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Run with the land-Run with the reversion

of the land intended to be benefited (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 78). S. 58 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, is repealed without affecting the operation of the covenants made under that Act. A corresponding provision

Uses

a gigantic system, which superseded the doctrines and practice of feudal law, and laid the foundation of modern conveyancing. Before the Statute of Uses, a use was in its nature equitable, as such; it may be defined

Seck

is incident unto it' (Co. Litt. 144 a); see now Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 44, reproducing Conveyanc-ing Act, 1881, s. 44; Conveyancing Act, 1911, s. 6. See RENT.

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Separate estate

are perfectly valid, but they are subject to the important qualification that under s. 7 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1911 (replacing s. 39 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881), the Chancery Division of the High Court

Tail

Collins, (1719) 1 Comyns' Rep 289, (301); 2 Prest. Est. 475, unless the deed was executed since the Conveyancing Act, 1881, when the words 'in tail' without the words 'heirs of the body' might be used: see

Trust

of another person or in his own favour [Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 72 (3), as to conveyance] in relation there to co-extensive with his ability to dispose of it at law. The (English) Statute of

Power

destroyed by the act of the person to whom they are given. By s. 52 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, replaced by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 155, however, a person to whom

Receiver

deed or by separate instrument, without having to apply to the court; and by s.19 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, reproduced and extended to mortgages of certain incorporated hereditaments, such as rentcharges or annual income, by

Precedent

can safely follow, after adaptation so far as necessary to his own particular case. See Davidson's Precedents in Conveyancing; Bythewood and Jarman; Key and Elphinstone, Prideaux, Encyclop'dia of Forms and Precedents, and others. For an historical notice

Power of Attorney

of attorney is usually in the form of a deed. By ss. 8 and 9 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882, now (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 126 and 127, powers of attorney may be

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