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Foreclosure

of mortgages is one of the matters assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court. [Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56(1)] A legal proceeding to terminate a mortgagor's interest in property, instituted by lender either to gain

Owner (Estate Owner)

Owner (Estate Owner), defined by s. 205 (1)(ix.), Law of Property Act, 1925, as 'the owner of a legal estate, but an infant is not capable of being an estate owner.'

Purchase, Words of

Grutten v. Foxwell, 1897, AC 658). The rule has been abolished in regard to all conveyances executed after 1925. In a limitation to an ancestor for life, then to his heir or any class of heirs or

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Puisne mortgage

mortgage sub-sequent to the mortgage of a legal estate, but for the purposes of the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10 (1) (Class C.), it is enacted that 'puisne mortgage' means any legal mortgage (including the first)

Personal chattels

and see the definitions in the Optional Statutory Forms of Wills prescribed under the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 179, by S.R. & O., 1925, No. 780/L.15, and Adm. Of Estates Act, 1925, s. 55.

Peppercorn

rent' within s. 3 (4) of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881. See now (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 45 (2) and (3) (Re Moody and Yates, (1885) 30 Ch D 344). These rents may be

Local land charges

(English) Local Land Charges Rules,1927, S.R. & O., 1927, 869/L, 33), as provided by the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 15, as amended by (English) Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1926, or they will be void as

Necessaries

(English) County Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 71), s. 3; (English) Judicature Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49). Under s. 4 (2) of the (English) Workmen's Compen-sation Act, 1925

Month

Phipps & Co. v. Rogers, (1925) 1 KB 14. S. 61 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, enacts that in all deeds, contracts, wills, orders and other instruments executed, made or coming into operation after

Married women's property

1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 59), in relation to contracts, and the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, provided that a married woman, whether married before or after the Act, (1) should be capable of acquiring,

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