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Pawn or Pledge
should be an actual delivery of the thing to the pledgee; for until delivery, the whole contract is executory, however strong may be the engagement to deliver it; and the pledgee acquires no right of property in … in special cases. He may deliver the pawn into the hands of a stranger for safe custody, without consideration; for he may sell or assign all his interest in the pawn, or he may convey the same
Pro
for the state of the land by the feoffment is executed, and the grant of the annuity is executory, Plowd. 412. … a grant, amounts to a condition; but in a feoffment or lease for life, etc., it is the consideration, and does not amount to a condition; for the state of the land by the feoffment is executed,
Impossibility
524. Impossibility owing to illness terminates a contract for personal services. The outbreak of war may terminate an executory contract, but only suspends the remedies if it has been executed, Halsb. L.E.; Hailsham, Edn., tit. 'Contracts,' p. … 226], unless (presumably), the whole of the contract has been performed on the one side and nothing in consideration thereof has been done by the other. Frustration of a contract by act of the party relying upon
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Articles, Marriage
Heath, (1852) 15 Beav 408. In equity the Articles are considered as minutes of agreement and to create executory trusts, and the Court will give effect to the intention accordingly without strict or any regard to an … Articles, Marriage, An agreement made in consideration of marriage, generally to secure a provision by conveyance or settlement for the spouses or one of them
Adverse possession
divestiture of all rights of transfer in the property and in case in which there is a mere executory agreement of transfer both parties contemplating a deed of transfer to be executed at a later point of … owner, the kind of possession which the adverse possessor is exercising, are all relevant factors which enter into consideration for attracting applicability of the doctrine of adverse possession. The right in the property ought to be one
Settled land
of 1882, as exten-ded by s. 20, 1925, such as tenants in tail, tenants in fee-simple subject to executory limitations over, and more particularly to an estate owner of land subject to family charges, and a married … legal estate or any other interest with a restraint upon anticipation, or [sub-s. (v.)] charged voluntarily, or in consideration of marriage or by way of family arrangement with any payment of any rent-charge for life or less
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