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Magna Carta

Great Charter is in fact a collection of statutes in thirty-seven chapters, which are for the most part declaratory of our ancient and cherished customs, supplying, however, many of the deficiencies of the Common Law. 'Codes are … an ancestor, and before his heir-at-law had entered into their occupancy. This chapter of the Great Charter is interesting as showing that our circuits and the practice of reserving points of law arising on circuit, for the

Consideration

beneficial ownership. Before 1926 in the absence of consideration in plying or raising a use or of any declaration of a use or of a trust, a resulting use or trust would be presumed [Fowkes v. Pascoe, … his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for

jurisdiction

act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of the crime "U.S. … over property that allows the court to issue binding judgments (as an order for partition) affecting a person's interests in the property compare personal jurisdiction in this entry jurisdiction in personam : in personam jurisdiction in this

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Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium

was married to a third person at the time of the illegitimate person's birth. It further provides for declarations of legitimacy, the rights of legitimated persons to take interests in property, succession, personal rights and obligations, and … the illegitimate person's birth. It further provides for declarations of legitimacy, the rights of legitimated persons to take interests in property, succession, personal rights and obligations, and as to persons legitimated by extraneous law. See for summary

Public policy, opposed to public policy

then the court must in consonance with public conscience and in keeping with public good and public interest declare such practice to be opposed to public policy, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Brojo Nath Ganguly,

Fraud

secret composition deeds, voluntary conveyances, etc., 1 St. Eq. Jur. 213. For instances of acts which have been declared to be or treated as fradulent by statute, see MISFEASANCE; PROSPECTUS; WINDING-UP; FRADULENT PREFERENCE; FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES; PASSING OFF. … their tendency to deceive or mislead, or to violate public or private confidence, or to injure the public interests, are equally reprehensi-ble with positive fraud, and therefore equally prohibited. Thus, to prevent injustice and shut out inducement

deed

(as about the units, common areas, bylaws, and rights of the owners) as required under state law compare declaration of condominium at declaration quit·claim deed 1 : a deed that grants only whatever title or interest the

Attendant term

preserving these terms and assigning them to trustees (thus preventing the legal presumption of surrender), with an express declaration that they shall attend upon the inheritance, was this: If it had at any time appeared that prior … originally created has been satisfied or has failed, yet, not being surrendered, it continued to exit, the legal interest remaining in the trustees, to whom it was at its creation limited, or, if deceased, in their personal

Forfeiture

forfeiture under these circumstances may be waived by the person entitled to take advantage of it, by express declaration, or by any act inconsistent with it, or admitting a continuing tenancy, as by receiving rent accrued due … setting up a title either in himself or any other person. this operates as a forfeiture of all interest in such tenant. (5) Alienation without licence of copyhold land for more than a year was usually a

Judge

vitals of the poor,' and it was held that no action lay. If a judge has a personal interest in the action, he is incapacitated from officiating, on the principle that Nemo debet esse-judex inpropria sua causa, … the Edinburgh Review. Judicis est jus dicere non dare.--Lofft, 42. (It is the duty of a judge to declare, not to make law.) Nemo debet esse judex in prompria causa.--(No man ought to be judge inhis own

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