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mature
mature ma·tured ma·tur·ing vt : to bring to maturity [a policy matured by the death of the insured] vi : to become due, payable, or enforceable ;specif : to entitle one to immediate … insured] vi : to become due, payable, or enforceable ;specif : to entitle one to immediate enjoyment of benefits [her pension right matured upon retirement] compare vest mature adj
disability
gainful activity because of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or to be of long continued or indefinite duration in accordance with the Social Security Act see also … or to be of long continued or indefinite duration in accordance with the Social Security Act see also benefit Americans with Disabilities Act in the Important Laws section compare incapacity, occupational disease 2 : lack of legal
Emphyteusis
the owner but only in the plae of one) to defend or assert his rights, which at his death went to his heirs (Nov. vii. 3). He was obliged to pay his pensio under any circumstances, whether … his heirs (Nov. vii. 3). He was obliged to pay his pensio under any circumstances, whether he actually benefited by his emphyteusis or not, because the payment of rent was an acknowledgment of the title of the
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Workmen's Compensation Act
employment [s. 1 (1) (a), ibid.], and serious and wilful misconduct may disqualify unless the injury results in death or serious and permanent disablement [s. 1 (1) (b), as explained by s. 1 (2)]; contracting out is … The (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, together with the Act of 1900, which brought agricultural labourers into the benefits of the earlier Act, were repealed by the (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 58),
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
(Noy, 9th Edn., p. 20). This maxim states the general rule that actions of tort are destroyed by death of either the injured or the injuring party. Besides the statutory exceptions mentioned below, an action may be … the Act all causes of action subsisting against or vested in him shall survive against or for the benefit of his estate. By s. 1 (2) the damages are limited in certain cases by s. 1 (3);
Charitable uses and trusts
court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor. The (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 29(4), however, provides that assurances of land or … large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or
Murder
doing wrong, and able to discern between good and evil. See IDIOT; LUNATIC; DRUNKENNESS AND MACNAUGHTON'S CASE. (2) Death must result within a year and a day after the cause of death administered, see R. v. Dyson, … attempted murder, see R. v. White, (1910) 2 KB 124. A murderer is absolutely disqualified from deriving any benefit under the will of his victim: see Re Hall, 1914, P. 1, and cases there referred to. One
annuity
annuity : an annuity whose starting or ending date depends on the occurrence of an event (as the death of the annuitant) whose date is uncertain con·ven·tion·al annuity : an annuity under which the annuitant receives a … the annuitant dies annuity due pl: annuities due : an immediate annuity in which the payment of the benefits is made at the beginning of each payment interval rather than at the end contingent annuity : an
Special occupancy
Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26), ss. 3, 6; but in case of death of the tenant pur autre vie, after 1925, the equitable interest apparently devolves on the special personal representatives … the special personal representatives of the deceased, and if he dies intestate, upon trust for sale for the benefit of persons entitled under the Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see s. 45), the old rules of descent
En ventre sa mere
a murder or manslaughter charge, but otherwise if it receives injuries whilst in the womb which occasion its death after birth, R. v. Senior, (1832) 1 Moo CC 346. In civil matters also the fiction of birth … fiction of birth is only to be applied if the maintenance of the fiction is for the child's benefit and not its detriment, Villar v. Gilbey, 1907 AC 139, but it has lately been held by the
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