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Fee-expectant

Matched in: Term Fee-expectant

Recovery

record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail 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

Barrister, or Barrastor

member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), S. 3 (4)] Fees.--A barrister can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but … of a cause; and for the purpose of promoting the honour and integrity of the Bar, it is expected that all their fees should be paid when their briefs are delivered, Morris v. Hunt, (1819) 1 Chitty

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Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

waste. (2) The estate is liable to forfeiture. (3) It will merge in a fee-simple of fee-tail, immediately expectant thereon. (4) The reversioner or remainder-man shall be received upon the tenant's default. (5) The tenant has the … admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simple, so this estte is carved out of a special entail. There may be tenant-in-tail after possibility, etc., of

Liberum tenementum

precise allegation of title was sufficient. It was sustained by proof of 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

Justices

fee, for life, or a given term, of the yearly value of 100l., or a reversion or remainder expectant upon such lease as in the Act mentioned, with reserved rents of the clear yearly value of 300l. … Vict. c. 48), s. 2. These justices ('stipendiary magistrates' excepted: see MAGISTRATE) act gratuitously, receiving no salary or fees. By the (English) Justices Qualification Act, 1744 (18 Geo. 2, c. 20), every justice for a county had

Fee

Matched in: Term Fee

Tax and fee-distinction

Matched in: Term Tax and fee-distinction

Primer seisin

a right which the King had, when any of his tenants in capite died seised of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir (provided he were of full age) one whole year's profits of the lands, … the lands, if they were in immediate possession; and half a year's profits, if they were in reversion, expectant on an estate for life. It was incident to socage-tenants in capite, as well as those who held

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 … abeyance; that is to say, where the inheritance is to his heirs or right heirs he takes the fee-simple; and where it is to the heirs of his body an estate-tail general, 1 Steph. Com. In Coke's

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