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HEIRLOOMS [2 records]

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Record 1 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 2 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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