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LIFE INTEREST REVERSION [7 records]

Record 1 2013-06-11

English

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

A tenant for life must also be of full age and beneficially entitled in possession under the settlement.... "In possession" means "not in remainder or reversion", and so excludes a person with only a future interest in the land.(Megarry and Wade, p. 322-323)

French

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

Le français «tenant», générique, qui désigne en définitive le titulaire de certains droits sur un bien, est remplacé dans certains composés par «titulaire».

OBS

tenant en possession : 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 2 2013-05-15

English

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

A reversion is the interest which continues in the grantor after he has conveyed away a particular estate that is less than what he owned.... Thus, in a grant "to A for life, remainder to B in tail", A has a life estate in possession, B has a vested remainder in tail and the grantor retains the reversion in fee.(Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 338).

French

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

réversion en fief : 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 2013-05-15

English

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

A reversion may be created by the owner of any estate, and the reversionary interest will be the same estate that the transferor held....(W) here a life tenant grants an estate for years, he will have a reversion for life, and this is so even though the lease be for a long term, such as 999 years, for in the eyes of the law a lease is a lesser estate than a freehold.(Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 376)

French

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

réversion viagère : 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 2013-04-17

English

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

(Reversion :) In English land law, an interest in land arising by operation of law whenever the owner of an estate grants to another a particular estate, "e. g. "a life interest, or term of years, but does not dispose of the whole of his interest. The reversion is the interest the owner has during the duration of the particular interest.("Oxford Companion to Law", 1980, p. 1069).

French

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

intérêt particulaire : 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 2013-03-18

English

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

French

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

Le terme désigne l'intérêt de réversion du tenant viager qui a cédé une partie de son intérêt viager.

OBS

intérêt viager de réversion : 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 2013-01-18

English

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

When a person has an interest in lands, and grants a portion of that interest, the possession of the lands, on the determination of the interest granted, returns or reverts to the grantor. This interest is what is called the grantor's reversion.... Thus a grant by the owner of the fee simple to A for life leaves in the grantor the reversion in fee simple....(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1575)

French

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

réversion en fief simple; fief simple en réversion : 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).

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-05-17

English

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

estate in reversion : A future estate under which a grantor obtains a present right to a future interest in property that the grantor conveys to another : usually the residue of a life estate.

French

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

«domaine de réversion» est l'équivalent de «estate in reversion» normalisé dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

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