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Vested remainder

heirs, if he die) of taking the possession whenever A.'s death may occur. A vested estate may take effect though the preceding estate be defeated, as when an infant makes a lease for life with a remainder

Void and voidable

prove it. If it is proved that the document is forged and fabricated and a declaration to that effect is given, a transaction becomes void from the very beginning. There may be a voidable transaction which is

Licence

has paid money for it (Odgers on the Common Law, pp. 25, 574). As to the nature and effect of the licence granted to the purchaser of a ticket for a theatre or other similar entertainment, see

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Marriage settlement

law of real property to that of personalty as far as possible, marriage settlements of land (not being effected by way of trust for sale), and if providing for infant or for a succession of interests in

Calculated

than mere likelihood and imports a design to affect voters. It connotes a subjective element, though the actual effect of the statement on the electoral mind reflected the result may afford a basis to ascertain whether the

Distringas

Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1)

Arrogatio

Arrogatio, a form of adoption in Civil Law. It could not be effected by a mere private juristic act like adoptio, but only by a decree of the comitia curiata or

condition

and esp. a contract ;also : a clause in the instrument describing the act or event and its effect concurrent condition : a condition that is to be fulfilled by one party at the same time that

Distress

28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all material distinction between them. Distress may also be made at Common Law on cattle damage feasant,

gift

personal property made in contemplation of impending death that is delivered with the intent that the gift take effect only in the event of the donor's death and that it be revoked in the event of survival

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Vested remainder

heirs, if he die) of taking the possession whenever A.'s death may occur. A vested estate may take effect though the preceding estate be defeated, as when an infant makes a lease for life with a remainder

Void and voidable

prove it. If it is proved that the document is forged and fabricated and a declaration to that effect is given, a transaction becomes void from the very beginning. There may be a voidable transaction which is

Licence

has paid money for it (Odgers on the Common Law, pp. 25, 574). As to the nature and effect of the licence granted to the purchaser of a ticket for a theatre or other similar entertainment, see

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Marriage settlement

law of real property to that of personalty as far as possible, marriage settlements of land (not being effected by way of trust for sale), and if providing for infant or for a succession of interests in

Calculated

than mere likelihood and imports a design to affect voters. It connotes a subjective element, though the actual effect of the statement on the electoral mind reflected the result may afford a basis to ascertain whether the

Distringas

Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1)

Arrogatio

Arrogatio, a form of adoption in Civil Law. It could not be effected by a mere private juristic act like adoptio, but only by a decree of the comitia curiata or

condition

and esp. a contract ;also : a clause in the instrument describing the act or event and its effect concurrent condition : a condition that is to be fulfilled by one party at the same time that

Distress

28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all material distinction between them. Distress may also be made at Common Law on cattle damage feasant,

gift

personal property made in contemplation of impending death that is delivered with the intent that the gift take effect only in the event of the donor's death and that it be revoked in the event of survival

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