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freehold [4 records]

Record 1 2013-04-26

English

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

A tenure by which an estate is held in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life. (Oxford, 1933)

CONT

Freehold tenure is the sum of the rights and duties which constitute the relation of a free tenant to his lord. (Digby and Harrison, p. 49)

French

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

Acception spécifique : le terme fait référence à la «tenure».

OBS

tenure franche : 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 2013-04-08

English

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

Any estate of inheritance or for life, in either a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, existing in, or arising from, real property of free tenure. (Ballentine, p. 499)

OBS

Legal estates in land of freehold tenure were divisible with reference to their quantity, or the extreme limit of their duration, into estates of freehold or less than freehold. (Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 723)

French

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

domaine franc : 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 2013-01-23

English

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

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
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Record 4 2013-01-23

English

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

The same word (freehold) is used sometimes to express the quality of the tenure, and sometimes the quantity of the estate. (Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 41)

French

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

propriété franche : acception générique désignant à la fois la tenure et le domaine.

OBS

propriété franche : 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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