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Widow's Estate
Widow's Estate, is the result of the sastric law codified through judicial precedents. Thus the 'women's estate' in its larger connotation means: 'All property which has given to a woman by any means and from any source whatsoever and includes both properties in which she has absolute estate stridhana and property in which she has only a limited interest and the term is used in the context only later sense of property in which she takes only a limited or qualified interest. Such property is ether property inherited by woman, or property which has been allotted to her in a partition in her husband's family, Atava Akkulamma v. Gajjela Papi Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 166....
Estate
Estate [fr. status, Lat.; etat, Fr.], the condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a legal estate or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged, each of the holders of these estates having a good legal or equitable estate at the same time; again, estates may be in possession, or in futuro; personal property may also be subject concurrently to a variety of ownerships, according to its nature; technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is into real estate and personal estate, altho...
Owner (Estate Owner)
Owner (Estate Owner), defined by s. 205 (1)(ix.), Law of Property Act, 1925, as 'the owner of a legal estate, but an infant is not capable of being an estate owner.' Estate owners for the purposes of the land legislation of 1925 include an owner of full age (including a corporation) who is the person designated by the land legislation of 1925 as the person having the power to give a legal title to the whole of the estate (see LEGAL ESTATE) for the purposes of sale, mortgage, lease or otherwise. This includes the absolute beneficial owner, tenants for life, statutory owners (q.v.), trustees for sale, and personal representatives and mortgagees in exercise of their paramount powers. The legal title so disposed of is subject to all such equities, liabilities and charges and obligations (if any) attaching to the estate as may be binding on the transferee and the estate after it has been disposed of under the provisions of the Acts....
Determinable life estates
Determinable life estates, estates for life, which may determine upon future contingencies before the life for which they are created expires. As if an estate be granted to a woman during her widowhood, or to a man until he is promoted to a benefice; in these and similar cases, whenever the contingency happens-when the widow marries, or when the grantee obtains the benefice-the respective estates are absolutely determined and gone. Yet, while they subsist, they are reckoned estates for life; because they may by possibility last for life, if the contingencies upon which they are to determine do not sooner happen, 2 Bl. Com. 121. See now ESTATE FOR LIFE, and Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 20(1)(vi.)....
Naslan bad Naslan and Batnan bad Batnan
Naslan bad Naslan and Batnan bad Batnan, (generation to generation) have always been held as words denoting an absolute estate. They may not be words of art but the meaning which they bear cannot connote any other estate than an estate of inheritance, Midnapore Zamindari Co. Ltd. v. Kumar Narendranath Roy, 6 OWN 722....
Term of years absolute
Term of years absolute, defined for the purposes of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205 (1) (xxvii.), as a term of years in possession or reversion whether or not at a rent with or without impeachment for waste, subject or not to another legal estate and either certain or liable to deter-mination by notice, re-entry, operation of law, or by a provision for cesser of redemption or in any other event (other than the dropping of a life or the determination of a determinable life interest, but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest, nor if created after 1925 a term of years which is not expressed to take effect in possession within twenty-one years where required by the Act to take effect within that period (i.e., leases at a rent or in considation of a fine and not being leases of a reversion on a term, see s. 149 of the Act); and in that definition, term of years includes terms for less than years ...
Don grant et render, a fine sur
Don grant et render, a fine sur, was a double fine, comprehending the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc., and the fine sur concessit, and might have been used to create particular limitations of estates; whereas the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo, etc., conveyed nothing but an absolute estate, either of inheritance or at least of freehold, 1 Steph. Com....
Absolute
Absolute, means free from restriction, qualification or condition e.g. absolute ownership; conclusive and not liable to revision e.g. absolute delivery, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 7.Absolute, complete, unconditional. A rule or order absolute is a completed judgment of a court, and is so called in contradistinction to a rule or order nisi which is made on the application of one party only without notice to the other (ex parte), to be made absolute unless the other party succeed in showing cause why it should not be made absolute (discharged); but see also DECREE NISI....
Malik Kamil Dwami
Malik Kamil Dwami, 'Malik Kamil Dwami, used in a deed convey an absolute estate, Promod Singh v. Labh Singh, 1955 Punj LR 361: 1955 Punj 49 (DB)....
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