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INCHOATE INTEREST [7 records]

Record 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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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