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Record 1 2017-08-23

English

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

In Canada, no private person can establish a public highway or a public ferry or railroad or charge tolls for the use of the same without authority from the legislature direct or derived, and the power to invade public rights by the establishment of these public utilities is generally referred to as a "franchise"... A franchise to operate a street railway and to collect tolls is a property right, an incorporeal hereditament.

French

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

Terme générique désignant des actes très divers, unilatéraux ou conventionnels, par lesquels l'administration (concédant) soit confère à un particulier (concessionnaire) des droits et avantages spéciaux sur le domaine, soit confie à une tierce personne l'exécution d'une opération administrative.

CONT

Concession de service public. Acte partiellement conventionnel par lequel l'administration confie à une personne choisie à raison de ses qualités la gestion à ses risques et périls d'un service public, moyennant une rémunération perçue sur les usagers de ce service.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-05-29

English

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

An easement is an incorporeal hereditament and is a privilege without a profit. Thus when A, the owner of a piece of land, has the right of compelling B, the owner of an adjoining piece of land, either to refrain from doing something on his(B's) land; or to allow A to do something on his(B's) land, then A is said to have an easement over B's land : A is called the dominant owner, and his land the dominant tenement; B is called the servient tenant, and his land the servient tenement.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 675).

French

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

tenant de fonds servant : 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 2013-05-21

English

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

An incorporeal hereditament which consists in a profit which one man has in connection with one or more others in the land of another.(Black, 5th, p. 249)

French

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

Lorsque «common» s'emploie dans le sens de «right of common», il est rendu en français par «communage», qui s'entend «droit de communage».

OBS

droit de communage; communage; profit à prendre en commun : 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 4 2013-05-13

English

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

A rent charge arises when a periodic sum of money is payable in respect of land to a person who has no reversion in it, the due payment of which is a charge upon the land and is secured by a right of distress given by express agreement between the parties. A rent charge in fee simple is an incorporeal hereditament and is real property as it is an interest in the land itself. The owner of a rent charge, however, has no interest in the land out of which it issues.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 924).

Key term(s)
  • rent charge in fee simple

French

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

rente-charge en fief simple : 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 2013-05-06

English

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

Another division of hereditaments was into real, personal and mixed. Real hereditaments were lands and tenements. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 902).

French

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

héritage réel : 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 2013-05-01

English

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

Profits à prendre in gross. Where a profit à prendre exists as a right in gross it may be assigned and dealt with as a valuable interest, according to the ordinary rules of property. In default of any disposition inter vivos or by will a profit à prendre in gross descends as an ordinary incorporeal hereditament.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 14, p. 119).

CONT

[Profit in gross]. This profit, whether several or in common, exercisable by the owner independently of his ownership of land; there is no dominant tenement.... A profit in gross is an interest in land which will pass under a will or intestacy or can be sold or dealt with in any of the usual ways, being an incorporeal hereditament.(Megarry and Wade, p. 824)

French

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

profit à prendre indépendant; profit indépendant : 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 7 2013-05-01

English

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

An incorporeal hereditament which consists in a profit which one man has in connection with one or more others in the land of another.(Black, 5th, p. 249)

CONT

The land where rights of common are exercised, namely, open and uncultivated ground over which owners and occupers of enclosed land in the vicinity (known as commoners) have certain rights, although they are not the owners of such ground. (5 Hals., 3rd, p. 297)

French

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

communage : 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 8 2013-04-23

English

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

There are two kinds of prescription, "viz. ", negative, which relates to realty or corporeal hereditaments,... and positive, which relates to incorporeal hereditaments.... The most important rules of the common law concerning positive prescription are as follows : the only property claimable by positive prescription is an incorporeal hereditament,...(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1413).

French

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

prescription positive : 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 9 2013-04-23

English

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

Another division of hereditaments was into real, personal and mixed.... A personal hereditament was one which concerned neither lands nor tenements, such as an annuity granted to a man and his heirs.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 902).

French

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

héritage personnel : 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 10 2013-04-18

English

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

[D] ispossession, a wrong or injury which may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carrying with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament, and obliges him who has a right to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession and damage for the injury sustained. An ouster may be either rightful or wrongful. A wrongful ouster is a disseisin.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1296).

French

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

privation de possession : 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 11 2013-04-15

English

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

Another division of hereditaments was into real, personal and mixed.... A mixed hereditament was partly real and partly personal....(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 902).

