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Home Dictionary Name: extinctionTail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in. This estate arises out of a special entail as to the parentage of the issue, when the express condition has become impossible by reason of death. Thus, if an estate be granted to husband and wife, and their issue, male or female, if either of them die without issue, the survivor is tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct; and even if there have been issue, yet if the issue die without issue, then the surviving parent is also such a tenant; and also if an estate be entailed upon a man and his issue from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the entail be general, such a tenancy can never arise; for whilst he lives he may have issue, the law not admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simpl...
Extinct
Extinguished put out quenched as a fire a light or a lamp is extinct an extinct volcano...
Extinction
The act of extinguishing or making extinct a putting an end to the act of putting out or destroying light fire life activity influence etc...
Ademption by extinction
Ademption by extinction, means an ademption that occurs because the property specifically described in will is not in the estate at the testator's death, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 40....
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or 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 been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
Cordaitales
an order of extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads known from the Pennsylvanian probably extinct since the Mesozoic...
eohippus
an extinct primitive dog sized 4 toed Eocene mammal the earliest horse known in the line of descent of the modern horse It is classed in the extinct genus Hydracotherium Called also dawn horse...
Escheat
Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family.Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown to 'bona vacantia' now includes real property under (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 46. See BONA VACAN-TIA.The title of the Crown was ascertained by inquiry regulated by rules under the (English) Escheat Procedure Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to hold such inquiries.If differed from a forfeiture [now abolished for treason or felony by the (Engli...
Baculite
A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks It is like an uncoiled ammonite...
Belemnite
A conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at the lower extremity with a conical cavity at the other end where it is ordinarily broken but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone called the phragmocone prolonged on one side into a delicate concave blade the thunderstone It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia and belonging to an extinct family The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages...
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