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Official receivers
in bankruptcy: see now Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss. 70 et seq. The report of an official receiver is absolutely privileged, Bottomley v. Brougham, (1908) 1 KB 584; Burr v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 306. As to the … bankruptcy: see now Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss. 70 et seq. The report of an official receiver is absolutely privileged, Bottomley v. Brougham, (1908) 1 KB 584; Burr v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 306. As to the official
vested
vested 1 : fully and absolutely established as a right, benefit, or privilege : not dependent on any contingency or condition ;specif : not
Privileged communication
also CONFESSION. Also a communication which cannot be made the ground of an action for defamation, either (a) absolutely, or (b) without a malicious motive, such as that which is made truthfully and bona fide by a … Privileged communication, a communication which a witness cannot be compelled to divulge, such as that which takes place between
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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 … ever.' The word 'assigns,' however, was not material and might have been omitted for it gave no other privilege to the owner than that which the law confers upon him by virtue of his estate, as entitling
Donative
have been anciently the only way of conferring ecclesiastical benefices in England. If the patron once waived the privilege of donation and presented to the bishop, and his clerk was admitted and instituted, the advowson became representative, … disposal of the patron; subject to his visitation only, and not to that of the ordinary; and vested absolutely in the clerk of the patron's deed of donation without presentation, institution, or induction. This is said to
Common
by merely showing it commenced within time of memory, and after sixty years' enjoyment the right shall be absolute and indefeasible, unless it appear that the same was taken and enjoyed under some deed or writing. There … right of feeding one's beasts in another's land, and this is subdivided into: (a) Appendant, which is a privilege belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land holden of a manor, to put upon its wastes
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 … BONA VACANTIA. See also DOWER; INHERITANCE; DISTRIBUTION, STATUTE OF; INTESTATES' ESTATES ACT (for deaths before 1926). Widows are privileged by many statutes-see, e.g., PENSIONS; ACTIO PERSONALIS; HUSBAND AND WIFE. Widow, is a woman who has survived a
Deacon
years, nor priest under twenty-four years of age; though as to deacons the Archbishop of Canterbury has the Privilege of admitting them (by faculty or dispensation) at an earlier age. See, further, under the title CLERGY; and … etc. He may now perform any of the divine offices which a priest may, except only pronouncing the absolution and consecrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By the Clergy Ordination Act, 1804 (44 Geo. 3, c.
Tail
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 … of Property Act, 1925, s. 176; see infra] This estate or equitable interest possesses the follow-ing incidents and privileges:- (1) It was like a fee-simple formerly subject to curtesy and dower (if not barred); see now s.
Fee
reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional or base fee, including (3) fee-tail, formerly fee-conditional. By the (English) Law of Properties … as a part of a common burden, while a fee is a payment for a special benefit or privilege, Commissioner, Hindu Religious Endowments, Madras v. Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Shirur Mutt, AIR 1954 SC 282: (1954) SCR
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