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Censo

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity; a ground rent; the right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the delivery which he makes to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3206. See Schmidt, Civ. Law, 149, 309; White, New Recop. bk, 2, c 7, § 4; 13 Tex. 655.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

(Spanish) A ground-rent.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Spanish and Mexican Law. An annuity; a ground rent. The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, in consideration of the delivery to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civil Code Mex. art. 3206; Black, Diet,; Trevino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 655.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground rent The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the delivery which he makes to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3206. See Schm. Civil Law, 149, 309; White, New RecOp. bk. 2, c. 7, § 4.

Censo al quitar. A redeemable annuity; otherwise called "censo redimible." Trevino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 630.

Censo consignati-vo. A censo (q. v.) is called "consgnativo" when he who receives the money assigns for the payment of the pension (annuity) the estate the fee in which he reserves. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3207.

Censo enfitentico. In Spanish and Mexican law. An emphyteutic annuity. That species of censo (annuity) which exists where there la a right to require of another a certain canon or pension annunily, on account of having transferred to that person forever certain real estate, but reserving the fee in the land. The owner who thus transfers the land is called the "censuahsto," and the person who pays the annuity is called the "censatario." Hall, Mex. Law, § 756; Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 557.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Im Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground rent. The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the delivery which he makes to another of a determined sum of 149, 309; White, New Recop. bk. 2, ¢. 7, § 4; 13 Tex. 055.