Alienable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lawful, Legal
whereas a person in possession, de jure, actually or constructively has the right to use, enjoy, destroy or alienate property. Legal and lawful normally, convey same sense and are usually interchangeable. What is legal is lawful. But
Lay impropriators
belonged to them were given to the king. The same had been done in former reigns when the alien priories were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations
Furtum
Just., 7th Edn. 399, 400, where other kinds are enumerated; and see LARCENY; ROBBERY. Furtum est contrectatio rei alien' fradulenta, cum animo furandi, invito illo domino cujus res illa fuerat. 3 Inst. 107.--(Theft is the fradulent handling
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Letters of safe-conduct
from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and
Gift, 'transfer of property
the Gift-tax Act as any disposition or conveyance, or assignment or settlement or delivery or payment or other alienation of property, C.G.T. v. T.M. Louiz, (2000) 7 SCC 486: AIR 2000 SC 3136 (3138). [Gift-tax Act, 1958,
Dum non fuit compos mentis
was not of sound mind), an abolished writ that lay, when a man not of sound mind had aliened any lands or tenements, to recover them from the alienee, Fitz. N.B. 499
Free-bench
wife to free-bench does not, like that to dower at Common Law, attach till the husband's death, any alienation by him alone, to take effect in his lifetime, though without the concurrence of the wife, whether by
Disposition
which is not conventionally regarded as 'disposition'. Indeed, 'disposition', even accord-ing to law dictionaries, embraces 'the parting with, alienation of, or giving up property.... a destruction of property' (Black's Legal Dictionary), Controller of Estate Duty v. Shri
Customs
first, principally laid on wool, woolfels (sheep-skins) and leather when exported. There were also extraordinary duties paid by aliens both on export and import, which were denominated parva custuma, to distinguish them from the former, or magna
Custuma parva et nova
Custuma parva et nova, the alien's duty on imported and exported commodities; see CUSTOMS.
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