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Legal representative

Legal representative, a 'legal representative' ordinarily means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person or a person on whom the estate devolves on the death of an individual, Gujarat State Road Transport … [Wealth-tax Act, 1957, s. 2 (lb)] It means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased person, and includes any person who

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Real representative

of the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 [see (English) TRANSFER OF LAND ACTS], the real estate of a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The (English) … property. Sect. 1 of the (English) A. E. act, 1925, provides:- '(1) Real estate (q.v.) to which a deceased person was entitled for an interest not ceasing on his death shall, on his death and notwithstanding any testamentary

Executor

by the Court. (10) It means a person to whom the execution of the last Will of a deceased person is, by the testator's appointment, confided. [The Indian Succession Act, 1925, s. 2 (c)] (11) It means an … Succession Act, 1925, s. 2 (c)] (11) It means an executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased person. [The Wealth-tax Act, 1957, s. 2 (i)] Executor means a person to whom the execution of the last

Remainder

But this consequence would be varied if the gift were 'to you for your life, and after your decease to A. and his heirs ' or ' to you for twenty-one years, and subject to that estate … remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in that manner they can be created in respect of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to

Employer

of persons whether incorporated or not, any managing agent of an employer, and the legal representatives of a deceased employer, and, where the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person

administrator

administrator appointed in another state general administrator : an administrator appointed to administer the entire estate of a deceased person in accordance with the laws of intestacy or in accordance with the will if there is one compare … be appointed administrator special administrator 1 : an administrator appointed to administer only a designated part of the deceased person's estate 2 : an administrator appointed for the sole purpose of being responsible for the assets in an

Assent of personal representatives

Assent of personal representatives, At Common Law the personal estate passing by the will of a deceased person, including chattels real vested in the executor, virtute officii. The property passed to the legatee as soon as

Executor de son tort.

of E., 2nd Edn., para. 282), without any just authority (as by intermeddling with the goods of the deceased, and any other transactions), he is called in Law an executor of his own wrong, de son tort, … son tort can discharge his liability by obtaining probate if he is entitled, or by accounting to the personal representative, or to the Court, in an administration by the Court.

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