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Assignment and relinquishment
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Relinquishment and assignment of tenancy
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Surrender of copyholds
special custom, to the bailiff, beadle, or reeve, or to certain tenants of the manor, either as a relinquishment or resignation of such estate, or as the medium of conveying or transferring it to another. Surrenders were … surrender, except in the instance of a surrender for the purpose of barring an entail, but it was assignable. The assignee of an equitable estate, on taking a surrender from the person in whom the legal copyhold
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Dower
(English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 41. An action for assignment of dower is not within this Act, though the Court may refuse relief on the ground of laches, … of dower was deemed sufficient as between vendor and purchaser; as if a wife contract before marriage to relinquish her dower, either in consideration of a substituted provision or of marriage, which is valuable in itself and
Lien
(1) (b), causes for the sale and distribution of the proceeds of any property, subject to lien, are assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court. In the Scottish law, the doctrine of lien is known … said [see Hartley v. Hitchcock, (1816) Stark 408; 18 RR 790] that a lien is lost by temporarily relinquishing possession, but see Great Eastern Railway v. Lord's Trustee, 1909 AC 109. A lien on goods is not
Pawn or Pledge
the pawn into the hands of a stranger for safe custody, without consideration; for he may sell or assign all his interest in the pawn, or he may convey the same interest conditionally, by way of pawn, … pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal
Deed
the tenure is never expressed, except upon a sub-grant or lease reserving rent. In annuity deeds and money assignments, the phrase 'To have, hold, receive, and take' is the common form of habendum. (h) Declaration of Uses … distinct though undivided interests should be of several successive parts. Those who are to transfer any interest or relinquish any right should come first, and amongst them, those having legal estates before those having equitable only, and
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