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Curtesy of England
(1881) 17 Ch D 115. (3) The wife's estate must have been in possession and not in reversion expectant on a life estate or othr freehold estate. 2 Black. Comm. 127. (4) Birht of issue, alive and … the issue by the first husband be living. (5) The issue must have been capable of inheriting as heir to the wife. (6) Death of the wife. The husband's title to the curtesy is initiated at the
Remainder
Remainder [fr. remanentia, Lat.], that expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate, is at the same … varied if the gift were 'to you for your life, and after your decease to A. and his heirs ' or ' to you for twenty-one years, and subject to that estate to A. and his heirs
Primer seisin
the lands, if they were in immediate possession; and half a year's profits, if they were in reversion, expectant on an estate for life. It was incident to socage-tenants in capite, as well as those who held … had, when any of his tenants in capite died seised of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir (provided he were of full age) one whole year's profits of the lands, if they were in immediate
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Representation
conduct by one person to another of the existence of a fact. A representation of simple commendation or expectation at or before a contract of which the other party can or should form his own opinion is … Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 882. Representation, standing in the place of another for certain purposes, as heirs, executors, or administrators. See EXECUTOR; ADMINISTRATOR; PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE; REAL REPRESENTATIVE. A presentation of fact-either by words or by
Release
seigniorial rights to his tenant, or a life tenant having conveyed a greater estate than he owns, the expectant releasing his right to the tenant's grantee. A release of all demands extinguishes all actions and titles, and … right (mitter le droit), as in the case of a disseisee discharging his right to a disseisor, his heir, or grantee. Words of limitation are not necessary, since the subject of transfer is a simple right, which
Tail
the protector is to grant or withhold his consent, which is required to enable a tenant-in-tail in remainder, expectant on an estate of free-hold, to bar as well his own issue as also those in remainder, to … disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
waste. (2) The estate is liable to forfeiture. (3) It will merge in a fee-simple of fee-tail, immediately expectant thereon. (4) The reversioner or remainder-man shall be received upon the tenant's default. (5) The tenant has the … legis, and not ex provisione hominis; if, therefore, an estate be given to husband and wife, and the heirs of their bodies, should they afterwards be divorced causa pr'contractus vel consanguinitatis vel affinitatis, their estate is converted
Trust
Where, from the different parts of the instrument, it appears that the words re expressive of a mere expectation or wish, no trust will arise; as where the words are, that the donee will be kind to
Uses
estate, upon a certain condition, could be effected by a conveyance to uses, so as to accelerate the expectant estate into possession. The Statute of Uses has been repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925 … que use, or notice of his will, would convey the estate to the cestui que use or his heirs, or any other person by his direction; and (3) that if the feoffee to uses had been dispossessed,
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