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Lease
possession within 21 years as required by the Act; see infra. Until 1926, under a lease for years, except a lease operating under the Statute of Uses, the lessee must have entered into the leased premises, for
trust
in this entry irrevocable trust : a trust that cannot be revoked by the settlor after its creation except upon the consent of all the beneficiaries land trust : a trust created to effectuate a real estate
Alien
be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or
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Conveyance
vesting instrument, disclaimer, release and every other assurance of property or of any interest therein by any instrument, except a will.' See CONVEYANCING ACT; DEED; LAW OF PROPERTY; TRUSTS. Includes a conveyance on sale and every instrument
Criminal Evidence Act
and 1853, whichmade parties and spouses admissible witnesses (they having been previously incompetent on the groundof interest), expressly excepted criminal proceedings from its opertion; but a series of enactments dealing with particular offences, from the Licensing Act,
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband
Payment of Money into Court
of money by way of satisfaction, which is taken to admit the cause of action; 'or he may, except in actions for libel or slander, pay money into Court with a defence denying liability,' which he could
Master
the time being the charge or control of such vessel or such aircraft, as the case may be, except a pilot, harbour master, assistant harbour master, dock master or berthing master of the port. [Major Port Trust
Movable property
standing timber, growing corps and grass, fruit upon and juice in trees, and property of every other description, except immovable property. [Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), s. 2 (9)] The words 'movable property' are intended to
Real representative
or administrator of any person dying after the commencement of that Act, in whom all his real estate except copyhold was vested notwithstanding his will, unless, as in a joint tenancy, any other person had a right
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