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Notice to quit
in which the tenant entered upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local … s. 18. Where a lessee holds under a void demise, no notice is necessary; but where a lease granted by a tenant for life under a limited power of leasing, which exceeded his power, was void, and
Infant
infant may by any existing or future statute, or by the rules of Common Law or Equity, enter, except such as now by law are voidable. 2. No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person … to an infant. Under the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 165, administration with the will annexed is to be granted to the guardian of an infant who has been appointed executor of a will or other person appointed
mortgage
it to be a mortgage first mortgage : a mortgage that has priority over all other security interests except those imposed by law fixed rate mortgage : a mortgage having an interest rate that stays the same … intended only as a "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] b : a lien against property that is granted to secure an obligation (as a debt) and that is extinguished upon payment or performance according to stipulated
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Title, Covenants for
rent or leasehold property by a person expressed to convey as beneficial owner, that without any qualification the grant or lease is valid and in full force and is nowise void or voidable, and also a covenant … or anyone deriving title from him or from whom he derives title otherwise than by purchase for value, except as expressly mentioned in the conveyance:--And that the person conveying, and every person claiming through him otherwise than
Power
they are given. Thus, where an estate for life is limited to a man, with a power to grant leases in possession, a lease granted under the power may operate wholly out of the life-estate of the … 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 1925, i.e., the powers
Award
of Appeal, and not to the Divisional Court [Re Colman and Watson, 1908 (1) KB 47]. Means to grant by formal process or by judicial decree e.g. to company awarded the contact to the low bidder e.g. … referred, or it will be void in toto; unconditional, but it may be alternative, without reservation or delegation, except as to ministerial acts, certain, mutual, possible, and consistent, without palpable mistake; when partly good and partly bad,
Trust
claim nothing beneficially, nothing being given to him but as trustee. Any person may be appointed a trustee except an infant [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 19], person of unsound mind or convicted of felony, or bankrupt … Resulting trusts, when the whole or any part of the property or part or interest in it is granted without any indication that it or such part or interest was intended for the benefit of the grantee
Institutions
glebe, and take the profits of the benefice as from the death of his predecessor; though he cannot grant, or let, or claim a freehold in them, or bring an action for them till induction, which can … of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary
heir
heir : heir of the body in this entry forced heir : an heir who cannot be disinherited except for causes recognized by law ;esp in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who because of … that the omission was 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
Pardon
4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the … Attorney-General and entering an acquittal as of record. In the Beck case the first of the two 'pardons' granted was in the following form:- Edward R. & I. Whereas Adolf Beck was at the Sessions of the
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