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Chattels or catals
of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b. Chattels personal or in a more narrow and more modern sense,
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Equitable estates and interests
(1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), extending 29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 10 (liability under writ of elegit), the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), s 1, and the (English) Administration
Estate
and mortuum vadium, dead pledge or mortgage; (ii.) estates by statute mer-chant or statute staple; (iii.) estates by elegit. (2) The time of enjoyment, either-- (A) In possession, or (B) In expectancy, subdivided into-- (a) Reminders created
Execution
immediate execution in ordinary cases. See PR'CIPE. The ordinary writs of execution are capia ad satisfaciendum; fieri facias; elegit; and habere facias possessionem. See these titles respectively, especially FIERI FACIAS. As to the protection of vendor or
Extinguishment
the rent will not be extinct, Co. Litt. 147. It appears that an estate by statute, recognizance, or elegit may be extinguished by any act (as a deed of defeazance or of release), which extinguished the debt,
Levari facias
of the land, and from the sale of the chattels. This writ, long superseded by the writ of elegit, was formally abolished by the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, s. 146, sub-s. 2.
Mortgage
received, this is in the nature of a Welsh mortgage, and has been compared to a tenancy by elegit. In order to protect a necessitous mortgagor from the exacting grasp of an inexorable mortgagee, equity will not
Ouster
Ouster of chattels real consists: 1st, of a motion of possession from estates held by statute, recogni-zance, or elegit, which happens by a species of disseisin or turning out of the legal proprietor before his estate is
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