descended according to the common law as modified by the "Inheritance Act, "1833, as opposed to a customary heir or special heir, who inherited by virtue of a custom.... [Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, 897].

CONT

A deceased person's "heir at law" are those who succeed to his estate of inheritance under statutes of descent and distribution, in absence of testamentary disposition, and not necessarily his heirs at common law, who are persons succeeding to deceased's realty in case of his intestacy.(Black, 5th, p. 650)

French

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

héritier selon la 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 18 2014-02-21

English

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

In English law, the issue in tail, who claims "per formam doni," by the form of the gift. [Black, 6th, p. 724].

CONT

An heir general took by descent as fixed by law, as opposed to an heir special or heir in tail, who claimed as issue in tail "per formam doni, "i. e., according to the nature of the estate tail. [Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897].

French

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

héritier en fief taillé; héritier particulier : 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 19 2014-02-21

English

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

A freehold estate for the life of the grantee or some other person. (Ballentine, p. 500)

CONT

Estates of mere freehold(are) those estates which, though entitling the tenant to seisin of the land when they vested in possession and so being estates of freehold, did not descend to the heir on intestacy. The chief ones were life estates and estates "pur autre vie. "[Hargreaves, 4th ed., 1963, p. 81].

French

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

domaine franc non héréditaire : 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 20 2014-02-21

English

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

Such goods and personal chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, go by special custom to the heir or devisee of the owner, along with the inheritance, and not to the executor. ["Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, "6th ed., 1976, p. 163]

French

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

objet de famille : 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 21 2014-02-21

English

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

He who, after his ancestor dies intestate, has a right to all lands, tenements, and hereditaments which belonged to him or of which he was seised. The same as "heir general"... [Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 854].

CONT

The feudal rules of succession applied to find the heir were based on the succession of males in preference to females, on primogeniture among males, and on representation, whereby a descendant of a pre-deceased heir, e. g. a grandson, took in preference to a collateral of the deceased, e. g. a brother. An heir general or heir at law is such an heir. [The "Oxford Companion to Law, "1980, p. 559].

CONT

The reason why words of procreation were required was that "heirs," extended to all the "heirs general," including relatives other than descendants of the grantee, such as his brothers, uncles or cousins. An entail, however, was an interest which could pass only to lineal descendants of the original grantee (heirs special) and so "heirs" had to be restricted by the addition of words of procreation. [Megarry and Wade, p. 57].

French

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

héritier légal; héritier général : 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 22 2014-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

HEIR, GENERAL. Heir at common in the English law. The heir at common law is he who, after his father or ancestor's death has a right to, and is introduced into all his lands, tenements and hereditaments. He must be of the whole blood, not a bastard, alien.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

L’héritier universel ou à titre universel répond indéfiniment des dettes et charges qui dépendent de la succession.

Spanish

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Record 23 2014-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

The person entitled to succeed to the real property of a person who dies intestate.

CONT

Heir general. He who, after his ancestor's death intestate, has a right to all lands, tenements and hereditaments that belonged to him or of which he was seized. The same as heir general.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
CONT

Les héritiers légaux : La loi prévoit à qui reviennent les biens du défunt si celui-ci n'a pas laissé de disposition de dernière volonté : ce sera la "dévolution légale de la succession". Plusieurs possibilités peuvent se présenter en fonction du fait que le défunt laisse ou non un conjoint survivant ou un cohabitant légal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho privado
  • Derecho hereditario (derecho civil)
  • Derecho de propiedad (derecho civil)
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Record 24 2013-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
CONT

Heir, beneficiary. A term used in the civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
DEF

Héritier qui accepte la succession sous bénéfice d'inventaire.

CONT

Héritier bénéficiaire : Personne qui n'accepte une succession que sous bénéfice d'inventaire et n'est tenu des dettes que jusqu'à concurrence de ce qu'il a recueilli.

Spanish

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Record 25 2013-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
CONT

In all events, when an ab-intestate heir predeceased the testator, the share of that heir that he would have obtained, had he been alive, will be obtained by his/her legal descendants, in accordance with the rules of law.

