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Coparceners or parceners

Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal

Bastard

See MERTON, STATUTE OF. The law of England remained thus for nearly 700 years, until the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), legitimated a child born out of wedlock upon the subsequent marriage

Adoption

Meath introduced Bills in the House of Lords to legalize adoption. By the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 29), after the 31st December, 1925, the Court (usually in the Chancery

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Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English) 915 Geo. 5, c. 20), with amending Acts, 1926, 1929 and 1932 (cited together as the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected

Simple trust

and also L.P. Act, 1925, 1st Sch., Part II., par. (3), as amended by the L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, vesting the estate existing on 1st January, 1926, in the beneficial owner by force of the statute.

Marriage

those restrictions. As to children, legitimated 'per subsequens matrimonium,' the English law did not, before the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), recognize them as legitimate so as to inherit realty upon an

Marriage settlement

in land or charging land (but in this case subject to the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1926), are settlements within the meaning of s. 1 of the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, and must be

Pautradi krame

apt for conferring an estate of inheritance to either male or female heir, Pandubala Debi v. Jotindra, AIR 1926 Cal 99: (1926) ILR 53 Cal 816.

Puisne mortgage

Puisne mortgage. In the legal phraseology which was used before 1926 meant a mortgage sub-sequent to the mortgage of a legal estate, but for the purposes of the Land

Quasi-entail

in remainder. The alienation, however, for that purpose (unlike that of an estate-tail, properly so called), might, before 1926, have been effected by any method of conveyance except a will; after 1926, these estates became equitable interests

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