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Wild's case, Rule in

Wild's case, Rule in. A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no issue at the time of the devise, gives

Tail

words were terms of limitation and not gifts to children or issue as purchasers or otherwise; thus a devise. To A. and his issue; or To A. and his seed; or children; or sons; or To A.

Money land

Money land. In equity, land articled or devised to be sold, and turned into money, is considered as money, and money articled or bequeathed to be

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Inter-vivos

conveyance, the transaction would be said to be inter vivos as distinguished from a case of succession or devise, Hindustan Lever v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 9 SCC 438 (460), Companies Act s. 394. (Transfer of Property

election

right of a spouse to choose a statutorily prescribed amount of a deceased spouse's estate or whatever was devised to him or her under the will b : the right of a person who has an interest

Ex gravi querela

Ex gravi querela, a writ that lay for him to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom), against the heir of the devisor

Election

person who takes under an instrument must give effect to every part of it. Thus, if a testator devises his own estate to A and A's estate to B, A must elect whether he will take 'under'

Copyhold

to general custom, followed by admittance at the hands of the lord or his steward, and they are devisable. (7) A copyholder by general custom may make lease for a year, and with the lord's licence he

worthier title

worthier title often cap W&T : a common-law doctrine providing that an heir receiving a devise of an estate that is the same as the estate he or she would receive by descent if

Emblements

living, or forfeits it by his own act, is not entitled to emblements, although his lessee is. By devise, the devise may, without express words, be entitled to the growing crops. But a legatee of the goods,

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