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Instrument of transfer

Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), or, as the case may be, the statement registered under s. 269 AB with the competent authority. [Income-tax Act, 1961, s. 269A (f)]

Joint-tenancy

in joint estates in land, the beneficial ownership of a legal estate in land of joint-tenants having been abolished by the (Eng-lish) Law of Property Act, 1925, and the beneficial ownership converted into an equitable interest [s.

Marriage

father, mother, or guardian shall previously consent to the marriage if by license (see Banns). The Act further abolished the suits in the Ecclesiastical Court to compel marriage 'in facie ecclesi',' which abolition made more common the

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Testa de nevil

or others who held of the king in capite, and if alienated whether the owners were in feoffed ab antiquo or de novo, as also fees holden in frankalmoigne, with the values thereof respectively; (2) of serjeanties

Prescription

defined by Sir Edward Coke (Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritatelegis. (Prescription is a title taking his substance of use and time allowed by the law.) Every species

Resumption

the Crown of such lands or tenements, etc., as on false suggestion had been granted by letters-patent, Bro. Ab. 291. 2. By agricultural landlord, before legal tenancy ended, of the tenant's land (generally in part only) for

Shall

that the legislature has used a language of compulsive force is always of great relevance and in the absence of anything contrary in the context indicating that a permissive interpretation is permissible, the statute ought to be

Excommunication

old law was thus put:--Excommunicato interdicitur omnis actus legitimus, quod agere non potest, nec aliquem convenire, licet ipse ab aliis possit conveniri. Co. Litt. 133.--(Every legal act is forbidden an excommunicated person, so that he cannot act,

Trespass to land

of land without right or beyond the limits of a right, no damage need be proved (see also AB INITIO and DAMAGE FEASANT). Trespass by occupation of land is a continuing damage which is actionable from day

Verbum imperfecti temporis rem adhuc imperfectum significat

Verbum imperfecti temporis rem adhuc imperfectum significat, the imperfect tense of the verb indicates ab incomplete matter:

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