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Pawn or Pledge

delivery, the whole contract is executory, however strong may be the engagement to deliver it; and the pledgee acquires no right of property in it. But there need not be an actual manual delivery, as it is

Person interested

construed so as to include a body, local authority, or a company for whose benefit the land is acquired and who is bound under an agreement to pay the compensation, Himalaya Tiles and Merbles (P) Ltd. v.

Protection order

deserted by her husband may obtain from a magistrate or the Divorce Court an order to protect property acquired and to be acquired by her since desertion, as if she were a feme sole; after the order

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Proceeds of terrorism

kinds of properties which have been derived or obtained from commission of any terrorist act or have been acquired through funds traceable to a terrorist act, irrespective of person in whose name such proceeds are standing or

Purchaser

in good faith for valuable consideration and includes a lessee, mortgagee or other person who for valuable consideration acquires an interest in property except that in Part I. (ss. 1 to 39) of the Act, purchaser only

Remainder

decease, the law, at his decease, casts the possession upon his heir; thus, upon B.'s decease his heir acquires the possession by act of law and his title, though immediately derived from a person who himself acquired

Repeal

not affect anything done under the repealed Act; it does not affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or incurred under the repealed Act, or any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect thereof, Practice and

Retrospective or retroactive law

Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates

Singular successor

proprietor, who succeeds to the whole heritage by regular title of succession or universal representation, whereas the purchaser acquires right solely by the single title acquired by the disposition of the former proprietor, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

Valuation

most difficult valuation is that of land. This has almost invariably to be undertaken whenever land is compulsorily acquired. The difficulties that surround this question were fully considered in the case of Re Lucas and Chesterfield Gas

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Pawn or Pledge

delivery, the whole contract is executory, however strong may be the engagement to deliver it; and the pledgee acquires no right of property in it. But there need not be an actual manual delivery, as it is

Person interested

construed so as to include a body, local authority, or a company for whose benefit the land is acquired and who is bound under an agreement to pay the compensation, Himalaya Tiles and Merbles (P) Ltd. v.

Protection order

deserted by her husband may obtain from a magistrate or the Divorce Court an order to protect property acquired and to be acquired by her since desertion, as if she were a feme sole; after the order

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Proceeds of terrorism

kinds of properties which have been derived or obtained from commission of any terrorist act or have been acquired through funds traceable to a terrorist act, irrespective of person in whose name such proceeds are standing or

Purchaser

in good faith for valuable consideration and includes a lessee, mortgagee or other person who for valuable consideration acquires an interest in property except that in Part I. (ss. 1 to 39) of the Act, purchaser only

Remainder

decease, the law, at his decease, casts the possession upon his heir; thus, upon B.'s decease his heir acquires the possession by act of law and his title, though immediately derived from a person who himself acquired

Repeal

not affect anything done under the repealed Act; it does not affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or incurred under the repealed Act, or any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect thereof, Practice and

Retrospective or retroactive law

Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates

Singular successor

proprietor, who succeeds to the whole heritage by regular title of succession or universal representation, whereas the purchaser acquires right solely by the single title acquired by the disposition of the former proprietor, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

Valuation

most difficult valuation is that of land. This has almost invariably to be undertaken whenever land is compulsorily acquired. The difficulties that surround this question were fully considered in the case of Re Lucas and Chesterfield Gas

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