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Tail

realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by

Shebaitship

the usufruct depending again on usage and custom, if not devised by the founder. Shebaitship being property, it devolves like any other species of heritable property. It follows that, where the founder does not dispose of the

Trust for sale

crated in settlements and well-drawn wills. The effect was to convert realty into personalty so that the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they elected to take the property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that

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Hereditaments

205 (ix.), defines 'hereditaments' as real property which, on an intestacy, might, before the 1st January, 1926, have devolved on the heir--descent to the heir having been abolished, save in some cases (see HEIR). The word may

Heirloom

(45 & 46 Vict. c. 38), provided that 'where personal chattels are settled on trust so as to devolve with land until a tenant in tail by purchase is born or attains the age of 21 years,

Heir

at times used in its more general and comprehensive sense as indicating a person upon whom the property devolves on the death of another and hence when the intent is clear the word 'heir' may well be

Chattels or catals

chattels real and freeholds which were not limited to a life or lives was that freeholds of inheritance devolved at law upon the heir or devisee, while chattels real devolved on the personal representatives of the deceased.

Landlord and tenant

on the other is assigned, the original lessor or lessee is no longer bound by these obligations, which devolve with the reversion and the land upon the respective assignees, but if the obligation in any form is

Marumakkattayam law

family property may by agreement be separately enjoyed by the Members. On death the interest of a member devolved by survivorship. Management of the family property remained in the hands of the eldest male member, and in

Ne admittas

by lapse; for it is in vain to sue out this writ when the title to present has devolved upon the bishop, Fitz. N.B. 37.

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