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Mobilia sequuntur personam
sequuntur personam [Lat.], Movables follow the person. A person's powers of dealing with his movable estate and its devolution on his death are governed by the law of his domicile. --(Movables follow the person.) See CONFLICT OF
Money land
that Act while remaining uninvested or unapplied and investments hereof are for all purposes of disposition, transmission and devolution to be treated as land and shall be held for and go to the same persons successively in
Peerage
the lords, or peers of the realm. Where, on the death of a peer, doubts arise respecting the devolution of his dignity, and in all cases of long abeyance or other non-enjoyment of a peerage, the Lord
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Steward of manor
H.M. Land Registry (s. 129, ibid.). The following notes have been retained, as they are material to the devolution of titles to formerly copyhold land and the extinguishment of manorial incidents. Should there be joint stewards, one
Real representative
estate of the deceased. These provisions, and s. 30 of the (English) Con-veyancing Act, 1881 (relating to the devolution upon the personal representative of trust and mortgage estates belonging to the deceased), were consolidated and extended by
Renewal of lease
notice at any date on which the original lease would have expired, apart from renewal. Every assignment or devolution of the term is to be registered with the lessor, his solicitor, or agent, within six months at
Shebaitship
of the shebaiti right in the endowment created by him. Shebaitship is a property which is heritable. The devolution of the office of shebait depends on the terms of the deed or the Will or on the
Lapse
the avoidance of the benefice, exclusive of the day of the avoidance. In such case there is a devolution of the rights of patronage from a neglectful patron to the bishop as ordinary, to the metropolitan an
Tail
except personalty settled by reference to land s. 130 (3)] Sub-s. (4) of s. 130 provides for the devolution of unbarred estate-tail according to the general law in force before 1926, and by sub-s. (6) an entailed
Lost grant
some piece of land or water. Since the right originated in grant, its owners, whether original or by devolution, had to be such persons as were capable of being the recipients of a grant, and a right
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