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Executory limitation

will; if by will, it is also called an executory devise. The (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.

uses, which conferred a legal title answering to an executory devise; as when a limitation to the use of A. in

important provisions as to the making, revocation, etc., of wills devising land, and as to nuncupative wills, etc., which have been

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(English) L.P. Act, 1925, where an estate was conveyed or devised to a man and his wife during coverture, they were

and asserting a right to hold on a quitrent. A devisee in fee may, by deed, without matter of record, disclaim

testator' intention, according to law. Thus, where a testator has devised lands in a manner transgressing the rules of perpetuity and

a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays usually devised so that it can be swiveled about

a will. The broad rule is, that wherever realty is devised to several persons in tail as tenants-in-common, and it appears

on which such preceding interest depends. As when a testator devises to A. for life; and if he have issue male,

Clauses irritant and resolutive, clauses devised for limiting the right of an absolute proprietor, and making

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