Skip to content

Conveyance - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Abstract of title

for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the

Appeal and revision

Appeal and revision, the expression 'revision' is meant to convey the idea of a much narrower jurisdiction than that conveyed by the expression 'appeal', Sri Raja Lakshmi Dyeing

assurance

assurance 1 a : the act of assuring b : guarantee 2 : the act of conveying real property ;also : the document by which it is conveyed 3 chiefly Brit : insurance

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Extinguishment

but for which an inchoate right would become established by prescription. (3) Extinguishment of copyhold. When a tenant conveyed to his lord, or did an act denoting his intention of not holding of his lord any longer,

Torrens system

making title insurance unnecessary and greatly reducing the time spent researching the state of the title during subsequent conveyances.

Surrender of copyholds

the transfer may notwithstanding be completed. Surrenders of copyholds were governed by the same rules as Common Law conveyances. An equitable interest in copyholds was not the subject of surrender, except in the instance of a surrender

Simple trust

put into actual possession of the property, Jusdisponendi, or the right to call upon the trustee to execute conveyances of the legal estate as the cestui que trust directs. See BARE TRUSTEE and Law of Property Act,

Resignation

Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition) Vol. 37, p. 476. Means the spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right as conveyed by the maxim. Resignatio est juris propril spontanea refutatio, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn. Resignation, must be made

Recovery

A. and his issue for land of equal value against C. D. becoming thus possessed of the fee-simple conveyed the land in fee-simple to A. or dealt with it as directed by him. This right to suffer

Mortgage by conditional sale

creation by the transfer of a relation of mortgagor and mortgagee, the price being charged on the property conveyed. In a sale coupled with an agreement to reconvey there is no relation of debtor and creditor nor

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial