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LEGAL EASEMENT [7 records]

Record 1 2014-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
  • Legal System
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

First, there is no evidence before us explaining the policy and legal reasons for the apparent widespread use of this clause in easement agreements...

OBS

Alexis First Nation Inquiry TransAlta Utilities Rights of Way Claim (March 2003).

OBS

legal reasons: term usually used in the plural in this context.

Key term(s)
  • legal reasons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents juridiques
  • Théorie du droit
  • Droit autochtone
CONT

Premièrement, nous ne disposons d'aucun élément de preuve expliquant la politique et les raisons juridiques de l'utilisation apparemment répandue de cette clause dans les ententes de servitude [...]

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication de la Première Nation d'Alexis relative aux emprises accordées à TransAlta Utilities (Mars 2003).

OBS

raisons juridiques : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • raisons juridiques

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-06-17

English

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

For a prescriptive easement to arise, the claimant must show user "as of right". This means that he has enjoyed the easement as if he were entitled to it. The enjoyment must have been without force, without secrecy and without permission.("Nec vi, nec clam, nec precario", are the expressions used in legal terminology).(Law Reform Commission of British Columbia, "Report on Limitations", 1970, p. 27)

French

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

usage comme de droit : 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 2013-05-21

English

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

There are two kinds of easement known to the law: positive easements, such as a right of way, which give the owner of land a right himself to do something on or to his neighbour’s land: and negative easements, such as a right of light, which gives him a right to stop his neighbour doing something on his (the neighbour’s) own land. ("Words and Phrases/England", 2nd ed., 1969, Vol. 2, p. 137).

CONT

The right to light is not a natural right of property but is a negative easement that has to be acquired. The right can only relate to apertures in buildings and can only be acquired by means that have a legal recognition. The right is an advantage to the dominant tenement and a burden to the servient tenement.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd, p. 959)

French

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

droit d'éclairement : 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 2013-03-15

English

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

Where land held upon trust was sold and conveyed by a deed which both the legal and the equitable owners executed, and in which the equitable owner reserved a right of way, it was held that this took effect in law as a regrant by the purchaser(to the equitable owner) of a legal easement, so that it did not create a mere equitable easement....(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 830).

French

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

servitude en common law : 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 2012-12-12

English

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

Legal and equitable easements. A legal easement is an easement for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute. An easement which cannot subsist as a legal easement takes effect as an equitable interest and is called an equitable easement.(Halsbury, 3rd ed., Vol. 12, p. 527).

French

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

servitude en equity : 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 6 2010-10-22

English

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

A conservation easement is a legal agreement registered on the property title, in which mutually agreed-upon covenants spell out allowed and restricted land uses and activities. The easement holder... has a right and an obligation to inspect the property and enforce the covenants.

OBS

conservation easement: term used by Environment Canada.

French

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

Une servitude de conservation est un accord juridique inscrit sur le titre de propriété, en vertu duquel des engagements sont pris quant aux usages et activités permis et restreints sur la terre. Le titulaire de la servitude [...] a le droit et l'obligation d'inspecter la terre et de faire respecter ces engagements.

OBS

servitude de conservation : terme en usage à Environnement Canada.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Phraseology
OBS

To sound: to have as its basis or foundation (usually fol. by "in"). His action sounds in contract.

OBS

Sound. This verb has a special legal sense, "to be actionable(in). "E. g., "... In determining whether a cause of action sounds in tort, it makes no difference that liability may be imposed by statute. "/"There is no doubt that an easement may be created by words sounding in covenant. "The OED refers to the expression "sound in damages"(=to be concerned only with damages)... Today the sense has been carried beyond "to be concerned only with", to the meaning set forth at the outset of this entry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Phraséologie
OBS

Fondé en. Établi sur. "Toutes ces analogies cependant sont fondées en raison." ... (TLFRA, 1971, 8, p. 1052). "Cela est fondé en droit" (PEROB, 1981, p. 803). L'expression "souding in contract" est rendu en français par "fondé en contrat" sur le modèle de "fondé en droit", "fondé en raison", etc. ...

Spanish

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