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Pawn or Pledge

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, such as patent-rights and manuscripts, may

Personal property

1859, s. 21. This was extended by the (English) Emergency Act, 1881, to conveyances of freehold land or choses in action by a husband to a wife or e contra. Now, by the (English) Law of Property

Priority

or is otherwise made or constituted a specialty debt. The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable choses in action are determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons who are for

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Uses

Statute of Wills, 32 Hen. 8, c. 1. (3) They were transferable, although at law they were mere choses in action. (4) A cestui que use in possession of the land was deemed a tenant at will

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