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DOCTRINE EQUITY [5 records]

Record 1 2012-12-12

English

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

The equitable doctrine of notice was that a person who purchased an estate, although for valuable consideration, after notice of a prior equitable right, made himself a "mala fide" purchaser, and was not enabled, by getting in the legal estate, to defeat that right, but was held to be a trustee for the benefit of the person whose right he sought to defeat. (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1253).

French

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

doctrine de la connaissance en equity : 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 2012-12-12

English

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

It has been held that the legislation does not alter the common law rule that no man can convey a better title than he possesses in so far as any conclusive effect of a certificate is only in favour of a "bona fide" purchaser for valuable consideration. Similarly, a transfer is subject to the equitable doctrine of rectification, and an erroneous entry on title is open to correction. (Anger and Honsberger, 2nd ed., 1985, p. 1608).

French

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

doctrine de la rectification en equity : 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 1998-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
DEF

A legal principale originating from equity as an alternative from common law. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-12-01

English

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

... bankruptcy courts applied the doctrine of equitable subordination in conjunction with the law of fraudulent conveyances and preferential transfers to deny secured bank lenders their security interests and place these institutions into line behind a debtor's general unsecured creditors.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 5 1983-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (civil law)
DEF

The equitable doctrine that where a trustee has handed over trust property wrongfully, the beneficiary may not only recover the property so long as not mixed with other property, but may recover it from anyone who has taken it with notice of the equitable interest or without having given value for it, or recover any specific asset into which the trust property has been converted, or have a charge on any fund into which the trust assets have been mixed, or any assets purchased with the trust funds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)

Spanish

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