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IMMEDIATE POSSESSION [19 records]

Record 1 2023-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Road Safety
  • Police
CONT

A person commits the offense of vehicle hijacking when he or she knowingly uses or threatens the use of physical force upon another person to seize or attempt to seize possession or control of a vehicle... from the immediate possession or control of another person.

Key term(s)
  • car-jacking

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Sécurité routière
  • Police
DEF

Vol d'un véhicule avec agression du conducteur.

OBS

piraterie routière : définition et désignation publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 5 avril 2006.

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protective Clothing
  • Air Pollution
  • Fires and Explosions
CONT

When dangerous materials... are carried aboard aircraft, passengers and aircrew shall be in immediate possession of a smoke mask...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vêtements de protection
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Feux et explosions
OBS

masque antifumée : désignation uniformisée par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) – Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protective Clothing
  • Air Pollution
  • Fires and Explosions
CONT

When dangerous materials... are carried aboard aircraft, passengers and aircrew shall be in immediate possession of a smoke mask or smoke hoods...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vêtements de protection
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Feux et explosions
CONT

Les cagoules antifumée, si elles sont disponibles, devraient être faciles à trouver et à enfiler, que la personne se trouve dans un siège ou qu'elle soit en train de se déplacer dans la cabine pour sortir d'un aéronef.

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aerospace Equipment (Military)
  • Security Devices
  • Air Safety
CONT

All personnel essential to accompany the shipment shall be in immediate possession of emergency protective oxygen system(EPOS) or other authorized ALSE [aviation life support equipment] that provides smoke and fume protection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel aérospatial (Militaire)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
DEF

Cash in immediate possession, represented by coin, paper money, and negotiable checks and other paper commonly accepted for immediate credit by a bank in a deposit of cash.

OBS

cash on hand; cash in hand: terms extracted from the “Glossaire économique” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
DEF

Sommes incluses dans la caisse et les comptes bancaires d'une entité.

OBS

encaisse; espèces en caisse; disponibilités : termes extraits du «Glossaire économique» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad
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Record 6 2015-11-02

English

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

A form of action in English law, derived from the action on the case (q.v.) taking its name from and based on the fiction that the defendant had found (trouvé) goods and then converted them to his own use. It is now called the action of conversion

CONT

In order to maintain an action for conversion, the plaintiff must have been either in actual possession or entitled to immediate possession of the goods, at the time when the conversion was committed.

OBS

An action for conversion is still commonly called an action of trover.

OBS

trover and conversion: Originally the action was brought for damages against one who had found and refused to give up the goods of the plaintiff on demand; this refusal constituted ’conversion’ ...; hence the action was called trover and conversion. Later, the finding became a legal fiction, and it was only necessary to prove the ownership and detention of the goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

action pour détournement : 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 7 2015-10-29

English

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

A trespass committed when the plaintiff had a right to immediate possession of land but had not yet exercised that right.

French

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

intrusion rétroactive; atteinte immobilière rétroactive : 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 8 2013-11-22

English

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

The care, possession, and control of a thing or person. The retention, inspection, guarding, maintenance, or security of a thing within the immediate care and control of the person to whom it is committed.

French

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

Pouvoir de surveillance de direction et de contrôle que l'on exerce sur une personne, un animal ou un bien.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
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Record 9 2013-09-09

English

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

Possession that is acquired or retained directly or personally.

CONT

... the ability to produce a record would encompass not only those records which that institution has custody of or is in direct possession of, but would also include records that are generally available to that institution including any record which that institution may access or retrieve by way of agreement.

French

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

[...] cette capacité de produire des documents ne viserait pas seulement les documents dont l’institution a la garde ou la possession directe, mais également les documents auxquels elle a généralement accès, notamment par entente.

