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Dispossession

the purpose of s. 36(1) and (2) of the 1993 Act; that s. 37(4) could only validate a disposition to which s. 36(1) or (2) applied......... deputy Judge, Boyoumi v. Women's Total Abstinence Educational Union Ltd., (2004)

undue influence

compare coercion, duress, necessity NOTE: It is a doctrine of equity that a contract, deed, donation, or testamentary disposition can be set aside if the court finds that someone has exercised undue influence over the maker at

Adoption

of their parental rights, and are required to acknowledge the fact. In regard to property, however, under any disposition or an intestacy the child retains his status as a child of his or her own parents and

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Funeral

The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body whether such disposition be by interment burning or otherwise esp the ceremony or

Back-bond

Back-bond, a deed, which, in conjunction with an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust. It expresses the nature of the right actually held by a person to whom to

Bias

Bias [adopted from Fr. biais, oblique]. The law will not suppose a possibility of bias in a judge, who is already sworn to administer impartial justice, and whose authority greatly depends upon that presumption and idea,...

dispositive

dispositive 1 : directed toward or effecting a disposition (as of a case) [an endless variety of …pretrial motions "Robert Shaw-Meadow"] 2 : relating to a disposition

Conveyance

right or of property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Conveyance, the statutory provision extends to all forms of disposition by which creditors may be defrauded, except a will, and except, possibly, any disposition not in writing, Halsbury's

Declaration of trust

signed by some person who is able to declare such trust, or by his will, and (1) a disposition of an equitable interest or trust, subsisting at the time of the disposition, must be in writing signed

Charitable uses and trusts

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

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