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common-law marriage
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Marriage
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Uses
A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to … Heirs were deprived of their Common Law rights since uses were devisable. 'Thirdly. Lords lost their wardships, reliefs, marriages, and escheats, the trustees letting the cestui que use continue the possession, whereby the real tenants that held
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Estate
fee simple. (b) Limited fees; which are (a) qualified or base fees, and (b) fees conditional at the Common Law, afterwards called fees-tail in consequence of the Statute De Donis, which may be (i.) general or special, (ii.) … when a new system of conveyancing was introduced by the Real Property legislation of that year. (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1(1), declares that the only estates in land (see definition, s. 205 (ix.), ibid.) which are
concubinage
persons who are cohabiting without the benefit of marriage used esp. in the civil law of Louisiana compare common-law marriage NOTE: Under Louisiana law, concubinage does not give rise to any rights in the parties to each
preclude
: to prevent or exclude by necessary consequence [the requirement of a marriage ceremony s the creation of common-law marriages in this jurisdiction]: as a : to prevent (a party) from litigating an action or claim esp.
Marital rights
WOMEN'S PROPERTY), has virtually abolished this right of the husband, which was founded on the rule of the Common Law (abrogated by that statute) that the property of the wife became by marriage the property of the husband.
canon law
of members of a particular faith ;esp : the codified church law of the Roman Catholic Church NOTE: Common law has been influenced by canon law in the areas of marriage and inheritance. Roman Catholic canon law, like
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