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Merger

Merger [fr. mergo, Lat., to sink], an annihilation, by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into possession the expectant which swallows up the particular estate. It is the drowning of one estate in another, and differs from suspension, which is but a partial extinguishment for a time; while extinguishment, properly so termed, is the destruction of a collateral thing in the subject itself out of which it is derived. 'In order that there may be a merger, the two estates which are supposed to coalesce must be vested in the same person at the same time and in the same right' [Re Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man may have in his own right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the fee, 2 Bl. Com. 177.The doctrine of merger pr...

Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act

Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54) rendered marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity absolutely null and void. Theretofore such marriages were voidable merely. See MARRIAGE....

Gossipred

Gossipred, compaternity, spiritual affinity, Canon Law....

Compaternity

Compaternity, spiritual affinity....

Array

Array [fr. aredare, It., to get ready], to rank or set forth a jury of men impannelled upon a cause. to challenge the array of the pannel is at once to except against all persons arrayed or impannelled, in respect of partiality or some default in the sheriff, Co. Litt. 156 a. If the sheriff to be affinity to any of the parties, or if anyone or more of the jurors are returned at the nomination of either party, or for any other partiality, the array shall be quashed, See Archbold's Criminal Pleading....

Affinitas affinitatis

Affinitas affinitatis, the connection which has neither consanguinity nor affinity, as, the connection between a husband's brother and his wife's sister....

Affinis dicitur, cum due congnationes, inter se divise, per nuptias copulantur, et altera ad alterius fines accidit

Affinis dicitur, cum due congnationes, inter se divise, per nuptias copulantur, et altera ad alterius fines accidit [Lat.], Persons are said to be bound by affinity when two families, divided from one another, are united by marriage, and each approaches the confines of the other....

Relationship

The state of being related by kindred affinity or other alliance...

Nirmala sadhus

Nirmala sadhus, nirmalas have a close affinity to Hindus and in the Census Report for the Punjab for the year 1891 a large number of Nirmalas actually declared themselves as Hindus. Bhide, J., on these materials, rightly came to the conclusion that Nirmala Sadhus are not Sikhs, Mahant Harnam Singh v. Gurdial Singh, AIR 1967 SC 1415 (1418): (1967) 2 SCR 739....

lipotropic

having an affinity for lipids...

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