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heir
unintentional. right heir 1 : an heir by blood 2 : the particular heir granted or devised an estate tail as distinguished from the heirs in general testamentary heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir
Joint-tenancy
Before 1926 there might be a joint-tenancy for life, or in fee, or in remainder, but not in tail, unless the donees, being male and female, might lawfully marry; otherwise the donees possess estates for life only, … a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases. Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the
Settled land
[sub-s. (i.)] for any persons by way of succession, [sub-s. (ii.)] for any person in possession (a) in tail, (b) for a legal estate subject to a limitation over, (c) for a base or determinable fee, or … Settled land. For the purposes of the (English) Settled Land Acts, 1882-1890, 'settled land' meant land, and any estate and interest therein, which was the subject of a settlement; and 'settlement' meant any instrument, or any number
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Chattels or catals
interest maybe created by way of trust in any property real r personal, subject to statutory requirements. See TAIL. Among chattels real five species of legal or equitable estates maybe enumerated: (a) for years; (b) from year … plaintiff could recover the specific property was available in the case of; chattels real.' The (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 55 (x) provides a definition of 'personal chattels' upon an intestacy. The statutory definition excludes
Disentailing Deed
the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), a tenant-in-tail can bar his estate tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee simple or any less estate, and thus defeat
Frank-marriage
donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his body.' The legal estate in estates tail has … Frank-marriage [in libero maritagio, Lat.], a species of entailed estates, now grown out of use, but still capable of subsisting. When tenements are given by one to another,
entail
English entaillen, from en-, causative prefix + taille restriction on inheritance see tail ] : to make (an estate in real property) a fee tail : limit the descent of (real property) by restricting inheritance to specific
Money land
and money articled or bequeathed to be invested in land, has, inequity, many of the qualities of real estate, and is descendible and devisable as such according to the rules of inheritance in other cases, and this
Heirloom
or furniture--are directed by will or settlement to follow the limitations thereby made of some family mansion or estate. But the word is not then employed in its strict and proper sense, nor is the disposition itself … that 'where personal chattels are settled on trust so as to devolve with land until a tenant in tail by purchase is born or attains the age of 21 years, or so as otherwise to vest in
Personal property
will to follow the trusts of an equitable entailed estate inland vested absolutely in the first tenant in tail at his birth. See Re Lord Chesham, (1909) 2 Ch 310. Joint tenancy and tenancy in common may … subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee simple, can have is an estate. But in the case of personal property the primary rule is precisely the reverse; such property is essentially
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