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A wading bird with lobate toes of the genus Fulica The common European or bald coot is Fulica atra see under bald the American is Fulica Americana...
Cootfoot
The phalarope so called because its toes are like the coots...
Gallinule
One of several wading birds having long webless toes and a frontal shield belonging to the family Rallidae They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio The common European gallinule Gallinula chloropus is also called moor hen water hen water rail moor coot night bird and erroneously dabchick Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule Gallinula galeata...
Lobiped
Having lobate toes as a coot...
Pelick
The American coot Fulica...
Sea coot
A scoter duck...
Skitty
A rail as the water rail called also skitty cock and skitty coot the spotted crake Porzana maruetta and the moor hen...
Administration
Administration, the giving or supplying of something. The term is used in three different senses. (1) granting of letters of administration to an administrator by the Probate Division. (2) The administration of the estate of a deceased person by an executor or administrator, i.e., the payment of his debts and the distribution of his assets among the persons entitled. See ss. 32 et seq., First Sched., Part III., of the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and Re Tony, (1931) 1Ch 202. (3) The administration of the estate by the Chancery Division in cases where difficulties have arisen in the course of administration. Orders for administration by the Chancery Division are made on originating summons, and only by the judge in person. see Trist. And Coote, Prob. Pr.; R. S. C. Ord. LV., rr. 3 et seq.; Seton on Judgments. And see ADMINISTRATOR; WIDOW.The body of ministers appointed by the Crown to carry on the government of the country; now more commonly called 'the Government.'The ...
Citation
Citation, a summons to appear, applied particularly to process in the spiritual, probate, and matrimonial courts, see Tristram v. Coote, (English) Probate Pr. And Probate Rules, 1862 and (non-contentious) 1925; a reference to authorities in support of an argument.A reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statute or treatise, that either substantiate or contradicts a given position, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Equitable mortgage
Equitable mortgage, a mortgage under which the mortgagee does not get the legal estate. The following mortgages are equitable:-(1) Where the subject of a mortgage is trust property, which security is effected either by a formal deed or a written memorandum, notice being given to the trustees in order to preserve the priority. As a rule these mortgages include mortgages (not being mortgages of a legal estate) under a trust for sale or settlement which are not registrable under the (English) L.C. Act, 1925, s. 10, Class C.(2) Where the subject of the mortgage is an equity of redemption, which is merely a right to bring an action in the Chancery Division to redeem the estate. Now under the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, Sched. I., Parts VII. (1), (3), and VIII. (1), (3), and see ss. 85, 86, ibid., a mortgagor retains a legal estate in fee simple or for a term of years, and the first and subsequent mortgagees out of that estate each have a legal mortgage.(3) Where mortgages created before 1925 ...
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