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legal transfer

legal transfer

1 4.2
A voluntary change of who owns something that follows the law
  • noun
  • Formal
translation icon : transferencia legal
  • Once the contract was signed, we completed the legal transfer of the property to the new owners.

Examples

  • Exchange often requires contracts, legal transfers of ownership, record-keeping, and inspections.

    Academic text (2017)
  • But even with legal transfers, governments usually consider the details of their contracts with arms dealers and their reviews of license applications for transfers between third parties to be closed to public view.

    Academic text (2011)
  • If you sign right here, we'll have us a legal transfer.

  • If you'll please sign right here, sir, we'll have us a legal transfer.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • As its ownership was going through legal transfer, the painting was stolen while still listed as on loan.

    Blog text (2)
  • By 1924, Moiseev managed to arrange for a legal transfer of all monastery buildings to the Chersonesos Museum, and the return of the museum collections.

    Academic text (2002)
  • In a bloodless and legal transfer of power, Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took up the reins of government.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The legal transfer of ownership dragged on for three years after Romney's informal departure to run the Olympics in Salt Lake City, Conard said, because Romney was aggressively negotiating his retirement package and compensation with executives and lawyers at the company.

    Blog text (12)
  • The legal transfer of the car ownership was finalized at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

  • As part of the estate settlement, a legal transfer of the house title was necessary to complete the inheritance process.

Synonyms

delivery
vslegal transfer
  • Formal
122 2.3

Giving someone the legal right to own something like a house

adds the legal requirement that the act follows law and affects ownership
transference
vslegal transfer
11 6.8

Moving things, such as data, rights and ownership, from one place, form or person to another

is narrower, focusing on voluntary lawful acts that change ownership or possession
assignment
vslegal transfer
  • Formal
11 5.3

The legal transfer of a right or property to someone else

is a wider voluntary lawful act that changes ownership or possession
conveyancing
vslegal transfer
  • UK
3 9.1

The legal process of moving ownership of a house or land from one person to another

refers more broadly to any voluntary lawful act altering ownership or possession
conveyance
vslegal transfer
  • Formal
2 8.2

A legal document that transfers property to new owners

is the general voluntary lawful act altering ownership or possession
conveying
vslegal transfer
  • Formal
1 7.3

The act of legally moving ownership of a property from one person to another

is a voluntary lawful act that changes ownership or possession
livery
vslegal transfer
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Formal giving of property to show legal ownership

is the contemporary general idea of a voluntary lawful change in ownership
conveyance of title
vslegal transfer
  • Formal
8.2

An official process that legally transfers ownership of property between people

is a voluntary lawful act changing who owns or holds possession

Antonyms

356 1.1

An act of taking someone else's property without permission to keep it

How Formal

registered
  • Formal
3.3
conveyance of title
  • Formal
8.2
legal transfer
  • Formal
1 4.2
private treaty
  • Specialized
7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

legal + transfer

The meaning 'the voluntary transfer of ownership according to law' is directly and transparently built from 'legal' (pertaining to law) modifying 'transfer' (to pass ownership). This adjective+noun composition follows standard, cross-linguistically common patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Legal transfer comes from the image of a transfer, where someone hands keys and signed papers to another person, and legal means the papers make the change official. That's why legal transfer means giving something to another person with the right documents so the change of 'ownership' is official and recognized by the law.