Key term(s)
  • abintestate heir

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
DEF

Personne appelée à recueillir une succession en vertu de la loi seule, en absence d'un testament.

OBS

En doit civil, «ab intestat» se dit d'une succession dont les biens sont attribués aux héritiers selon les règles fixées par le législateur lorsque le défunt n'a pas laissé de testament ou, lorsqu'ayant rédigé un testament, celui-ci est nul ou caduc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (derecho civil)
DEF

[Heredero] que percibe una herencia por mandato legal a causa de haber fallecido sin otorgar testamento la persona de quien debe heredar.

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Record 26 2013-10-23

English

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

A person who is related to another in such a way that she is certain to inherit the estate of that person if she outlives him and he dies intestate.

French

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

Personne qui est présumée être le véritable héritier d'une succession et dont les actes passés avant son éviction demeurent valables à l'égard des tiers de bonne foi.

OBS

L'héritier qui vend des biens de la succession avant qu'il ne soit déclaré indigne.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (derecho civil)
  • Derecho hereditario (common law)
  • Derecho de propiedad (derecho civil)
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Record 27 2013-06-25

English

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

Where the conveyance to which the warranty was annexed immediately followed a disseisin, or operated itself as such... this was called a warranty commencing by disseisin, and did not bar the heir of the warrantor.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1883)

French

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

garantie à partir de dessaisine : 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 28 2013-06-25

English

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

Words of inheritance are words of limitation indicating the character of the estate granted (or devised) ... Many jurisdictions have done away with the necessity of using technical words limiting estates in land, to the end that a fee estate may be created without words of inheritance. (Cartwright, 1972, p. 1017).

CONT

Exactly why the words "and his heirs" where necessary to create an estate in fee simple is unclear.... was, however, necessary to use the plural word ’heirs" because if the grant were to a person and his "heir", that word could refer only to the person who would be the heir at the death of the grantee, so as not to be a word of inheritance or limitation. In such a case, at common law, the grantee would get only a life estate.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, pp. 101-102).

OBS

words of inheritance: term used in the plural in this context.

French

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

termes d'hérédité; termes de transmission héréditaire : 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

termes d'hérédité; termes de transmission héréditaire : termes utilisés au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 29 2013-06-05

English

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

... One who follows another, as an heir follows the ancestor. One who follows another in interest. Inclusive of an executor.(Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969 p. 1234)

French

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

successeur; successeure : 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 30 2013-05-29

English

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

If an estate "pur autre vie" was granted "to A and his heirs, "on A's death the land passed to A's heir... as special occupant for the rest of the life of the "cestui que vie". The heir was allowed this special right to occupy the land by reason of the mention of "heirs" in the grant....(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 101).

French

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

occupant spécial : 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 31 2013-05-29

English

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

Special occupancy. If an estate "pur autre vie" was granted "to A and his heirs, "on A's death the land passed to A's heir... as special occupant for the rest of the life of the "cestui que vie". The heir was allowed this special right to occupy the land by reason of the mention of "heirs" in the grant....(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 101).

French

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

occupation spéciale : 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 32 2013-05-28

English

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

In strict usage, the taking of property by descent or intestate succession. (Ballentine, p. 624)

CONT

On death, if the holder of [an] interest [in land] dies intestate(without leaving a will) his interet will pass according to statutory rules of inheritance to his heir or heirs.(Smyth, p. 460)

French

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

hérédité; transmission héréditaire : 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 anglais est parfois employé dans des contextes non techniques comme synonyme de "succession" et peut viser la transmission de biens par testament ou hérédité.

Spanish

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Record 33 2013-05-13

English

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

A remainder is the interest created by a transferor in a person other than himself or his heir, which follows after one or more estates of lesser quantum than that owned by the transferor, created by the same instrument in the same land, and which, viewed from the time of its inception, must take effect in possession upon the natural determination of the prior estate.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, pp. 389-390).

