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INALIENABLE PROPERTY [7 records]

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Record 1 2017-08-28

English

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

Not subject to alienation. (Black, 5th ed. 1979, p. 683)

CONT

It is a fundamental principle of English law that property must not be rendered inalienable.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed. 1975, p. 276)

OBS

As opposed to: non-assignable, unassignable.

OBS

Antonym: alienable.

French

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

Qui ne peut être aliéné.

OBS

inaliénable : équivalent selon le Vocabulaire bilingue de la Common law - Droit des biens - (Terminologie française normalisée dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles).

OBS

Terme anglais qui présente un complément d'information utile ou un apparentement avec le terme en vedette anglaise : alienation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
  • Derecho de propiedad (derecho civil)
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Record 2 2013-05-28

English

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

It is a fundamental principle... that property must not be rendered inalienable. It is therefore necessary to prohibit... immediate gifts which are subject to some permanent restraint upon alienation.... Restraints upon alienation attached to direct gifts of property are generally invalid on their face, as repugnant to the interest granted.(Megarry and Wade, p. 267)(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 267)

French

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

règle d'interdiction de l'inaliénabilité : 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 2013-05-15

English

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

A limitation or condition placed on the right to transfer property.

CONT

It is fundamental principle of English law that property must not be rendered inalienable. It is therefore necessary to prohibit not only indefeasible future interests which are unduly remote, but immediate gifts which are subject to some permanent restraint upon alienation.... Restraints upon alienation attached to direct gifts of property are generally invalid on their face, as repugnant to the interest granted.(Megarry and Wade, p. 267)

OBS

Restraints can take the form of conditions and covenants in deeds or restraints on use of the property. (Reilly, 2nd ed.,1982, p. 413)

French

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

restriction d'aliénabilité : 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 2013-04-15

English

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

(S) uch a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in a dead hand-in a hand that cannot shift away the property. It takes place upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1206)

OBS

Historically, the word "mortmain" is derived from the Norman-French meaning a "dead hand" because, said Coke, "the lands were said to come to dead hands as to the lords, for that by alienation in mortmaine they lost wholly their escheats, and in effect their knights-services for the defence of the realms, wards, marriages, reliefs, and the like; and therefore was called a dead hand, for that a dead hand yieldeth no service. (Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 1489)

French

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

mainmorte : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

(An) inalienable interest(is a) type of interest in property which cannot be sold or traded.(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 683)

French

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

intérêt inaliénable : 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 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (civil law)
  • History (General)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A system... of marital property... in which the wife's dowry was inalienable and which the husband had the administration and enjoyment.

French

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

Régime matrimonial dans lequel les biens de la femme se répartissent entre biens dotaux (dont le mari a l'administration et la jouissance) et biens extra-dotaux ou paraphernaux (dont la femme garde l'administration et la jouissance).

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-02-18

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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