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Consolidation of mortgages

was not unfair or unreasonable as originally applied, it came to be extended to cases where, owing to devolutions of title having taken place, its application was manifestly unjust, and attempts were made by the Courts to

Inheritance

exceptions (see HEIR), by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 51, but they still affect the devolution before 1926 of all titles to estates of inheritance. Inheritance Act.--The Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm.

Heir

January, 1926, in regard to deaths taking place after 1925, except in a few cases (see DESCENT and DEVOLUTION), the importance of the 'heir' had diminished but the following note has been retained since the word 'heir'

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Frater fratri uterino non succedet in h'reditate paterna.

part of the mother inherit next after the mother. This rule still applies in regard to (a) the devolution of entailed interests in real or personal property (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 130 (4), and Law

Cousin

interest in property either real or personal on the death of the intestate with a few exceptions, see DEVOLUTION OF PROPERTY ON DEATH, the share of the excluded kindred goes to the Crown or the Duchy of

Chattels or catals

of the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 [replacing the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897], which assimilated the devolution to personal representatives of real estate to of the (English) Administrative Estate Act, 1925, which abolished all the

Assent of personal representatives

or a conveyance to the like effect by the personal representative now forms as essential link in the devolution, after death after 1925, of title to legal estate, the probate or grant of letters of administration (and

Apportionment

surrender or otherwise. At Common Law rent was apportionable upon severance by act of law, e.g., upon the devolution on intestacy of freeholds, and leaseholds which were comprised in one lease, or upon partition, or upon eviction

Any mode of transfer

Any mode of transfer, Succession to property implies devolution by operation of law and cannot appropriately be described as a mode of transfer which obviously contemplates a

Alien

in pursuance of any disposition made before the twelfth day of May, 1870, or in pursuance of any devolution by law on the death of any person dying before that day. 18. An alien shall be triable

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