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HEIR CUSTOM [6 records]

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Record 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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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