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Vested in interest

Vested in interest, a legal term applied to a present fixed right of future enjoyment, as reversions, vested remainders, such executory devises, future uses, conditional limitations, and other future interests, the present right

Vested interest

Vested interest, when there is immediate right of present right for future enjoyment. An interest is said to be contingent if the right of enjoyment is made dependent upon some event

Quare obstruxit

a writ which lay for him who, having a liberty to pass through his neighbour's ground, could not enjoy his right because the owner had obstructed it, Fleta, 1. 4, c. 26. Means why he obstructed. A

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Joint-tenancy

being seised per my et per tout, or, as Coke says, totum conjunctim et nihil per se separatim, enjoy a survivorship (jus accrescendi) which is held to be as good as a right by descent, the title

Title, Covenants for

the person conveying has the right to convey:--That the person to whom the conveyance is made shall 'quietly enjoy' the subject-matter of the conveyance without disturbance by the person conveying, or any person claiming by, through, under,

Statutory tenant

tenancy is commonly, though in law not accurately, called a statutory tenant. Statutory tenant being a person who enjoys the status of irremovability, would enjoy the protection of the statute until he is evicted from the premises

Religious denomination

come under the definition of denomination, Shirur Math v. Commission of Endowment, (1952) 1 MLJ 557. Religious denomination, enjoys certain rights per-taining to the establishment, management etc., of its own religion and charitable institutions, A Commentary on

Landlord and tenant

lessor or landlord, agrees expressly or by implication to allow another person, called the lessee or tenant, to enjoy the exclusive possession and use of the land for a period less than the landlord's estate in it,

Lifting the corporate veil

of view the company is legal personality entirely distinct from its members and the company is capable of enjoying rights and being subjected to duties which are not the same as those enjoyed or borne by its

Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

being honorary. The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, by virtue of certain ancient charters confirmed by statute, enjoys the sole jurisdiction (in exclusion of the King Courts) when a scholar or privileged person is the defendant,

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