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INCHOATE [26 records]

Record 1 2023-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
OBS

[…] l'adjectif «inchoatif» ne s'emploie, en common law, qu'en droit pénal spécial. Il se dit d'un délit, d'une infraction de nature générale qui engage la responsabilité secondaire […] des auteurs d'un acte menant à la consommation d'une infraction par suite de conseils, d'une incitation ou d'une tentative.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
OBS

"Inchoate" means something that is partially complete. In other words, it means something that has begun but has not been completed …

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Régimen jurídico
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Record 3 2023-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

[...] est virtuel ce qui attend, pour être parfait, qu'un événement se produise, qu'une condition se réalise.

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
OBS

inchoate instrument : term extracted from the “Glossaire de l'économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

instrument financier imparfait : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright
OBS

inchoate right : term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • inchoate rights

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits d'auteur
OBS

droit virtuel : terme tiré du Mini-lexique de la propriété intellectuelle, particulièrement les brevets et les marques de commerce et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

OBS

droit virtuel : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • droits virtuels

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
DEF

The lien of a judgment, from the day of its entry, subject to be defeated by its vacation, becoming a consummate lien if the motion for a new trial is thereafter overruled; such lien then relating back to the original entry of the judgment. (Black, 5th ed., 1979, p. 686).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

privilège virtuel : 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 2015-06-11

English

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

Customer lists are typically developed by a company through the work of its employees. It thus has an inchoate proprietary interest in the list. If a non-employee attempts to make use of the list, he or she may be liable for trade secret misappropriation.

OBS

inchoate : Partially completed or imperfectly formed.

French

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

virtuel: Qui n'est tel qu'en puissance, qui est à l'état de simple possibilité.

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-02-19

English

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

A rudimentary interest. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

CONT

Common law dower was merely an inchoate right dependent upon the wife surviving her husband.(Di Castri, "Registration of Title to Land", 1987, p. 301).

French

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

droit virtuel : 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).

PHR

Droit de propriété familiale imparfait

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-02-19

English

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

An interest in real estate which is not a present interest, but which may ripen into a vested estate, if not barred, extinguished, or divested. (Black, 5th ed., 1979, p. 686).

French

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

intérêt virtuel : 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 2013-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
PHR

Inchoate homestead right

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
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Record 11 2013-02-19

English

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

The right, or expectation of a future right, that a wife has in real estate, of which her husband has become seized, while he is still living, such right becoming consummate as her dower if he dies leaving her surviving and she has not previously released her interest. (Ballentine, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

Key term(s)
  • inchoate right to dower

French

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

droit de douaire virtuel : 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 2012-12-05

English

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

A wife’s interest in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower upon his death. A contingent claim or possibility of acquiring dower by outliving husband and arises, not out of contract, but as an institution of law constituting a mere chose in action incapable of transfer by separate grant but susceptible of extinguishment, which is effected by wife joining with husband in deed, which operates as release or satisfaction of interest and not as conveyance. (Black, 5th ed., 1979, p. 686).

French

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

douaire virtuel : 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 2012-12-05

English

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

At common law, whenever a husband became seised(otherwise than as a joint tenant) of an estate of inheritance during coverture which issue of the marriage, if any, could inherit, the wife obtained an inchoate right of dower therein which became consummate on the husband's death survived by his wife. The dower right was a life interest in one-third of such freeholds of inheritance and constituted a clog on the husband's title even in his life-time.(Laskin, Revised Edition 1964, p. 72).

CONT

The right of dower was twofold : namely, inchoate and consummate.(Mendes da Costa and Balfour, p. 730)

French

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

Dans certains textes législatifs, le pluriel («dower rights») est défini de sorte qu'il désigne l'ensemble des droits d'un conjoint sur les biens de l'autre conjoint : voir, par exemple, R.S.A. 1980, c. D-38.

OBS

droit de douaire : 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 2012-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Dower at common law was the right of a wife on surviving her husband to an estate for her life in one-third of the freehold estates of inheritance of which her deceased husband was solely seised at any time during the marriage and which her issue by him might possibly have inherited. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 175).

CONT

The legal right or interest... that a wife acquires in the property her husband held or acquired anytime during their marriage. During the husband's life, the dower is an expectant, or inchoate, interest which does not actually become a legal estate(called consummate dower) until the husband's death.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 146).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

douaire : 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 2012-11-19

English

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

A term variously defined as the right of the husband akin to the inchoate right of dower of the wife; the right of the husband in a jurisdiction in which the husband's right of curtesy is by statute the same as the right of dower, such right attaching the moment the wife becomes seized in fee simple during coverture; the doctrine that on the birth of issue, even though the husband has no greater interest in the wife's property during her life because of the "Married Woman's(sic) Act", he nevertheless has a potential life estate in his wife's real property conditional on his surviving her.(Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 599).

