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Canadian property law, or property law in Canada, is the body of law concerning the rights of individuals over land, objects, and expression within Canada. It encompasses personal property, real property, and intellectual property. The laws vary between local municipal levels, up to provincial and then a countrywide federal level of government.
A deed of trust refers to a type of legal instrument which is used to create a security interest in real property and real estate. In a deed of trust, a person who wishes to borrow money conveys legal title in real property to a trustee , who holds the property as security for a loan ( debt ) from the lender to the borrower.
“When Tom and Jane passed away in 2020, the house was worth $600,000, and Bill inherited the property in trust at that base value — real property gets a stepped-up basis at the owner’s death.
In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to convey or transfer the property to another. [1] Alienability is the quality of being alienable, i.e., the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be sold or otherwise transferred from one party to another.
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A quitclaim deed may also be used to transfer title of a property to a purchaser following a foreclosure auction. Typically such a deed will not warrant that the property title is free and clear, and it remains up to the grantee to check that the property is not subject to any legal encumbrances. [11]
Appeals are filed with the ARB when there is a dispute between the property owners and the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), which is responsible for assessing and classifying all property values in Ontario. [7] Those who own a property with residential, farm, managed forest or conversation land classification, must file a ...