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Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...
Abstraction
Abstraction, the word 'abstraction' in the context of s. 39 means taking or appropriation. Energy may be dishonestly abstracted by artificial means or unauthorised devices. For instance, energy before it passes through a consumer's meter may be abstracted from the main of the electric company by an unauthorised wire connecting the main with a private terminal, the connecting wire is the artificial means for abstraction, Jagannath Singh v. B.S. Ramaswamy, AIR 1966 SC 849 (850): (1966) 1 SCR 885. (Electricity Act, 1910 s. 39)...
Abstract
Abstract [fr. abstrahere, abstractus; fr. trahere, Lat., to draw], an abridgment or epitome, as the abstract of pleas required in some cases before the Judicature Act; also a purloining.Abstract, a thing looked at purely by itself and without comparison with any other thing or with any reference to surrounding circumstances....
abstract
abstract 1 : a summary of a legal document 2 : abstract of title ab·stract [ab-strakt, ab-strakt] vt ...
abstracter
abstracter also ab·strac·tor [ab-strak-tər] n : a person who searches out and summarizes information to be used as reference or proof ;specif : a person who prepares abstracts of title ...
abstract of title
abstract of title :a summary statement of the successive conveyances and other facts on which a title to a piece of land rests ...
Action of abstracted multures
Action of abstracted multures, an action for multures or tolls against those who are thirled to a mill, i.e., bound to grind their corn at a certain mill, and fail to do so....
certificate of title
certificate of title 1 : a certificate of ownership stating that the title to the specified property is free and clear except for any encumbrance (as a mortgage) listed on it: as a : a certificate issued by a motor vehicle registry called also title b : a certificate issued by a registry of deeds see also torrens system 2 : a document issued by a title abstracter (as an attorney) giving a legal opinion as to the status of a property's title based on a title search or abstract of title compare deed ...
Charge
Charge (i) the instructions of a judge to a jury; the judge's summing up of the evidence at a trial by jury; the periodical address of a bishop or archdeacon to his clergy; the taking proceedings against a prisoner; a commission.To lay a duty upon any one, to acquaint any with the nature of their duty. See CHARGE SHEET. The clerk of arraigns gives te prisoner 'in charge' to the jury, by reading an abstract of the indictment, and they are bound to proceed to deliver him until they are discharged. To prefer an accusation against any one.A burden, duty, or trust, when attached to property; see MORTGAGES AND CHARGES, DEBENTURE, LAND CHARGES, ADMINISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF LAND.Includes any head of charge when the charge contains more heads than one. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (b)]Means expenditure, H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur of Gwalior v. Union of India, (1971) 1 SCC 85: AIR 1971 SC 530: (1971) 3 SCR 9.See also K. Muthuswami Gounder...
Contract for sale of land
Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 40. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. If the contract is a simple, unconditional, or open contract for sale of land, it is implied that the vendor is to make a good title to the land for an estate in fee simple free from incumbrances, Hughes v. Parker, 8 M & W 344. He is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient evidence. the expenses of showing the title, i.e., the abstract, falls on the vendor and so also the expenses of production of material documents in his possession or in that of his trustees an mortgagees. The expenses of production for verification of those which are not in such possession are to be borne by the purchaser, (English) L.P....
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