French

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

résidu : 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 34 2013-05-13

English

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

Standing in the place of another for certain purposes, as heirs, executors, or administrators. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1552)

OBS

One person is said to represent another when he takes his place. Thus an agent represents his principal, an heir his ancestor, an executor his testator, and an administrator the intestate whose estate he administers.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1552)

French

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

Le terme s'emploie tant dans son acception spécifique propre au droit successoral que dans son sens large du domaine de l'«agency».

OBS

représentation : 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 35 2013-05-07

English

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

Broadly, one who succeeds to either real or personal property of a decedent who dies intestate.... At common law and by modern technical usage in some jurisdictions, one who succeeds to the real property of one dying intestate. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 554)

OBS

In a general sense one who succeeds to, or takes by succession from, an ancestor, but in a stricter and more accurate sense, before 1926 in England and 1965 in Scotland, the person designated by the feudal rules of succession as entitled to succeed to a deceased person’s real or heritable property, as contrasted with the executors and next-of-kin entitled to succeed to the personal or moveable property. (Walker, p. 559)

French

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

héritier : 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 36 2013-05-07

English

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

One who inherits in a line either ascending or descending from a common source as distinguished from a collateral heir.(Balck, 5th, p. 837)

French

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

héritier en ligne directe : 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 37 2013-04-26

English

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

A person might be heir and not absolutely heir; as of land descended to an heir presumptive and afterwards a nearer heir was born; but after the Inheritance Act, 1833, this became impossible, except in the case of a posthumous heir being born.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897)

French

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

héritier posthume : 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 38 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 39 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 40 2013-03-18

English

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

Where a married woman died and her husband took curtesy, the element of succession required to make the land settled land was satisfied by the fact that he took a mere life estate and that subject thereto the land passed to his wife's heir. Nevertheless, the land was not settled land within the meaning of the [Act], since the husband's interest arose by operation of law and not under any document.(Megarry and Wade, p. 319)

French

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

intérêt viager par effet de la loi : 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 41 2013-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Private International Law (Private Law)
CONT

When an "ab intestate" succession, or one whose devolution is governed by a will in authentic form, opens in Québec and includes property situated outside Québec or claims against persons who do not reside therein, any heir or legatee, as well as the testamentary executor, may apply to a judge in the district where the deceased had his domicile for letters of verification for use outside Québec, either to prove the quality of heir or legatee, or to obtain letters of administration.(Code de procédure civile du Québec, art. 933)

OBS

Subject to subsection (3), letters of verification issued in the Province of Québec shall be deemed to be a probate within the meaning of this section. (S.N.B., 1982, c. P-17.1, s. 73; R.S.O., 1970, c. 451, s. 76)

OBS

letters of verification: term usually used in the plural in this context.

Key term(s)
  • letter of verification

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit international privé (Droit privé)
OBS

lettres de vérification : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

OBS

Terme de droit international privé.

OBS

lettres de vérification : 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).

Key term(s)
  • lettre de vérification

Spanish

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Record 42 2013-03-12

English

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

Lineal warranty was where the heir of the warrantor was, or might by possibility have been, entitled to the land by descent from the warrantor; this happened if a man seised of lands in fee made a feoffment of them by deed and bound himself and his heirs to warranty, and died, so that the warranty descended to his heir, who would otherwise have inherited the land.(Jowitt's, p. 1883).

French

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

garantie directe : qualifiant le 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 43 2013-03-08

English

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

He to whom land came for want of heirs, whether the King or the lord, was formerly known as the last heir.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1066).

French

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

ultime héritier : 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 44 2013-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Sentencing
CONT

A number of qualities are required for a claim to inherit. It must, first as heir exists, that is to say... exist at the instant of the opening of the estate or have already conceived and born viable. Then it is necessary that the heir is not rendered unworthy. This is a forfeiture of inheritance rights is a private penalty...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Peines
DEF

Sanction civile que la loi inflige, parfois, à l'auteur déloyaux et qui aboutit à conférer un avantage à la personne qui en est victime.

