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Expectant heir

Matched in: Term Expectant heir

Fee-expectant

Matched in: Term Fee-expectant

Catching bargain

Catching bargain, a purchase from an expectant heir, for an inadequate consideration. See Expectant Heir. … Catching bargain, a purchase from an expectant heir, for an inadequate consideration. See Expectant Heir.

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Post-obit Bond

it validity, or free it from the imputation of being obtained under the pressure of necessity. See BOND; EXPECTANT HEIR.

Bond

particular person, whether the obligor be then alive or not, the time of payment being contingent only. See EXPECTANT HEIRS; MONEY -- LENDERS; POST OBIT BOND; USURERS. Bonds to procure marriage (or marriage brokage bonds), or to … person, whether the obligor be then alive or not, the time of payment being contingent only. See EXPECTANT HEIRS; MONEY -- LENDERS; POST OBIT BOND; USURERS. Bonds to procure marriage (or marriage brokage bonds), or to restrain

Reversionary

1867, reproduced by the L.P. Act, 1925, s. 174, not merely on the ground of under value. See EXPECTANT HEIR.

Married women's property

during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law. (2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some

Shelley's case, Rule in

a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless waiting for, and continuing expectant on, the determination of B.'s life-estate, which is expectant of A.'s death; but after A.'s death, and the … equitable, is limited by way of remainder (with or without the interposition of any other estate) to his heirs or the heirs of his body, such remainder is immediately executed in possession in the person so taking

Vested remainder

Vested remainder, an expectant estate, which is limited or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the … the particular estate happen to determine: as a limitation to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs; here, as B. is in existence he is capable (or his heirs, if he die) of taking the

Recovery

in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to the entail. But … lands for an estate in fee-simple, provided that judgment was obtained in favour of the tenant-in-tail and his heirs against some one for lands of equal value, and (b) the law of warranty as applied in actions

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