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County Courts

trusts,or for redemption of a mortgage, or for specific performance of an agreement for sale or lease of property, or under the (English) Trustee Relief Acts,or Trustee Acts, or relating to the maintenance of infants,or for the

Forfeiture

Forfeiture, a penalty for an offence or unlawful act, or for some wilful omission of a tenant of property whereby he loses it, together with his title, which devolves upon others. Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1)

Personal property

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Settled land

far as relates to equitable interests affecting the estate and subject to the provisions of the Law of Property and other land legislation of 1925, except that in some cases, notably a first vesting instrument in connec-tion

Escheat

back to the cord when the immediate tenant dies without heirs, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. In India, any property accruing by escheat, vests in the States or the Union (Constitution of India, Art. 296). In feudal law,

Lease

Lease [either from locatio, Lat., the letting of property, or laisser, Fr., to let, or leapum, or leasum, Sax., to enter lawfully], sometimes also called demise (demissio),

Husband and wife

treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife

Magna Carta

kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there

Equitable estates and interests

Equitable estates and interests, Rights relating to property of which the legal ownership is vested in another person, or in the equitable owner himself in another

Marriage settlement

ground of the wife's adultery, to order such settlement, as it shall think reasonable, to the made of any property to which the wife is entitled, for the benefit of the innocent party, and of the children of

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