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Liberum tenementum

of freehold, whether in fee, in tail, or for life only, and whether in possession or expectant on determination of a term of years, but it did not apply to the case of a freehold estate in

Sanguis

Sanguis, the right or power which the chief lord of the fee had to judge and determine cases when blood was shed, Dugd. Mon., tom. i. 1021.

home inspection

home inspection an examination of the structure and mechanical systems to determine a home's quality, soundness and safety; makes the potential homebuyer aware of any repairs that may be needed. … safety; makes the potential homebuyer aware of any repairs that may be needed. The homebuyer generally pays inspection fees. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Freehold

land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are an estate in fee simple absolute in possession, and a term of years absolute. all other estates are equitable interests under that … indeterminate duration; for if the utmost period of time to which an estate can endure be fixed and determined, it cannot be a freehold. Now by the English Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, the only

Tail

[s. 130 (4) (ibid.)] The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466. An estate-tail in land now … Act, 1925. (12) If a tenant-in-tail grant estovers, or the vesture of his woods, to another, the grant determines with his death; for being a charge upon the inheritance, it necessarily ceases when his power is determined.

Chattels or catals

of a fine for the life of A is to take effect as a lease for 90 years determinable after the death of A. by notice as provided by the Act. Before 1926 the most important consequence … land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are an estate in fee simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute, and by s. 149 a lease at a

Priority

property were swept into this rule, viz., all equitable interests inland (i.e., all estates for less than a fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute and corresponding incorporeal hereditaments (see s. 1 of … or constituted a specialty debt. The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable choses in action are determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons who are for the time being owners

Uses

for treason or felony. In fact, he was treated at Common Law as the absolute tenant of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the … Common Law relating 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

Shelley's case, Rule in

tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless waiting for, and continuing expectant on, the determination of B.'s life-estate, which is expectant of A.'s death; but after A.'s death, and the determination of the … abeyance; that is to say, where the inheritance is to his heirs or right heirs he takes the fee-simple; and where it is to the heirs of his body an estate-tail general, 1 Steph. Com. In Coke's

Decree

(accent on first syllable). Decree means a formal expression of an adjudication which the Court conclusively and finally determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the

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