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REMIC
by restricting its own investment to the maintenance of cash flow and reserves and to investment in properties acquired from foreclosure on the underlying mortgages called also real estate mortgage investment conduit compare pass-through security at security
Neo Lamarckism
Lamarckism as revived modified and expounded by recent biologists esp as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment use or disuse of parts etc opposed of Neo Darwinism which
bargain
or receives (as a promise or performance) in a transaction between them compare contract 2 a : something acquired by or as if by bargaining b : something whose value considerably exceeds its cost [a purchase] vi
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Prescriptive
Consisting in or acquired by immemorial or long continued use and enjoyment as a prescriptive right of title pleading the continuance and
Forfeiture
Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), s. 1, land assured to or acquired by or on behalf of any corporation in mortmain otherwise than under a licence under the Crown or
Election
'election' has by long usage in connection with the process of selection of proper representa-tives in democratic institutions acquired both a wide and a narrow meaning. In the narrow sense it is used to mean the final
Emancipation
was a kind of slavery. The enfranchisement by the purchaser made the filius-familias sui juris. As the enfranchiser acquired all rights of patronage, the father, on occasion of the last mancipatio, added the trust-clause (fiducia contracta), i.e.,
Equity of redemption
be postponed to a subsequent mortgagee, who, having advanced his money without notice of such prior mortgage, afterwards acquired the legal estate. See TACKING, which, though abolished by the (English) Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (37 &
Estate
the State has the power to acquire any estate or any rights therein; however, if an estate is acquired by the State where any land comprised therein is under the personal cultivation of the owner, compensation has
Feed
Feed, to lend additional support; to strengthen ex post facto. A subsequently acquired interest is said to 'feed an estoppel. Thus, if A., not having the legal estate, but being estopped
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