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Revocation and new appointment

appoint or may reserve a power of revocation and new appointment in the deed of appointment, although not expressly authorized so to do by the assurance creating the power; and such a power may be reserved toties

Uses

have been perfectly good to transmute the possession and transfer the legal estate, but if a use arose expressly or by implication on that estate, B. would have lost the legal estate without any transmutation of posses-sion

Tithe Rent-Charge

occupier ceased to be bound by any such contract made before that Act, being made by the Act expressly liable, however, to repay to the landowner such sum as the landowner had properly paid on account of

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Title to lands, Documents of

are so closely connected with it that they will pass, on a conveyance of the land, without being expressly mentioned; the property in the deeds passes out of the vendor to the purchaser simply by the grant

Title, Covenants for

deriving title from him or from whom he derives title otherwise than by purchase for value, except as expressly mentioned in the conveyance:--And that the person conveying, and every person claiming through him otherwise than by purchase

Trust Funds

instrument creating the trust, trustees may invest trust funds in securities specified in the Trustee Act, 1925, unless expressly forbidden by the trust deed. The effect of the Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1921, on Scots trusts should be

Ultra vires

a cor-poration or company which is created by or under statute cannot do anything at all unless authorized expressly or impliedly by the statute or instrument defining its powers. An act done ultra vires a corporation means

Undertake

about; attempt; as, to undertake a task or a journey; and specifically, to take upon oneself solemnly or expressly. To lay oneself under obligation or to enter into stipula-tion; to perform or to execute; to covenant; to

Uniformity, Act of

3 Edw. 6, c. 1, 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 1, and 1 Eliz. c. 2), all expressly confirmed by s. 20 of the Act of 1662, which directs that they 'shall be applied, practised and

Usufructuary mortgage

Usufructuary mortgage, Where the mortgagor delivers possession or expressly or by implication binds himself to deliver possession of the mortgaged property to the mortgagee, and authorise him

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