CONT

On dit aussi que la responsabilité civile n'a pas qu'une fonction indemnitaire et qu'en présence d'une faute grave le juge majore les dommages et intérêts à titre de peine privée toutes les fois que le préjudice ne peut être exactement évalué.

OBS

Par exemple : les héritiers qui ont diverti ou recelé des biens successoraux perdent leur part dans les objets divertis ou recelés ainsi que le droit de renoncer à la succession.

Spanish

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Record 45 2013-02-19

English

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

"Fee" was applied to property to denote that it had the quality of descending to the heirs of the owner for the time being if he did not dispose of it during his life or by his will, supposing he had power to do so. Thus an office or annuity in fee is one which descends to the heir of the holder for the time being on his death intestate.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 778).

French

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

en fief : 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 46 2013-01-31

English

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

Thing capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon but also heirlooms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the land.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 653)

French

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

héritage : 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 47 2013-01-31

English

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

The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heir and his ancestor.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 652)

French

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

qualité d'héritier : 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 48 2013-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Heirs of the part of the father were those related by blood to the father of the ancestor (e.g. paternal uncle).... (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

héritier du côté paternel : 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 49 2013-01-31

English

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

A person who would be heir if the ancestor died immediately, but who is liable to be displaced by the birth of a nearer heir.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 898)

French

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

héritier présomptif : 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 50 2013-01-31

English

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

Heir by propinquity was where the heir took as being the nearest blood relation, as opposed to heir by representation, where he took as representing or standing in the place of his ancestor.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897)

French

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

héritier par représentation : 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 51 2013-01-31

English

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

... heirs of the part of the mother were those related by blood to the mother of the ancestor. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897)

French

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

héritier du côté maternel : 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 52 2013-01-18

English

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

The fee simple owner can alienate "inter vivos" or, today, by will.... But the tenant in tail, unlike the fee simple owner, cannot control the destiny of his interest. He cannot dispose of it inter vivos or by will; on his death it can only pass to his heir.(Harwood, 1975, p. 12).

French

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

propriétaire en fief simple; titulaire de fief simple : 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 53 2013-01-16

English

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

The term "expectant heir" is used... as including everyone who has either a vested remainder or a contingent remainder in a family property, including a remainder in a portion, as well as a remainder in an estate, and everyone who has the hope of succession to the property of an ancestor, as, formerly, by reason of his being the heir apparent or presumptive, or by reason merely of the expectation of a devise or bequest on account of the supposed or presumed affection of his ancestor or relative.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 753)

French

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

héritier expectant : 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 54 2012-12-12

English

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

An entailing especially of lands: a setting of an estate tail. (Webster’s, 1976).

DEF

The limitation or destination of a freehold estate or fee to a person and the heirs of his body, or some particular class of such heirs, on the failure of whom it is to revert to the donor or his heir or assign.(Oxford)

French

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

taille : 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 55 2012-12-04

English

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

The early rule of the common law was that an heir may not take by devise where he may take the same title by descent, title by descent being regarded as the worthier and better title. The "inter vivos" branch of the doctrine of worthier title... favors a reversion in the grantor rather than a remainder in his heirs.(Cartwright, 1972, pp. 1018-1019)

French

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

doctrine du meilleur titre : 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 56 2012-11-30

English

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

The act by which the owner of an estate deprives a person, who would otherwise be his heir, of the right to inherit it.(Black, 5th, p. 421)

French

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

exhérédation : 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 57 2012-11-30

English

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

The share or portion which a given heir receives on the legal distribution of an intestate estate....(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 427)

CONT

The balance of the estate, after the wife has taken her preferential share, is called the residue. The residue is divided into distributive shares. (Rocchi, Guide to Wills and Estate Planning in Canada, 1978, p. 31)

French

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

quote-part successorale ordinaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 58 2012-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

The devolution of an interest in land upon the death of the owner of it intestate to a person or persons by virtue of consanguinity with the deceased. ("Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary", 1976, p. 115)

CONT

Title by descent is the title by which one person, upon the death of another, acquires the real estate of the latter as his heir at law. The title by inheritance is in all cases called descent, although by statute law the title is sometimes made to ascend.(Black, 5th, p. 400)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

Le terme «inheritance» est parfois employé dans des contextes non techniques comme synonyme de «succession» (1) : «In common parlance, the taking of real or personal property by either will or intestate succession». (Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969)

OBS

Le verbe correspondant «descend» peut se rendre en français par «se transmittre par succession héréditaire». L'adjectif «descendible» peut se rendre par «transmissible par succession héréditaire».

