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defined as the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases to exist, but the greater is not increased; and absorption or swallowing up so as to involve a loss of … Merger in law, is defined as the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases

Marriage

the parties had subsequently lived together until the passing of the Act. Present Law.--The general purport of the existing law is to require a public ceremony by a clergyman of the Church of England, or by a dissenting

Joint-tenancy

to admits as referring to the incidents, both at law and in equity, in regard to all titles existing before 1926, and to equitable interests only after 1st January, 1926. When an estate is granted to two

Estate

to any local area, have the same meaning as that expression or its local equivalent has in the existing law relating to land tenures in force in that area and shall also include-- (i) any jagir, inam or

Merger

for an estate as against one person may be extinguished, whilst as against another it may still have existence. Before the passing of the (English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106) (repealed and … Merger [fr. mergo, Lat., to sink], an annihilation, by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening

Remainder

well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to land existing before 1926, and see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4, as to the construction of equitable

Passive trust

trustee, 1 Hayes' Conv. By the Law of Property Act, 1925, 1st Sch., par. 3, the legal estate existing on the 1st January, 1926, in a bare trustee became vested in the person of full age who

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