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PERPETUITY [1 record]

Record 1 2013-04-22

English

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

(A)s used in the law of property, a limitation of a contingent future interest in violation of the rule against perpetuities. (Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 939).

OBS

(T)he term "perpetuity" has had at least three meanings in the common law, namely, (1) an unbarrable entail, (2) an inalienable or indestructible interest, and (3) a remote executory interest ... The third sense of the word is the modern one ... (Anger & Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 440).

French

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

perpétuité : 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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