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Conversion and detinue

Conversion and detinue, a conversion is an act of wilful interference, without lawful justification, with any chattel in a manner inconsistent with the right of another, whereby that other is deprived of the use and … possession of it. If a carrier or other bailee wrongfully and mistakenly delivers the chattel to the wrong person or refuses to deliver it to the right person, he can be sued as for a conversion. The

Trespass

appropriate remedy was a writ of trespass - viz. any direct and forcible injury to person, land, or chattels, (3) the third and narrowest meaning of the term is that in which, in accordance with popular speech, … transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either. An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The action

False pretence, obtaining property

Every person who, by any false pretence: (1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable … a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 32:- Every person who, by any false pretence: (1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money

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Widow

leaves a husband or wife (with or without issue) the surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the intestate shall stand charged with the payment of

Transfer

14 of the Companies Clauses Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16). As to the transfer of chattels, see SALE OF GOODS ACT; GIFT; Goodeve on Personal Property. It includes sale, purchase, exchange, mortgage, pledge, gift,

Copyhold

is sometimes the best chattel, as a jewel or a piece of plate, but it must be a personal chattel. Heriots are in some manors commuted to a customary composition in money, but it must be an … an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devolves upon

Partition of Chattels

Partition of Chattels. The court may order partition of chattels owned in undivided shares upon application by the persons interested in … Partition of Chattels. The court may order partition of chattels owned in undivided shares upon application by the persons interested in a moiety or upwards. [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 188]

Title to lands, Documents of

Title to lands, Documents of. As to dealing with title-deeds as mere personal chattels, see Swanley Coal Co. v. Denton, (1906) 2 KB 873. Properly speak-ing, however, they are not chattels; Coke

Alien

capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business

Wills

Ireland, a man cannot deprive his wife and children of a reasonable part (see REASONABLE PARTS) of his personal property. The (English) Wills Act, 1837, deals with four classes of subjects touching wills, viz.:- (1) What may … law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a. Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing

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