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relation back

relation back : the assigning of a prior date (as the date of execution of a document) to an act (as filing of a document and esp.

Abstract of title

Land Registration Act, 1925. An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting

Contract for sale of land

is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient evidence. the expenses of showing the title,

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Equity of redemption

possession of documents and not registrable entirely in a local registry, now rank in priority, according to the date of registration under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925 [see s. 97, (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925),

Step or proceeding

the U.P. Act, provides: 'For the purposes of this sub-s.:- (a) the expression 'first hearing' meant the first date for any step or proceedings mentioned in the summons served on the defendant. The step or proceeding mentioned

Lease

was abolished and as from1st January, 1926, all terms of years absolute, whether created before or after that date, take effect from the date fixed for commencement of the term without actual entry, and a term at

Separate estate

on the 2nd August, 1935, or belonging to her or acquired by or devolving upon her after that date shall belong to her in all respects as if she were a feme sole. But marriage and other

Power

under powers shall be valid notwith-standing one or more objects are excluded, in certain cases. For ascertaining the date for the purpose of the rule against perpetuities, the date from which the period is taken is the

Perpetuity

by virtue of any instrument executed before 1926 or any will of a person who died before that date, and subject to s. 163 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, infra, to all limitations after

Marriage

which abolition made more common the action of breach of promise of marriage, which is of comparatively modern date. The strictness of Lord Hardwicke's Act led to marriages being annulled through misnomers in the banns by the

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