Estate Tail - Law Dictionary Search Results
Curtesy of England
Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A condition to restrain the husband of a feme-donee in tail from curtesy is repugnant and void, Co. Litt. 224 a. An estate by the curtesy, in respect of … Curtesy of England [jus curialitatis Angli', Lat.], an estate which by favour of the law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which
Merger
the same time and in the same right' [Re Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man may have in his own right both an … however is an exception to the rule; for a man may have in his own right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the
Quasi-entail
Quasi-entail. An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man
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Annuity
limitation of a personal annuity to A. and the heirs of his body was ineffectual to create and estate tail, and passed an absolute interest conditional only upon an heir of the body being born. But now under … the body being born. But now under s. 130 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1925, an equitable estate tail may be created after 1925 in respect of an annuity or any other personal estate if the technical
Executory devise
Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an … 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), and s. 130, (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925 (see TAIL), bar the entail, and all remainders, executory devises, and conditional limitations dependent thereupon. See EXECUTORY LIMITATION and CONTINGENT
Remainder
his heirs '; or ' to you and the heirs of your body ') which would constitute an estate tail), ' and upon your decease, and failure of your issue, to A. and his heirs.' In any of
Shelley's case, Rule in
Shelley's case, Rule in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in … remainder in the heirs male of A.'s body, the second remainder vets in A. as a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless waiting for, and continuing expectant on, the determination
Gavelkind
respective fathers. The partible quality of gavelkind extends also to estates-tail, for if a person die seised in tail of lands held in gavelkind, all his sons shall inherit together as heirs of his body. Since the … Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925 except in regard to entailed estates,
Estate
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Trust
testamentary or codicillary paper executed with the statutory formalities, but if a devise or bequest of the legal estate be accompanied with any mala fides in the devisee or legatee, as if there be an express or … document or a bequest or devise by will pass without the words 'heirs of the body' or 'in tail'; in the case of an executed document, apt words of limitation were necessary [see Re Moncton's Settlement, (1913)
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