OBS

transmission héréditaire : 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 59 2012-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

A customary heir... inherited by virtue of a custom, such as gavelkind or borough-English...(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 897)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

héritier coutumier : 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 60 2012-11-14

English

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

Coparcenary arose where two or more persons took hereditaments by the same title by descent. This might be at common law or by special custom. Coparcenary arose at common law where upon the death of a man seised in fee or in tail the land descended upon two or more females as heirs general or heirs in tail; it arose by custom where, according to the custom of gavelkind, the land descended upon two or more male persons. Such persons were called "coparceners"; they constituted but one heir to their ancestor; they had a joint seisin, and they had equal rights in the land as regards each other.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, pp. 371-2)

Key term(s)
  • co-parcenary
  • coparcenery
  • coparceny

French

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

cotenance héréditaire : 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 61 2012-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

An inheritor who succeeds to the estate by virtue of consanguinity with the decedent, either in the ascending or descending line including illegitimate children, but excluding husbands, wives, and adopted children. (Black’s, 6th ed., 1990, p. 723)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

héritier du sang : 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 62 2012-10-24

English

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

General occupancy. If the estate "pur autre vie" was merely granted "to A" without any mention of his heirs, A's heir had no special claim to the land, for it was not inheritable. The first person to enter the land after A's death was therefore entitled to it as "general occupant" for the rest of the life of the "cestui que vie"....(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 101).

French

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

occupation ordinaire : 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 63 2012-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

One who is not of the direct line of deceased, but comes from a collateral line, as a brother, sister, an uncle, an aunt, a nephew, a niece, or a cousin of deceased. (Black’s, 5th ed., 1979, p. 237)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

héritier collatéral; héritier en ligne collatérale : 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 64 2012-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

One of several to whom an inheritance descends. ("The Canadian Law Dictionary", 1980, p. 77)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

cohéritier : 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 65 2012-10-24

English

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

Collateral warranty was where the heir of the warrantor could not by any possibility have been entitled to the land by descent from the warrantor; thus, if a younger son released with warranty to his father's disseisor, this warranty was collateral to his elder brother, because by no possibility could the latter in such a case claim the land as heir to his younger brother.(Jowitt, p. 1883)

French

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

garantie accessoire : 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 66 2012-10-16

English

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

A condition inherent is such as descended to the heir with the land granted, etc.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 411).

French

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

condition inhérente : 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 67 2012-10-09

English

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

In Ontario... all real property vested in any person without a right in another person to take by survivorship on his death, whether testate or intestate, devolves to and becomes vested in his personal representative as trustee for the persons beneficially entitled thereto... In the interpretation of any statute or instrument to which the deceased was a party or under which he had an interest, the personal representative is deemed to be his heir, unless a contrary intention appears, but without affecting the beneficial right to any property...(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 157).

French

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

droit 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 68 2012-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
DEF

Money or property given by a parent to his child or, sometimes, presumptive heir, or expended by the former for the latter's benefit, by way of anticipation of the share which the child will inherit in the parent's estate and intended to be deducted therefrom.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 48)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
OBS

avancement : 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 69 2012-09-25

English

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

One whose right of inheritance is indefeasible, provided he outlives the ancestor. To be contrasted with presumptive heir whose claim to inheritance is defeated on the birth of an heir closer in relationship to the ancestor, though at a given point in time the heir presumptive is entitled to the inheritance.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979)

CONT

An heir apparent is one whose right to succeed is indefeasible provided only that he outlive the ancestor, e. g. an eldest son.(Walker, p. 559)

French

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

héritier manifeste : 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 70 2012-09-18

English

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

One from whom a person lineally descended or may be descended; a progenitor. The Canadian Law Dictionary, 1980, p. 34)

OBS

Embraces both lineals and collaterals. Correlative of "heir".(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 78)

French

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

Le terme «ancestor» inclut parfois les oncles, tantes et autres parents en ligne collatérale, qui ne sont pas à proprement parler des ancêtres. Le Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd ed., qualifie «collateral ancestors» de «paradoxical term», c'est pourquoi ce terme ne figure pas dans le présent ouvrage.

