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Equitable interests

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Equitable estates and interests

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Priority

Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 137, important classes of property were swept into this rule, viz., all equitable interests inland (i.e., all estates for less than a fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years … term of years absolute and corresponding incorporeal hereditaments (see s. 1 of the Act)), as well as all equitable interests in capital money, and securities representing capital money. Before 1926 the priorities in regard to these were determined

interest

interest in this entry controlling interest : sufficient stock ownership in a corporation to exert control over policy equitable interest : an interest (as a beneficial interest) that is held by virtue of equitable title or that … also Article Nine security interest see also attach, perfect, purchase money security interest in this entry NOTE: Security interests in personal property are governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The security interest set out

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests. All mortgages of the same legal estate under the statutory conditions are legal estates. None being for the … legal estate still remaining in the mortgagor (see MORTGAGES). The chief legal estates which have been converted into equitable interests from the 1st January, 1926, are: (1) Tenancies in common or in undivided shares inland (see UNDIVIDED SHARES).

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 been … the incidents, both at law and in equity, in regard to all titles existing before 1926, and to equitable interests only after 1st January, 1926. When an estate is granted to two or more persons without any modifying

Tail

investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which these were converted on the 1st January, 1926, or created after that date. An estate-tail, or

Equity of redemption

estate itself but could only apply for equitable relief; this is still the casein regard to mortgagees of equitable interests. The following changes, however, have been introduced. Mortgages affecting a legal estate created or transferred after 1925, if

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