Canadian Property Law/Glossary

Abatement Adverse possession Also known as "squatter's rights". If a person occupies land for a predetermined period of time as set out in the different provincial acts and no legal action is taken to evict or indicate to the person an act of trespass, the ownership in the land goes from the original owner to the squatter. Allodial Assignment Bailment Bequeath Bequest Bona fide purchaser for value without notice Bona vacantia Cestui que vie Chain of title Chattel Chattel mortgage Chose Chose in Action Chose in possession Clear title Colour of title Concurrent estate Conditional estate Condition Precedent Condition Subsequent Constructive delivery Constructive possession Constructive trust Contingent estate Convey Conveyance Corporeal hereditament Co-tenancy Curtesy Deed Defeasable interest Determinable limitation Detinue Devise Doctrine of Worthier title Dominant tenement Donatio Mortis Causa Dower Easement Eminent domain Encumbrance Encroachment Equity of redemption Escheat Escrow Estate Executor/executrix Fee simple Fee tail Feoffment Fertile octogenarian Fixture Foreclosure Freehold estate Future interest Gift Gift over Good title Grant Hereditament Incorporeal hereditament Intangible property Intestate/Intestacy Intestate succession Issue Joint tenancy Jus tertii Landlord Leashold Licence Lien Life in being Life estate Livery of seisin Living will Lost modern grant Mortgage Mortmain Nemo dat rule periodic tenancy Per stirpes Possession Posessory interest Possibility of reverter power of appointment Power of sale Primogeniture Property Pur autre vie Quia emptores English statute of 1290 that abolished subinfudation Quiet enjoyment Real Property Remainder Remainderman Replevin Restrain on alienation Restrictive Covenant Resulting trust Reversion Reverter Rule against perpetuities Rule in Shelley's case Rule in Andrews A rule for constructive gifts that allows for escaping the rule against perpetuities. If one member of a group satisfies a requirement for vesting at the time the gift takes effect then the class closes on whoever is alive at the time. Run with the land Seisin Severalty Severance Shifting interest Springing interest Statute of Uses Subinfudation Sublease Subtenant Survivorship Tenant Tenancy Tenancy in common Tenancy at sufferance Tenancy at will Tenament Tenure Torrens title Trover Trust Unities Use Usufruct Vested in interest Vested in possession Waste Will Words of limitation Back to Canadian Property Law