Curtain - Law Dictionary Search Results
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To inclose as with curtains to furnish with curtains...
curtained
furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies as a curtained alcove Opposite of curtainless...
Curtain
Curtain. See (English) LAW OF PROPERTY ACT, 1925....
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English) 915 Geo. 5,c. 20), with amending Acts, 1926, 1929 and 1932 (cited together as the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected changes in the land laws with the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal estates can exist in respect of the same piece of land or incorporeal hereditament; for instance, land may be held in fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests. All mortgages of the same legal estate under the statutory conditions are legal estates. None being for the whole fee simple or the term, but each for a term taken out of the fee or origin...
Bastion
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification consisting of two faces and two flanks and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain or wall which extends from one bastion to another Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge A lunette is a detached bastion See Ravelin...
curtainless
not provided with curtains as blank curtainless windows stared back at her Opposite of curtained...
Demilune
A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress and in front of the curtain between two bastions intended to defend the curtain a ravelin See Ravelin...
Purdah
A curtain or screen also a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes used for curtains...
Notice
Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence Act]Constructive notice may be subdivided into: (a) where the facts of which actual evidence is supplied give rise to a further enquiry which a man exercising ordinary caution would make equity has added constructive notice of the facts, which that inquiry would have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, ...
Burlap
A coarse fabric made of jute or hemp used for bagging also a finer variety of similar material used for curtains etc...
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