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Money counts
mere debts, are of so frequent occurrence as causes of action, that certain concise forms of counts were devised for suing upon them. These were, before the Judicature Acts, called the ibdebitatus, or common money counts, or
Quorum
then it is competent for the committee itself to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing judicial function. Quorum is fixed for meetings of
Vested in interest
a legal term applied to a present fixed right of future enjoyment, as reversions, vested remainders, such executory devises, future uses, conditional limitations, and other future interests, the present right of which is not referred to, or
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Bequeath
Bequeath [fr. becw'than fr. cw'than, A.S., to say], to leave by will to another. The word is properly applied to personalty only, but in a will avails to transmit real property, as well as the word...
Terms for years
limited in succession or by way of remainder except by way of trust or by will as executory devises and an estate tail could not be limited in a term at all. It vested in the first
Tenementis legatis
lying to the City of London, or any other corporation (where the old custom was, that men might devise by will lands and tenements, as well as goods and chattels), for the hearing and determining any controversy
Tenancy in Common
deed of partition; (2) By the union of all the titles and interests in one tenant by grant, devise, surrender, or otherwise, which reduces the whole estate to a severalty; (3) By compulsory partition. See PARTITION; UNDIVDED
Statutory owner
power to convey the settled land in the name of the tenant for life. Where land has been devised to an infant, the personal representatives, in other cases, the trustees of the settlement, may be statutory owners:
Shebaitship
the mode of enjoyment; and the amount of the usufruct depending again on usage and custom, if not devised by the founder. Shebaitship being property, it devolves like any other species of heritable property. It follows that,
Real representative
(English) TRANSFER OF LAND ACTS], the real estate of a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The (English) Land Transfer act, 1897, (60 & 61
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