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Termination Procedures; Failure of Tenants to Pay Rent; Overholding Tenants, Research Paper 4

This paper deals generally with issues that arise at the ending of the legal relationship between a landlord and a tenant. Each section of the paper includes an informative introduction, a survey of legal rules throughout jurisdictions in Canada (at the time of publication), and issues raised around the topic of the section. The first section of this paper deals generally with the termination of the landlord and tenant relationship, and specifically with three aspects [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:40:19-07:00November 4th, 1975|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Resolution of Disputes; Landlord and Tenant (Advisory) Boards; Distress, Research Paper 6

This paper addresses several issues related to the resolution of disputes between landlords and tenants, and is broken into three sections. The first section is a broad overview of extra-judicial processes for resolving disputes between landlords and tenants, and includes and overview of the process as conducted in Alberta at the time of publication, as well as a listing of issues relevant to any similar dispute resolution process. The second section is a survey of [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:41:00-07:00November 4th, 1975|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Contract or Property Law; Form and Delivery of Lease; Right to Assign and Sublet, Research Paper 7

The laws of contract and property are fundamentally different, with different common law, equitable, and statutory guarantees coming into play when dealing respectively with property and with a contract. The first part of this paper considers whether the relationship between landlord and tenant, as determined by the Residential Tenancies Act at the time of publication, should be regulated by the law of property or the law of contract, and how this regulation should work. The second part [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:41:10-07:00November 4th, 1975|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Residential Tenancies Project: Mobile Homes, Research Paper 8

This paper addresses the potential problems (as of the time of publication) of individuals who own a mobile home located on rented land. This situation is unique in that it has some similarities to home ownership, and some similarities to renting. The paper considers the issues related to this type of ownership, and the statutory responses to it in the United States, the United Kingdom, and some jurisdictions of Canada. Included are some requirements for [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:41:19-07:00November 4th, 1975|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Administration of Family Law: The Unified Family Court: Constitutional Opinions, Research Paper 11

This paper comprises opinions by Professor W.R. Lederman, Q.C., and Professor P.N. McDonald, on the constitutional validity (at the time of publication) of a unified family court in Alberta, including both federally appointed and provincially appointed judges (i.e. judges appointed by the Governor General in Council and the Lieutenant Governor in Council). Professor McDonald's opinion is actually comprised of a number of smaller opinions written in 1976 and 1977, which include responses to some other [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:41:58-07:00May 4th, 1978|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Statute of Frauds and Related Legislation, Research Paper 12

This report examines the provisions of the Statue of Frauds and the Guarantees Acknowledgment Act, an Alberta statute. Where the provisions of these Acts are still useful, the report recommends that it be retained and reformed, where they are not useful that they be abolished. The Statue of Frauds was enacted by the English Parliament in 1677 to prevent false claims being accepted by the courts by requiring that a number of kinds of contracts and dispositions of interest in [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:53:52-07:00March 4th, 1979|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Matrimonial Support Failures: Reasons, Profiles and Perceptions of Individuals Involved: Volume 1 Summary Report, Volume 2 Technical Reports, Research Paper 13

This report was created in order to aid the reform of the matrimonial and child support system in Alberta. Before its publication, there was little data regarding the reasons for failure in the (then) extant system. The report analyzes data from the Supreme Court (now Court of Queen's Bench) in Edmonton and Calgary, the Family Courts in Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, and Grande Prairie, door-to-door surveys of those involved with maintenance orders, and a study of [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:42:22-07:00March 3rd, 1981|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Conference Materials, International Invitational Conference on Matrimonial and Child Support, 27-30 May 1981, Research Paper 14

This report is a summary of a conference held to discuss the results of Research Paper #13, Matrimonial Support Failures: Reasons, Profiles and Perceptions of Individuals Involved. The report includes four speeches given at that conference, viz.: "Paying of Maintenance in Sweden," by Anders Agell; "Matrimonial Support Failures: Reasons, Profiles, and Perceptions of Individuals Involved, a Commentary," by Judith Cassetty; "Maintenance in Britain," by Colin Gibson; and "The Economics of Divorce: Social and Economic Consequences [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:50:18-07:00October 3rd, 1982|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Survey of Adult Living Arrangements: A Technical Report, Research Paper 15

This paper is a survey of issues related to couples living together outside of marriage. It addresses the attitudes of non-maritally cohabitants toward relevant legal issues, the reasons that the couples chose to nonmaritally cohabitate, and the reasons that they chose to continue living that way. The survey also addresses the socio-economic characteristics of non-married and married cohabitants, as well as the characteristics of their family life.

By |2021-02-08T13:42:39-07:00November 3rd, 1984|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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The Operation of the Unsecured Creditors’ Remedies System in Alberta, Research Paper 16

A plaintiff who has obtained a monetary judgement as a result of a court case, but who has not yet received that money, is known as a "judgement creditor." This report is a survey of: whether judgement creditors made use of enforcement mechanisms to obtain their money; which remedies were used frequently, and which ones infrequently; how the remedies that were used operated, and how far they were carried; and how successful the remedy process [...]

By |2021-02-08T13:42:49-07:00March 3rd, 1986|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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