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Limitation of actions and prosecutions

The period may, possibly, have been reduced to thirty in most cases under the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 44. A title under the Statutes of Limitation can be acquired to land although it has been

Vesting instrument

Vesting instrument, a deed, order of Court, or assent, constituting the evidence under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, of the title of a tenant for life or statutory owner to the legal estate in settled property

Marriage settlement

Property Amendment Act, 1926), are settlements within the meaning of s. 1 of the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, and must be effected by two instruments: (a) the vesting deed, and (b) the trust instrument; while settlements

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Master of the Rolls

2, c. 30. This judge, by the (English) Jud. Act, 1881, s. 2 [see now Jud. (English) Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)], now sits in the (English) Court of Appeal only. Before that Act he was the

Referee

of stations); as to bulls, see that title; on valuation of machinery, see (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 24; also (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo.

Further advance, or charge

Although the tacking of a third or subsequent mortgage has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 94, that s. has expressly preserved the right to tack a further advance by a prior mortgage

Will

respect to his property which he desires to be carried into effect after his death. [Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), s. 2 (h)] The definition of 'will' in s. 2 (h) of the Indian Succession

Heir

decedents property, esp. real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 727. The (English) Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45, having abolished all modes of descent of real property obtaining before 1st January, 1926, in regard

Shifting use

of C. and his heirs. The legal estates thereby created have been converted as from the 1st January, 1925, into equitable interests (see Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 1 and 39 and the 1st Sch., Part

Frater fratri uterino non succedet in h'reditate paterna.

in regard to (a) the devolution of entailed interests in real or personal property (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 130 (4), and Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1924, 9th Sched.), (b) the ascertainment of heirs as

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