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Admittance

Admittance, giving possession of a copyhold estate now abolished by the (English) L. P. Act, 1922. See COPYHOLDS; formerly it was of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the former tenant. (3) Upon descent, where the heir became tenant on his ancestor's death. Land formerly copyhold now being freehold vests in the person having the best right to be admitted, see (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Schedule (8) as amended, and (English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 202 and 1st Schedule, Part II., (English) S. L. Act, 1925, 2nd Schedule, and see re King's Theatre, (1929) 1 Ch 483....

Abandonee

Abandonee, one to whom anything is relinquished.The expression 'abandoned property' or to use the more familiar term 'bona vacantia' comprises properties of two different kinds, those which come in by escheat and those over which no one has a claim, Bombay Dyeing and Mfg. Co. Ltd. v. State of Bombay, AIR 1958 SC 328 (339): 1958 SCR 1122. [Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act (40 of 1953) s. 3(1) & 2(b)]...

Excheat

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Escheatage

The right of succeeding to an escheat...

Escheat

The falling back or reversion of lands by some casualty or accident to the lord of the fee in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant which may happen by his dying without heirs and formerly might happen by corruption of blood that is by reason of a felony or attainder...

Donatory

A donee of the crown one the whom upon certain condition escheated property is made over...

Caducary

Relating to escheat forfeiture or confiscation...

Uses

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...

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