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INCORPOREAL PROPERTY [23 records]

Record 1 2017-08-23

English

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

In Canada, no private person can establish a public highway or a public ferry or railroad or charge tolls for the use of the same without authority from the legislature direct or derived, and the power to invade public rights by the establishment of these public utilities is generally referred to as a "franchise"... A franchise to operate a street railway and to collect tolls is a property right, an incorporeal hereditament.

French

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

Terme générique désignant des actes très divers, unilatéraux ou conventionnels, par lesquels l'administration (concédant) soit confère à un particulier (concessionnaire) des droits et avantages spéciaux sur le domaine, soit confie à une tierce personne l'exécution d'une opération administrative.

CONT

Concession de service public. Acte partiellement conventionnel par lequel l'administration confie à une personne choisie à raison de ses qualités la gestion à ses risques et périls d'un service public, moyennant une rémunération perçue sur les usagers de ce service.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A testator’s gift of all, a fraction, or a proportion of one of certain categories of property, as specified by statute.

CONT

A legacy by general title entitles one or several persons to take(1) the ownership of an aliquot share of the succession;(2) a dismemberment of the right of ownership of the whole or of an aliquot share of the succession;(3) the ownership or a dismemberment of the right of ownership of the whole or of an aliquot share of all the immovable or movable property, private property, property in a community or acquests, or corporeal or incorporeal property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
CONT

Le legs à titre universel est celui qui donne à une ou plusieurs personnes vocation à recueillir: 1) La propriété d'une quote-part de la succession; 2) Un démembrement du droit de propriété sur la totalité ou sur une quote-part de la succession; 3) La propriété ou un démembrement de ce droit sur la totalité ou sur une quote-part de l'universalité des immeubles ou des meubles, des biens propres, communs ou acquêts, ou des biens corporels ou incorporels.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (derecho civil)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
CONT

El legado a título universal es aquél que da derecho a una o varias personas a tomar: 1º La propiedad de una alícuota de la sucesión; 2º Una parte del derecho de propiedad sobre la totalidad o sobre una alícuota de la sucesión; 3º La propiedad o una parte de ese derecho sobre la totalidad o sobre una alícuota del conjunto de inmuebles o muebles, de los bienes propios, comunes o gananciales o de los bienes corporales o incorporales.

OBS

legado a título universal: Expresión y contexto traducidos del artículo 733 del Código Civil de Quebec, El C.C.Q. fue traducido según la versión de 1999-2000.

Key term(s)
  • legado universal
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Record 3 2013-05-13

English

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

A rent charge arises when a periodic sum of money is payable in respect of land to a person who has no reversion in it, the due payment of which is a charge upon the land and is secured by a right of distress given by express agreement between the parties. A rent charge in fee simple is an incorporeal hereditament and is real property as it is an interest in the land itself. The owner of a rent charge, however, has no interest in the land out of which it issues.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 924).

Key term(s)
  • rent charge in fee simple

French

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

rente-charge en fief simple : 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 2013-05-06

English

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

Real estate is a technical term and is generally to be construed in its technical sense. It comprises all freehold (and formerly copyhold) lands, tenements and hereditaments, but not leasehold interests.... "Real estate" includes, also, any rights in land, such as a rentcharge, which admit of being limited in the same manner as freehold estates or interests. (39 Hals., 4th, p. 214)

CONT

As the common law developed, real property came to mean that form of property which could be specifically recovered by a real action if possession were lost. Only freeholdings of land were thus recoverable in the realty. (Crossley Vaines, 5th, p. 6)

OBS

The terms "real property, ""realty" and "real estate" are quasi-synonyms. "Real property" and "real estate" serve for distinct technical classifications. Originally, the use of the term "property" itself was confined to cases where the right included possession. The term "real property, "as opposed to "personal property, "was used to denote land and things attached to land so as to become part of it, as well as rights in the land which endure for a life. The term "real estate, "as opposed to "personal estate, "comprised all freehold(and formerly copyhold) lands, tenements and hereditaments(except leasehold interests) that a person owned, and also included any rights in land which could be limited in the same manner as freehold estates or interests. In modern usage, all three terms refer to the same object, comprising corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments.

