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Uses

illustration of the well-known maxim, 'quitas sequitur legem. (2) They were devisable even before the Statute of Wills, 32 Hen. 8, c. 1. (3) They were transferable, although at law they were mere choses in action. (4)

Equitable estates and interests

more flexible disposition of legal interests in land. Under the (English) Statute of Frauds (29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 7) trusts creating equitable estates or interests in land, including leaseholds and copyholds, were required to be … although the statute did not extend to any use or trust upon a use (Tyrrel's case (1557) Dyer, 155 a), and the statute did not more than to impose a simple and merely verbal formality in the

Jus

it; also respectively opposed to one another by the terms Res Juris Humani et Divini (Instit. Ii. tit. 1). As the components of a single generalization, 'juris-prudential.' The terms Jus Scriptum and Non Scriptum, as explained in … explains Natura by the term Jus Gentium, and makes Leges equivalent to Jus Civile. In the partitiones (c. 37) he also divides Jus into Natura and Lex. There is a threefold division of Jus made by Ulpian

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Distress

with the following exceptions:- (1) Fixtures [see Provincial Bill-posting Co. v. Law Moor Iron Co., (1909) 2 KB 344]; (2) Animals fer' natur': (3) Goods delivered to a person in the way of his trade, as a

Equitable mortgage

transaction, which appears to be a judicial repeal of the (English) Statute of Frauds (29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 4), is extensively resorted to, and is known in practice as an equitable mortgage by deposit of … legal estate) under a trust for sale or settlement which are not registrable under the (English) L.C. Act, 1925, s. 10, Class C. (2) Where the subject of the mortgage is an equity of redemption, which is

Executor

for a devastavit, but will not be responsible for mere neglect to take out probate (Re Stevens, (1898) 1 Ch 162). See DEVASTAVIT. (2) By operation of law by virtue of his office he takes a title … replacing and amending s. 29 of the Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35) and 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 38), the executor may and should shortly after the funeral publish

Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

to injunction. This rule of the Common Law has been encroached upon by various statutes; by 4 Edw. 3, c. 7, as to trespass to goods (no limit of time by that statute), and the Civil Procedure … 7, as to trespass to goods (no limit of time by that statute), and the Civil Procedure Act, 1833, s. 2, as to trespass to land within 6 months before death (action to be within one year

Animals

Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27), amended by the Act of 1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 17), 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 14), and 1927 (17 & 18 Geo.

Joint-tenancy

in cases of trustees for sale upon the statutory trusts for sale [see (English) L.P. Act, 1925, ss. 34 et seq.], assignees in bankruptcy, and others, though they differ in some respects from simple joint-tenants. Before 1926 … because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be

Vaccination

subject prior to 1867, all of which were repealed by the Vaccination Act of that year (30 & 31 Vict. c. 84). By the Act it was provided, inter alia, that the parent of every child born … Vaccination, inoculation with the virus of cowpox as a preventive of smallpox. First made compulsory in 1853 by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, gratuitous vaccination having been previously provided for in the various enactments,

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