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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' … 1926, in deeds and wills executed after 1925, under which the 'heir' may become entitled to an equitable interest in personality and realty corresponding to a real estate by purchase under the old law; see (English) Law

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 … A. E. act, 1925, provides:- '(1) Real estate (q.v.) to which a deceased person was entitled for an interest not ceasing on his death shall, on his death and notwithstanding any testamentary disposition thereof, devolve from time

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 … in respect of Time.--At Common Law there is no apportionment in respect of time. when a successor in interest succeeds just before a rent or other periodical payment falls due, he takes, at Common Law, the whole,

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