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Merger

long their term, being considered an inferior or less estate than a freehold, e.g., if the leasehold reversion became merged in an estate for life or other freehold estate, any sub-lease was terminated, the rent of the

Recovery

to suffer a common recovery was considered as an incident of an estate-tail. In later times the proceedings became more complicated; it was found inexpedient that the action should be brought against the tenant-in-tail himself, and so

Feoffment

transfer by deed alone is all that is necessary, and transfer by livery, though not in terms abolished, became obsolete before the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 51, which declares that all lands and interests

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Eastern Church

to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the

Code

the tribunate and the legislative body, was promulgated in 1804 as the 'Code Civil des Francais.' When Napoleon became emperor, the name was changed to that of Code Napoleon, by which it is still often designated, though

Be capitalised and distributed

and distributed'. In fact the whole tenor of the resolution shows that the distribution of the bonus shares became effective as from 30th Dec., 1954. If the ordinary shareholders became the owners of the bonus shares on

Apportionment

or upon eviction from part of the land by title paramount, or where part of the demised premises became lost to the tenant by irruption of the sea, also by act of parties, e.g., upon surrender, release,

Equitable estates and interests

the legal owner to carry out his obligation or trust, but the rights and obligations of beneficial ownership became recognized and affected by statute. The Statute of Uses turned the beneficial right or use in real estate

Marital rights

founded on the rule of the Common Law (abrogated by that statute) that the property of the wife became by marriage the property of the husband. The term is sometimes used as meaning conjugal rights (q.v.).

Marriage

in abolishing the prohibition. In 1907 the (English) Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act (7 Edw. 7, c. 47) became law. Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is not to be deemed void as a civil contract, whether

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