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Tenure
service proper, or tenure in chivalry, was the original and most honourable species of tenure created by a determinate quantity of land called a knight's fee. Its extent was twelve plough lands, that is, as much land … only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND).
Dower
wife has in the third part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty … uses as the purchaser should appoint, and in default of appointment, to him for life, and on the determina-tion of his estate in his lifetime, to a trustee and his heirs for the life of the purchaser
Freehold
land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are an estate in fee simple absolute in possession, and a term of years absolute. all other estates are equitable interests under that Act; … indeterminate duration; for if the utmost period of time to which an estate can endure be fixed and determined, it cannot be a freehold. Now by the English Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, the only
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Merger
of Property Act, 1925, a foreclosure by a mortgagee will merge the mortgage term into and vest the fee simple in the mortgagee subject to any prior mortgage term, and a similar consequence, mutatis mutandis, follows upon foreclosure … in the same instant of time and by the same means which originated the other estate; and the determination or acquisition of an intermediate estate may be the cause of merger, as between estates kept distinct by
Contingent remainder
and has been supplanted by the modern doctrine of an estate owner with power to alienate the entire fee simple or term of years in the property. 2. An estate cannot be given to an unborn person for … which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate, Fearne, Cont. Remainders. The legal estate in contingent remainders has been abolished by the
Tithe Rent-Charge
a special definition of owner of the land charged, i.e. (a) the estate owner in respect of the fee-simple unless it is subject to a long lease of more than 14 years at a rent less than … by the Treasury after consultation with the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Their principal duties are (1) to determine what tithe rent-charge have been extinguished by the Act, the amount of stock to be issued and the
Magna Carta
a whole barony, by one hundred marks; the heir or heirs of a knight, for one whole knight's fee, one hundred shillings at the most, and he that hath less shall give less, according to the old … Latin language, which, although not of that pure classicality that will be appreciated by the scholar, is nevertheless simple, vigorous, and unmistakable. The original Latin is printed in the statute-book in one column, and an English translation … justicers, being sent to take those assizes in the counties, cannot be determined, shall be ended by them in some other place in their circuit;
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