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equitable adoption
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estoppel
to the use of contradictory words or acts in asserting a claim or right against another ;esp : equitable estoppel in this entry compare waiver equitable estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a … : equitable estoppel in this entry compare waiver equitable estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a new position that contradicts a previous position maintained by words, silence, or actions when allowing the new
adopt
(a child of other parents) as one's own child esp. in compliance with formal legal procedures see also equitable adoption 2 : to take or accept as if one's own [[the company] ed the signature on the financing
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adoption by estoppel
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Power
by law, and whether created before or after the Act, will operate only in equity and are termed equitable powers. The only exceptions are legal powers (see ibid., s. 1 (8)) which can operate in law after … simply collateral, or powers not coupled with on interest, or powers not being interests. These terms have been adopted to obviate the confusion arising from the circumstance that powers in gross have been by many called powers
Escheat
in regard to successions after 1935 by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 56, it was provided that equitable estates and estates in incorporeal hereditaments (which prior to that Act did not escheat) shall be subject to … its right by escheat in favour of the family of the intestate, or of any person considered or adopted as part of his family, as pointed out by 59 Geo. 4, c. 94. See Hubback on Succession,
Common Law
it is used in contradistinction to the statute law, and then denotes the unwritten law, whether legal or equitable in its origin, which does not derive its authority from any express declaration of the will of the … assigned for their decisions.'--Odgers on the Common Law, p. 59. The distinction between written and unwritten law is adopted from the Romans, who borrowed it from the Greeks (Inst. 1. 1, t. 2, ss. 3, 9, 10).
Fraud
act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670. In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of … power. It may arise due to overstepping the limits of power or defeating the provision of statute by adopting subterfuge or the power may be exercised for extraneous or irrelevant considerations. The colour of fraud in public
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of … (under the Statute of Uses), or grant, which is the best mode of assurance, and which must be adopted, if the estate be incorporeal, and now by deed; s. 51, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, replacing Real Property
Joint-tenancy
is repugnant and they take as joint-tenants. This and the following paragraphs still hold good in respect of equitable interests in joint estates in land, the beneficial ownership of a legal estate in land of joint-tenants having … much more accommodating than a tenancy in common, unless cross-remainders are expressed or implied. The law itself now adopts it in cases of trustees for sale upon the statutory trusts for sale [see (English) L.P. Act, 1925,
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