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UNDER HAND SEAL [5 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Phraséologie

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Courts have used the word "consideration" with many different meanings. It is often used merely to express the legal conclusion that a promise is enforceable. Historically, its primary meaning may have been that the conditions were met under which an action of assumpsit(an early form of contract action) would lie. It was also used as the equivalent of the "quid pro quo" required in an action of debt. A seal, it has been said, imports a consideration, although the law was clear that no element of bargain was necessary to enforcement of a promise under seal. On the other hand, consideration has sometimes been used to refer to almost any reason asserted for enforcing a promise, even though the reason was insufficient(as in) promises in consideration of love and affection, illegal consideration, past consideration, and consideration furnished by reliance on a gratuitous promise where in fact there has been no consideration at all.(Yogis, 1983, p. 47).

OBS

Technical sense, as in "doctrine of consideration."

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

Le mot «consideration» n'est pas toujours employé dans ce sens technique. Ainsi, le tour «in consideration for the sum of» peut se rendre par «moyennant la somme de».

OBS

contrepartie : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Legal Documents
DEF

[T] hat which contains the particulars of a deed, etc., and is the instrument registered, in the case of a deed which must be registered. The registration of a deed or other document is effected by leaving it at the registry together with a memorial under the hand and seal of one of the parties to the deed. The memorial is an abstract of the material parts of the deed, with the parcels at full length, and concludes with a statement that the party desires the deed to be registered. The execution of the deed and memorial is proved by the oath of an attesting witness.(Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1171).

CONT

To this point, the words ’enrollment’, ’registration’, and ’recording’ have been used interchangeably. The "Statute of Enrollments" required enrollment, and the "Middlesex Act" required registration. Both of these procedures are the same and are satisfied by a memorandum or memorial included in the public records stating the names of the grantor and of the grantee of the instrument, and the interest purportedly transferred. Recording requires that a complete copy of the instrument be included in the public records. (Mapp, 1978, p. 48).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Documents juridiques
DEF

Document contenant, aux fins d'enregistrement, un résumé des éléments de l'acte instrumentaire auquel il est annexé.

OBS

extrait : 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 2006-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Trusts (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

If the power of attorney confers a power to dispose of or deal with land, or a charge upon land, a copy certified as a true copy under the hand of the Registrar of the Supreme Court and the seal of the Court shall be registered in the Registry Office of the county wherein the lands are situate.

OBS

power of disposal. - An expression used in reference to the power of one other than the owner of property to dispose of it by will.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit des fiducies (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Si la procuration confère un pouvoir de disposition ou de négociation concernant des biens-fonds ou une charge grevant des biens-fonds, une copie certifiée conforme par le registraire de la Cour suprême et portant le sceau de cette cour doit être enregistrée au bureau de l'enregistrement du comté où sont situés les biens-fonds.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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