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Uses
might be a special trust unlawful, which was created for fradulent purposes, so as to defraud creditors, to defeat the Statute of Mortmain, and the like. If the two following statutes be compared, it will be manifest
Vir et uxor sunt quasi unica persona
Ch D 148), but any indication of an intention that husband and wife are to take separately would defeat the application of the doctrine: see Dias v. De Livera, (1879) 5 App Cas 135; Re Jefery, (1914)
Donatio mortis causa
recovery from that illness, or his subsequent personal revocation of the gift, as by resuming its possession, will defeat it; and (3) a traditio or delivery, either actual or symbolical, of the subject of the gift, or
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Waging war
a planned operation and that their intention in resisting the troops of the Government was to overwhelm and defeat these troops and then to go on and crush any further opposition with which they might meet until
Dower
this statuable bar was found highly incon-venient, and recourse was had to many ingenious devices to prevent or defeat dower; but they were all more or less imperfect, and at length gave way to the universal practice
Wrrantizare nihil aliud est, quam defendere et acquietare tenentem qui warrantum vocavit in seisina sua
s. 39 of the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), cannot defeat a right of entry.
Disentailing Deed
tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee simple or any less estate, and thus defeat the rights of persons claiming under and after him (with certain exceptions) by executing a disentailing deed and
use
secretly employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response, the Statute of Uses was enacted in 1535. The purpose of the Statute was to
Disappointment
The act of disappointing or the state of being disappointed defeat or failure of expectation or hope miscarriage of design or plan frustration
defeatism
acceptance of the inevitability of defeat
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