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INNOCENT INTERESTS [3 records]

Record 1 2012-10-29

English

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

One who purchases real property without notice, actual or constructive, of any superior rights or interests in the property. The state recording statutes are designed to protect an innocent purchaser for value from the secret claims of a prior purchaser.(Reilly, 2nd, p. 243)

CONT

If a person who has notice (except in the case of a charity) sells to another who has no notice, and is a "bona fide" purchaser for valuable consideration, the latter may protect his title, although it was affected with the equity arising from notice in the hands of the person from whom he derived it ... (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, pp. 1253-1254).

OBS

Under the Law of Property Act 1925 the word [purchaser] means a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration, and includes a lessee, mortgagee, or other person who for valuable consideration acquires an interest in property... (Mozley and Whiteley, 10th, p. 370-371)

French

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

acquéreur de bonne foi et à titre onéreux : 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 2 2000-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Environmental Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Order declaring nature and extent of interests.... Where, on the hearing of an application under this section, the Federal Court is satisfied that the applicant, or the intervenors, if any, or any of them,(a) is innocent of any complicity in any conduct that caused the thing to be subject to forfeiture and of any collusion in relation to any such conduct...

OBS

Statute cited: Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Droit environnemental
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Ordonnance déclarative de la nature et de l'étendue des droits. [...] Après l'audition de la requête, le requérant et l'intervenant sont fondés à obtenir une ordonnance préservant leurs droits des effets de la confiscation et déclarant la nature et l'étendue de leurs droits ainsi que leur rang respectif [...]

OBS

Loi citée : Loi canadienne sur la protection de l'environnement.

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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