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absolute estate

Matched in: Term absolute estate

entail, only a qualified or base fee will pass, com-mensurate with the estate-tail, capable, however, of being rendered absolute by barring the entail, but until so barred, defeasible by the entry not only of the reversioner, or

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Widow

husband or wife (with or without issue) the surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the intestate shall stand charged with the payment of a net

Personal property

property to himself alone. In the case of real property there can be no such thing as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee simple, can … subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee simple, can have is an estate. But in the case of personal property the primary rule is precisely the reverse; such property is essentially

Settled land

does not apply to a personal representative selling in course of administration or to persons of full age absolutely entitled to deal with the legal estate free from the settlement. The direction of investment lies with the

fee simple

transfers and that is of indefinite duration NOTE: A fee simple absolute is conveyed by language granting the estate “to the grantee and his or her heirs,” “to the grantee, his heirs and assigns,” or “to the … that is alienable (as by deed, will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite duration ;esp : fee simple absolute in this entry fee simple absolute : a fee that is freely inheritable and alienable without any limitations

Chattels or catals

are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are an estate in fee simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute, and by s. 149 a lease at a rent or

Fee-simple

Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample

Married women's property

away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:- 1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving … by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it

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