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Expiate

To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent to make complete satisfaction for to atone for

Extinguishment

appurtenant purchase any part of the land which is subject to his right of common, that right is extinguished for the whole; and so, if he release his right over any part of the land. But it

Tithe Rent-Charge

of land being let by the owner to a tenant, the remedy of distress by the tithe-owner was extinguished, and recovery through a receiver appointed by the county Court of the district was substituted for it, except

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Merger

trust will merge in the legal ownership, but, on the other hand, the legal estate can never be extinguished in the equitable ownership. Merger is either absolute or qualified, for an estate as against one person may

Copyhold

he had no right of entry; (6) All fees payable to the steward. These manorial incidents could be extinguished by compensating the lord either by agreement with or notice to him at anytime before the 1st January,

Instrument

document by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred, modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded. [Notaries Act, 1952 (53 of 1952), s. 2 (b)] Includes every document by which any right

Valuable security

document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released, or whereby any person acknowledges that he lies under legal liability, or has not a certain

Pawn or Pledge

not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by

Easement

the grantee need not execute the conveyance. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 65] (3) By prescription. Easements are extinguished pro tem by the union of the dominant and servient tenements in one owner and revive upon severance

Satisfaction

and owing. See ACCORD. The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing legal or moral obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1343. The doctrine of satisfaction of

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