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Aberdeen Act

Aberdeen Act, the (English) Entail Provisions Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 87), enabling the

Executory devise

(English) Law of Properties Act, 1925 (see TAIL), bar the entail, and all remainders, executory devises, and conditional limitations dependent thereupon.

Surrender of copyholds

instance of a surrender for the purpose of barring an entail, but it was assignable. The assignee of an equitable estate,

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Substitution

the heirs in a settlement of property. Substitutes in an entail are those heirs who are appointed in succession on failure

Offence

Courts being held to be prosalute anim' and not to entail any temporal injury, they cannot be classed with ordinary Common

Heirloom

130, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, which enables an entailed interest to be created in personal as well as real

Gavelkind

case of all deaths after 1925 except in regard to entailed estates, and descent from a person of unsound mind, as

Trust

in the limitations of legal estate. Before 1926 an equitable entail would in the case of an executory document or a

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

Limited estates, less than the fee or entire term, e.g., entailed estates, estates for life, in remainder whether vested or contingent,

Negligence

classification has been formulated corresponding to the degree of negligence entailing liability measured by the degree of care undertaken or required

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