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Toll

or other moving power, and carriages and waggons to be drawn or propelled thereby, and to carry and convey upon the railway all such passengers and goods as shall be offered to them for that purpose, and

Service

effected by registered letter through the post. See (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 196, replacing and extending the Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 67 (4). See POST. As to address for service, see, as to plaintiff, INDORSEMENT OF

Seisin, Livery of

fee or feudal estate. Applicable to corporeal hereditaments while incorporeal hereditaments such as a remainder or easement were conveyed by writing under seal. After the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 2,

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Resulting trust

the equitable interest, but by s. 60 of the Law of Property Act, provides that in a voluntary conveyance executed after 1925, a resulting trust for the grantor will not be implied merely because the property is

Real representative

real estate except that (reproducing and amending the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897, s. 2, and the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1911, s. 12), all the personal representatives or all the proving executors are to join in a

Priority

Dearle v. Hall. In regard to mortgages: before 1926, puisne mort-gagees to whom the equity of redemption was conveyed in succession obtained priority by the order in date of their mortgages, subject to the application of the

Pawn or Pledge

waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the

Partition, Deed of

Partition, Deed of, a primary or original convey-ance. When an estate was held in community by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, or joint heirs in

lease

Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1 a : a contract by which an owner of property conveys exclusive possession, control, use, or enjoyment of it for a specified rent and a specified term after which

Immediately

within a reasonable time. See Maxwell on Statutes, 2nd Edn. 423. The expression 'immediately' is only meant to convey 'reasonable dispatch and promptitude' and no more, Tulsiram v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1985 SC 299: (1984)

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