Spanish

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Record 10 2013-04-26

English

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

An instrument is usually construed as a lease if it contains words of present demise. The circumstance that the lessee is to have immediate possession under the agreement is a strong indication that it is a present demise. In all cases the question whether an agreement operates as a present demise, or only as an agreement for a lease, depends on the parties’ intention.(27 Hals., 4th ed., p. 51)

French

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

transport à bail actuel : 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 2013-04-26

English

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

The immediate or present possession and use of an estate or property, as distinguished from such as is postponed to a future time.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1065).

French

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

jouissance actuelle : 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 2013-04-23

English

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

Possession may be "actual" or "constructive". These two are otherwise respectively known as possession "in deed" and "in law". (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p.8)

OBS

Actual possession exists where the thing is in the immediate occupancy and control of the party.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1047)

CONT

A person has actual possession ("de facto" possession, possession in fact) of a thing when he exercises physical control over it. Thus a person who holds a thing in his hand has actual possession of it while he occupies it ... (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1389)

French

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

possession effective; possession de fait : 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 13 2013-02-20

English

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

An estate in land may exist in one of three different ways : in possession, in remainder or in reversion. An estate in possession gives an immediate right to possession....(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 47)

CONT

A remainder is ... described as limited to take effect, in possession, or in enjoyment, or in both, after the regular expiration of another estate. For a vested remainder has already taken effect in right or interest, and therefore it has only to take effect in possession or enjoyment, or in possession and enjoyment. (Fearne, 10th ed., 1844, p. 55)

French

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

Locution adjective et adverbiale.

OBS

en 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 14 2012-12-18

English

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

An estate in land may exist in one of three different ways : in possession, in remainder or in reversion. An estate in possession gives an immediate right to possession and enjoyment of the land.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 47)

French

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

domaine en 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 15 2012-10-17

English

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

The law recognizes "absolutely vested remainders", in which taking by specified individual is directed without any proviso or limitation, "contingently vested remainders" or "remainders vested subject to being divested", in which remainder is given to one person, with proviso that it shall go to another under certain contingencies, and "contingent remainders", where there is no person having immediate right of possession on cessation of intermediate or precedent estate.(Words and Phrases/U. S. ", v. 9, p. 239)

French

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

résidu dévolu sous 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 16 2012-10-05

English

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

An action can be brought against a third party by a bailor(i) f he has a right of immediate possession as where the bailment is at the will of the bailor. The right of immediate possession may be present "ab initio" as in the case of a simple bailment of chattels for safe custody, or it may arise on the happening of certain events... upon which the bailment becomes a bailment at will.(Crossley Vaines, 5th ed., 1973, p. 74).

French

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

baillement à discrétion : 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 2012-05-10

English

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

To establish robbery, fear of immediate injury must be employed either to obtain or to retain possession of property, or to prevent or to overcome resistance to its taking.

French

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

dommage imminent, préjudice imminent : 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 18 2011-08-08

English

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

In somes states, an action for the recovery of property unlawfully withheld from an owner who has the immediate right to possession.

CONT

A trespass to try title action is the method of determining title to lands, tenements, or other real property.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 19 2007-04-26

English

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

... is a procedure to determine the right to immediate possession of real property. It is intended to be a speedy, simple, and inexpensive means to obtain possession without resort to an action on the title.

CONT

A landlord can file a forcible detainer action against a tenant for nonpayment of rent, if the tenant has breached the lease, or if the tenant has committed a crime. Forcible detainer actions seek the eviction of the tenant and the repossession of the rental property. They may also be filed if the tenant misrepresented information to the landlord or has unauthorized occupants in the residence.

CONT

An appeal from an action for forcible detainer must be filed within 5 days after entry of judgment.

French

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

Action en justice visant à rentrer en possession d'un bien ou d'un immeuble dont on est propriétaire lorsque ce bien est en possession de quelqu'un d'autre sans apparence de droit.

OBS

Ces deux expressions peuvent être utilisées comme synonymes pour désigner une action en justice qui vise à faire valoir le titre de propriété sur un bien-fonds ou sur un immeuble qui est en possession de quelqu'un d'autre.

Spanish

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