French

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

bénéfice virtuel du veuf : 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 2012-10-17

English

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

Neither dower inchoate, nor dower consummate, is an interest in land, merely a possibility coupled with an interest. Only when dower is assigned by metes and bounds does it become an interest in land.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 174)

French

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

douaire consommé : 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 2009-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Criminology
DEF

A step toward the commission of another crime, the step in itself being serious enough to merit punishment.

CONT

The three inchoate offenses are attempt, conspiracy, and solicitation. These preliminary crimes have sometimes been erroneously described as "inchoate" offenses. This is misleading because the word "inchoate" connotes something which is not yet completed, and it is therefore not accurately used to denote something which is itself complete., even though it be a link in a chain of events leading to some object which is not yet attained.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Criminologie
CONT

L'avocat est autorisé à divulguer des renseignements couverts par le secret professionnel s'il a de sérieux motifs de croire qu'un crime sera vraisemblablement commis. Cette divulgation devient obligatoire lorsque le crime anticipé comporte un élément de violence.

Key term(s)
  • crime préliminaire
  • infraction préliminaire

Spanish

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Record 18 2003-05-28

English

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

... “private” property is held subject to an inchoate trust for larger societal interests.

OBS

inchoate : Partially completed or imperfectly formed.

French

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

virtuelle: Qui n'est tel qu'en puissance, qui est à l'état de simple possibilité.

Key term(s)
  • fiducie imparfaite

Spanish

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Record 19 2003-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

The personal right to the beneficial, peaceful and uninterrupted use of the home property free from claim of creditors.

CONT

The western provinces abolished dower but replaced it with homestead rights. ... Rights in the homestead include the right to refuse consent to a change of homestead or to its sale (sales made without consent are void), a life estate in the whole of the homestead to the surviving spouse, and certain immunity from seizure of the homestead by creditors. ... Homestead rights give the wife somewhat better protection than does dower: during her husband’s lifetime she can prevent the sale of the homestead completely; and if she survives him, she has an exclusive life interest in the whole of the homestead rather than the one-third interest of dower. Homestead rights are less cumbersome than dower-they do not affect other real property of the spouse.

OBS

Homestead rights are often referred to as "dower" in the western provinces.

PHR

Inchoate homestead right

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

M. et Mme Rathwell se sont séparés en 1967 à la suite de difficultés conjugales. Par la suite M. Rathwell, avec le consentement de sa femme, a donné en location des terres à leur fils Duane et en a hypothéqué une partie pour se procurer des fonds pour lui acheter d'autres terres. Pour favoriser les intérêts de son fils, Mme Rathwell a renoncé à ses droits sur le domicile familial (homestead) en faveur du créancier hypothécaire.

OBS

À éviter : «droit sur les biens de famille», «exploitation rurale», «droit d'établissement».

PHR

Droit de propriété imparfait

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (common law)
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Record 20 2003-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
OBS

inchoatif : Qui est à son commencement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
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Record 21 1999-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 22 1994-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Geography and Geopolitics
  • International Law
CONT

The idea of coalescence of sovereignty over a territory lends substance to the doctrine of "inchoate title"... Obviously the State that is in process of perfecting its title has more claim to the terra nullius than any other, though its title is not unimpeachable. In a sense it may be said that the claimant State has a privilege to perfect its title, which implies that any other State has an equal privilege to frustrate by taking more final and decisive action. In the absence of such more final and decisive action the claimant's privilege amounts of priority of interest"... The doctrine in inchoate title [attributes] as against an interloper the widest extent of territory to the claimant who has actually made the first settlement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie politique et géopolitique
  • Droit international
DEF

inchoate title : Expression anglaise désignant le titre naissant, provisoire qui résulte de la découverte d'un territoire et qui a besoin d'être complété par l'occupation effective.

CONT

«La découverte, accompagnée d'une affirmation publique de souveraineté, ne crée qu'un titre naissant (inchoate title), capable d'écarter les tiers du territoire auquel il s'applique, pendant le temps nécessaire à son développement par l'occupation, mais non pas indéfiniment, car, suffisant pour permettre à celui qui l'a de le compléter par l'occupation effective, il n'y peut suppléer».

Spanish

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Record 23 1994-02-18

English

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

French

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

virtuel : Qui n'est tel qu'en puissance, qui est à l'état de simple possibilité.

Spanish

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Record 24 1994-02-18

English

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

The potential interest that the law gives a wife in the lands of her husband; an interest that on the death of the husband may ripen into possession and use.

French

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

Droit éventuel dans les biens-fonds du mari, que la loi donne à l'épouse; droit qui, au décès du mari, peut se diviser en possession et usage.

OBS

Fiche terminologique en transactions immobilières fournie par le ministère des Affaires indiennes.

Spanish

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Record 25 1994-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)

French

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

virtuel : Qui n'est tel qu'en puissance, qui est à l'état de simple possibilité.

Spanish

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Record 26 1994-02-18

English

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

French

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

virtuel : Qui n'est tel qu'en puissance, qui est à l'état de simple possibilité

Spanish

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