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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

There are legal life tenancies, such as dower consummate after assignment, and curtesy, as well as conventional tenancies, such as those created by the parties as distinguished from by operation of law.(Cartwright, 1972, p. 548).  1, record 1, English, - legal%20life%20tenancy

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

tenance viagère légale : 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).  2, record 1, French, - tenance%20viag%C3%A8re%20l%C3%A9gale

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Estates that are created by operation of law(such as dower) are known as legal estates, as distinguished from conventional estates, or those created by the parties.(Reilly, 1977, p. 154).  1, record 2, English, - legal%20estate

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

domaine légal : 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).  2, record 2, French, - domaine%20l%C3%A9gal

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The dwelling house and the adjoining land where the head of the family dwells; the home farm. The fixed residence of the family, with the land, usual and customary appurtenances, and buildings surrounding the main house. Technically, and under the modern homestead laws, an artificial estate in land, devised to protect the possession and enjoyment of the owner against the claims of his creditors, by withdrawing the property from execution and forced sale, so long as the land is occupied as a home. (Black, 6th ed., 1990, p. 734).  1, record 3, English, - homestead

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 2 CONT

In the western provinces, dower and curtesy in the historical legal sense have been abolished and replaced with an equivalent life estate in certain lands of the deceased spouse, referred to as his or her "homestead". This term is variously defined in the several provinces, but generally, it includes the matrimonial home together with adjoining land.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 212)  1, record 3, English, - homestead

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

propriété familiale : 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).  2, record 3, French, - propri%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20familiale

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Curtesy was the right of a husband to an estate for his life, expectant on the death of his wife, in the entirety of land and hereditaments of the wife of which she was seised for an estate of inheritance, subject to his having had issue by her born alive who were capable of inheriting the property from her. (Halsbury, 4th ed., Vol. 39, p. 319).  1, record 4, English, - curtesy

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

In addition to the life estate created by the act of a person, there are the legal life estates, that is, those created by operation of law. These are curtesy and dower.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 29).  1, record 4, English, - curtesy

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 2 OBS

courtesy: In Scotslan ...  2, record 4, English, - curtesy

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

bénéfice 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).  2, record 4, French, - b%C3%A9n%C3%A9fice%20du%20veuf

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 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).  1, record 5, English, - dower

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 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).  1, record 5, English, - dower

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 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).  2, record 5, French, - douaire

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Estates that are created by operation of law(such as dower) are known as legal estates, as distinguished from conventional estates, or those created by the parties.(Reilly, p. 154)  1, record 6, English, - conventional%20estate

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

domaine conventionnel : 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).  2, record 6, French, - domaine%20conventionnel

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Where a husband dies beneficially entitled to any lands for an interest that does not entitle his widow to dower out of the same at law, and such interest, whether wholly equitable, or partly legal and partly equitable, is an estate of inheritance in possession other than an estate in joint tenancy, the widow shall be entitled to dower out of the same land.  1, record 7, English, - wholly%20equitable%20interest

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Lorsqu'un mari décède alors qu'il possède sur des biens-fonds, à titre de bénéficiaire, un intérêt qui ne donne pas droit à sa veuve de bénéficier en droit d'un douaire sur ces biens-fonds, et que cet intérêt, qu'il soit totalement en «équité» ou partiellement en droit et partiellement en «équité», est un droit héréditaire actuel autre qu'un droit de propriété conjointe, la veuve a le droit de bénéficier d'un douaire sur ces biens-fonds.  1, record 7, French, - int%C3%A9r%C3%AAt%20totalement%20en%20equity

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish