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Proviso
are synonymous, and signify some quality annexed to a real estate by virtue of which it may be defeated, enlarged, or created upon an uncertain event. Such qualities annexed to personal contracts and agreements are generally called
Re-summons
Re-summons, a second summons, calling upon a person to answer an action where the first summons is defeated. Obsolete
Remainder
not take advantage of a condition, but only the grantor or his heirs. But if the condition for defeating the prior estate be to operate on one event, and the remainder be to arise on another and
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Remitter
bad title is ipso facto annexed to his own inherent good one; and his defeasible estate is utterly defeated and annulled by the instantaneous act of law, without his participation or consent. As if A. disseise B.,
Resident in India
by residents of India must inevitably lead to large-scale evasion of the Act resulting in its object being defeated. A construction which leads to such a result must be avoided. The expression 'resident in India' is clearly
Springing use
B. to the use of A. in fee upon the death of C., a stranger. If the grant defeats a previous legal estate and is not capable of being construed as a vested or contingent remainder, it
Tail
deeds executed after 1925. [(English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 133] In order to prevent a son tenant-in-tail defeating a strict family settlement, against the wish of his father, the tenant for life, the legislature has introduced
Vested
absolute; complete. Having the character or given the rights of absolute ownership; not contingent; not subject to be defeated by a condition precedent. 'Rights are 'vested' when right to enjoyment, present or prospective, has become property of
Vested remainder
the possession whenever A.'s death may occur. A vested estate may take effect though the preceding estate be defeated, as when an infant makes a lease for life with a remainder over, and on majority he disagrees
Warrant of Attorney
is done it is merely a collateral security. It is usual to make the warrant subject to be defeated on the performance of certain conditions, and when this is the case, they are set forth in an
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