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Graveyard
Graveyard, Under the Mahomedan Law the graveyards may be of two kinds - a family or private graveyard and a public graveyard. A graveyard is a private one which is confined only to burial of corpses of the founder, his relations or his descendants. In such a burial ground no person who does not belong to the family of the founder is permitted to be bury to his dead. On the other hand if any member of the public is permitted to be buried in a graveyard and this practice grows so that it is proved by instances adequate in character, number and extent, then the presumption will be that the dedication is complete and the graveyard has become a public graveyard where the Mahomedan public will have the right to bury their dead. It is also well settled that a conclusive proof of the public graveyard is the description of the burial ground in the revenue records as a public graveyard, Syed Mohd. Salie Labbai v. Mohd. Hanifa, AIR 1976 SC 1569 (1584): (1976) 4 SCC 780: (1976) 3 SCR 721.Once a Ka...
Fee-simple
Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since every other kind of estate is derivable there out, and mergeable therein, for omne majus continet in se minus. It may be enjoyed not only in land, but also in advowsons, commons, estovers, and other hereditaments as well as in personalty, as an annuity or dignity, and also in an upper chamber, though the lower buildings and soil belong to another.Littleton, in his Tenures (1. i., c. 1, s. 1), gives a description of this estate, which appears to have been adopted by every subsequent writer. His language is this:-A person who holds 'in fee-simple is he which hath lands or tenements to hold to him and his heirs for ever. And it is called in Latin feodum simplex, for feodum is the same that inheritance is, and simplex is as much as to say lawful or pure. And so feodum simplex signifies a lawful or pure inheritance. For if a m...
interest
interest [probably alteration of earlier interesse, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, to be between, make a difference, concern, from inter- between, among + esse to be] 1 : a right, title, claim, or share in property Article Nine security interest : security interest in this entry beneficial interest : the right to the use and benefit of property [a beneficial interest in the trust] contingent interest : a future interest whose vesting is dependent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a future event compare vested interest in this entry controlling interest : sufficient stock ownership in a corporation to exert control over policy equitable interest : an interest (as a beneficial interest) that is held by virtue of equitable title or that may be claimed on the ground of equitable relief [claimed an equitable interest in the debtor's assets] executory interest : a future interest other than a remainder or reversion that may take effect upon the divesting...
Determinable fee
Determinable fee. A fee determinable by limitation or condition, (English) S.L. Act, 1925, ss. 1 and 117 (1)(iv.), and see Challis R. P., 3rd Edn. By the First Sched., (English) L. P. Act, 1925, such fees, if not capable of taking effect as legal estates under Part I of that Act, have been converted into equitable interests. Certain estates in fee simple which by statute are liable to be divested, and fee simple vested incorporations are legal estates, see s. 7(1) and (2), (English) L. P. Act, 1925, and see BASE FEE....
Degradation
Degradation, a deprivation of dignity; dismissal from office. An ecclesiastical censure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders. There ae two sorts by the canon law; one, summary, by word only; the other, solemn, by stripping the party degraded of those ornaments and rights which are the ensigns of his degree. Degradation is otherwise called deposition, but the canonists have distingui-shed between these two terms, deeming the former as the greater punishment of the two. There is likewise a degradation of a lord or knight at Common Law and also by Act of Parliament, 13 Car. 2, c. 16....
Pemmican
Among the North American Indians meat cut in thin slices divested of fat and dried in the sun...
Excarnation
The act of depriving or divesting of flesh excarnification opposed to incarnation...
Excalceation
The act of depriving or divesting of shoes...
Divestiture
The act of stripping or depriving the state of being divested the deprivation or surrender of possession of property rights etc...
Disembodied
Divested of a body ceased to be corporal incorporeal...
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