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Entry, the depositing of a document in the proper office or place; actual entry on land is necessary to constitute a seisin in deed, and is necessary in certain cases, as, e.g., to perfect a common-law lease.When a person without any right has taken posses-sion of land, the party entitled may make a formal but peaceable entry, which is quite an extra judicial and summary remedy, on such lands, declaring that thereby he takes possession, which notorious act of ownership is equivalent to a feudal investiture by the lord; or he may enter on any part of it in the same county, declaring it to be in the name of the whole; but if it lie indifferent counties, he must make different entries. This remedy by entry takes place in three only of the five species of ouster-viz., abatement, intrusion, and disseisin; for as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may therefore be remedied by the mere entry of him who has right. But upon a discontinuance or deforcement, the owner...
Perpetuity
Perpetuity, concerns rights of property only, and does not affect the making of contracts, which do not create rights of property, Ram Baran Prasad v. Ram Mohit Hazara, AIR 1967 SC 744: (1967) 1 SCR 293.Is a future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainders, and of either real or personal property which is not to vest until after the expiration of, or will not necessarily vest within the period fixed and prescribed by law for the creation of future estates and interests, Walsh v. Secretary of State for India, (1863) 10 HLC 367.Perpetuity, unlimited duration; exemption from intermission or ceasing, where, though all who have interest should join in a covenant, so that they could not bar or pass the estate. It is odious in law, destructive to the common wealth, and an impediment to commerce, by preventing the wholesome circulation of property.The rule against perpetuities, or the doctrine of remoteness, applies to the corpus of property whether real or personal, and whether li...
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