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Disentailing Deed

an equitable interest corresponding to a base fee only will be created. The deed usually consisted of a conveyance to a stranger to such uses as the tenant-in-tail shall appoint, or in default of appointment to the

Purchase, Words of

a rule in law, known as the rule in Shelley's case, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately

Fee-simple

in fee-simple to use the words 'in fee-simple' without the word 'heirs,' but this s. applies only to conveyances made after the commencement of the act, i.e., on or after the 1st January, 1882. The actual words

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Joint-tenancy

in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons

Derivative Deed

Derivative Deed. A secondary deed of conveyance or settlement of property, which presupposes some other conveyance primary or precedent, and only serves to enlarge, confirm,

Consideration

executed after 1925 by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 60, which provides that in a voluntary conveyance made after that year a resulting trust will not be implied merely because the property is not conveyed

Bargain and sale

the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of goods sold without delivery, the vendor of

Act of Bankruptcy

Having made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally. (b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof. (c) Having made a conveyance amounting

Transfer

change of his headquarter, Arbind Kumar v. State of Bihar, (1996) 2 Pat LJR 406. Transfer, means to convey or remove from one place or one person to another, to pass or handover from one to another,

Settled land

Munday & Roper, (1899) 1Ch 275; Re Lord Wimborne & Browne (1904) 1 Ch 537; Wolstenholme & Cherry, Conveyancing, etc., Acts. Prior to 1856 settled estates could not be sold or leased except under the authority of

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