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Gavelkind
Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths
Lineal descendant
and female, Bhimnath Missir v. Sm. Tara Dai, AIR 1929 PC 162. The terms 'lineal consanguinity' and 'lineal descent' have been defined in Whartoris Law Lenicon, 14th Edn., Second India Reprint 1994 as: 'Lineal Consanguinity, that relationship
Seisina facit stipitem
facit stipitem. Before the Inheritance Act 1833, the old rule of intestate succession to real estate was that descent must be traced from the person last seised, i.e., in possession. (Seisin makes the heir.) But see now
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Heir
Heir [fr. heire, Old Fr.; h'res, Lat.], a person who succeeds by descent to an estate of inheritance. It is nomen collectivum, and extends to all heirs; and under heirs, the
Purchaser
Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be traced, before
Hereditaments
Hereditaments, every kind of property that can be inherited; i.e., not only property which a person has by descent from his ancestors, but also that which he has by purchase, because his heir can inherit it from
Uses
to the inheritable estates of intestates: and the special customs of gavelkind, borough-English, and copyholds, determined the particular descent of uses. This is an illustration of the well-known maxim, 'quitas sequitur legem. (2) They were devisable even
Special occupancy
benefit of persons entitled under the Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see s. 45), the old rules of descent having been abolished (see DESCENT; HEIR), and se also in the case of a limitation or trust under
Quaestus
profit. This term refers to a purchased estate, as distinguished from haeroditas, referring to an estate obtained by descent, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253. Qu'stus, that estate which a man has by acquisition or purchase,
Purchase
other valuable consideration; in its legal acceptation, an acquisition of land in any lawful manner, other than by descent, or the mere act of law, and including escheat, occupancy, prescription, forfeiture, and alienation. See 2 Br. and
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