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Registration of title of land

charge or incumbrance, and obtain a certificate of the result from the registrar. The certificate is conclusive and comprehensive of all registered matters affecting the title or object of search. The search at the Land Registry is

Quasi-governmental agency

Quasi-governmental agency, 'Quasi-governmental agency' is 'a government-sponsored enterprise or corporation (sometimes called a government-controlled corporation)'. Authority, as Websiter's Comprehensive Dictionary (International Edition) defines, is 'the person or persons in whom government or command is vested; often in

Property

The Law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1987, at p. 1031, it is stated that the property is the most comprehensive of all terms which can be used, inasmuch as it is indicative and descriptive of every possible interest

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Heir

be distinguishable from the word 'legatee' but it is also at times used in its more general and comprehensive sense as indicating a person upon whom the property devolves on the death of another and hence when

Aggression

Aggression, is not to be confused with war only. It being an all comprehensive word with a very wide meaning and complex dimensions, its meaning cannot be explained by a strait-jacket formula

Gavelkind

Kent, Edn. 1656, p. 585) first advanced and promulgated this supposition, which does not seem to be sufficiently comprehensive since 'gavelkind' does not necessarily denote land subject to rent, in opposition to the opinion of Lord Coke,

Creed

the articles of Christian faith a confession of faith for public use esp one which is brief and comprehensive

Mystic

Remote from or beyond human comprehension baffling human understanding unknowable obscure mysterious

Mystery

wonder something which has not been or can not be explained hence specifically that which is beyond human comprehension

Indistinctness

or condition of being indistinct lack of definiteness dimness confusion as the indistinctness of a picture or of comprehension indistinctness of vision

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