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Equitable estates and interests

the property or an estate or interest in it vested in himself, e.g., by contract or by any conveyance or assignment which does not by law transfer or vest the legal estate or ownership in the transferee,

Exchange, Deed of

Exchange, Deed of [fr. excambium, Lat.], an original Common Law conveyance, for the reciprocal transfer of interests ejusdem generis, as fee simple for fee simple, legal estate for legal

Freight

ship, or sending goods in a general ship, for the use of such ship or part, or the conveyance of such goods during a specified voyage or for a specified time. The freight is most commonly fixed

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Gift

Gift. The old text-writers made a gift (donatio) a distinct species of deed, and describe it as a conveyance applicable to the creation of an estate-tail; while a feoffment they strictly confine to the creation of a

Infant

as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid when he comes of age; as a conveyance of lands, a promissory note, an account stated. 3rd. Those which are binding ab initio and need on

Apportionment

and burdens according to their nature to each part of an estate or other property upon severance, by conveyance, surrender or otherwise. At Common Law rent was apportionable upon severance by act of law, e.g., upon the

Inter-vivos

or a transfer to which a 'juristic person' is one of the parties. Where any property passes by conveyance, the transaction would be said to be inter vivos as distinguished from a case of succession or devise,

Land

moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards

Bare trustee

bare trustee (not being a trustee for sale) automatically vested in the person who could call for a conveyance of it. Although this simplified conveyancing where the legal estate in the trustee was only remote, it was

Public Order Act, 1936

2 (t)] Means any place intended for use by, or accessible to the public and includes any public conveyance. It is not necessary that it must be public property. Even if it is a private property, it

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