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Distribution, Statute of

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Statute of Frauds: of Distributions

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Uses

which superseded the doctrines and practice of feudal law, and laid the foundation of modern conveyancing. Before the Statute of Uses, a use was in its nature equitable, as such; it may be defined to have been a … See OFFICIAL USE; ACTIVE USE; PASSIVE TRUST, and infra. Uses may be classified as:- I. Present or executed; distributable into:- (a) Those arising by act of parties, which were created either- (1) By express declaration in a

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Lottery

Lottery, a game of chance; a distribution of prizes by lot or chance, Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207. By 10 & 11 Wm. … or chance, Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games,' all lotteries were declared to be public nuisances, and all grants, patents, or licences for the

Executor

reason to apprehend that there are debts or claims outstanding. This year is allowed in analogy to the Statute of Distribution, which enacts 'that no distribution of the goods of any person dying intestate be made till after

Capita, Per

Capita, Per (by heads). Distribution of personalty per capita (professedly borrowed from the civilians, and enacted in the Statute of Distribution) happens when all the claimants claim in their own right, in equal degree of kindred, and not

Act of Parliament

are called after the name of the place where the Parliament which passed them was held, as the Statute of Merton, of Marlebridge, or Westminster; others entirely from their subject, as the (English) Statute of Distribution (22 &

Charities, or Public Trusts

to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distribution, it is not impossible that the same favour should have been extended to charity in wills, which by

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Tenure

the owner's debts, and could also be made available for commercial enterprise. Such tenure was acquired by the distribution of lands by lot among the Franks. (2) Feudal (from od, possession, or estate, and feo, wages, pay), … or little. At last these military tenures, together with all their grievances, were destroyed at the Restoration. The statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, enacted that the Court of award and liveries, and all wardships, liveries, primer

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