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Presentation

of inheritance, from heir to heir, or passes to a devisee or purchaser, unless the benefice become vacant in the lifetime

Quasi-entail

1926, these estates became equitable interests only and may be devised or barred by will. See AUTRE VIE.

Quod edificatur in area legata cedit legato

legata cedit legato, that which is built on the ground devised passes to the devisee.

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Statutory owner

name of the tenant for life. Where land has been devised to an infant, the personal representatives, in other cases, the

Terms for years

except by way of trust or by will as executory devises and an estate tail could not be limited in a

Vested in interest

right of future enjoyment, as reversions, vested remainders, such executory devises, future uses, conditional limitations, and other future interests, the present

Pantisocracy

community in which all should rule equally such as was devised by Coleridge Lovell and Southey in their younger days

Pasteurism

A method of treatment devised by Pasteur for preventing certain diseases as hydrophobia by successive

Beauforts scale

A scale of wind force devised by Sir F Beaufort R N in 1805 in which

pachuca tank

treatment by the cyanide process so named because though originally devised in New Zealand it was first practically introduced in Pachuca

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