OBS

ancêtre : terme normalisé dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 71 2012-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

To pass by succession; as when the estate vests by operation of law in the heirs immediately upon the death of an ancestor. (Black’s, 5th ed., 1979, p. 400)

DEF

To come down by way of inheritance; to pass to an heir.(The Oxford English Dictionary, 1933)

French

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

Extrait du Vocabulaire bilingue de la Common Law - Droit successoral - (Terminologie française normalisée dans le cadre du Programme de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles.)

OBS

passer par hérédité; se transmettre par hérédité : équivalents français normalisés dans le cadre du PAJLO.

OBS

Voir aussi le terme suivant qui présente un complément d'information utile ou un apparentement avec le terme en vedette: descent (termes français : hérédité, succession héréditaire, transmission héréditaire.

Spanish

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Record 72 2012-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

One who succeeds to the rights of another, such as an heir, next of kin, devisee or legatee, assignee, trustee, receiver, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
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Record 73 2011-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems
OBS

millionheir(americanism) :heir of a millionnaire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue

Spanish

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Record 74 2010-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

Guardianship by custom occurred in the city of London and various other cities and boroughs, where the mayor and aldermen had the guardianship of orphans; in the county of Kent, when a tenant in gavelkind died leaving his heir or heirs under fifteen; and in certain manors, where the lord had the power of naming or was himself the guardian of an infant copyholder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Tutelle au mineur incombant d'office à certaines personnes déterminées par la coutume d'un lieu donné.

Spanish

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Record 75 2010-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
CONT

When a tenant in socage died and left an heir under the age of fourteen, the guardianship of that heir devolved to the nearest of kin who could not inherit the estate. This guardian was the guardian in socage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Personne chargée de la tutelle à la personne et aux biens d'un enfant de moins de 14 ans ayant hérité d'une tenure en socage.

Spanish

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Record 76 2008-06-20

English

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

Application for benefit by estate... on approval of an application, to payment of that benefit under this Act may be within one year after the person's death by the estate, the representative or heir of that person or by such person as may be prescribed by regulation.

French

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

Demande de prestation par les ayants cause[...] les personnes désignées par le règlement, les ayants cause, le représentant ou l'héritier d'une personne qui, avant son décès, aurait eu droit, une fois sa demande agréée, au versement des prestations visées par la présente loi peuvent demander celle-ci dans l'année qui suit le décès.

OBS

ayants cause; héritiers : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel dans le ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • ayant-cause
  • héritier
  • ayant cause

Spanish

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Record 77 2005-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Films
OBS

"My Best Girl" is a sweet and sentimental romantic silent film, starring Mary Pickford as a poor shopgirl, and her then future husband Charles "Buddy" Rodgers, as the secret son and heir to the 5-and-10-Cent Store in which they both work.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de films

Spanish

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Record 78 2004-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

To take by inheritance; to take as heir on death of ancestor; to take by descent from ancestor; to take or receive, as right or title, by law from ancestor at his decease.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

hériter : 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

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (common law)
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Record 79 2004-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

That descends or may descend to an heir; capable of being transmitted by inheritance.("The Oxford English Dictionary", 1933)

CONT

"Inheritable" was applied to the person, "descendible" to the estate or property. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 973)

French

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

transmissible par succession héréditaire : 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 80 2003-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (derecho civil)
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Record 81 2003-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
OBS

Disinheritance : The act by which the owner of an estate deprives a person, who would otherwise be his heir, of the right to inherit it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

déshériter; exhéréder : 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 82 2003-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Descent cast is the same as what the older writers called a "descent which tolls entry". Where a person who acquired land by disseisin, abatement or intrusion died seised of the land, the descent of it to his heir took away or "tolled" the true owner's right of entry, so that he could only recover the land by an action.

