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Next friend
him out of the infant's estate, provided he have acted properly; but the next friend of a feme covert did not incur the like responsibility. [O. 32, r. 1, C.P.C.] A married woman had, by Ord. XVI.,
Uses
the legal estate (if properly invested in him) in the following cases: A trust to permit a feme covert to receive the profits for, or to pay the same to, her separate use; and so of a
Public servant
edicts of a governmental authority. The mere fact that he gets allowance by way of honorarium does not covert his status into that of a 'public servant', Ramesh Balkrishna Kulkarni v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1985 SC
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Queen consort
alone, without joining her husband; she is indeed considered as a feme sole, and not as a feme covert. See Co. Litt. 133 a; Jac. Law Dict.
Tail
contract either expressed or implied) used for the conveyance of fee-simple estates. If the tenant-in-tail be a feme covert (under coverture which began before 1883) (Law Reform (M. W. and T.) Act, 1935, s. 4, and (English)
Coopertura
Coopertura, a thicket or covert of wood, Chart. De Forest.
Distribution, Statute of
of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to their husbands-but see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY)
Kingbird
the wing It is dark ash above and blackish on the bead and tail The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges It is white beneath with a white terminal band on the tail The
Baron and feme
lord, or husband, is styled a feme-covert (f'mina viro cooperta), and her state of marriage is called her coverture. See HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Attempt
exact definition. Broadly speaking, all crimes which consist of the commission of affirmative acts are preceded by some covert or overt conduct which may be divided into three stages. The first stage exists when the culprit first
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