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INDIRECT POSSESSION [3 records]

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Record 1 2014-04-29

English

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

Possession of a thing through someone else, such as an agent.

CONT

In every instance of mediate possession, there is a direct possessor (such as an agent) as well as a mediate possessor (the principal).

French

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

Dans le cadre du présent Contrat, le terme «contrôle» signifie la possession, directe ou indirecte, du pouvoir d'administrer ou de faire administrer la gestion [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-06-14

English

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

Every means and manner by which property can pass from the ownership and possession of one person to the ownership and possession of another, either by act of the parties or by operation of law, or both. (Ballentine, p. 1292)

OBS

The sale and every other method, direct or indirect, of disposing of or parting with property or with an interest therein, or with the possession thereof, or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest therein, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily or involuntarily, by or without judicial proceedings, as a conveyance, sale, payment, pledge, mortgage, lien, encumbrance, gift, security or otherwise.(Black, 5th, p. 1342)

French

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

Acception large.

OBS

transfert : 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 1981-09-03

English

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

an act of the parties, or of the law, by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. The sale and every other method, direct or indirect, of disposing of or parting with property or with an interest therein, or with the possession thereof or of fixing a lien upon property, or upon an interest therein absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily or proceedings, as a conveyance, sale, payment, pledge, mortgage, lien, encumbrance, gift, security or otherwise.

French

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

frais juridiques et autres frais... frais de cession de titres de propriété.

Spanish

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