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Settlement
settled in the county or county borough in which he was born until shown to have derived or acquired a settlement elsewhere. A person may derive a settlement from a parent or husband, acquire a settlement, by
Surname
given in baptism; the last name; the name common to all members of a family. Surnames were originally acquired by accident and retained by custom. They may be changed at will, provided notice be given by advertisement
Singular successor
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.
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Specific performance
Where a partnership, or an agreement in the nature of one, exists between two persons, and land is acquired by the partnership as a substratum of it, the land is in the nature of stock-in-trade of the
Squatter
held that he will be bound by the restrictive covenant of a former owner even after he has acquired a statutory title, Re Nisbet and Pott's Contract, (1906) 1 Ch 386. 1. A person who settles on
Subject to contract
parties' solicitors of a formal contract. On the other hand, the expression 'subject to contract' has by now acquired definite ascertained legal meaning of subject to the execution by the parties of a formal contract', Wilson v.
Suez Canal
agreement ratified by the (English) Suez Canal Shares Act, 1876, 176,602 shares in the Suez Canal Company were acquired by the Crown by purchase from the Khedive of Egypt for about 4,000,000l. sterling.
Superannuation
the context of 'superannuation' or retirement by way of superannuation, in service parlance the well-settled meaning it already acquired and even in the normal course to be assigned is that it has relevance and relates to discharge
Superfluous lands
Superfluous lands, lands acquired by a public company under the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18),
Support
Lords that there is natural right to lateral support for buildings. This is an easement which may be acquired by twenty years' uninterrupted, peaceable, and open enjoyment of that building. In the case of the removal of
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