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HERIOT [8 records]

Record 1 2015-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A community on the east side of Quadra Island, in British Columbia.

OBS

Coordinates: 50° 6’ 0" N, 125° 13’ 0" W (British Columbia).

OBS

Usually, in Canada, the name of an inhabited place has only one form in English and French, which is listed in the gazetteer of the corresponding province or territory according to the incorporation act of the entity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Communauté à l'est de l'île Quadra, en Colombie-Britannique.

OBS

Coordonnées : 50° 6' 0" N, 125° 13' 0" O (Colombie-Britannique).

OBS

Habituellement, au Canada, le nom d'un lieu habité n'a qu'une forme en français et en anglais, celle consignée au répertoire de la province ou du territoire correspondant et qui tient de l'acte d'incorporation de l'entité.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

An island off the east coast of Quadra Island, in British Columbia.

OBS

Coordinates: 50° 6’ 38" N, 125° 12’ 56" W (British Columbia).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Île au large de la côte est de l'île Quadra, en Colombie-Britannique.

OBS

Coordonnées : 50° 6' 38" N, 125° 12' 56" O (Colombie-Britannique).

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A body of water on the east side of Quadra Island, in British Columbia.

OBS

Coordinates: 50° 6’ 22" N, 125° 12’ 49" W (British Columbia).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Étendue d’eau à l'est de l'île Quadra, en Colombie-Britannique.

OBS

Coordonnées : 50° 6' 22" N, 125° 12' 49" O (Colombie-Britannique).

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-05-15

English

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

A "reservation" is only properly admitted of services to be rendered by the tenant, such as paying rent or providing a beast(heriot), whereas a right to come and kill and carry away wild animals is only a liberty or licence-a profit à prendre-which can take effect only by grant and not by exception and reservation.(Farrand, 3rd ed., 1980, p. 287).

French

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

réserve : 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 2008-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Works of Art
  • Fine Arts (General)
  • Painting (Arts)
OBS

George Heriot. Jeune Lorette c. 1800, watercolour over graphite on laid paper 25. 2 x 37. 6 cm. Purchased 1937. National Gallery of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres d'œuvres d'art
  • Beaux-arts (Généralités)
  • Peinture (Arts)
OBS

George Heriot. La Jeune-Lorette v. 1800, aquarelle sur mine de plomb sur papier vergé 25,2 x 37,6 cm. Acheté en 1937. Musée des beaux-arts du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-04-22

English

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

The horses and arms of a tenant, or, if he were a villein, the best beast to which the lord was entitled by custom on the death of his tenant.

OBS

Heriots survived chiefly as an incident of copyhold tenure, but were abolished as a manorial incident subject to compensation by the Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 128.

OBS

heriots: Term no longer current in law.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 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 8 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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