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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...

Bargain and sale

records of one of the King's Courts at Westminster. The devise of a lease and release (q. v., post.) was then

Assurances

'a gift, conveyance, appointment, lease, transfer, settlement, mortgage charge, incumbrance devise, bequest, and every other assurance by deed, will, or other

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House, Houses

per Wood, V.-C.; Co. Litt. 5 b. As to a devise of a 'house,' see Theobald on Wills; Jarman on Wills.

Shebaitship

the usufruct depending again on usage and custom, if not devised by the founder. Shebaitship being property, it devolves like any

Malik or milkiyat

Ram Kishorelal v. Kamalanarayan, AIR 1963 SC 890. Malik, a devise or donee described as a 'malik' has a full right

Quod edificatur in area legata cedit legato

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

Vested in interest

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

Trust for sale

realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to

Terms for years

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

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