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Common assurances

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Tail

existence of the issue upon whom the estate-tail would (if unbarred) have devolved, and a recovery at the Common Law (which was a real action carried onto judgment), giving the fee-simple absolute. these were abolished by the … is that every disposition of lands by a tenant-in-tail is to be effected by some one of the assurances evidenced by deed (not being a will or a contract either expressed or implied) used for the conveyance

Recovery

land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment. A feigned recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged … or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment. A feigned recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his

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Assurances

Matched in: Term Assurances

Tenancy in Common

Matched in: Term Tenancy in Common

Lease and release

conveyance which derived its effect from the Statute of Uses, compounded of a lease for a year at Common Law, or a bargain and sale for a year under the Statute of Uses, and a Common Law … estates. The convenience and general applicability of the lease ad release recommended and established it as a common assurance. For it was preferable to a bargain and sale, and to a covenant to stand seised to uses

Surrender of copyholds

(English) Law of Property Act, 1922. Copyholds were not, as a general rule, alien-able by any of the Common Law assurances. A surrender (which is vocabulum artis) is the yielding up of a legal tenancy in a

Lease

entered into the leased premises, for before entry he had only an interesse termini by virtue of his Common Law assurance, a right which could be assigned, but not surrendered, and which did not prevent the merger … the leased premises, for before entry he had only an interesse termini by virtue of his Common Law assurance, a right which could be assigned, but not surrendered, and which did not prevent the merger of two

Guarantee

Guarantee, he to whom a guaranty is made; also, and more commonly, the guaranty itself. See GUARANTY. The assurance that a contract or legal act will be duly carried out; … Guarantee, he to whom a guaranty is made; also, and more commonly, the guaranty itself. See GUARANTY. The assurance that a contract or legal act will be duly carried out; Something given or existing as security, such

Chirograph

which and cutting the parchment into two pieces was observed in the chirographer's office of the Court of Common Pleas until those assurances by matter of record were abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833

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