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Trade Facilities Acts, 1921 to 1926 (English)

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Tacking

Tacking. Before 1926 the law was that, 'if a third mortgagee buys in the first mortgage, though it be pendente lite,

Tail

December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which these were converted on the 1st January, 1926, or created after that date. An estate-tail, or more accurately now, an equitable interest in tail, is an

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Priority

the persons who are for the time being owners of the legal interest in the property assigned. Before 1926 the notice might be verbal; after 1926 it must, for the purposes of establishing priority among competing claims,

Equity of redemption

Equity of redemption. Before 1926 the equitable estate or interest left in a person after he had mortgaged his property. Now the right

Settled land

years for securing the same (as to this see the liberating amendment in the L. P. Amendment Act, 1926, ss. 1 and 2), and references in the Act to the settlement shall extend to any compound settlement

Copyhold

has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of

Joint-tenancy

34 et seq.], assignees in bankruptcy, and others, though they differ in some respects from simple joint-tenants. Before 1926 there might be a joint-tenancy for life, or in fee, or in remainder, but not in tail, unless

Deed

in preference to the habendum. There is not any habendum in an appointment under a power or (before 1926) in a covenant to stand seised, or a simple declaration of uses, because such deeds themselves fulfil that

Maintenance

1 Ch 716; see also the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 47 (1) (ii.), and Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 6; and as to maintenance in matrimonial cases, Judic. Act, 1925, ss. 187, 190 et seq.; for

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