Expectant - Law Dictionary Search Results
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
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
Catching bargain
Catching bargain, a purchase from an expectant heir, for an inadequate consideration. See Expectant Heir.
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Constructive trust
and upon the refusal of the lessor to grant a new lease to the cestui que trust or expectant; for such renewed lease is held upon trust for the person beneficially entitled to the old lease or
Liberum tenementum
any estate of freehold, whether in fee, in tail, or for life only, and whether in possession or expectant on determination of a term of years, but it did not apply to the case of a freehold
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
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
interest
was designed to guard against the destructibility of contingent remainders set forth in the rule in Shelley's case. expectation interest : the interest of a party to a breached contract in receiving the benefit of the bargain
Negligence
to the jury to decide whether the defendant has shown a want of care which would have been expected in ordinary course of events in the circumstances. Burden of Proof.--The onus of proving negligence rets on the
Disappoint
To defeat of expectation or hope to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected hoped or desired to balk as
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