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Equity
equal, the Common Law must prevail. The grand characteristic of Municipal Equity is displayed in the nature and extent of its redress. Not content, as the Common Law generally is, to adjudicate strictly and absolutely in rem,
Estate
property, real or personal, A Dictionary of Law, William, C. Anderson, 1889, p. 414. Is the degree, nature, extent and quality of interest or ownership that one has in land, Webster American Dictionary, p. 497. In U.K.
Executor
(1916) 2 AC 231, for the previous law), that may have come to his hands money to the extent of all funeral and testamentary expenses and debts legally paid by him out of his own pocket, and
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Negotiable
'negotiable' only in a popular, and not in a technical, sense. For it is 'negotiable' to the same extent as a cheque marked 'not negotiable', i.e. it is 'transferrable', Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading, 20th
Hereditaments
of relation. When applied to realty it generally denotes the subject of property, apart from its nature and extent; but when applied to personality, it does not then denote the subject, but signifies some inheritable right of
Extend
their yearly value, so that it may be known when the creditor will be paid his debt. See EXTENT. To extend means to enlarge, expand, lengthen, prolong to carry out further than its original limit. Thus extension
Factor
may pledge them for advances made on account of their principal, or for advances to themselves to the extent of their own lien on their goods. And they may pledge their principal's goods for the duties and
Facts in issue
and includes-any fact from which, either by itself or in connection with other facts, existence, non-existence, nature or extent of any right, liability, or disability, asserted or denied in any suit or proceeding, necessarily follows (Evidence Act,
Family
woman. The legislature on a correct perspective has enlarged the definition of a family to the maximum possible extent, and provides for as many as nine members, Sasanka Sekhar Maity v. Union of India, AIR 1981 SC
Fee-simple
unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since every other kind of estate is derivable there out, and mergeable therein, for omne majus continet in
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