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Consideration

(in another sense), i.e., f the consideration has been completed before the corresponding promise has been performed; 2nd, executory, or something to be done after the promise; 3rd, concurrent, as in the case of mutual promises; and

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

Lunatic

doing and proves the allegation, the contract is as binding on him in every respect, whether it is executory or executed, as if he had been sane when he made it, unless he can prove further that

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Passive trust

estate to be taken by the trustee, the courts endeavoured in the case of devises by will land executory contracts to give by construction the quantity originally requisite to satisfy the trust in every event, although the … Passive trust, a trust as to which the trustee has no active duty to perform. Passive uses were resorted to before the Statute of Uses, in order to escape from the trammels and hardships of

Hereditaments

and, possibly, easements; (2) certain heritable rights not necessarily connected with land, such as offices. Reversions, remainders, and executory interests and conditions have usually been classed as incorporeal hereditaments, but the classification is not satisfactory. Incorporeal hereditaments

Estate

In expectancy, subdivided into-- (a) Reminders created by convention of parties, which are (a) vested, (b) contingent or executory, (c) cross. (b) Reversions arising by operation of law. (3) The number and connection of the tenants; either

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