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Determinable life estates
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Contingent remainder
support it. This rule has disappeared with the abolition of the legal estates for life and remainder under the L.P. Act, 1925, and has been … Cas. Par. 351, the Court held that, in every case where an estate is given to A. for life, the grantor has an interest remaining in him to enter upon the estate, if it should determine by … which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate, Fearne, Cont. Remainders. The legal estate in contingent remainders has been abolished by the
Copyhold
129 and 130. Subject to these provisions copyholds are now held as freeholds or leaseholds. The latter include life estates which have been converted to terms for ninety years determinable by notice upon cessor of the life or
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Shelley's case, Rule in
two above-stated examples, it certainly contradicts the meaning of the assurance, and the intent of the parties. two estates are created, a particular estate in the ancestor, and a remainder in his heirs. In the absence of … 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
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 … plaintiff could recover the specific property was available in the case of; chattels real.' The (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 55 (x) provides a definition of 'personal chattels' upon an intestacy. The statutory definition excludes
Emblements
life or pur autre vie die, his executor or administrator is entitled to emblements', for the estate was determined by the act of God; and it is a maxim in the law that actus Dei nemini facit … tenant for life or pur autre vie die, his executor or administrator is entitled to emblements', for the estate was determined by the act of God; and it is a maxim in the law that actus Dei
Rent
Act, 1925, s. 1 (8)], but see s. 149, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, converting leases for life or determinable with life into terms of years absolute. S. 122 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, enables a rent-charge … held in fee simple in possession or for a term of years absolute (see LEASE) they are legal estates. All other rent-charges and rents, such as for life or remainder, etc., have become equitable estates [(English) L.P.
Reversion
A. for life,' leaves in the grantor the reversion in fee-simple, which will commence in possession after the determination of A.'s life-estate; and this is called the particular estate; particular, as carved or sliced out of the … particular, as carved or sliced out of the larger estate or reversion.' Settled reversions of freehold or leasehold estates have been reduced to equitable interests by the Law of Property Act, 1925, but the word is also
Dower
uses as the purchaser should appoint, and in default of appointment, to him for life, and on the determina-tion of his estate in his lifetime, to a trustee and his heirs for the life of the purchaser … she may be at her husband's decease, provided she be past the age of nine years. The legal estate in dower (being an estate for life) has been abolished and converted into an equitable interest (ibid.), (English)
Vested remainder
or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the particular estate happen to determine: as a limitation to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs; here, as B. is in … Vested remainder, an expectant estate, which is limited or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the particular
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