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Executor

Ch D 1. Under s. 26 of the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, and the (English) L.P. Amendment Act, 1926 (Sched.), reproducing and extending to trustees the (English) Law of Property Amendment Acts, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict.

Fee-simple

a fee-simple are: a power of management and of alienation, whether by gift, sale, or will; and until 1926 were descent to the heirs of an intestate owner; and escheat (see ESCHEAT) for want of heirs. By

Free-bench

by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, 12th Sched., but it survives if the husband died before 1926; in regard to lands enfranchised under the (English) Copyhold Act, 1894, or the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, or

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Domicile

enactment is inoperative. The domicile of a wife is that of her husband, A.-G. of Alberta v. Cook, 1926 AC 444. For the English Courts to have jurisdiction to entertain a suit for dissolution of marriage the

Inheritance

of the owner dying intestate. These rules have been abolished in the case of deaths after January 1st, 1926, with a few exceptions (see HEIR), by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 51, but they

Passage, Court of

This and an amending Act of 1896 were repealed by a local Act (the (English) Liverpool Corporation Act, 1926 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. lxxiv.), ss. 244-263, providing for jurisdiction, rules of procedure, removal of actions

Penal Servitude

imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years, with or without hard labour. By the Penal Servitude Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 58), the Court is given power to inflict penal servitude in lieu

Pension

authorities and other public bodies. Pensions for the clergy have been provided by the (English) Clergy Pensions Measures, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, No. 6), as amended and extended by later measures, of which the most

Perpetuity

In regard to limitations and interests which take effect under or by virtue of any instrument executed before 1926 or any will of a person who died before that date, and subject to s. 163 of the

Plant

Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar,...

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