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Ownership

Ownership, does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in

Widow's Estate

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

Gift, 'transfer of property

Matched in: Term Gift, 'transfer of property

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Equity to a settlement (Wife's)

to the Married Women's Property Acts (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the law permitted a husband to possess himself absolutely of the whole of his wife's personal property and the rents and profits, during the coverture, of her

Anticipation

settlement from aliening, by way of anticipation, property settled to her separate use during coverture. Such a clause absolutely disables her from selling, mortgaging or dealing with the property in anticipation, but it does not apply to

Trover

of trover and conversion (see that title), which might be maintained by any person who had either an absolute or special property in goods, for recovering the value of such goods against another, who, having or being

Dearle v. Hall

any) are obliged to give information to persons equitably interested in the property. This duty is not, apparently, absolute, see Low v. Bouverie, (1891) 3 Ch 82. Under s. 137 the estate owner or fund holder becomes

Power of Attorney

(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 126 and 127, powers of attorney may be made irrevocable either absolutely or for a limited period according as they are given for valuable consideration or not. See REVOCATION OF

Hire-purchase system

payments by the hirer upon an agreement that when a certain number of payments have been completed, the absolute property in the goods will pass to the hirer, but so that the hirer may return the goods at

Mutuum

Mutuum, a loan whereby the absolute property in the thing lent passes to the borrower, it being for consumption, and he being bound to restore,

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