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Abstract of title

Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property,...

worthier title

worthier title often cap W&T : a common-law doctrine providing that an heir receiving a devise of an estate that is the same as the estate he or she would receive by descent if the grantor...

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...

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lease

lease [Anglo-French les, from lesser to grant by lease, from Old French laisser to let go, from Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1 a : a contract by which an owner of property conveys...

fee simple

fee simple pl: fees simple [simple without limitation (as to heirs) and unrestricted (as to transfer of ownership)] : a fee that is alienable (as by deed, will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite duration ;esp...

demise

demise de·mised de·mis·ing : to convey (possession of property) by will or lease [the demised premises] n [Anglo-French, from feminine past participle of demettre to convey by lease, from Old French, to put down, give up,...

Disentailing Deed

Disentailing Deed. Under the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), a tenant-in-tail can bar his estate tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee simple or any...

Undivided shares in land

Undivided shares in land. Before 1926 a legal estate in undivided shares in land was held by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, and by husband and wife as tenants by entireties (see those titles), but...

Tramways

Tramways, rails for conveyance of traffic along a road not owned, as a railway is, by those who lay down the rails and convey the traffic. The construction and regulation of tramways is provided for by...

Contingent remainder

Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding...

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