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Advowson
Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person possessed of this right or patronage being called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on account of his obligation to protect and defend the privileges of the particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For the origin and history of advowsons, consult Mirehouse on Advowsons, pp. 1-6.There are several kinds of advowsons, viz.:--(I.) Presentative advowsons, subdivided into,Appendant.In gross, andPartly appendant, and partly in gross.(II.) Collative advowsons.(I.) A presentative advowson appendant is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is then said to be appendant, i.e., annexed to the demesnes of ...
Proviso
Proviso, stipulation, caution, a condition, inserted in any deed, on the performance whereof the validity of the deed depends. As to the proviso for re-entry in a lease, see FORFEITURE (5); CONDITION; USUAL COVENANTS.The terms proviso and condition are synonymous, and signify some quality annexed to a real estate by virtue of which it may be defeated, enlarged, or created upon an uncertain event. Such qualities annexed to personal contracts and agreements are generally called conditions. A proviso or condition differs from a covenant in this, that the former is in the words of, and binding upon, both parties; whereas the latter is in the words of the grantor only. At the same time a proviso or condition may be construed as a covenant or agreement if the proviso involves the consideration upon which the benefit is obtained a fortiori, where words such as 'provided that, and it is hereby agreed' are used. But if no intention that the proviso was intended to be obligatory can be gathered ...
Legacy
Legacy [fr. legatum, Lat.]. A legacy is a gift of personalty by will, and, arising as it does from the mere bounty of the testator, it is postponed to the claims of creditors. There are four kinds of legacies:-(1) General, when it does not amount to a bequest of any particular thing or money, as distinguished from all others of the same kind; as if a testator give A. 50l. or a diamond ring, not referring to any particular diamond ring as distinguished from others. (2) Specific, when it is a bequest of a particular thing, or sum of money, or debt, as distinguished from all others of the same kind, as if a testator give B. 'my diamond ring.' (3) Demonstrative, when it is in its nature a general legacy, but there is a particular fund pointed out to satisfy it, as if a testator bequeath 1,000l. out of his Reduced Bank Three per Cents. And (4) Cumulative, or substitutional, when a testator by the same testamentary instrument, or by different testamentary instruments, has bequeathed more tha...
Hereditaments
Hereditaments, every kind of property that can be inherited; i.e., not only property which a person has by descent from his ancestors, but also that which he has by purchase, because his heir can inherit it from him. The two kinds of hereditaments are corporeal, which are tangible (in fact, they mean the same thing as land), and incorporeal, which are not tangible, and are the rights and profits annexed to, or issuing out of, land. It includes money held in trust to be laid out in land [Re Gosselin, (1906) 1 Ch 120].Any property that can be inherited; anything that passes by intestacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 730.The enumeration of incorporeal hereditaments in Hale's Analysis (p. 48) is the following:-Rents, services, tithes, commons, and other profits in alieno solo, pensions, offices, franchises, liberties, villains, dignities. But Blackstone enumerates ten principal kinds:-Advowsons, tithes, commons, ways, offices, dignities, franchises, corodies or pensions, annuities,...
Dependency
Dependency. A region which is subject to British jurisdiction for all practical purposes although no formal annexation has taken place, e.g., Protectorates. Of these, Cyprus has been formally annexed by S. R. & O. 1914, No. 1629. Egypt was declared independent in February, 1922. See Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1890-1913, also Halsbury, L. of E., tit. 'Dependencies, etc....
Appropriation
Appropriation, the annexing of some ecclesiastical benefice to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, etc., just as impropriation is the annexing a benefice to the use of a lay person or corporation. Appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, if a patron or appropriator present a clerk who is properly instituted and inducted, for he would then become complete parson; also, if a corporation possessing the benefice is dissolved, the parsonage becomes disappropriate at Common Law, Phill. Eccl. Law....
Conditional fee
Conditional fee. This species of formerly inheritable freehold (now, equitable interest, except under (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 8) is marked, as to its duration or time of continuance, by an event beyond which it is not to endure. The event is the qualification which gives a name to this estate, and ascertains its determination. A fee qualified is frequently called a fee base, i.e., impure, defective, and circumscribed. There is hardly any event, provided it be lawful, and do not violate the rule against perpetuity, which may not be made the cause of the determination of this fee.The following events are specimens of qualifications, which may be expressly annexed to this estate.A limitation to A. and his heirs--(1) Peers of the realm;(2) Lords of the manor of Blackacre;(3) Tenants of the manor of Dale;(4) During the time whilst a particular tree shall stand;(5) Till the marriage of a certain person takes place;(6) Till certain debts be paid;(7) Till default be made in pay...
Sextillion
According to the method of numeration which is followed also in the United States the number expressed by a unit with twenty one ciphers annexed According to the English method a million raised to the sixth power or the number expressed by a unit with thirty six ciphers annexed See Numeration...
Quintilllion
According to the French notation which is used on the Continent and in America the cube of a million or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed according to the English notation a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed See the Note under Numeration...
Quadrillion
According to the French notation which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed according to the English notation the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power or the number represented by a unit with twenty four ciphers annexed See the Note under Numeration...
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