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Building

whatsoever manner constructed and any part of a building.' For the (English) Lead Paint (Protection against Poisoning) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 37), building is defined as including fixtures, s. 7. The term 'building'

Chattels or catals

although it will determine earlier by A.'s death, while a lease for the life of A. was until 1926 [(English) L.P. Act, 1925] a freehold estate. The (English) L.P. Act, 1925, has preserved as equitable interests many

Condition of service

Andhra University, (1977) 1 SCC 554: AIR 1976 SC 2049 (2053): (1976) 3 SCR 1013. [Andhra University Act, 1926 (2 of 1926), s. 19(c)(iii)] The expression 'conditions of service' is an expression of wide import and the

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Consideration

grantee, import either consideration or evidence that the grantor intended to divest himself of the beneficial ownership. Before 1926 in the absence of consideration in plying or raising a use or of any declaration of a use

Coroner

law relating to coroners and their rights and duties is now regulated by the (English) Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 59), and the Coroners Rules, 1927. As to coroners' inquests on deaths

Antenati

of antenati who inherit as heirs; but in England a child legitimated per subsequens matrimonium could not, before 1926, inherit real estate, Doe v. Vardill, (1835) 2 Cl & F 571; 7 ib. 895; but he could

Distribution, Statute of

Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car.

Hereditaments

1925, s. 205 (ix.), defines 'hereditaments' as real property which, on an intestacy, might, before the 1st January, 1926, have devolved on the heir--descent to the heir having been abolished, save in some cases (see HEIR). The

Dower

than by metes and bounds, apparently retains a share in the land (if the dower has arisen before 1926) analogous to an undivided share, see Williams v. Thomas, (1909) 1 Ch 713; and Wolst. & Ch. Conv.

Equitable estates and interests

SEARCHES. As to the automatic vesting of legal estates in a beneficial owner entitled immediately after 1st January, 1926, to require any legal estate (not vested in trustees for sale) to be conveyed to him, see (English)

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