French

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

héritage mixte : 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 12 2013-04-08

English

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

Any estate of inheritance or for life, in either a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, existing in, or arising from, real property of free tenure.(Ballentine, p. 499)

OBS

Legal estates in land of freehold tenure were divisible with reference to their quantity, or the extreme limit of their duration, into estates of freehold or less than freehold. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 723)

French

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

domaine franc : 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 13 2013-03-04

English

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

In a narrower sense, interest was used as opposed to estate, and therefore denoted rights in property not being estates [such as] ... interests resembling estates but not recognized as such by the common law, e.g., executory interests in land and those interests in personalty which closely resembled estates properly so called. (Jowitt, p. 995-996)

CONT

[A] licence does not create an interest in land but rather gives the right to use property in a manner which otherwise would be a trespass.... An easement creates an interest in land and is an incorporeal hereditament. In essence the holder of the easement has the right to compel the use or restrict the use of the land of the giver of the easement...(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 225-226)

French

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

Acception spécifique.

OBS

intérêt : 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 14 2013-02-19

English

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

Incorporeal hereditaments are intangibles; they are rights which were regarded as real property rather than personalty because of their close affinity with land, being rights over or in respect of land. Incorporeal hereditaments are capable of being held for an estate or interest in the same way that land may be. The main examples ... are easements, "profits à prendre" and rent charges. It has been pointed out that the distinction between corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments is meaningless and confusing in that, in law, a property interest is only a right of ownership which, as a right, is incorporeal, never corporeal, although the object of the right may be either corporeal or incorporeal. However, the distinction is one that remains in common usage. ... (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 11).

French

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

héritage incorporel : 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 15 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 16 2013-01-23

English

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

(In) "Springett" v. "Jenings" (sic) ... It was held that the lands devised to A did not pass under the gift of "the rest of" his freehold hereditaments in the parish of H and hence were not disposed of at all. (Anger and Honsberger, 1959, p. 663).

French

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

héritage franc : 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 17 2012-12-12

English

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

Feoffment is an ancient form of conveyance defined by Blackstone as the gift of any corporeal hereditament to another.(Garner, p. 240)

French

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

Lorsque les termes «feoffment» et «enfeoffment» désignent les instruments de transfert, ils sont rendus par «acte de fieffement» et «acte d'enfieffement».

OBS

fieffement; enfieffement : 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 18 2012-11-21

English

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

(A) deed whereby property is granted. (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 576)

CONT

At common law, an incorporeal hereditament(and an estate in fee simple in remainder or reversion) was conveyed by deed of grant. Its nature was such that it was intangible and, therefore, not capable of transfer by delivery of possession.(Mendes da Costa & Balfour, 1982, p. 361)

French

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

Le second équivalent «acte de concession» est la forme elliptique du premier «acte formaliste de concession». Il ne s'emploiera que lorsque la référence à la spécificité juridique du deed n'est pas en cause ou lorsque cette spécificité ressort d'une autre manière du contexte d'emploi.

OBS

acte formaliste de concession; acte de concession : 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 2012-11-14

English

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

"Hereditaments" (is) used in a general sense to include both the corporeal things, such as houses and land, and the rights which arise out of them. Where these rights extend to the exclusive possession of the thing which is the subject of property, they are called corporeal hereditaments, a term which is used to denote both the thing itself and the right of property in the thing. (Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 27, p. 104).

OBS

Strictly the term "corporeal" applies to the land itself, whereas rights in the land are incorporeal, but this is not in accordance with legal usage, and a right in the land, if accompanied by possession, is regarded as corporeal, whereas partial rights which do not entitle the owner of them to possession are regarded as incorporeal. Rights in land, whether corporeal or incorporeal, are described by the words "tenements" and "hereditaments". ... (Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 261).

French

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

héritage corporel : 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 2012-09-26

English

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

Belonging to. Annexed to a hereditament by an act of parties or statute, "e. g. "a right of way(which can generally be claimed by express grant or prescription). An appurtenant right to another must be related to the needs or use of the dominant tenement. For this reason an exclusive right to grazing, or taking timber, or fishing without limit, cannot exist as appurtenant to another property.(Curzon, 1983, p. 21).

French

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

dépendant : 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 2012-09-25

English

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

Annexed to a hereditament by operation of law, a common of pasture. Can generally be claimed by prescription.(Curzon, 1983, p. 20).

French

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

annexe : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dand le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 22 1998-11-13

English

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

machinery and plant.

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
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Record 23 1996-10-18

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 24 1996-10-18

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 25 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing (Road Transport)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tarification (Transport routier)

Spanish

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