Alien

alienation of affections

alienation of affections :the diversion of a person's affection from someone (as a spouse) who has certain rights or claims to such affection usu. to a third person who is held to be the instigator or cause of the diversion called also alienation of affection compare criminal conversation NOTE: In most jurisdictions alienation of affections is no longer recognized as a basis for a civil suit. ...

Alienate, or Aliene

Alienate, or Aliene, to transfer property....

Lawful alienation

Lawful alienation, lawful alienation in this context means not necessarily for a family necessity but alienation made competently in accordance with law, Shripad Gajanan Suthankar v. Dattaram Kashinath Suthankar, AIR 1974 SC 878 (879): (1974) 2 SCC 156: (1974) 3 SCR 474....

resident alien

resident alien Applies to non-U.S. citizens currently residing in the United States. The term is applied in three different manners; please see Permanent Resident, Conditional Resident, and Returning Resident Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

lawful permanent resident alien (lpra)

lawful permanent resident alien (lpra) Lawful permanent resident. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...

alien [Latin alienus not one's own, foreign] : relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government n : a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country [illegal s] [an admitted to the United States for permanent residence "U.S. Code"] vt : alienate ...

Particular tenants, Alienation by

Particular tenants, Alienation by, when they con-veyed by a feoffment, fine, or recovery, a greater estate that the law entitled them to make a forfeiture ensued to the person in immediate remainder or reversion. As if a tenant for his own life alienated by feoffment for the life of another or in tail or in fee, these being estate which either must or may last longer than his own, his creating them was not only beyond his power, and inconsistent with the nature of his interest, but was also a forfeiture of his own particular estate to him in remainder or reversion, who was entitled to enter immediately.Fines and recoveries having been abolished and a feoffment having no longer a tortious operation (English) (Real Property Act, 1845, s. 4), a tenant, by creating a larger interest than he has in the property, did not after the passing of that Act incur a forfeiture, for such a creation was then void as to the excess, and good for his own interest, Steph. Com. 7th Edn. 463. The (English) ...

Person entitled to impeach alienation

Person entitled to impeach alienation, 'person entitled to impeach alienation' includes 'persons entitled to a share in property', Teg Singh v. Charan Singh, AIR 1977 SC 1699: (1977) 2 SCC 732: (1977) 3 SCR 365....

Shall vest in my wife with power of alienation

Shall vest in my wife with power of alienation, the expression 'shall vest in my wife with power of alienation' means the testator intended to confer an absolute and not limited interest in the property, Gopala Menon v. Sivaraman Nair, AIR 1979 SC 1345: (1981) 3 SCC 586....

Viditur qui surdus et mutus ne poet faire alienation

Viditur qui surdus et mutus ne poet faire alienation, it seems that a deaf and dumb man cannot alienate....

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