French

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

biens réels : terme de classification; sens collectif.

OBS

biens réels : 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 2013-05-01

English

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

Profits à prendre in gross. Where a profit à prendre exists as a right in gross it may be assigned and dealt with as a valuable interest, according to the ordinary rules of property. In default of any disposition inter vivos or by will a profit à prendre in gross descends as an ordinary incorporeal hereditament.(Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 14, p. 119).

CONT

[Profit in gross]. This profit, whether several or in common, exercisable by the owner independently of his ownership of land; there is no dominant tenement.... A profit in gross is an interest in land which will pass under a will or intestacy or can be sold or dealt with in any of the usual ways, being an incorporeal hereditament. (Megarry and Wade, p. 824)

French

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

profit à prendre indépendant; profit indépendant : 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 6 2013-04-26

English

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

Prescription, in its broadest sense, may be defined as the effect of lapse of time in creating or extinguishing property interests. As appears from this definition, it has two aspects, the one, that of creating, the other, that of extinguishing interests. In the first it operates positively, in the second, negatively. Prescription as defined above extends to both corporeal and incorporeal interests.("Restatement of the Law of Property", p. 2922).

French

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

prescription : 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 2013-04-23

English

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

There are two kinds of prescription, "viz. ", negative, which relates to realty or corporeal hereditaments,... and positive, which relates to incorporeal hereditaments.... The most important rules of the common law concerning positive prescription are as follows : the only property claimable by positive prescription is an incorporeal hereditament,...(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1413).

French

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

prescription positive : 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 8 2013-04-18

English

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

Conveyances at common law were said to be original or primary when they transferred the property without reference to a previous conveyance, and derivative or secondary when they followed a previous conveyance and took effect with reference to it. To the former class belonged conveyances by feoffment, gift(of estates tail), grant(of incorporeal hereditaments), lease, exchange, partition and assignment; to the latter class belonged conveyances by confirmation, release, surrender and defeasance.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 458)

French

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

transport primitif : 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 9 2013-04-08

English

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

Any estate of inheritance or for life, in either a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, existing in, or arising from, real property of free tenure.(Ballentine, p. 499)

OBS

Legal estates in land of freehold tenure were divisible with reference to their quantity, or the extreme limit of their duration, into estates of freehold or less than freehold. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 723)

French

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

domaine franc : 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 2013-03-18

English

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

Grants, "concessiones" : the regular method by the common law of transferring the property of incorporeal hereditaments, or such things whereof no livery can be had. For which reason all corporeal hereditaments, as lands and houses, are said to lie in livery; and the others, as advowsons, commons, rents, reversions, to lie in grant.(Blackstone, 15th ed., 1809, Vol. 2, p. 316)

CONT

After 1845 it was provided that corporeal hereditaments should be deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery.... ("Oxford Companion to Law", 1980, p. 535)

French

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

se transporter par concession : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme nationale de l'administration de la Justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 11 2013-03-04

English

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

In a narrower sense, interest was used as opposed to estate, and therefore denoted rights in property not being estates [such as] ... interests resembling estates but not recognized as such by the common law, e.g., executory interests in land and those interests in personalty which closely resembled estates properly so called. (Jowitt, p. 995-996)

CONT

[A] licence does not create an interest in land but rather gives the right to use property in a manner which otherwise would be a trespass.... An easement creates an interest in land and is an incorporeal hereditament. In essence the holder of the easement has the right to compel the use or restrict the use of the land of the giver of the easement...(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 225-226)

French

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

Acception spécifique.

