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Executor

a title to the personal property of the testator which vests him with full power ovr the testator's chattels, Attenborough v. Solomon, 1913 AC 76, and by Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 1, extending and amending

Presentation

has become vacant, the nature of the right of presentation is altered: it becomes a personal right or chattel. In the latter case an infant is not incapacitated from owning or exercising the right. See Hals. L.E.,

Parties

of the legal inheritance; (2) Persons having equitable or beneficial interests in the inheritance; (3) Persons possessed of chattel interests; (4) The grantee or release; (5) Trustees for the grantee or releasee. In criminal cases the parties … Naidu Charities, AIR 1990 SC 444 (447): 1989 Supp (2) SCC 356. (Code of Civil Procedure, s. 92) Persons jointly concerned in any deed or act; litigants. The Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, Ord. XVI., make

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Representation

this involves the question whether the misrepresentation is innocent. If made at the time of sale of personal chattels, 'it is a warranty' (or collateral contract), 'provided it appears to have been so intended', Pasley v. Freeman

Infant

relating to maintenance and accumula-tion of income are to apply, and infants may be permitted to use personal chattels which form part of the estate. The 5th s. of the (English) Betting and Loans (Infants) Act, 1892

Shares in public undertakings

profit derived from the employment of the capital, which is a mixed fund, consisting in part of personal chattels, as well as lands and fixtures. Shares in all companies which are within the Companies Acts (see the

Falsification

disposing of property or any interest therein for money or money's worth to a purchaser of land or chattels real or personal, or for his solicitor or other agent to conceal from the purchaser any instrument or

Pawn or Pledge

support the title. As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods and chattels; but money, debts, negotiable instruments, choses in action, and indeed any other valuable things of a personal nature,

Distringas

detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to … the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and

Deposit (Involuntary)

Deposit (Involuntary), where a chattel is sent, without request or arrangement, by one person to another who does not hold himself out as … Deposit (Involuntary), where a chattel is sent, without request or arrangement, by one person to another who does not hold himself out as willing to receive it, the person to whom it

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