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LEGAL PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE [3 records]

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Record 1 2013-03-15

English

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-03-15

English

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

The personal representative is the person (or persons) appointed to administer and distribute the estate of a deceased person in accordance with the terms of the will or the law of intestate succession. A person appointed under the will ... is termed and "Executor", whereas a person appointed by the Court is termes an "Administrator." (Fryer, A.W., p. 29)

DEF

Executor or administrator in whom the estate is vested for the purpose of administration and distribution. (Fryer, "The Accounts of Executors, Administrators and Trustees", 11th ed., 1965, p. 29).

CONT

... it may now be regarded as settled that the primary meaning of "representatives","legal representatives", "personal representatives", or "legal personal representatives", is "executors or administrators" in their official capacity. ("Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases", 4th ed., 1971, Vol. 3, p. 1517)

French

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

représentant successoral; représentant personnel : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO)

OBS

Anciennement, le "personal representative" s'occupait des biens personnels du défunt et le "real representative" de ses biens réels. De nos jours, le "personal representative" cumule les deux fonctions.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-26

English

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

[An] assurance by personal representatives vesting property in the person entitled. (Megarry & Wade, The Law of Real Property, 4th ed., 1975, p. cxii)

CONT

The title of a legatee or devisee is not complete until the executor has assented to the legacy or devise. An assent to the vesting of a legal estate must be in writing signed by the personal representative, and must name the person in whose favour it is given and it operates to vest in that person the legal estate to which it relates...(Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 6th ed., 1976, p. 34)

French

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

acquiescement : 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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