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LEGACY TRUST [4 records]

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Record 1 2016-05-12

English

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

A bequest of personal property to trustees to be held upon trust; as, to pay the annual income to a beneficiary for life. (Black, 5th, p. 803).

French

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

Disposition de biens personnels en fiducie par testament.

OBS

Le second équivalent est la forme elliptique du premier. Il s'emploie lorsque : a) le terme anglais est employé dans un sens général (incluant «bequest in trust» et «devise in trust»; b) le terme anglais se présente dans le doublet «devise(s) and/or bequest(s) in trust» ou dans le groupe «devise(s); bequest(s) and/or legacy(ies) in trust»; c) le terme est qualifié par l'indication de la chose ou de la catégorie léguée; d) la spécificité du terme ressort de quelque autre façon sans qu'il soit nécessaire de l'exprimer.

OBS

legs de biens personnels en fiducie; legs en fiducie : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-10-31

English

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

A need for a "caeterorum" grant may arise, for example, when the assignee of part of the deceased's estate has obtained a grant limited to the property he claims, or a legatee has obtained a grant limited to the amount of his legacy, or a trustee or "cestui que trust" has obtained administration limited to the property of which the deceased was trustee. In all such cases those entitled to a general grant, whether on intestacy or with the will annexed, may take administration of the rest of the deceased's estate.(Hull & Cullity, Macdonell, Sheard and Hull on Probate Practice, 3rd ed., 1981, p. 268)

French

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

lettres complémentaires : 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).

OBS

lettres complémentaires : terme utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • lettre complémentaire

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Provincial Administration
OBS

Ministry of the Environment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Administration provinciale
OBS

Ministère de l'Environnement.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-03-13

English

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

... it shall be lawful for the... devisee in trust, notwithstanding any trusts actually declared by the testator, to raise such debts, legacy or money as aforesaid...

OBS

In the case of a devise to an existing trust or trustee, or to a trustee on trust described by will, the trust or trustee is the devisee and the beneficiaries are not devisees.

French

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

[Le] fiduciaire légataire a le droit, nonobstant toutes fiducies réellement constituées par le testateur, de prélever les dettes, le legs où la somme susdits [...]

OBS

Dans le cas oû un bien immobilier est légué à un fiduciaire, c'est celui-ci qui est «légataire» du bien tandis que les bénéficiaires de la fiducie ne le sont pas (cf. Blacks Law Dictionary, 1979, p. 408).

Spanish

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