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universal
also universal legacy at legacy compare universal title at title b : of or relating to a universal conveyance or a conveyance under a universal title [a donee] see also universal successor 2 : not confined by
Charitable uses and trusts
purposes will be found in Bourchier and Chilcott, and by 24 Vict. c. 9, which provided that a conveyance for charitable uses should not be void by reason of containing certain stipulations for the donor's benefit, and
mortgage
mortgage [Anglo-French, from Old French, from mort dead (from Latin mortuus) + gage security] 1 a : a conveyance of title to property that is given to secure an obligation (as a debt) and that is defeated
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Brothel
Brothel [fr. bordel, Fr.], a habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged by the (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2,...
worthier title
transfers (that is, transfers made between living persons) to an heir. When a grantor makes an inter vivos conveyance of property followed by a future estate to his or her heirs, the conveyance is deemed to create
Notice
not registered. On the other hand, purchasers for value will not be affected by notice of the following conveyances and transactions of which the legal title or effect has not been perfected by registration under the (English)
Contraband
any other power at war with the country with which they are trading, unless they engage in the conveyance of contraband goods. But great difficulty has arisen in deciding as to the goods comprised in this term.
Copyhold
still available. Unless and until the manorial incidents have been extinguished the legal estate will not pass upon conveyance unless the assurance has been produced to the steward of the manor within six months from the date
Covenant
infra) are still implied in technical expressions or arise out of the nature of the transaction. In a conveyance by deed of real or leasehold property certain qualified covenants for title, quiet enjoyment and further assurance are
Dower
became among our ancestors, with the increase of alienation, highly inconvenient and obstructive of the free course of conveyances. The legislature by the 27 Hen. 8, c. 10 (the Statute of Uses), set about a method of
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