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Pawn or Pledge
sufficient to pass the possession of property, as the key of a warehouse. As possession is necessary to complete the title, so by the Common Law the title determines if the pledgee lose the thing pledged, or
Wholly
Wholly, the word 'wholly' means entirely completely fully, totally and in every respect and, to put a fetter to the rights of females heir to
Vested
'vested' is defined in Black's Law Dictionary (7th Edn,) at p. 1557 as: 'Vested; fixed; accrued; settled; absolute; complete. Having the character or given the rights of absolute ownership; not contingent; not subject to be defeated by
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Universal agent
the existence of such an agency practically, inasmuch as it would be to make such an agent the complete master, not merely dux facti but dominus rerum the complete disposer of all the rights and property of
Trust
cortice. Trusts may be classed thus:- (I.) Express, or defined by words; divided into- (a) Trusts executed, perfect, complete, or constituted. (b) Trusts executory, imperfect, incomplete, or directory. (II.) Arising by operation of law, such as (a)
Title
other legal document, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. There are several stages and degrees requisite to form a complete title to lands and tenements. 1. The lowest and most imperfect degree of title consists in the mere
Tenure
his appointment to the said office begins when he joins and it comes to an end on the completion of the tenure unless curtailed on justifiable grounds. Such a person does not superannuate, he only goes out
Tail
of issue extinct, Co. Litt. 27 b; Halsbury, L.E., 'Real Property.' (9) The issue-in-tail is not bound to complete, either at law or inequity, any contract made by his ancestor as tenant-in-tail, since he claims from the
File
more sae keeping of, and ready reference to, the same; also, to deposit at an office. A court's complete and official record of a case; a lawyer's complete record of a case. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,
Order in Council
with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council.' Such orders are now largely used for the purpose of completing the Administrative part of Acts of Parliament. The Government of the day is responsible for them, and they
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