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TENANT TAIL AFTER POSSIBILITY [1 record]

Record 1 2013-06-11

English

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

Where tenements are given to a man and his wife in special tail and one of them dies without issue, the survivor is tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct, because there is no possibility of issue being born capable of inheriting the estate. (Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1750).

Key term(s)
  • tenant in tail after possibility

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 fief taillé sans possibilité de descendance; propriétaire en fief taillé sans possibilité de descendance : 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).

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