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Owner (Estate Owner)
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 … 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.
Settlement
similar ultimate devolution for the use of several persons in succession after the person first named. See last title, and SETTLEMENT ESTATE DUTY. The conveyance of property -- or of interests in property -- to provide for … the benefit of one person for his life, and after his death for the benefit of another person absolutely, or with a similar ultimate devolution for the use of several persons in succession after the person first
Vest
Vest, (1) Either to place in possession; to make possessor of; or, to give an absolute interest in property when a named period or event occurs. (2) (of a right or interest) Its coming … the property is owned by the person or the authority in whom it vests. It may vest in title, or it may vest in possession, or it may vest in a limited sense, as indicated in the
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Stridhan
Stridhan, a Hindu married woman is absolute owner of her 'stridhan' property and can deal with it in any manner she likes-she may spend the … her own pleasure. It does not become a joint property of the wife and the husband has no title or independent dominion over the property as owner thereof, Rashmi Kumar v. Mahesh Kumar, 1977 SCC (Cri) 415:
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 … as are generally commonable, as swine, goats, or geese. This can only be claimed by grant, or by title of prescription which supposes a now forgotten grant. (c) Because of vicinage or neighbourhood where the tenants of
Distress
six months after determination of the lease, but it must be made during the continuance of the landlord's title or interest, and also during the possession of the tenant. By the Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, s. … seven days after demand of possession, see Boyd v. Bilham, (1909) 1 KB 14. All the above are absolutely privileged, as also things in actual use. (11) Beasts of the plough and sheep, by 51, Hen. 3,
Equity
upon the conscientious obligations of the suitors; and by adjudicating in personam, may compel specific performance (see that title) of a contract where law would only give damages for the breach of it, and stop a wrong … nature and extent of its redress. Not content, as the Common Law generally is, to adjudicate strictly and absolutely in rem, i.e., upon the transaction itself, as it is presented by the litigants, Equity insists upon the
Tenure
socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium … of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits in the soil, designated by the term 'seisin,' which is the highest
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 … registrar of notices. See NOTICE; and as to priority of some equitable interests in registered land, REGISTRATION OF TITLE (Minor Interests Index).
Disability
Disability, incapacity to do any legal act. It is divided into two classes: (1) absolute, which, while it continues, wholly disables the person 'such were outlawry, excommunication, attainder (but see the Forfeiture Act, … powers, see ULTRA VIRES; (2) partial, as infancy, coverture, lunacy, and drunkenness. As to which, see the various titles relating thereto. The compulsory purchase, by railway and other companies, of the lands of persons under disability is
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