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Mortgage
a creditor. A mortgage is the creation of an interest in property, defeasible (i.e., annullable) upon performing the condition of paying a given sum of money, with interest thereon, at a certain time. This conditional assurance is … a mortgagee upon sale or foreclosure, over the fee simple or term remaining in the mortgagor and against subsequent incumbrancers, see ss. 88 and 89. A mortgagee, however, cannot sell the mortgagor's beneficial interest apart from the
Prize Court
Prize Court within the meaning of the (English) Naval Prize Acts, 1864 to 1916, as amended by any subsequent enactment, and should have all such jurisdiction on the high seas and throughout His Majesty's dominions and in … Discretion that the proceeds of the prize might be distributed among the captors. At the present day the conditions of naval warfare have become so altered that though the old principle that if a prize is taken
Appointment
Appointment, appointment refers to both initial recruitment and subsequent promotion, Chander Bhan v. Hotilal Gupta, 1991 Supp 2 SCC 156. [Punjab Courts Act, 1918 (6 of 1918), … (1972) 1 SCC 58: AIR 1971 SC 1602 (1605): (1971) 2 SCC 58. [Punjab Civil Service (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1940, R. 9(c)]
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Advowson
heirs should be its patrons ratione fundationis, yet the greater number of them were primarily appendant, becoming by subsequent circumstances severed in gross. The severance may take place in several modes:--(1) when the corporeal inheritance is conveyed … An advowsons, once completely and unconditionally severed, can never again become appendant. But should an advowson be disappended conditionally, as in the case of a mortgage, it will reunite when the loan is repaid. So, if the
Notice to quit
service and expiration of a formal notice to quit on a controlled tenant are as a rule a condition precedent to an action for recovery of the premises or ejectment in the county courts. Consult Foa or … to have authority to give such notice at the time when it begins to operate; for a recognition subsequent to that date of the authority will not make the notice good, see Doe d. Mann v. Walters,
Betting
wagering, or agreeing to bet or wager, or paying or receiving or settling bets. Upon a third or subsequent offence, or if there was any betting transaction with a person under 16 years, the offender is liable … made with a bookmaker were repealed by the (English) Finance Act, 1929. The totalisator was legalised under certain conditions by the (English) Racecourse Betting Act, 1928; which Act also contained a section (which is now repealed except
Possibility on a possibility
Acts. Post, after: occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to direct the reader to a subsequent part of the book. A conveyance for letters or dispatches. The word is derived from positi, the horses … the administrative control of the State. The State may create or abolish the post and may regulate the conditions of service of persons appointed to the post, State of Assam v. Kanak Chandra Dutta, AIR 1967 SC
Fee-simple
a legal or equitable right of re-entry. All other estates over land which are determinable by limitation or condition have become equitable interests. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, 1st Sched., Part I.] … c. 1, s. 1), gives a description of this estate, which appears to have been adopted by every subsequent writer. His language is this:- A person who holds 'in fee-simple is he which hath lands or tenements
Service
an order of assessment in the context of the scheme of the Act and the Rules means something subsequent and distinct from the mere making of an order of assessment. It implies formal communication of the order … or temporary service which is likely to be made permanent in the course of time, if certain usual conditions are satisfied by the person who is temporarily appointed. Where there is no such underlying idea of understanding
Uses
estate, before it can take effect in possession: but an abridgment of the particular estate, upon a certain condition, could be effected by a conveyance to uses, so as to accelerate the expectant estate into possession. The … of Jessel, M.R., in Baker v. White, (1875) LR 20 Eq 166. The practical advantages of the system, subsequently to the statute, were: Conveyances to uses legalized many dispositions which were altogether void at the Common Law,
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