OBS

The doctrine of descent cast was abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833, s. 39. The term seems to have originally meant the happening of any descent, because the law used to "cast" the land upon the heir.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 83 2001-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
OBS

estate in reversion: A future estate under which a grantor obtains a present right to a future interest in property that the grantor conveys to another: usually the residue of a life estate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

«domaine de réversion» est l'équivalent de «estate in reversion» normalisé dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

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Record 84 2001-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Personal chattels that go to the heir, together with the inheritance. It is a chattel intended to devolve with land.

OBS

The termination "loom" (Sax.) signifies a limb or member; so that an heirloom is nothing else but a limb or member of the inheritance.

OBS

The term "heirlooms" is often used in the plural form to denote such goods or personal chattels which shall go to the heir although it also appears in the singular form in some dictionaries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

Dans le cadre du programme de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles, l'expression «objet de famille» a été choisie comme équivalent normalisé de «heirloom».

Spanish

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Record 85 2001-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
DEF

In the civil law a certain number of days allowed an heir to deliberate whether he would take the inheritance or not.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
DEF

Délai de réflexion dont jouit l'héritier avant de prendre parti sur la succession [...].

Spanish

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Record 86 2001-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

The devolving of realty upon the heir upon the death of his ancestor intestate.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 87 2001-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

If a man died without issue leaving his widow enceinte, the person who would be heir if not displaced by birth of issue was entitled as "qualified heir" to possession of the land and to the rents and profits until issue was born.

OBS

In the following provinces, the expressions "die without issue" or "die without leaving issue" or "have no issue" mean want or failure of issue of a person in his lifetime or at his death and not an indefinite failure of issue: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan (cf. ANREA, 1959, pp.29-30).

French

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

En vertu du «Statute of Distribution» au cas où l'intestat mourait sans laisser de descendants, mais une veuve seulement, la moitié des biens meubles ou immeubles allaient à la veuve et l'autre moitié au plus proche parent.

Spanish

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Record 88 2001-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
OBS

... a person who is the beneficiary of a fideicommissum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
OBS

Bénéficiaire réel d'une libéralité laissée à une autre personne par fidéicommis.

Spanish

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Record 89 2001-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)

Spanish

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Record 90 1998-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho privado
DEF

Son, por este orden excluyente, los hijos y descendientes; los padres y ascendientes; y el cónyuge supérstite.

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Record 91 1998-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
DEF

Disposition testamentaire par laquelle le testateur confère la qualité d'héritier à une personne qu'il désigne

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (derecho civil)
DEF

Disposición testamentaria por la que el testador designa a la persona o personas que le han de heredar en todos sus derechos y obligaciones.

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Record 92 1997-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
DEF

Légataire (assimilé à un légataire universel) que le testateur a désigné dans son testament comme son héritier.

Spanish

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Record 93 1994-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements

Spanish

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Record 94 1994-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (civil law)
  • Family Law (common law)
OBS

An heir coming to a partition shall return to the mass the debts he owns to the deceased...

French

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

L'héritier venant au partage doit faire rapport à la masse des dettes qu'il a envers le défunt [...]

Spanish

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Record 95 1994-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
OBS

The transmission of immoveables by succession must be registered by means of a declaration setting forth the name of the heir...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
OBS

La transmission, par succession, doit être enregistrée au moyen d'une déclaration énonçant le nom de l'héritier [...]

Spanish

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Record 96 1989-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Objet qui hérite les propriétés d'un objet plus général (classe).

Spanish

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Record 97 1988-03-04

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 98 1976-06-19

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 99 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Droit successoral (common law)

Spanish

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Record 100 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

substitué désigné dans un contrat de mariage, etc.

Spanish

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