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To deprive of corporate powers rights or privileges to divest of the condition of a corporate body...
Remainder
Remainder [fr. remanentia, Lat.], that expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who is to enjoy it after the determination of such particular estate.After 1925 remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in that manner they can be created in respect of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to land existing before 1926, and see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4, as to the construction of equitable interests.A remainder may be limited in all freehold estates, but not strictly and technically in chattels real and personal, although these may be limited over after a previous limitation or a partial interest in them. It may be limited by way of use (which is, in practice, the usual method), as well as by a conveyance deriving its effect from the Common Law.In the same land there may at the sa...
Terms for years
Terms for years. An estate for years is denominated a term, because its enjoyment is strictly fixed, for by 'term' is meant not only the interest which passes, but also the period for which it is held. It is a chattel real: chattel, because the estate passes to the owner's executors at his death, and did not pass to his heir-at-law, and so far partakes of the nature of personalty; real, because it is an interest in lands, and therefore partakes of the nature of real property.A term is usually created by a deed or speciality contract, called a lease or demise under the Common Law (see LEASE), and the appropriate operative verbs therein are 'demise,' or 'grant, lease, and to farm let'; but any wards showing the intent of the parties that the one (the lessor) shall divest himself of the possession, and the other (the lessee) come into it for a determinate time, are generally sufficient for the purpose.Terms could not be limited in succession or by way of remainder except by way of trust o...
Disinflame
To divest of flame or ardor...
Divest
To unclothe to strip as of clothes arms or equipage opposed to invest...
Disgarnish
To divest of garniture to disfurnish to dismantle...
Deprovincialize
To divest of provincial quality or characteristics...
Disfurnish
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished furniture equipments etc to strip to render destitute to divest...
devest
devest : divest ...
Dechristianize
To turn from or divest of Christianity...
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