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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

bill

device of procedure used in civil actions bill in the na·ture of a bill of review : an equitable bill seeking to have a court decree set aside that is brought by someone who was not a

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

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Assets

administration of the estate of a deceased person assets were, before 1925, divided into two classes, legal and equitable. Legal assets comprised all property to which the personal representative became entitled virtute officii and for which he

trust

in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property b : an entity resulting from the establishment of such a relationship see also

conversion

common stock of the same company usually at a preset ratio or price and at a preset time equitable conversion : the constructive conversion of real property into personal property esp. as a result of a contract

Just

The largeness is, of course, not arbitrary; it is restricted by the conscience which is fair, reasonable and equitable, if it exceeds; it is termed as unfair, unreasonable, inequitable not just. In Law Lexicon, 5th Edn., by

Estate

either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a legal estate or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each

Dower

years. The legal estate in dower (being an estate for life) has been abolished and converted into an equitable interest (ibid.), (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1; it can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925

Dearle v. Hall

the assignment, Ryall v. Rowles, 1 Ves Sess 348. Before 1926 the rule was that the priority of equitable assignments of debts and other choses in action was determined by priority in date of notice to the

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