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LEGAL ENTAIL [6 records]

Record 1 2016-05-12

English

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

The interest of a beneficial owner or beneficiary, as contrasted with a nominal or bare legal owner .... [Jowitt, p. 205.]

CONT

In the absence of a contrary provision in the settlement, a tenant for life has no power to mortgage or charge the legal estate for his own benefit. If he wishes to raise money for his own use, he can of course do so by mortgaging his beneficial interest, consisting of his life interest, entail or whatever interest he has.(Megarry and Wade, p. 339)

French

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

intérêt bénéficiaire : terme normalisé 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 2013-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
OBS

A failure by the holder to assert the [marital communications] privilege by objection, or a voluntary revelation by the holder of the communication, or of a material part, is a waiver. (McCormick, p. 170)

OBS

Legal professional privilege may always be waived by the client, although a waiver with regard to conversations does not entail a waiver with regard to documents.... Nor is a waiver of the privilege attaching to medical reports to be inferred from the acceptance of the opposite party's unconditional production of his medical report.(Cross, p. 288-9)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

abandon de privilège : 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 2013-03-15

English

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

The line of heirs is called the entail.

French

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

héritiers du fief taillé 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).

OBS

héritiers du fief taillé en common law : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-03-15

English

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

Entail: an entailing, especially of lands: a setting of an estate tail.

French

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

taille 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 2013-03-15

English

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

The terms "fee tail, ""estate tail, ""entail" and "entailed interest" are often used interchangeably although "fee tail" is the correct expression for a legal entail and "entailed interest" is usually reserved for an equitable entail.(Megarry's, 6th ed., 1982, p. 29)

OBS

Entail: a fee limited to the issue, or certain classes of the issue, instead of descending to all the heirs.

French

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

fief taillé 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 6 2013-03-15

English

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

Previously it was possible to create a legal life interest in leasehold land by will, but no entail in leasehold could be created at all.(Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 136).

French

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

intérêt viager 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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