OBS

intérêt : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

That which has no physical existence. Intangible property, a right, such as a chose in action. (Cartwright, 1972, p. 466)

French

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

bien incorporel; propriété incorporelle : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

Incorporeal hereditaments are intangibles; they are rights which were regarded as real property rather than personalty because of their close affinity with land, being rights over or in respect of land. Incorporeal hereditaments are capable of being held for an estate or interest in the same way that land may be. The main examples... are easements, "profits à prendre" and rent charges. It has been pointed out that the distinction between corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments is meaningless and confusing in that, in law, a property interest is only a right of ownership which, as a right, is incorporeal, never corporeal, although the object of the right may be either corporeal or incorporeal. However, the distinction is one that remains in common usage....(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 11).

French

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

héritage incorporel : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

Where only a bare right to enjoy exists, the property is said to be in action, and the chattels are called incorporeal.(Halsbury, 3rd ed., Vol. 29, p. 359).

French

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

chatel incorporel : 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 2013-02-19

English

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

Personal property is also divisible into corporeal personal property... and incorporeal personal property, which consists of such rights as personal annuities, stocks, shares, patents and copyrights.(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1356)

French

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

bien personnel incorporel : 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 2012-11-14

English

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

Incorporeal hereditaments are rights of property of certain special classes. Their distinguishing feature is that the law of real property applies to them, just as it applies to corporeal land.(A) right of entry and a possibility of reverter are probably simply attenuated forms of ownership of corporeal land, not incorporeal hereditaments in themselves.(Megarry & Wade, pp. 787-9)

French

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

fonds de terre ; terrain : 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 17 2012-11-14

English

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

Property which has a physical existence, such as land or goods. (Jowitt’s, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 476).

OBS

Such as affects the senses, and may be seen and handled, as opposed to incorporeal property....(Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 310).

French

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

bien corporel; propriété corporelle : 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 18 2012-11-14

English

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

If chattels personal are considered according to their physical characteristics, they may be divided into(1) corporeal chattels, "i. e. ", those which have an actual physical existence; tangible objects, such as money in specie, furniture, cattle, ships, timber, and minerals when severed from the land;(2) incorporeal chattels....("Goodeve, Personal Property" 1937, p. 10)

French

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

chatel corporel : 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 19 2012-11-14

English

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

Personal property is also divisible into corporeal personal property, which includes movable and tangible things, such as animals, ships, furniture, merchandise, etc. ;and incorporeal personal property...(Jowitt, p. 1356)

French

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

bien personnel corporel : 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 20 2012-11-07

English

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

Conveyances at common law were said to be original or primary when they transferred the property without reference to a previous conveyance... To(this) class belonged conveyances by... grant(of incorporeal hereditaments)...(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 458).

French

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

transport par concession : 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 21 2012-10-03

English

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

To assign generally means to transfer property, especially personal estate ...

OBS

In its more special sense, to assign is to transfer personal estate, or chattels real, or certain rights in real or personal estate. The term is especially applied to leases, terms of years, and life interests in land or personal property, and to choses in action, and incorporeal chattels. The word "assign" is the proper technical operative word...(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 146)

French

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

céder : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 22 2004-05-18

English

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

The possibility of distraining is the mark of rent, and so it cannot be reserved out of incorporeal hereditaments, inasmuch as the landlord cannot distrain upon these; but it may be reserved out of a remainder or reversion, as the landlord can distrain when the property falls into possession.(27 Halsbury, 4th ed., par. 211).

French

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

réserver sur; se réserver sur : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 23 1992-06-25

English

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

A term descriptive of such things as have an objective, material existence. (Black’s, 5th ed. 1979, p. 310)

CONT

It has been pointed out that the distinction between corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments is meaningless and confusing in that, in law, a property interest is only a right of ownership which, as a right, is incorporeal never corporeal, although the object of the right, is incorporeal never corporeal, although the object of the right may be either corporeal or incorporeal.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed. 1985, pp. 10-11)

French

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

Extrait du 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

A distinguer de : corporal.

OBS

Antonyme : incorporeal.

Spanish

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