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Tenure

certain services. Knight service proper, or tenure in chivalry, was the original and most honourable species of tenure created by a determinate quantity of land called a knight's fee. Its extent was twelve plough lands, that is,

Valuable security

'valuable security' denote a document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released, or whereby any person acknowledges that he lies under legal liability, or

Way

sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike roads, created and regulated by specific Acts of Parliament, have now for many years become ordinary highways. See TURNPIKE-ROADS. Highways

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Instrument

186]; also an engine. Includes every document by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred, modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded. [Notaries Act, 1952 (53 of 1952), s. 2 (b)] Includes

Joint-tenancy

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by

fee simple

grantee.” The term heirs is considered in this context a word of limitation, and so this does not create a future interest in the estate in the heirs but simply makes the estate freely alienable. fee simple

Heirloom

in keeping with s. 130, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, which enables an entailed interest to be created in personal as well as real estate (see TAIL). Under these Acts the word 'heirloom' apparently means a

power

which the power relates power in gross : a naked power exercisable by the donee only in the creation of estates that will not attach to the estate the donee holds or be satisfied out of the

Executory devise

the (English) Contingent Remainders Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 33), which provided that every contin-gent remainder created after 2nd August, 1877, which would have been valid as an executory limitation including an executory devise should

case number

visa case (for example, GUZ for Guangzhou, CDJ for Ciudad Juarez). The digits tell us exactly when NVC created the case. For example a case with the number MNL2001747003 would be a case assigned to the U.S.

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