Butt Joint - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: butt jointButt joint
A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping See 1st Butt 8...
Butt weld
See Butt weld under Butt...
Butt hinge
See 1st Butt 10...
Butt shaft
An arrow without a barb for shooting at butts an arrow...
Butt
Butt, 108 gallons....
Butts
Butts, the ends of short pieces of land in arable ridges or furrows. Also the place where archers meet with their bows and arrows to shoot at a mark...
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
joint and several
joint and several : relating or belonging to two or more parties together and separately [joint and several duties of the partners] see also joint and several liability at liability compare in solido, joint, jointly joint·ly and sev·er·al·ly adv ...
Hindu joint family and coparcenary
Hindu joint family and coparcenary, a hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives an unmarried daughters. A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family: it includes only those person who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being. Therefore there may be a joint Hindu family consisting of a single male member and widows of deceased coparceners, Gowli Buddanna v. CIT, AIR 1966 SC 1523 (1525): (1966) 3 SCR 224. [Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), s. 3]...
joint tenancy (with rights of survivorship)
joint tenancy (with rights of survivorship) two or more owners share equal ownership and rights to the property. If a joint owner dies, his or her share of the property passes to the other owners, without probate. In joint tenancy, ownership of the property cannot be willed to someone who is not a joint owner. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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