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Appropriation, powers of

Appropriation, powers of. The Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 41,has conferred on personal representatives a general power to appropriate any part of the real or personal estate (including things in action) of the deceased in...

Directors

Directors, persons appointed or elected according to law, authorized to manage and direct the affairs of a corporation or company. The whole of the directors collectively form the board of directors. Their powers, if the company...

Volenti non fit injuria

Volenti non fit injuria. Plow. 501.-(Where the sufferer is willing no injury is done.) See this maxim criticized by Lord Esher in Yarmouth v. France, (1887) 19 QBD at p. 653, and by Lord Watson in...

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Settled land

Settled land. For the purposes of the (English) Settled Land Acts, 1882-1890, 'settled land' meant land, and any estate and interest therein, which was the subject of a settlement; and 'settlement' meant any instrument, or any...

Trust for sale

Trust for sale. Trusts for sale of land were commonly crated in settlements and well-drawn wills. The effect was to convert realty into personalty so that the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they...

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923

Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant...

Partnership

Partnership, the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business with a view to profit--so defined by s. 1, sub-s. 1, of the (English) Partnership Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 39), a codifying...

Misconception

Misconception, defined, Penal Code, 1860 s. 90. A consent is not such a consent as is intended by any section of this code, if the consent is given by a person under fear or injury, or...

assault

assault [Old French assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that...

deposit

deposit 1 : to place for safekeeping or as security [may the property with the court] ;esp : to put in a bank account 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : to place (movable property)...

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