Disherison - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: disherisondisherison
disherison [Anglo-French dishereison desheriteson, from Old French deseriteison, from desheriter to disinherit, from des-, prefix marking reversal + heriter to inherit, from Late Latin hereditare] : the act of disinheriting ...
Disherison
Disherison, the act of debarring from inheritance....
disinherison
disinherison [alteration (influenced by inherit) of disherison] in the civil law of Louisiana : disherison see also forced heir at heir NOTE: The Louisiana Civil Code sets out the situations in which disinherison is allowed. ...
disherison
The act of disheriting or debarring from inheritance disinherison...
Disinherison
Same as Disherison...
Disinheritance
The act of disinheriting or the condition of being disinherited disherison...
Exheredation
A disinheriting disherison...
Exhereditation
A disinheriting disherison...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Contra formam collationis
Contra formam collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as to an abbot and convent, or to the warden or master of any hospital and his convent, to find certain poor men with necessaries, and do divine service, etc., were alienated, to the disherison of the house and church. By means of this writ the donor or his heirs could recover the lands, Reg. Brev. 238; Fitz. N.B. 210....
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