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gross income

of partnership gross income; (14) income received (as by an estate or heir) by reason of a person's death; and (15) income from an interest in an estate or trust. … fifteen nonexclusive items that should be included in gross income. They are (1) compensation for services, including fringe benefits and commissions; (2) gross income derived from business; (3) gains derived from dealings in property; (4) interest; (5)

Nominatim

friendly society or an industrial or a provident society to dispose by 'nomination' of sums payable on his death, see Friendly Societies Act, 1896, s. 56; Friendly Societies Act, 1908, s. 5; Bennett v. Slater, (1899) 1 … after avoidance; if he do not, and the patron presents his clerk before the bishop has taken any benefit of the lapse, he is obliged to admit such clerk, Plowd. 529. Also [see (English) Ballot Act, 1872;

Notice

after 1925 which is registrable under Class C (ii.) and (iii.) of s. 10, and under Class D, death duties on deaths after 1925, restrictive covenants made after 1925, and equitable easements arising after 1925. Further, purchasers … purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, such bona fide purchaser would not enjoy the full benefit of his own unexceptionable title. If a person, who has notice (except in the case of a charity),

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Mortmain

laid out inland, might be given for any charitable use except by deed executed twelve months before the death of the donor, and enrolled within six months after execution. This Act, as amended, is repealed and re-enacted … tenure, and any estate and interest in land (e.g., a mortgage)--shall not be assured to or for the benefit of, or acquired by or on behalf of, any corporation in mortmain otherwise than under licence from the

Parties

notice of or attending any proceeding, although not named on the record. As to change of parties by death, etc., see ABATE-MENT; and as to who ought to be made parties, see Dicey on Parties. The order … or may be authoriszed by the Court to defend in such action, on behalf of or for the benefit of all parties so interested. 'No cause or matter shall be defeated by reason of the misjoinder or

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

are allowed six years from the termination of their disability, and their representatives the same time from their death, but coverture is no longer a disability. [(English) Married Women'' Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. … there are two or more co-contractors, or co-debtors, by simple contractor specialty, none of them shall lose the benefit of the limitation, by reason only of payment of any principal or interest by any of the others.

Power

the power is in gross. A power to a tenant for life to appoint the estate after his death amongst his children, a power to jointure a wife after his death, a power to raise a term … to, a person to dispone, either wholly or partially, of movable or immovable property, either for his own benefit or for that of others. The word is used as a technical term and is distinct from the

Uses

self. This was found to be convenient, especially in the following example: It frequently happened that upon the death or removal of trustees, it became necessary to fill up their number pursuant to a power for that … words, so far from being superfluous, meant no more than to express the grant to be for the benefit of the grantee as his legal estate, subject, of course, to any trust that may have been engrafted

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